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Brad "Tiki Shark" Parker SOLD OUT Museum Event in Manhattan Beach Sept 25 - Oct 14

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Pupus and Drinks at the reception on Saturday night the 25th of September.


Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker

http://www.tikishark.com
http://www.myspace.com/Lotus_Land
http://www.cocktailnation.net
http://www.sargentsfineart.com/artist/parker.php

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2010-05-07 00:50 ]

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[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2010-10-04 01:20 ]

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[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2010-10-13 16:46 ]

Putting this on the calendar for sure, Brad.

THANKS Atomic Tiki Punk.

Well, the big Tiki clock in the sky is ticking.
September 25th is getting closer.
I'm making art.
I will have ten pieces at this show. (fingers crossed)
Many will be original paintings.
Some will be "artist proofs" limited editions - on canvas, retouched.
Here is one of the original paintings that will be there:

"Faster Than Disaster"

30" x 24"
Acrylic on canvas

We'll have food and drinks and dancing girls! Er... ok, some lovely young ladies will be serving drinks and pupus, they may or may not dance while they are doing so. That's up to them.
Hope you to see you there!


Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker

[email protected]
http://www.tikishark.com
http://www.myspace.com/Lotus_Land
http://www.cocktailnation.net
http://www.sargentsfineart.com/artist/parker.php

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2010-06-07 22:10 ]

possible dancing girls!?!?!?!?!?
I'm so there!

and the fact that they'll have brad art on the walls
is an added bonus!

little lost tiki - Okay, maybe dancing girls. Well, maybe not. However, my gorgeous niece from Canada is going to come down to help out, perhaps strolling around in her swanky aura of dream-like beauty serving refreshments on a silver platter.... (but her new husband will be there too... minding da' door, he'll be da' gorilla sporting a zoot-suit, and packing a black-jack, jus' so's none o' you mooks get outa. line, ya' know? Dis' is a classy joint we're talkin' about here.)

So the theme of the show (or my part of it) is this:
10 pieces. All original paintings, or full sized giclees on canvas with artist remarks (making them one of a kind pieces and as close to seeing the original as possible).
PLUS, 10 "Vintage" framed covers of "Tales From The Tiki Lounge".
It'll be Issues 1 through 10.
Get what I'm saying?

"Faster Than Disaster" - Original painting
30" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas

(Vintage) "Tales From the Tiki Lounge #1, featuring "Faster Than Disaster" on the cover.
11" x 8" Giclee on paper

Should be an interesting juxtaposition of art and what happens to said art after it is published.

Scribble it down on your calendars... September 25th 2010!
See you there!
ALOHA!
Brad~

Aloha Tiki Tribe!

Got the latest copy of Hi Fructose Magazine... flipping through I found my ad! Swank!
Hope folks see it, and show up at the show in September!
September 25th, Saturday, 7 PM to 9 PM
Mahalo!
Brad~

Aloha Tiki Tribe!

Submitted for your amusement:
a link to all the art (thus far) that will appear in the art show, ala with a little promo help from the nice folks at La Luz De Jesus Gallery:

http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Tiki-Shark/Parker2010.htm

Hope this works. It'll be up for REAL by month's end.

Big Mahalo!
Brad~

Aloha tiki Tribe!
The day of the big show is inching closer. The "Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center" has created their promo invitation.

"Hey kids, can you pick out the "Low Brow" artist?

I'm very honored to be given top billing. Hope to see some Tiki folks there - I'm making up a special "Voo Doo" punch that will be served along with the usual swank beverages and food the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center serves during openings.

Big Aloha!
Brad~

A L O H A Tiki Tribe!

So, the BIG art show is coming up - Sept 25th. S A T U R D A Y Opening night 7 to 9 PM.
Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center.
1560 Manhattan Beach Boulevard
Manhattan Beach, California 90266 (310) 802-5440
Near the waves in the ol' south bay!
Along with original paintings for sale, I will be offering some very high end giclees on canvas - These are limited editions. They are hand retouched by me, are the same size as the originals, and look as great as the originals! (well, almost, but a darned beautiful job of reproduction.

Please check out this link to a listing of the work by La Luz de Jesus Gallery, who are being so kind as to help promote the show.
http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Tiki-Shark/Parker2010.htm

In this wacky economic time, I know some Tiki Tribe art patrons are looking to enhance the walls of their tiki huts with out spending a few thousand clams. So... I will also have some giclee on PAPER art prints at a lesser price for those art patrons seeking to pay more around $100 instead of ...well, a few thousand clams. All my giclee art prints are made at Honu editions here on the Big Island of Hawaii - their expert work hangs in every local museum and swank hotel lobby. Simply, they are the best on the Big Island.

("Monsters on Vacation" - one of the art prints that will be offered for sale.)
I'll be there opening night to sign and personalize all art prints bought. This will also save you those pesky shipping costs from Hawaii when folks buy my art prints on line. I'll have a limited supply with me, so if you come early, you'll more likely be able to find the art print on paper you're looking for.

So check out the original art - the high end giclees on canvas, - and the beautiful giclees on paper.

B I G A L O H A !
Hope to see you there!
Brad "Tiki Shark" Parker

A L O H A Tiki Tribe!

Whew, was up till 2 AM... not drinking...painting! I finished the huge epic sunken pirate-ship-and-tiki painting!!!!
It'll be on display at the show in Sept.

Am I going to post a big fat photo of the finished painting that took me 3 plus months to paint? No. I'm going to be a total creep and keep it secret till OPENING NIGHT Sept 25th! So you can come on down and gawk at it in person, along with a whole bunch of other originals, some high end giclees , and even some very reasonable priced giclees on paper - all for sale, and which I will personalize to you if you so wish.
Like what you ask? Well check it out here:

http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Tiki-Shark/Parker2010.htm

The Pirate Ship is not listed on the La Luz de Jesus Gallery site as it wasn't done yet, and it's already sold to a secret collector anyways. Now, I'm gonna try to crank out two smaller "Monsters on Vacation" pieces so I can have a whole block of 6 of them at the show..... (I hope. Pass the Red Bull please!)

But come on down and take a peep at da art, and at me (yeash!) in person, before it is swept away into a secret collection never to shown to the public ever ever ever again and I am deported back to the Big Island.

MAHALO!
Brad "Tiki Shark" Parker

A L O H A T I K I T R I B E !
19 days left...

...to the big art show at the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center!
For a listing of all my art that will be at the show take a look at the listings at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery web site:
http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Tiki-Shark/Parker2010.htm

There will be a few other new pieces as well:
1.) Beyond the Reef - acrylic on canvas - SOLD

2.) Monsters on Vacation : a way swank SET of ALL FOUR monster paintings!!! (each 11 X 14) giclee on canvas - whole set for $1,000.00

Pre-sale...

Bela Lugosi Has a Zombie
Giclee on Canvas 30 x 24
SOLD

ALOHA, and hope too see you at the opening
Brad

Right On Brad!
PreSales are the BEST!
CXongrats!
I'll be dragging some fellow art tards
up to manhattan beach
to amaze an inspire them
with your creative creations!

C
Chippy posted on Tue, Sep 7, 2010 9:23 AM

I am getting really motivated to try and swing by after hearing you on Cocktail Nation. Also i am hoping to bring my daughter who is an espiring artist and LOVES the Universal Monsters and I hope to show her smoth of the prints up close.

Thanks for droping this show in MB, makes it pretty hard to say 'it is too far away'.

Now if I can just get my hands on the check book, hmmmmmm.......

T

Congrats Brad, you are an inspiration to all .We will be there .

A L O H A T I K I T R I B E ! !
count down...18 days till the art show!

little lost tiki - Thanks! U is so Right! Takes some of the sweating off!
Chippy ~ Wow, I would be honored! Hope u can bring your daughter- she's into the Universal Monsters? Sounds like a very Cool Kid U got there, raised by parents who knew what pop culture to expose her to.
TIKI-RAY~ Thanks! I look forward to seeing you!

So, as you might know, I sponsor the pod cast "The Cocktail Nation" hosted by Koop Kooper. Koop is a charming suave retro cat who lives in an amazingly fabulous penthouse over looking Sydney. It is my ardent goal to one day be as cool as Koop. To that end, I've been (mostly with the help of my partner Abbas) creating a ever more SWANK life style and living / working space. I think I've made alot of progress in progressing from some of the strange digs I occupied in Hollywood and Venice to the "Swank High House in the Mist" over looking Kailua-Kona bay where I now dwell and paint.

I guess all these efforts are starting to pay off a bit because today some nice folks from "In Home Magazine" - the Sunday Supplement of West Hawaii today" came by to photograph my pad. I said yes to the interview after I saw they did a piece on Dug Miller's "House of Tiki" which I found out is in my new neighborhood.

Here is the shot set up for the "Jungle Room chair"

Here editor Karen Anderson is over seeing the shot of "Diga Diga Doo" - the mugs and the print.

This is my art room - the work table and the "head chopper" axe on the wall are movie props I designed for the horror flick - "Jeepers Creepers". (shh! Don't tell Universal, I hear they have been searching for these rare pieces for years now!)

I have no idea how it will look published, but I think I'll be in the Halloween issue next month. I'll be sure to post then. Halloween is swank, right?

Big ALOHA!
Brad~


Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker

[email protected]
http://www.tikishark.com
http://www.myspace.com/Lotus_Land
http://www.cocktailnation.net
http://www.sargentsfineart.com/artist/parker.php

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2010-09-08 01:38 ]

Kooper digs this pad!

A L O H A T I K I T R I B E !!!

Count down to the art show.... 17 days left!!!!

Wait is it 17 or is it 16? er...I'm not sure. Lack of sleep muct be getting to me. Oh well, "More Red Bull" - gotta focus on what I'm getting ready today.

Thursday, Sept 9th: I'm working my "day job" - a big "Tiki Shark Hawaii" beach towel order for a new client here in Hawaii. Yes, it would be nice if this would have happened AFTER the show, but we need to make deadlines for the factory. And, it's great to break into the tourist market here in Hawaii. That has taken some time.

Of course, this means I'm painting late into the tropical night to get the last painting finished. This last painting may be coming with me on the plane.

The Gallery in Maui just shipped the few originals they had to the venue in Manhattan Beach. I'm packing the originals I have been hording here this week end, and I'll ship them early next week. They should all arrive in Manhattan Beach in plenty time for set up. Am I a bit nervous? YES!


Some Exciting news: Here's a first look at my art on the cover of the "16 page supplement" that's packaged along with issue #21 of the french magazine "KUSTOM". It'll seem like you are buying a new magazine poly-bagged to include a vintage comic! Too fun! Will this actually fool any french people? Not sure, but it's cool to see it. I hear there is a box of them on the way to me. I hope they get here in time so I can take some to the art show.

Here's a link to the mag:

http://www.rods-customs.com/?p=452

Aloha!
Brad~

C
Chippy posted on Thu, Sep 9, 2010 8:38 PM

You may want to bring a light jacket.

The weather here has been unseasonably cool with a hearty marine layer (fog) at the beach.

But I am sure the show will be great. I am working to adjust some budding vacation plans to be there.

(Still looking for that checkbook)

On 2010-09-09 20:38, Chippy wrote:
You may want to bring a light jacket.

The weather here has been unseasonably cool with a hearty marine layer (fog) at the beach.

But I am sure the show will be great. I am working to adjust some budding vacation plans to be there.

(Still looking for that checkbook)

I'm ready. We've gotten some severe weather here too. Yesterday, it got real hot, about 87. Then, it got really cold: about 82. Sheesh, freaky!

A L O H A
T I K I
T R I B E !

15 days until the art show... tick tok...

"Beyond The Reef"
24" x 36"
Acrylic on canvas
SOLD.
It will hang in the show, but it's name card will have a red dot on it.

ALOHA!
Brad

M
mp posted on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 8:25 AM

Brad, I wish I could be there.
All your stuff is off the hook and Beyond the Reef
is out of control crazy good. Good luck to you! MP

ALOHA
TIKI
TRIBE!
11 days to the art show.
SHEER PANIC... has eased a bit as almost all the paintings are shipped , in route or have arrived at the Creative Arts Center in Manhattan Beach. I'll be hand delivering two small pieces.

mp - Thanks! I'll raise a mug of voodoo punch to you at the opening. so, you'll, be there in spirit-s!

For you tiki tribe members who don't live in France, here's how the art supplement of issue # 21 of KUSTOM came out...

Here's the mag in it's poly bag.

flip side shows the "supplement" that comes with the mag with "Tales from the Tiki Lounge #1" in all it's faux vintage glory.

1 - I have no idea what it says, because I forgot all the french I took in collage.

2 - showing the "Monsters on Vacation" post cards and "Mister Mai Tai"

3 - "Forbidden Island" spread.

4 - "Diga Diga Doo" and "The Sunken Tiki"

5 - "Faster Than Disaster" spread

6 - "Jungle Witch" and "Tiki Cat"

7 - "The Moon of Manakoora"

The back cover with "Tales from the Tiki Lounge" #2.

I'm very happy with how it came out. It's even better than I hoped - big thanks to Charlie and Alexandre and all the great people at KUSTOM.
I heard it's selling well and that copies are already running low. So, if you happen to be in Europe, and see one, grab it!

Big Aloha!
Brad~

ALOHA
TIKI
TRIBE!

News this aloha Friday: All original paintings have sold - pre show!
http://www.laluzdejesus.com

Still some gicless on canvas are available, and I will have some very high quality giclees on paper for sale opening night.
Big BIG Mahalo!

Brad Parker~

righteous Brad!
Well-deserved!
Now git on over here for a congratulatory hug!


Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Thank LLT!
Above is a sneak peek of the show poster for the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center.
there will be a limited number for sale opening night . I'll be there so you can get yours signed.

Only days away.....

Big Aloha from the Big Island
Brad~


Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker

[email protected]
http://www.tikishark.com
http://www.myspace.com/Lotus_Land
http://www.cocktailnation.net
http://www.sargentsfineart.com/artist/parker.php

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2010-09-19 18:44 ]

ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
Leaving the Island today - headed to So Cal!
Got the "event posters" - they came out great!
Better than I thought,
So good, in fact, that we sold a bunch of them to folks here. Had stop to make sure we still had enough to bring to the show.

18" x 24"
Limited amount for opening night - I'll sign 'em then and there for anyone who asks.
$40

See you at the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center on Saturday Night!
ALOHA!
Brad

ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
Oh yes.... the very last painting for the show. Finally finished it late last night (in between face book messages to LLT and my other artist vampire friends)

"The Invisible Man goes Surfing"
acrylic on canvas 11" x 14"

It's Image #1 in the second set of "Monsters on Vacation"

Aloha
Brad~

I heard there is also a Street Fair in El Segundo that day.
and there will be a few bands at the Purple Orchid later that night.

Jeff(btd)

BRAD's in TOWN!
Sweep the Streets and repaint the houses!
We gotta look sparkly for our Art Brother!

See you soon,Man!

CA

i'll be the invisible man this weekend..

unless you plan a trip to Vegas Too!!?

Damn... wish i was in-town... YOUR IN-TOWN!

Great work!!.. i'll have to check it during the week........ boo

TONIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
Can't wait to see you,chum!

Congartulations Brad wish I could be there. xoxo Dawn

Great show! I enjoyed seeing everything and chatting with everyone.

Awesome Show!
We even got to meet the MAYOR!
Fancypants!
The pieces looked soooo incredible all together on the wall....
Truly a masterful assembly of masterworks!
But the best part was being able to see/hug/and talk to Abbas and Brad!
Congratulations on selling all that work!
i see many exhibitions like this in your future!

Awesome show! Brad's art was just amazing to see in person - really impressive! Lotsa red dots!! Great job Brad and it was great meeting Brad's business partner Abbas, too! Good seein' some of the crew there, too!

HT

The Art show in Manhattan Beach on sat Sept 25 displaying the artwork of BRAD "TIKI SHARK" PARKER was an excellent exbibit and best thing was meeting Brad. Here are some pictures from the exhibit.

T

Thanks for posting pix, HB! Looks like a great turn out, sorry we missed it, but we were in a broken down car 300 miles away!

Congratulations, Brad!

A L O H A Tiki Tribe!

Thanks sooo much for posting those pics!

I just got back on the island tonight, jet lag is making this a short post, but big big Mahalo to everyone who showed up and bought all the art!

The show will hang at the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center till October 14th, so you still have a chance to go take a look at the originals.

Brad~

HB TIKI - mahalo so much for posting the shots!

Thanks, just got back on the island. Show went real well - please check the listing of "Sold Out" here:
http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Tiki-Shark/Parker2010.htm

Whew! What an adventure that was! I'm still a bit stunned. Now, I'm decompressing back in Hawaii, and starting the long art journey to the next one...

Aloha,
Brad

ALOHA TIKI TRIBE!
Here's some more photos. I thought I might have lost them, cause this camera was in my pocket when I fell into Pyramid Lake (but that's another story). Camera dried out and so did I.

OK, I'm totally geeking out here. This is the photo I always wanted. There's kind of a similar photo of a Robt Williams art show in his book "Through Prehensile Eyes". The Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center is a big beautiful art space. Vast amounts of light, broad white expanses of wall between each piece.

Here's the hardest working man in the "Art World" my agent and partner Abbas. The guy never stops!

the long wall.

Long wall - a closer look.

Here's the short wall across the gallery.
http://www.ci.manhattan-beach.ca.us/Index.aspx?page=928
The show hangs in this terrific space till Oct 14th. Take a drive to Manhattan Beach, take a look, as most all these pieces are sold and will all travel off to private tiki bars and swank lounges afterward, maybe never to be seen in public again.

Mahalo
brad

Congratulations on a successful show Brad! Wish I could have made it to the opening.

Swampfire - thanks so much!

Aloha TIKI Tribe! -
LAST WEEK TO SEE DA" (sold out) :) SHOW!

http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Tiki-Shark/Parker2010.htm

http://www.americantowns.com/.../manhattanbeach/.../brad-tiki-shark-parker-ocean -dreams-manhattan-beach-creative-arts-center-1505565 - Cached

The show is up till October 14th, Thursday.
Gawk at da' art till then - afterward it'll be ...GONE FOREVER!
Motor on down to Manhattan Beach and check it out! (free parking!)

Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center
1560 Manhattan Beach Blvd. 90266
(310) 802-5440

Big aloha
Brad~

Aloha TIKI Tribe! -
LAST 4 days TO SEE DA" (sold out) SHOW!

http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/Tiki-Shark/Parker2010.htm

http://www.americantowns.com/.../manhattanbeach/.../brad-tiki-shark-parker-ocean -dreams-Manhattan-beach-creative-arts-center-1505565 - Cached

The show is hanging till Thursday - October 14th.
LAST CHANCE 2 Eye-Bally da' art - afterward it'll be ...GONE FOREVER!
Hidden away in private collections in basement tiki bars, bedecking backyard Tiki Lounges, and dark secret art collections hidden behind sliding book cases in Dr. Frankenfurter's mansion of sex and depravity... and like dat! (hey, could happen!)
So.....
Motor on down to Manhattan Beach and check it out!
(that's the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center where there's always free parking!)

Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center
1560 Manhattan Beach Blvd. 90266
(310) 802-5440

Big aloha
Brad~

Aloha Tiki Tribe~
O N L Y 3 (Three) days left to see da' show!

When the art comes down, and gets wrapped up, and gets shipped off... forever and ever.... some of the art is going all the way to some swank pad in France!!

(hmmm... maybe I can go visit it some day...)

Aloha Tiki Tribe!
Last Day!

On closer reading of the listing for the show it finally dawned on me it was " Brad's first Museum Retrospective". (!) Wow! I thought I was just showing at a really really really REALLY nice gallery... and here it was a museum! Well, big apologies to the fine folks working at the Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center for referring to your establishment as a gallery. I am completely humbled and honored (...and feel pretty dumb!)
My only defense is I was working so hard to put this show on I didn't realize the extent of the fine people and art establishment involved.... and ...ah... I live on a volcanic island far far away from the ultra swank big city art scene.
Once and again a million mahalos to everyone who helped, who came to see my art, and who purchased art. It was amazing.
big big BIG ALOHA!

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