ARTIST CENTERFOLD SELLS LIFE WORK FOR ONE MILLION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8/27/03
            
Hawaii' s thirty year resident painter Karla Sachi, aka, "Sachi", is serious about selling her life's work before, she states-- "I'm dead with a smile", for one million dollars.

        She is offering exclusive rights to over 600 paintings, poetry, music and sculpture, as well as biographical book and movie rights, her archives, press information, and publishing of all her works up to January 2003; She is also including her websites, www.sachiart.com, .net and .org. "I believe this 'property', can be passed by the new owners, (of me), on to their heirs. I have never considered myself a promotion person or publisher--but I'm very creative. I'm a painter--I'm a manic, driven artist--that's ALL I know and I have a need to find sanctuary".

     Today Sachi's art is featured exclusively at Genesis Gallery, Four Seasons' Hualalai Resort, Hawaii, as well as the King's Shops, Waikoloa, Big Island of Hawaii.

         Raised in Malibu, a haven for artist's and celebrities, for several years she shared Positano's Coffee House on the cliffs of Malibu beach with friends, one whose sister Mia Farrow often brought many famous celebrities like Marlon Brando and Peter Sellers.

         Sachi, (then Karla Conway), was Playboy's first Centerfold Surfer featured in April 1966...riding waves. In 1967 Karla gave birth to her first and only child, a baby boy she named Aaron Marcus--in London after spending a year touring Europe and Africa. She later she returned to California to work in a a few she says, '"very bad", movies which included "Fireball 500", as well as working at the Playboy Club as a Bunny.

     Karla left Hollywood in 1968, baby in tow, with gypsies, and fellini-esque period characters--artists, wenches, jugglers and Shakesperian actors, traveling the seasonal Renaissance Pleasure Faire.

     After two years again she caught the travel bug and headed south where she spent a year in Puerto Vallerta Mexico to help her father with his beachfront restaurant, Carlos Obrien's. From Mexico she ventured further to Guatamala, then continued to search for a home, and finally found it to be Hawaii, her Grandmother's Island home--where she's lived off and mostly on since 1977.

     In the 80's her art career began with whimsical soft "life-sculptures"carried by Circus Circus in Las Vegas and FAO Schwartz . A 30" likeness of Hugh Hefner was featured in the December '82 issue of "Playboy."

     In 1987 Karla lost her only child at 18 years old to an inoperable brain tumor. Since, she has found solace and channeled her grief into art, and by 1997 had created over 600 paintings and sculptures. She later dropped her first name, changing it to "Sachi," a shortened version of her true maiden name, "Musacchia"--the street name posted on the main boulevard in Palermo, Sicily.
    
     Her fine art has granted her numerous awards in exhibits, and covers of books, periodicals as well as licensing agreements. In 1994 "Sachi's' portraits of rock stars from the sixties, for the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll commemorative calendars gained her the American Advertising Federations' prestigious, "AAA'S Award of Excellence". This Rock & Roll Collection includes thirteen 24"X24" oils portraits of luminaries such as Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and Tina Turner . Collection is complete and intact; currently available for aquisition.

     As well as painting a wealth of subjects in Watercolor, Mixed Media and Oils on Canvas--Sachi's art has grown to also include writing--non-fiction as well as children's books, Poetry & Visionary Music on CD, and Bronze Sculpture. Today her art has been published as as greeting cards, books, music, posters, and other products.

Email sachiart@aol.com for more information about Sachi Call 800-500-4486 for more information about this artist and her work.