The biography of Art Chantry follows what we’ve seen in other artists. He studied painting and earned a degree in 1978 from what is now Western Washington University. He settled in Seattle…
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I recently found, on the website of L’Imagerie Gallery, a poster for a Grateful Dead show in March of 1970. I immediately paused for two reasons: the image itself, familiar to anyone…
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By 1992, Seattle grunge was long past its early years and well into the public eye, thanks to MTV and everything else. I, for one, was wearing flannel shirts and torn jeans.…
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Some gig poster artists really relish color. Arno Kiss is one of those artists. He started “scribbling band logos in my notebooks in school” in 2001, he says, and in less than…
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This poster is surely one of the most iconic pop culture images of all time. The skeleton, the roses: we all know this Grateful Dead image, but may not know that it…
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If the biography of Rob Jones posted on the website of Animal Rummy offers any clues, the artist, Rob Jones, is as imaginative in the retelling of his life story—a story any…
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In a comment left on a recent post, I was asked to consider doing a blog on the poster art of Derek Hess. So I looked into him. They’re not at all…
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Painter, illustrator, muralist, husband, father: Jeff Soto is all these things. The two things that inspired him, as he reports: classic painting and street graffiti, two aspects of art that help, according…
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In 1869, a year before he died, the Uruguayan-born French poet, Comte de Lautréamont, published a phrase in a book of poems that would become famous when discovered by André Breton: “as…
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Now that the restrictions on getting one’s hair cut has eased, I finally got to go to the place I usually go, within walking distance of my house: Derby City Chop Shop…
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A few weeks back, I ordered a poster from Cargo Collective for a Spoon show I went to more than 10 years ago. The artist was Jeff Kleinsmith, who has designed logos…
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Now that we’ve passed Memorial Day, summer is upon us, and you may find yourself barbecuing—as this gentleman, rendered in a mid-century graphic, is doing. What an image, so summery, so retro,…
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What are the values of posters today? It may depend on a number of factors. Consider the classic Led Zeppelin concert poster for the 1969 Fillmore shows. It’s an avocado. It’s a…
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Imagine New Year’s Eve, 1967. In San Francisco. At the Winterland. And now imagine a line-up: headliners Jefferson Airplane, then in their prime; Big Brother and the Holding Company (yes, that’s Janis Joplin’s…
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One of the loveliest, simplest pieces of art I hung in my daughter’s room: Mike King’s 2005 gig poster for the Arcade Fire. Its depiction of childhood is itself childlike in its…
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Today I want to write about Tara McPherson. McPherson is, well, how else can I say it, an artist. She studied art, and earned a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in…
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The summer of 2017, a virtual dream came true: Iron & Wine was not only coming to Louisville, Kentucky, Iron & Wine was doing the show for free. As part of Waterfront Wednesday, hosted…
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I am more than ten years and two thousand miles from a moment in which, on the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga tour, I first saw the band, Spoon. Now, an older and wiser…
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