I le faaiuga o le 1950s, sa fesootaʻi ai Matini ma se vaega o tusiata sa nonofo ma galulue i le pitonuu o North Beach i San Francisco e pei o Jay DeFeo ma Wally Hedrick, o e na faaipoipo, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Bernice Bing, ma Deborah Remington. I le 1954 na faavae faatasi ai e Hedrick ma Remington le Six Gallery
, faatasi ai ma isi tusiata ma tusisolo e toʻafā.