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Tai Taeoalii (born July 14, 1977) is an American/Samoan award winning filmmaker and mixed-media artist. ==Biography== Fueled with the inspiration of music and the nostalgic memories of his turbulent teenage years, Tai has tried to utilize his self-taught techniques, cultivated from urban doctrines, in an effort to create art that evokes an honest & hopefully profound emotional experience. Growing up as a bi-racial child in Salt Lake City, Utah, in a predominantly white, suburban environment, Tai states that he fabricated a self-perception that he didn't belong. Filled with angst and confusion at such a young age, he was lucky to discover the arts were a perfect way to express the frustrations of his cultural identity. Through his artistic explorations he discovered his auto-didactic ability, which lead to experimentation with nearly every type of art-form, but none had captured and retained his affections as strongly as drawing with a ballpoint pen, so that has been his focus for the past 8 years. While Tai's art is seemingly filled with symbolic imagery, bearing social or political commentary, he claims he never consciously approaches a drawing with the intent of asserting his beliefs or opinions on viewers. He's spoke of his creative process spawning from an organic and authentic subconscious journey and that his creations manifest more by virtue of his own self-evaluation and less of propagating his ideology. With over 150k followers on Facebook & Instagram and thousands of his original artworks sold worldwide, he's recently taken his art “on the road”. While splitting his creation-time between his studio in Salt Lake City and his newest studio location in Hannibal, Missouri, he's been touring the U.S. with his wife and two children, demonstrating the versatility of the ballpoint pen through the trafficking of his art at galleries, museums and art fairs all across the nation. In the early 2000s Tai founded Weird Chief Pictures, a film and television production company in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tai had been producing film and television for roughly 10 years before eventually putting his filmmaking career aside to focus on his artwork. Between 2002 and 2008, under the moniker 'Weird Chief' Tai sold thousands of his original pop art paintings , which are paintings of pop icons, using stencils and spraypaint, of which it is estimated that he has sold over 5,000 original paintings across the globe, with at least one in each of the 50 U.S. states and countries such as Israel, Cyprus, Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Lithuania, the UK, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, South Africa, and New Zealand.to collectors. In 2009, combining urban and surreal styles, he transitioned from his pop art work to a pop surrealism style, experimenting with a mix of ballpoint pen, photography, spray paint, stencils, acrylics, marker inks, and watercolors, applied on plywood. In 2010 Tai founded Submerged in Art, an annual charity event gathering of Art and Music to benefit The Road Home homeless shelter. In just its 3rd year, the 2012 Submerged in Art charity event received a "Best Of" award from Salt Lake City Weekly. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iosua Tai Taeoalii」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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