ARTIST’S PROFILE
Critic (biased) – So what have you got to say for yourself?
Rodney –I try to use what God gave me, do what I’m told… well, at least most of the
time, and celebrate being alive.
Critic – Can you be more specific?
Rodney – I strive to be a productive member of society through working on the human
potential - by doing a balancing act between inspiration and perspiration
PAST JOB EXPERIENCE
Neighborhood Kool-Aid sidewalk stand, Aina Haina Valley, 1951
Neighbor’s yard-boy, Aina Haina, 1960
Dole Cannery, can lid placement machine operator, summers, 60s
Rocker, The Harmonics, band leader, 1962-1968, 600+ gigs
Parking Lot grocery cart gatherer, Walmart, Maywood, Illinois (fired)
Bartender, Chicago infamous Korean bar (a slugfest per night, Best Friend: huge Polish cop at the front door)
Phlebotomist, Hines Veteran’s Hospital, Maywood, Illinois
Army dentist, 8th Army, Dental Corps, San Antonio, TX, Seoul, South Korea
Professional student, college enrollment – 1963-1980
President, Association of Hawaii Artists, 1985
President, Hawaii Computer Art Society, 1985-1995
Director, SOHO Too Gallery & Loft, 1985-1990
Webmaster & Director, Lastplace.com – Truly Virtual Web Art Museum
Author – novels/screenplays; art theory books, art catalogs
EDUCATION
B.A., Psychology - Hawaii Pacific University, Downtown Campus, HNL
B.A., Zoology - University of Hawaii – Manoa, Honolulu, HI
A.A., Art -Triton College, River Grove, Illinois
M.A., Studio Art- Painting, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL,
D.D.S., Dentistry – Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
M.A., Counseling Psychology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
M.A., Community Leadership, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
M.S.Ed., Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
M.A., Computer Art, Columbia Pacific University, San Francisco, CA
Ph.D., Art Psychology, Union Graduate Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio
Diplomas & Certificates
Chicago Bartending School, Chicago, IL
Chicago School of Clinical Hypnosis, Chicago, IL
Nikon School of Photography, NJ,
Interior Decorating, LaSalle Extension School, PA
Century 21 Realtor Licensing Course, Manoa, HI
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Honolulu Academy of Art, Artists of Hawaii Exhibitions
Ramsay Museum, Honolulu (solo exhibition)
Kauai Art Museum, exhibit by Hawaii Computer Art Society (Founder)
The Bronx Museum, New York
Shanghai Art Museum (solo exhibition)
Las Vegas Art Museum (solo exhibition)
Tartu Art Museum, Estonia (when it was part of the U.S.S.R.)
Holter Art Museum, Helena, Montana
Portland Art Museum, Oregon (solo exhibition)
Museum of Computer Art (Internet based)
Truly Virtual Web Art Museum (Internet based)
Digital Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Unfine Art, Eugene, Oregon
Vienna Art Museum, Austria
East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii (solo)
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
LIFE PEAK EXPERIENCES
1st Place, 5th grade level, Safety Poster Contest, Aina Haina School, East
Honolulu (life decision made: I like be one artist when I grow up!)
Falling off a 40’ cliff at age 15 and surviving!, Makapu fishing trip
Leader of The Harmonics rock band from Kalani High School (Class of ’63),
winner of Battle of the Bands, Blaisdell Center, 1965
Greyhound Bus Trip – Easy Rider living-on-wheels experience, 25 states in 21 days! – 1966
Inventing NFL Pro Football board game by Ideal Toy Co., 1968
Captain, U.S. Army Dental Corps, Seoul, South Korea, 1973-74
Disco Doc and Da Waiting Room disco-dental clinic, 1979-1996
NBC Real People Show, dancing on national TV as the Disco Doc (verified
also viewed on TV in Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany); radio
interviews across the nation
Scoring 99 percentile on the Rapp Creativity Test at U.H. Psychology Dept
Founder and director of Soho Too Gallery & Loft, Kalihi, Honolulu, 1985-89
Solo exhibit in New York City at Nishi Noho Gallery with Brooke Shields at
opening
Shanghai Art Museum solo exhibition with all-China media coverage
Honorary Professor title bestowed by Shanghai University, College of Fine
Arts for 1-week lecture/workshop on American Computer Art (1988)
Dream of a nonexistent artist named Pygoya and using his name as my
online artist’s name, 1997 (as of 2005, “Pygoya” became title of collaborative art production group headed by painting designer Rodney Chang; also name of fictitious artist in novel Pygoya)
Web creation of LastPlace.com, site of Truly Virtual Web Art Museum
Founder of Webism, art creation as contribution to global cyber-culture
(check out thousands of links in Google.com)
Creator of Pixelism, Webism, Paint Outs, theory of aesthetic perception, Da
Waitng Room art installation, The Pygoya House, Truly Virtual Web Art Museum, Cyber-Painting, novels Pygoya, Roswell Encounter Gallery, Starry Lights Over Roswell, Red Sable Brush Society, and books on art theory: Mental Evolution and Art, An Art Psychology, The Artist Who Thinks Too Much (www.lastplace.com/books.htm)
European Art Tour with the Webists – Frankfurt, Paris, Vienna,
Bavaria/Sonthofen, Budapest, Hungary
Designer and developer of The Pygoya House, winner in Parade of Homes,
on Na Pali Haweo ridge (rim lot facing Kalama Valley), Hawaii Kai
Saturday Night Fever-ed almost every Saturday night in Waikiki dance
clubs, mostly at Rumors, Ala Moana Hotel, 1979- 2005 (really a disco doc dancing through the decades
With eyes closed and dancing with wife in a gay discotheque in Manhattan,
discovering ourselves circled by 15 men also on the dance floor, watching in glee and awe
Marathon running for life; now a marathon completion every 3 months
since greeting the big 6-0 in 2005
Private dental practice, Downtown then Kalihi, Honolulu, 1975-present
Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, featured in 22 syndicated international
newspapers
Becoming known online as “The Running Photographer,” as content
builder for MarathonCoursePhotos.com
Novel writing, combining science fiction, the art life, and horror (4 novels)
Abduction by Aliens – well, at least inspiration out of nowhere to write 2
Sci-fi novels about UFOs, aliens, and artists as heroes and heroines – and victims
Sending digital art file and artist’s info as part of a radio wave emitting
project into outer space, 1997 - and still traveling away from Earth over infinite time and space!
Complete the gruesome Volcano Marathon, 26.2 miles through steaming
Lava fields of Volcano National Park, Big Island, HI, 2007 (only 128 runners made it)
Fulfilling family life with Erlinda and wonderful Bronson, Houston, and Rochelle
Establishing Pygoya Gallery, Downtown, Honolulu, 2008
FUTURE AMBITION
Co-director or consultant for the conversion of the novels into big screen
feature movies
Set up a scholarship fund for art students attending Hawaii Pacific
University
Establish a brick n’ mortar Roswell Encounter Gallery setup exactly,
exhibit-wise, as that in the novel
Complete photo-documentation of marathons in Midwest,
Southern, and Eastern American states before age 65
Open a Art Lover’s gallery-dance club with a huge dance floor
Establish the Museum of Webism in the U.S.A. or Europe
Establish Pygoya Museum some place on the planet
Retirement cyclic residence in Maine, Oregon, Roswell, New York and the
Big Island
Build large outdoor sculpture gardens on acres of private property on the
Big Island
Get inspired to write more novels
Become a grandfather
Live off Social Security
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