Brad ‘Tiki Shark’ Parker "Tales from the Tiki Lounge" & Miles Thompson "Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies"

13 Jul Brad ‘Tiki Shark’ Parker "Tales from the Tiki Lounge" & Miles Thompson "Warm Fuzzies, Cold Pricklies"

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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