Tiki Time at Roq La Rue

Tiki News curator Otto Von Stroheim and Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle have teamed up for Tiki Art Now! Volume 3, a survey of contemporary tiki art by "the genre's top artists" opening this Friday, Sept. 15th. The reception runs from 6-9pm with live music by Lushy at 7pm. The show features work by artists such as Shag, Tim Biskup, Bosko, Tiki Tony, Lisa Petrucci, Derek Yaniger and many more. The paintings in the show are fresh and often large scale retrographic interpretations of the classic central Pacific art style.

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What is Tiki?
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a Tiki as "a wooden or stone image of a Polynesian God."
While fans of Tiki Style might border on religious fanaticism in their love for all things Tiki and their obsession for collecting Tiki mugs and menus, the Tikis they worship are wholly American artistic creations.
In its heyday the decor, food and music used in Tiki bars was referred to as South Seas, Polynesian, or Exotica and later simply as Tiki. Today, the umbrella term Tiki is used to describe the entire gamut of Pan Polynesian arts that were applied in those restaurants and bars from the late 1930s to the mid 1970s. Book of Tiki author Sven Kirsten dubbed it "Polynesian Pop." I prefer to call it Tiki Style and recognize it as a bona fide art movement. Whatever you call it, it's back and it's getting bigger. - Otto Von Stroheim

Roq La Rue is located at 2312 2nd Ave (between Bell and Battery Sts) in Seattle. For more show info, click here, and for more on the latest and most thorough exploration of tiki art and culture, check out Tiki News.

Or, for a simulated experience, just click around the online gallery while sipping a Mai Tai.

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