Debra Drexler
Professor

“Gauguin's Zombie” has been shown at the Honolulu Academy of Art (2002),   Maui Arts and Cultural Center (2003), and most recently at White Box's Annex in New York (2005), New York. Based on the premise that Paul Gauguin, well-known French painter and visitor to the South Pacific, has returned to life in a fictional exhibition in a fictional museum, “Gauguin's Zombie”, an   installation of paintings, wood carving and fabricated writings such as emails, faxes, press releases journal entries, and artist's statements explore the complex dynamics between the past and present, the influence of colonialism and cultural identity, and the traditions of the Western and non-Western worlds.   Drexler participated in a series of artist's residencies in Australia, which culminated in exhibitions in Darwin and Tasmania, because she was interested in further exploring the impact of art production in post colonial environments. “Gauguin's Zombie” emerged out of drawings which she did in Tasmania. Other recent solo exhibitions include: “Lost in Paradise”, Berlinerkunst Project, Berlin Germany (2005), “High Art and Low Life”, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis (2004), “Bushlands”, Darwin Australia (1999), and “Postcards from Oahu”, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesee ( 1997).

View Gauguin's Zombie exhibition website at:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~drexler