TIKI FREAKout Art show @ Closing Reception this Saturday 8/9 7p.m. til Midnight

The rest of the pics from the closing reception have been posted and can be seen
from the link below or in our myspace pictures

http://www.thelightgalleries.com/wp-content/plugins/falbum/wp/album.php?show=recent&page=1

You guys enjoy yourselves at TIKI Oasis this weekend!
Have a cold Mai Tai in the breeze for me

Attention all you Freaky Tiki's!!!!!!!! We have am Original Robb Hamel left at the Light Gallery that is ready to go!!!!!!!!!! This piece was Presold and was talked about from people that came to the opening reception... We did not take waiting list names because this piece was prepaid for. The customer who payed came in the gallery and wanted the larger Robb Hamel Original instead. (probably because it was featured in O.C. Weekly)

We would like to sell it to a T.C'er so please let us know A.S.A.P.

The light gallery will be having a surf show that will premier this weekend and this original will be on display if not SOLD.

P.S. If you do not pull the trigger,Wildsville Man will!!!!!!!! This is an AWESOME piece!!!!

Price is $475........and it's ready to go
Let me or the light gallery know (steven)

Sorry about the picture quality.....go to Robb Hamels link to see a better photo

So I'm reading the OCweekly again today, and someone named Erika wrote in a letter to the editor to defend all of the artists work in the Freakout who were subject to Art reviewer Greg Stacy's article. She says "he revels in mediocrity, and once again takes the easy way out by condescending his way through an empty review with underdeveloped thoughts and childish insults."(I shoulda warned him don't mess with Kinny!) Homegirl has has your back, You've gotta check it out.. It's really well written and she goes as far as to say "I can appreciate the raw talent and reckless abandon of these artists"

I like that, I think i'm gonna make that our new gallery slogan!
The Light Gallery> Orange County's home for "Raw Talent and Reckless Abandonement!"
Now Mark Your Calendars>

Credit to the OC for printing that....and that is what happens when you piss off my lady. I've gotten about 25 of those letters during our relationship :wink:

Here is a link....

http://www.ocweekly.com/2008-09-04/columns/letters/

and the letter....

TIKI TORCHED
Unfortunately, this article was poorly written and extremely negative, something I have come to expect from Greg Stacy [“Where the Birds Sing Words and the Flowers Croon,” Aug. 8].

Art is, after all, subjective, so I don’t expect, nor would I appreciate, a “vanilla” review, but there should have been some attempt to explore the artistry and appeal of this popular, tongue-in-cheek take on the SoCal beach culture. There are many colors, layers and sides to our community, and let’s be honest, not many of them are represented in the Pageant of the Masters.

I attended the “Tiki FREAKout” show opening, and while I don’t completely understand or like everything the lowbrow scene has to offer, I can appreciate the raw talent and reckless abandon of these artists. Sure, many can paint a perfect, precious watercolor beach landscape, like that from a bored Orange County housewife with too much money in the bank and too little interest in her children, and yet none choose to entertain that kind of mediocrity.

Greg Stacy, on the other hand, revels in mediocrity and, once again, takes the easy way out by condescending his way through an empty review with underdeveloped thoughts and childish insults. The OC Weekly—and the community it supports—deserves better than that.

Erika, via e-mail