POW! WOW! Hawaii 2020: Alex Pardee

This is part of a series of photo galleries in Meniscus Magazine featuring local and international artists at the POW! WOW! Hawaii 2020 festival in Honolulu. Artists took over the city – mostly concentrating on the neighborhood of Kaka’ako – from Feb. 10-15, creating colorful murals indicative of their signature styles. Each gallery features a progression of in-progress artwork up to its completion.

Between bouts of rain and sun, Alex Pardee worked on a mural at POW! WOW! Hawaii 2020 in Honolulu. The finished product adorns one side of the Lana Lane Studios art collective building at 327 Lane Lane. (photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
Pardee has completed numerous art projects related to fashion, film, music videos, comics and much more. Some of his work includes art for Zack Snyder’s movie “Sucker Punch” and numerous album artwork for bands such as The Used and Street Drum Corps. (photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
Pardee detailed his strategy for his POW! WOW! Hawaii 2020 mural in a blog entry. The occasion marked only the second time in his career that he had to paint an oversized mural. (photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
Purchase the artist’s work online at https://shop.alexpardee.com/ (photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
Follow Alex Pardee on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. (photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
“Since I hadn’t done a lot of large scale pieces, my intention from the beginning was to make the final mural look like one of the animation-cell-style drawings of mine that I have been doing recently, just….a lot bigger,” Pardee wrote in a blog entry. “That [meant] that I would be creating bigger shapes, and most importantly, creating thicker line-work than normal due to the scale.” (photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
(photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
(photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
(photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
(photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)
(photo by Kwai Chan / Meniscus Magazine)