‘Poke Bowl’ Print by Lauren Trangmar 11″x 14″ matted $58

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‘Poke Bowl’ Print by Lauren Trangmar 11″x 14″ matted $58

 

About the Artist

Lauren is an artist and graphic designer currently residing in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. She combines meticulous, labor-intensive, traditional processes and aesthetics with contemporary technologies to create her imagery. Lauren works in a range of media including graphic design, illustration, digital imaging, traditional printmaking, painting and sculpture. Her work visually references the conventions of historical scientific illustration with a contemporary and often subtly humorous twist… Themes that are explored in her most current work include the relationship between storytelling, culture, myths and history, art and science, authenticity and artifice, and their [re]presentation.

Lauren was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. She began her undergraduate studies in Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury before transferring to the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa where she attained her BFA in Graphic Design. Her work has been included in numerous private collections and exhibitions in Honolulu, Kaua’i, North Carolina, Australia and New Zealand; the most notable being Honolulu Museum of Art’s, Artists of Hawai‘i 2015 exhibition where she produced a body of work that was purchased for the museum’s permanent collection. She has also completed artist residencies in Honolulu, Kaua’i and North Carolina.

Poke Bowl

Poke is diced raw fish served either as an appetizer or as a main course and is one of the main dishes of Native Hawaiian cuisine. It literally means ‘to cut crosswise into pieces’. It is believed that poke was first prepared by native Polynesians centuries before Western travelers arrived on the Islands. Initially, it was made with chopped up raw reef fish, seasoned with sea salt and sea weed and combined with crushed candlenut. Salting of the fish was for both flavor and, more importantly, preserving the fish. Most historians agree that it wasn’t until the 1960’s and 70’s that the name ‘poke’ was given to the dish we currently recognize as poke.

 

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‘Poke Bowl’ Print by Lauren Trangmar 11″x 14″ matted $58