The Lurid low-brow Tiki-Art of Brad (tiki-shark) Parker - Other Crafts

TSA Tiki Shark Art Member Joined: Aug 31, 2006 Posts: 3978	TSA Tiki Shark Art Posted posted on Sat, Aug 2, 2014 10:12 PM Aloha Tiki Tribe! At the Business Expo in Washington D.C. I explained to the crowd of Senators and Representatives and businessmen and other such folk, why tI only show in the "Kona Oceanfront Gallery" They show my Art …exclusively… for mostly for the entire globe! Only one gallery. In small Kailua-Kona-town. On one of the "outer Islands"… one of the most remote active-volcanic-islands in the world: the Big Island, of Hawaii. A curious business plan. Is it the only gallery that would show my Art? Nope. Several others have asked. Big chains. But, I only WANT to show in one Fine Art Gallery. All year. ONE - (1) Art gallery. In one small Kona Town. On one remote island. Very retro-old style. Like in the "Golden-Era" of Early Hawaiian Tourism: Steam-Ships, and prop-planes, and WEEKS of traveling, a real journey, to get to the paradise you were traveling to. I think, if you journey for THOUSANDS of miles to get HERE, you should be rewarded by seeing something unique! Something you won't see back home! Something you can't find on the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf of Mexico. Florida. Or the Caribbean. If you make the long journey to HAWAII, you should see something made in HAWAII (not china) by an artist living in Hawaii. There is something intangible and powerful about living on an active, remote, volcanic island, ...dripping with a sanguinary history that could make your hair stand up and turn white! This place..….it effects your art. A lot. So, you should find some thing that reflects this unique place you have traveled so far to find. Like a gallery that has a Whole WALL of my not very commercial, strange, "what is it?" Pop-Surrealistic Tiki-Art! …and you could, maybe even meet the low-brow-tiki-artist. He could "talk story" with you - tell you about the strange things that happened to cause him to paint each and every painting! Yes, that's correct. Each one was inspired by something that happened to me …right here. On the Big Island. These paintings are "what I see…filtered through my "artist-mind." Explained as best as I can with the visual voice I have….and the skill set I am trying to improve. I didn't want to make da' same kine Art you see all over: in Florida, & New York, & Las Vegas, da' same kine Art you see N' every major city. It's the kine art the gallery KNOWS it can sell. As soon as I wonder if the painting I am working on is worthy of selling to some poor sap…I have taken the fast track to "Crappy-Crap-Crap-Art", instead of spectacular "Low-Brow-Pop-Surrealism." I do not make paintings that are distributed by major printers in big time Fine Art Gallery chains, or what's "liked" by Art critics. . I wanted folks to find Art in Kailua-Kona, that discover this is a very unique to this place. This is a very special and unique place. I want people to make a discovery on this "outer island". I want them to purchase a painting or a giclee Art print that intrigued them, spoke to them, visually spoke to them about the Big Island. Then, they will take it home to Nebraska, and show it to their friends. I hope their friends say something like this: "JEEPERS CREEPERS! Good-Gosh-All-Mighty-jumping-Jack-Cat-Fish-Where-in-Tar-Nation-did-you-Buy-that… that… that… ah…what-did-they tell-you-it-was-again?!" Oh how sublime the conversation could be from there. Tourists from the Great state of Nebraska (where I was born) talking about "Low-Brow Art". I dream of this blissfully. Every couple of years, I would very much LOVE to show up at La Luz with about 13 paintings that looked like they were created by an inmate/employee of a duo-purpose psychotic-ward and Hilo-Hatties Tourist Gift Shop . Showing at La Luz every few years or so, is exactly what I dreamed I would love to do as an artist. I think that it's so fulfilling I'm scared one day I will fall out of favor and loose this wonderful time in my life. I'm very lucky they find my work worthy to show. My Art-Agent ponders this "unique-thing" side of my "ART" … he knows it's really not the big-cash way to go…but he respects my creative needs. Sure, you can see my Art on line. I survive by "on-line Sales"…because Kailua-Kona just dosn't have the sheer foot traffic it would require to sell enough art to live on here. It's not Oahu or Maui. Of course, there, they may not understand my Tiki-Art, as they do here on the Big Island of Hawaii. Each Island is very different. Here, on the Big Island, you can talk-story to your art friends, and tell them about the dream you had, the hike you took, or the "Love Ball" you all ate that some wonderful earth-mother baked for every-one at a party held somewhere in Puna (on the wet-side of the island aka deep jungle rampant with 4th generation flower children and folks who just wish to be off-the-grid for whatever reason. )- Plus, you can all chuckle how every-one sat on the floor and ate their "Love-Ball" dessert, and had very interesting after dinner conversations with each other, or in my case, it seems with my "Low-Brow Art Muse" Ron Perlman - yes the Actor Ron Perlman, dressed as he was in the film "Pacific Rim" in which he played an underworld figure named Hannibal Chau, who, I can see, feel, and hear, while no one else can. He has a vast knowledge of Art history, and frequently tells me & my friends if they inquire of him, while I interpret, whats going wrong with my/our art as it's in- progress. This usually happens while a D.J. tests/plays his special 7 hour special mix of music he's put together for a great party in Dubai coming up - but, don't worry it's only about 7 hours long or so. Yes, each island is different in person. The Big Island is a very different and fun experience. Has everything from the highest rate resort in the western Hemisphere - to camp-out out -door full moon raves. if you are ready to hear some unusual things and just enjoy them with out wondering if they are exactly what happened or only one person's perception of events, nothing beats talk story with my Hawaiian Friends. So, I try very hard not to paint things I "Think you will like" but try very hard to paint with all the beauty I can the amazing experiences that seem to happen every day here. Please, contact the "Kona Oceanfront Gallery" for any interest you may have in purchasing my Art Work. That is, if you can't wait for the 2 to 3 years (yep, at least two YEARS to make the amount and quality of Tiki-Art I feel is an appropriate "body of work") till my next LA showing at "La Luz De Jesus Gallery. To Contact my Big Island gallery... Go to … https://www.facebook.com/OceanfrontGallery Tell them you hear they are the only Art Gallery to show my Tiki-Art in the northern Hemisphere. Let them know if that's a good thing to be so unique, or if that sounds crazy. They are pondering too. They used to show only happy dolphins and flowers and such things. Me and my good buddy: Art Gallery Owner Mark Hanna. On the big Island, Mark's the only Gallery owner who believed in me, when everyone else told me they only wanted "happy dolphins" and closed the door in my face. Mark Took a chance, let me have a small space to start, and slowly after many months of working hard to make better looking Art of my visions, (which he NEVER questioned once) he kept giving me more and more wall space. Now I am the entire whole right side of the front window area of the Gallery. "Brad's work is so visually intriguing, he pulls people in from across the street." He smiles. ""They walk in, make a bee-line to the painting they saw, stare at it and ponder why "Dracula" is drinking a Mai Tai". Then they have a good laugh when one of my art experts or I walk over and we chat about it. And then they start looking around at all the other local artists I am making a space for …Who knows? They might walk out with a painting of a happy dolphin, but Brad (Tiki-Shark) Parker got their butts in the Gallery!" I'm told the Kona Ocean Front Gallery likes now sometimes people come in "looking" for Brad Tiki-Shark Parker Art work! That tourists have changed their travel plans, and traveled very far to come see "IT" in person, and displayed all in one place. Well, a humble, Big Aloha, and Huge Mahalo Plenty if you are one of those wonderful tourist people. I promise, very soon, newer and even more Unique Tiki-Art is coming! Maybe, you can plan accordingly? [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-08-03 00:29 ]

Aloha Tiki Tribe!

At the Business Expo in Washington D.C. I explained to the crowd of Senators and Representatives and businessmen and other such folk, why tI only show in the "Kona Oceanfront Gallery"
They show my Art …exclusively… for mostly for the entire globe!
Only one gallery.
In small Kailua-Kona-town.
On one of the "outer Islands"… one of the most remote active-volcanic-islands in the world: the Big Island, of Hawaii.

A curious business plan.

Is it the only gallery that would show my Art?
Nope. Several others have asked.
Big chains.
But, I only WANT to show in one Fine Art Gallery. All year.
ONE - (1) Art gallery.
In one small Kona Town.
On one remote island.

Very retro-old style. Like in the "Golden-Era" of Early Hawaiian Tourism: Steam-Ships, and prop-planes, and WEEKS of traveling, a real journey, to get to the paradise you were traveling to.

I think, if you journey for THOUSANDS of miles to get HERE, you should be rewarded by seeing something unique!
Something you won't see back home! Something you can't find on the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf of Mexico. Florida. Or the Caribbean.

If you make the long journey to HAWAII, you should see something made in HAWAII (not china) by an artist living in Hawaii.
There is something intangible and powerful about living on an active, remote, volcanic island, ...dripping with a sanguinary history that could make your hair stand up and turn white!
This place..….it effects your art.
A lot.
So, you should find some thing that reflects this unique place you have traveled so far to find.

Like a gallery that has a Whole WALL of my not very commercial, strange, "what is it?" Pop-Surrealistic Tiki-Art!

…and you could, maybe even meet the low-brow-tiki-artist.
He could "talk story" with you - tell you about the strange things that happened to cause him to paint each and every painting!
Yes, that's correct. Each one was inspired by something that happened to me …right here. On the Big Island.
These paintings are "what I see…filtered through my "artist-mind." Explained as best as I can with the visual voice I have….and the skill set I am trying to improve.

I didn't want to make da' same kine Art you see all over: in Florida, & New York, & Las Vegas, da' same kine Art you see N' every major city.
It's the kine art the gallery KNOWS it can sell.
As soon as I wonder if the painting I am working on is worthy of selling to some poor sap…I have taken the fast track to "Crappy-Crap-Crap-Art", instead of spectacular "Low-Brow-Pop-Surrealism."

I do not make paintings that are distributed by major printers in big time Fine Art Gallery chains, or what's "liked" by Art critics. .

I wanted folks to find Art in Kailua-Kona, that discover this is a very unique to this place.
This is a very special and unique place.
I want people to make a discovery on this "outer island".
I want them to purchase a painting or a giclee Art print that intrigued them, spoke to them, visually spoke to them about the Big Island.

Then, they will take it home to Nebraska, and show it to their friends.

I hope their friends say something like this:
"JEEPERS CREEPERS! Good-Gosh-All-Mighty-jumping-Jack-Cat-Fish-Where-in-Tar-Nation-did-you-Buy-that… that… that… ah…what-did-they tell-you-it-was-again?!"

Oh how sublime the conversation could be from there. Tourists from the Great state of Nebraska (where I was born) talking about "Low-Brow Art".
I dream of this blissfully.

Every couple of years, I would very much LOVE to show up at La Luz with about 13 paintings that looked like they were created by an inmate/employee of a duo-purpose psychotic-ward and Hilo-Hatties Tourist Gift Shop .

Showing at La Luz every few years or so, is exactly what I dreamed I would love to do as an artist. I think that it's so fulfilling I'm scared one day I will fall out of favor and loose this wonderful time in my life. I'm very lucky they find my work worthy to show.

My Art-Agent ponders this "unique-thing" side of my "ART" … he knows it's really not the big-cash way to go…but he respects my creative needs.

Sure, you can see my Art on line. I survive by "on-line Sales"…because Kailua-Kona just dosn't have the sheer foot traffic it would require to sell enough art to live on here. It's not Oahu or Maui. Of course, there, they may not understand my Tiki-Art, as they do here on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Each Island is very different.

Here, on the Big Island, you can talk-story to your art friends, and tell them about the dream you had, the hike you took, or the "Love Ball" you all ate that some wonderful earth-mother baked for every-one at a party held somewhere in Puna (on the wet-side of the island aka deep jungle rampant with 4th generation flower children and folks who just wish to be off-the-grid for whatever reason. )- Plus, you can all chuckle how every-one sat on the floor and ate their "Love-Ball" dessert, and had very interesting after dinner conversations with each other, or in my case, it seems with my "Low-Brow Art Muse" Ron Perlman - yes the Actor Ron Perlman, dressed as he was in the film "Pacific Rim" in which he played an underworld figure named Hannibal Chau, who, I can see, feel, and hear, while no one else can. He has a vast knowledge of Art history, and frequently tells me & my friends if they inquire of him, while I interpret, whats going wrong with my/our art as it's in- progress. This usually happens while a D.J. tests/plays his special 7 hour special mix of music he's put together for a great party in Dubai coming up - but, don't worry it's only about 7 hours long or so.

Yes, each island is different in person. The Big Island is a very different and fun experience. Has everything from the highest rate resort in the western Hemisphere - to camp-out out -door full moon raves. if you are ready to hear some unusual things and just enjoy them with out wondering if they are exactly what happened or only one person's perception of events, nothing beats talk story with my Hawaiian Friends.
So, I try very hard not to paint things I "Think you will like" but try very hard to paint with all the beauty I can the amazing experiences that seem to happen every day here.

Please, contact the "Kona Oceanfront Gallery" for any interest you may have in purchasing my Art Work. That is, if you can't wait for the 2 to 3 years (yep, at least two YEARS to make the amount and quality of Tiki-Art I feel is an appropriate "body of work") till my next LA showing at "La Luz De Jesus Gallery.

To Contact my Big Island gallery...
Go to …

https://www.facebook.com/OceanfrontGallery

Tell them you hear they are the only Art Gallery to show my Tiki-Art in the northern Hemisphere. Let them know if that's a good thing to be so unique, or if that sounds crazy. They are pondering too. They used to show only happy dolphins and flowers and such things.

Me and my good buddy: Art Gallery Owner Mark Hanna. On the big Island, Mark's the only Gallery owner who believed in me, when everyone else told me they only wanted "happy dolphins" and closed the door in my face. Mark Took a chance, let me have a small space to start, and slowly after many months of working hard to make better looking Art of my visions, (which he NEVER questioned once) he kept giving me more and more wall space. Now I am the entire whole right side of the front window area of the Gallery. "Brad's work is so visually intriguing, he pulls people in from across the street." He smiles. ""They walk in, make a bee-line to the painting they saw, stare at it and ponder why "Dracula" is drinking a Mai Tai". Then they have a good laugh when one of my art experts or I walk over and we chat about it. And then they start looking around at all the other local artists I am making a space for …Who knows? They might walk out with a painting of a happy dolphin, but Brad (Tiki-Shark) Parker got their butts in the Gallery!"

I'm told the Kona Ocean Front Gallery likes now sometimes people come in "looking" for Brad Tiki-Shark Parker Art work! That tourists have changed their travel plans, and traveled very far to come see "IT" in person, and displayed all in one place.

Well, a humble, Big Aloha, and Huge Mahalo Plenty if you are one of those wonderful tourist people. I promise, very soon, newer and even more Unique Tiki-Art is coming!
Maybe, you can plan accordingly?

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2014-08-03 00:29 ]

Post #724638 by Tiki Shark Art on Sat, Aug 2, 2014 10:12 PM