Inside/Out: The Body features three Honolulu artists whose works deal with various themes emanating from the starting point of the human body. Issues of personal, cultural, and sexual identity are explored through these artists� works.

Printmaker Deirdre Britt received her Master of Fine Arts in printmaking in 2005 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her current works explore the relationship between visual image and text. She uses her own writings as well as the detritus left over from recovered printing plates and print fragments, to create etchings and lithographs that explore aspects of the artist�s personal history and experiences.

Fiber artist Jeeun Kim received her Master of Fine Arts in Fiber from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1999. In her work, Kim explores to what degree a woman�s nature is tied to the geography of her body. Working with objects relevant to women and domesticity, such as sponges and hairnets, she manipulates their shapes, colors, and textures, as well as their historical meaning. Kim recently began working with Korean mulberry paper which she soaks in water and punches with holes to create a skin-like texture.

Painter Richard Earl Leong Yu Ralya received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from San Francisco Art Institute in 1998. Having recently begun to paint again after a six-year hiatus, his new works are the embodiment of his re-immersion into painting and of the inner struggle and emotional experience of the artist. Cross-pollinating eastern tradition with a contemporary western upbringing, his work aspires to transcend the delicate fa�ade of the human condition while drawing from the broad history of artistic storytelling.