Gary Hostallero
A Guilty Beginning Led To A Pursuit of Perfection
As a seven-year-old student in Hawaii, Gary was supposed to create a thank you card for his class. Gary says "not even being able to draw a good stick figure, I found someone else to do design the card and I turned it in as my own creation. The teacher was dazzled and said it was the best she had ever seen. Getting so much praise, I felt so very guilty. It was then that I decided my only hope of redemption was making a commitment of learning to draw and paint."
Ever since, the words: "best I've ever seen" to Gary are both haunting and inspiring. The motivation of making amend led to the exceptional artistic and philosophical depth he puts into his unique artistic expressions.
As a child, the legends and stories of the samurai fascinated Gary. Eventually, "the way of the warrior" (Bushido) and its philosophy became the center core of his devotion to discipline, courage and pursuit of perfection.
Gary's Brief Bio
Gary served his country and the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam. And surviving the Tet Offensive, he lived in Japan for three years. There, his multi-cultural (Korean, Filipino, Spanish) family background drew him to the spirit, aesthetics and exoticism of the Orient like a fish to water.
With a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Hawaii, Gary returned home to Hawaii to seek a career in commercial art. But his Air Force experience drew him towards towards the field of aviation and space technology and an eventual position with the Boeing Company in Seattle and later with Lockheed Corporation in San Francisco.
Today, Gary dedicates his time to family and the expression of his life experiences through painting. His studies of Taekwondo, Karate, mixed media graphics and printing, and other artistic techniques adds to his continuing pursuit of perfection. Gary has mastered his life's desires and ambitions an this video will attest.
Gary donates much of his time and art to various community organizations and charity events. The Seena Magowitz Foundation has been extremely fortunate to have Gary as a strong advocate of pancreatic cancer research. Through his art, awareness to this disease is strengthened and his art contributions have helped raise funds which fuels research that will one day lead to a cure.
Butterfly, A Second Chance at Life
Gary Hostallero
(480) 203-9398
ghostellero@gmail.com
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