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Brad "Tiki Shark"
Parker
"Ocean Dreams"
September 25 - October 14,
2010
Artist Reception: Saturday, September
25th
7-10 PM
The Manhattan Beach
Creative Arts Center
1560 Manhattan Beach
Boulevard
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 (310) 802-5440
Brad "Tiki Shark" Parker is an artist / resident of the active volcanic island
of Hawaii. His art journey began when he was thrown out of an advanced painting
class at UCLA, by a professor who told me him could not be taught because he was
"an illustrator not an artist!" For many years he believed this. He believed the
"Art World" axiom that "painting is dead". But soon he discovered that art was
rising from the grave! Robert Williams was breaking down the walls between
lowbrow and highbrow and showing art that made Parker's heart sing and dance,
and made his DNA mutate! Brad transitioned from a commercial illustrator into a
fine artist. He ceased taking all Hollywood storyboard and illustration jobs,
spent every red cent he had, and moved to the Big Island to be near the source:
the burning hot lava center or the environmental/geological catalyst the spawned
the birth of "Tiki" art hundreds of years ago. Later tiki art, washed
tsunami-like onto American shores as "Hawaiiana" in the 50's, and again as "Tiki
Culture" in current hipster-kitsch vernacular.
"What I create has
little to do with traditional Hawaiian art, or the art most galleries in Hawaii
show: tourist art of dolphins, and sea scapes. What I do is Polynesian
pop-surrealistic art. Living and making art on the edge of this volcano, I
witness the natural beauty, the cataclysmic clash of cultures, and the strange
devolution of primitive art into kitsch and evolving back up again into Modern
Pop Art and yet again into my own personal obsession. I cannot stop pealing away
the historic layers of icons so changed that they have become the opposite of
what they started out as. Figures feared as war gods placated by human sacrifice
and used in possible black magic death rituals are now copied out of museum
catalogs and reproduced over seas as plastic good luck Tikis and handed to
children. Which is the point. Man looks at the horror and meaninglessness of
life, and tires to make sense of it. Time steps on and horror becomes comedy,
yet still we seek the meaning of it all. What happens when we face our last
sunset? Is there any strange idol or being waiting for us on that twilight shore
to take us and show us where we go next? I think my art is hopeful. The human
imagination raging against the void. Nothing is certain, so anything is
possible."
La Luz de Jesus Gallery is representing the sale
of the paintings in ths exhibition. Contact the Gallery Director for
availability and purchase info: (323) 666-7667
Have a look at Brad's art for the 16 page supplement for
the french magazine "KUSTOM"
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LA LUZ DE JESUS EVENTS IN SEPT &
OCT 2010
The Art of Dee Dee Ramone - A
Birthday Memorial Show
September 18 - 26
Opening
Reception: Saturday,September 18th, 8-11 pm
La Luz de Jesus
Gallery
Dave Cooper "Bent"
Book
release and signing party
Thursday, September 30th, 6-9 PM
Lowbrow Tarot Show
La Luz de Jesus
Gallery I
October 1 - 31
Artist Reception: Friday, October 1, 8-11
pm
Karen Hsiao
Matt Wood
Christine Wu
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
II
October 1 - 31
Friday, October 1, 8-11 pm
print and book signing, 7-8 pm
Brad "Tiki Shark" Parker "Ocean
Dreams"
Manhattan
Beach Creative Arts
Center
September 25
- October 14
Artist
Reception: Saturday, Sept. 25th 7-10
PM
Tiki Farm "The Hardest Working Company in
Tiki"
10 years of Tiki Mugs on Display
Oct. 16 - 31
Opening
Reception: Saturday, Oct. 16th, 8-11 pm
La Luz de Jesus
Gallery
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Arts
PO Box 1975, Burbank,
CA 91507
818-848-2698 (o) 818-415-5543 (c) 818-848-2699 (f)
leejemail@gmail.com
www.leejosephpublicity.com
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