13 Jul Brad ‘Tiki Shark’ Parker "Tales from the Tiki Lounge" & Miles Thompson "Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies"
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Brad ‘Tiki Shark’ Parker “Tales from the Tiki Lounge” & Miles Thompson “Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies”
July 6 – 29, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, July 6th; 8-11 PM
Brad ‘Tiki Shark’ Parker “Tales from the Tiki Lounge”
Tales from the Tiki Lounge is the rarest, hardest to find, and most collectible, Pulp-Adventure publication never made. It existed only in the Mai-Tai light Zone of Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker’s imagination. These paintings are the cover-art of the most desired and sought after issues. So precious that they are nearly beyond price, and believability.
Brad Parker creates lurid paintings that pull in influences from tiki, comics, and rock.
–Honolulu Magazine, “The Best Of 2012 “
My art is my personal celebration of a creative reinvention of a foolish misinterpretation of an ancient mythology that sought to solve the mystery of the “breath of life” that eternally and precariously surfs the complete expanse between the bottomless sea and the floating shadow land of preexistence in the inconceivable heights of the sky. Not just to live. But, to ‘live aloha’.
–Brad Parker
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Bongo Cat
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Creature Skatedeck
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Disaster Skatedeck
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Dracula Skatedeck
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Frankenstein Skatedeck
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Wolfman Skatedeck
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tiki Glove
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Big Tiki vs. Godzilla
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Hawaiian Eye
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Hula Baby
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – The Invisible Man Goes Surfing
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Kon-Tiki Dream
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Secret Cove
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tiger Shark Surfing
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tiki Cat
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Zombie Tiki Girl
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 1 (Tiki Cat)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 2
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 3 (Hula Baby)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 4 (Zombie Tiki Girl)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 5 (Kon-Tiki Dream)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 6 (Hawaiian Eye)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 7 (Secret Cove)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 8 (Tiger Shark Surfing)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 9 (Cat-o-Nine-Cocktails)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 10 (Happy Hula-ween)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 11 (Faster Than Disaster)
Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker – Tales From the Tiki Lounge No. 12 (Big Tiki Vs. Godzilla)
Miles Thompson “Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies”
Miles Thompson has chosen Gouache on illustration board to create his new body of work, “Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies,” a show which reflects on what makes life both a beach and a bitch. It is an epitaph for the oceans and forests, once abundant and fecund (look it up, it is the root of the F bomb), now only a ghostly reminder of what an infinite life giving power they once were. There is more than just an environmental message here, “Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies” is also a joyful reminder for us all to frolic around and about the impermanence we all face day to day while we are blessed with a heart, body and mind. Life happens between the lullaby and the nightmare, having and losing. Everything in-between is either a memory that we don’t want to fade, or which is sadly indelible.
Miles Thompson – All Dead
Miles Thompson – All Poseidon’s Armies
Miles Thompson – I Can Swim
Miles Thompson – Noir 1
Miles Thompson – Black Spot
Miles Thompson – Buku Bunkey
Miles Thompson – Checkpoint, Charlie and Black and Blues
Miles Thompson – Como Mariposas
Miles Thompson – Daisy Jones’ Locker
Miles Thompson – La Familia
Miles Thompson – Grumpy
Miles Thompson – If I Were a Carpenter (Apologies, Brandou)
Miles Thompson – Innebrients
Miles Thompson – Jungle Love
Miles Thompson – Maties
Miles Thompson – Lala’s Crystal Cathedral
Miles Thompson – Locker Megafauna
Miles Thompson – LP (Primative)
Miles Thompson – Crystal Cathedral
Miles Thompson – Ghost Whales
Miles Thompson – Moto
Miles Thompson – Murfer
Miles Thompson – O M M O
Miles Thompson – Pink Pachy
Miles Thompson – La La: or the Bather
Miles Thompson – Scallywagger
Miles Thompson – Mermaid’s Lament
Miles Thompson – Tandem
Miles Thompson – Smokey and Wild Butterflies
Miles Thompson – Mother and Ocean
Miles Thompson – The Painting at the Spouter Inn
Miles Thompson -WhOM
Thompson, whose influences range from the ephemeral world of comics, animation and album cover art to centuries of fine art and sculpture, is a native Californian residing in Hollywood who draws, paints, reads, writes, hikes, runs, surfs and meditates. He is most inspired by his daughter who he calls his butterfly.
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