TSA
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
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TSA
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
I had a nifty thrill when the local ... well local being the island of Oahu... newspaper called me and asked me some questions about Tiki Art. Seems they had seen the book "Surf Graphics" and found that in it's role call of 30 "surf artists" 3 were Hawaii based...or at least had Hawaii as a focus of their particular art. Me, Oahu's Dennis Mathewson, and Thor, who lives in So Cal but is here a lot, and sells his amazing art in local Hawaii galleries.
So, the Honolulu Star Advertiser did a piece on "Low Brow" or what they are calling "Out Sider Art" (interesting) , but really we all know it's "tiki art".
Dig the big ol' front page (in the TODAY) section of the Monday 8/27/12 edition.
Dennis got the big space - above the fold. - Course, he's pretty famous in Honolulu. Local guy. Dennis is a fantastic Airbrush artist (as well as a great guy) and has been painting hotrods for many years at Cosmic Air Brush; his business in Honolulu. Thor and I are more recently hitting the Hawaii Art scene. All 3 of us are not the usual artists working and selling in Hawaii art galleries. What you usually find in galleries here is land scapes, and sea scapes and wild life (dolphins, whales and turtles and such) and flower paintings. Or, you find art that is good, but is not about Hawaii.
Big mahalo to reporter Gary Chun, and his research into Tiki Culture. Nice guy, and he really warmed up to the subject as we talked. However, he did get the title of my painting wrong... it's "The Moon OF Manakoora" - like the exotica song by Martin Denny, and featured in the 1937 movie "The Hurricane" with Dorothy Lamour. Common mistake, no worries, But this sometimes confuses my gallery - Anyways, it's great that now they are becoming more aware, and I'm finding more locals buying my work, when at first it was only tourists.
Tiki Culture is finally finding it's way to Hawaii (ha!) Well, at least, mainstream Hawaii, there's always been tiki tribe folks here.
Big Aloha
B~
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