Ka-Ning Fong takes the tradition of French street level paintings, which feature the immediately-recognizable depictions of everyday life and architecture, and updates it for a tropical city that is lit by fluorescence, car headlights, and neon, as much as it is moonlight and sunshine. The electric red wash that might infuse a scene selected for seemingly secret if not outright private reasons, does not present the Honolulu of hapa-haole hula, ocean liners, and Elvis. When asked why he paints street scenes and not sea life, palm trees, Pineapples, or whimsical icons of tourist Hawaii he answers: "Why should I? Those images are available everywhere you look. I think this [Honolulu street life] is more interesting." Fong's intensely local work offers us a view onto the landscape of the new island paradise of street signs, traffic lights at dusk, the glare of noodle shop signage, and wet pavement.