Chuck Sperry’s Utopian Provocations
This fall, two challenges await visitors to the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The first is “Litmus Test: Works on Paper from the Psychedelic Era,” an exhibition of 80 or more pieces. The second is “All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry,” which promises 40 or so prints, […]
Bob Seidemann: The Rock Photographer Who Set His Artistic Sights Higher
Most rock-poster fans know Bob Seidemann (1941-2017) for his 1967 photograph of the Grateful Dead standing in a Daly City suburb, his portrait of Janis Joplin wearing only a cascade of beads, and his album covers for Jerry Garcia, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, and Blind Faith. But by the mid-1980s, Seidemann had wearied of the […]
Lee Conklin: 50 Years of Psychedelic Art at the Haight Street Art Center
For many music fans, Lee Conklin is the “Santana-lion” guy, a reference, of course, to his famous design for Santana’s first album, whose central image was taken from Conklin’s Fillmore West poster advertising a pair of 1968 shows headlined by Steppenwolf (August 27, 28, 29, with Santana at the bottom of a three-act bill) and […]
Rock Art By The Bay, 2018, Will Debut At Faction Brewing
We are pleased to announce that Rock Art By The Bay for 2018 will take place on June 30 at Faction Brewing in Alameda. The kind folks at Faction have graciously agreed to share their former airplane hanger with us for the day, so we’ll be setting up tables and grids amid the fermentation tanks […]
Celebrate Earth Day – Light It With Love
As of this writing, Scott Pruitt was still doing his feckless worst to roll back almost half a century of progress on environmental regulation. The good news is that Pruitt’s zeal has been exceedingly sloppy, which has already resulted in successful legal challenges to regressive regulations on pesticides and lead paint. His agency’s lack of […]
Sperry Stoked for Spoke
In a recent interview in Juxtapoz, Chuck Sperry spoke about three of the prints that will be in his upcoming exhibition at Spoke Art: “A central triptych in my solo at Spoke Art is very loosely, thematically based on the women only festival or ritual Thesmaphoria, a closed ritual devoted to Demeter. The three pieces […]
