TSA
Joined: Aug 31, 2006
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TSA
Aloha Tiki Tribe!
I'm getting ready for my favorite holiday... All Hallows Eve! The local gallery here in Kona Hawaii has plotted with me to have a show in October. This gallery has become very important to me. The gallery owner, Mark Hanna, showed my art when many other local galleries scratched their heads and told me "Tiki does not sell. Tourists are not hip enough to get this low-brow retro tiki stuff." Mark took a chance... and the tourists showed they are hip to Tiki... or are willing to be. The gallery sales people really have become ohana (family)... getting behind my work. They've really been supportive and widened their minds and learned about "Tiki Culture" and "Low Brow Art" as well as learning the more polite term "pop-surrealism" & "conceptual realism". The gallery folks hinted they may come to the show dressed as characters from my paintings... Wow (!) I'm gonna' carve some Jack-lanterns to go along with the tiki torches out front. I'll have the new limited Skate Decks sporting the classic monsters (on vacation) and Tikis & Jack-o-lanterns, my favorite "Bela Lugosi drinking a Zombie", I'll show patrons some Shark spirits and tiger sharks, many skulls, some hot rods, & a Tiki, here, or there... or everywhere! (course!) ... and even the latest and my most Halloween pumpkin-pie flavored art print: "Hawaii-Ween". That's me holding it up - this one's a special artist's remarque.
"Hawaii-Ween" : Once again, I painted something I thought no one would understand much less shell out $$ for - but again I was happily surprised, and "Hawaii-ween" has been selling well in the gallery all summer long. I poured my heart into it, and it seems there are those out there in the tiki Tribe who also feel the connection of Halloween and Tiki...
So we'll have a "Happy Hula-Ween Tiki-Art Show". Not sure of the date yet -(I'll post that soon), and we'll see who, or what, comes out that night...
... and slinks, lurches, glides, hulas or night-marches to the Wyland Kona Oceanfront Gallery, in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.
http://www.wylandbigisland.com/
Wyland Kona Oceanfront Gallery
75-5770 Alii Dr
Kailua Kona, HI 96740-1782
Phone – (808) 334-0037
Toll Free – (888) 435-6612
Email – [email protected]
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