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Opening reception Sat, February 13, 2016, 5-7pm
Exhibit runs Feb 14-March 13
Rose Gallery. 238A WARREN STREET, HUDSON, NEW YORK THURSDAY THRU MONDAY 11-5 ROSEGALLERYFINEART.COM 518.828.5825
One Hundred Tikis is a solo exhibition of new paintings that incorporate Polynesian tiki kitsch images from cartoons and Hollywood Films, utilizing a social media and computer aided approach, in oil paintings on linen, canvas, paper, by Hudson based artist Dan Taulapapa McMullin.
There will also be a continually running screening of "100 Tikis" an appropriation art video by the artist, from which he has taken the figures for his new paintings, like Minnie Mouse as a Hawaiian Hula dancer, one of the original Betty Boop incarnations as a Samoan dancer, Popeye and his Pappy as American Sailormen and drag queens, with scenes from Hollywood today and television and social media. This mixture of images takes a satirical indigenous approach to notions of tourism and colonialism.
The artist will also be reading from his book of poetry, "Coconut Milk", published recently by University of Arizona Press, and listed by the American Library Association on its Rainbow List of Top Ten LGBT books of the year.
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