Mele Kalikimaka Tiki-Tribe!
Not sure how I feel when I read just the first 3 words of the head line…
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2014/12/09/hawaiistiki-shark-art-sells-out-la-art-show-two.html?ana=fbk
Funny, but getting the Tiki-Art out there is starting to happen like , in ways I never expected.
This one sez my Tiki-Art is for sale on Swag in Costco in Canada! Huh! What do ya' know!
Well, I guess the point of "Low Brow Art" was Art you could enjoy with out having a doctorate in Art Appreciation or Art History.
One Time Clive Barker told me, Art is for the Masses…he wasn't mad his art was in comic books, or low budget movies…he still wrote and painted…he thought it should be for every one. I had the great luck to talk to Todd Schorr about his HUGE low brow canvases…the ones owned by the big cheese at Nike. That very rich art patron keeps them locked away in a special vault that's all environmentally controlled and protected. I asked Todd of he'd rather have them out for people to enjoy every day, he just shrugged. "What can I do? He owns it!"
Well, it is nice you can still find Todd's work out there in books, if you look for it, it's in some great books! Books So important! It'd be a crime if no one could see Todd's Art except for a a few select uber rich folks!
Guess that's how it was in the OLD days…
If more eye balls roll over a piece of art does it loose it's value?
Hmmm?
If I never showed my art anywhere but at La luz de Jesus Gallery, I bet no one would even know it was there and buy it.
But since people have seen the art ion calendars and other places, when they see the original it seems more important now…weird.
I'm so proud to be in books like "Surf Graphics" with Big Toe and "Tiki Pop" with Ken Ruzic! That feel's really important.
I bet some kid is gonna be walking through Costco, see a skate deck with a Tiki-Shark Tiki Art on it, love it, and take it home hang it on the wall, (or ride it) and look at it every day. That feels important too.
What's it all mean? Who knows?
Laters!
[ Edited by: tiki shark art 2015-01-12 18:01 ]
