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Poster Child Celebrates the Life and Work of David Byrd

Cover of Poster Child by David Edward Byrd

If the only thing you know about David Edward Byrd is that he’s the guy who designed the original Woodstock poster before the three-day festival moved from Wallkill, New York, to Max Yasgur’s farm in nearby Bethel (making Arnold Skolnick famous in the process), then you need to get your hands on a copy of […]

Don’t Miss “Color x Color: Selections from the Chuck Sperry Archive”

Installation view from "Color x Color: Selections from the Chuck Sperry Archive" a mid-career retrospective of artist Chuck Sperry curated by Josef Zimmerman at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne Indiana. On view from April 23-July 10, 2022

For a long time now, rock-poster fans in the Bay Area have been forced to share Chuck Sperry—lives in the Haight, works in Oakland—with the rest of the world. Arriving in San Francisco in 1989, Sperry has been regularly getting out of town to recharge his creative batteries since 1999, the year he first started […]

“Queer Visions” at the Haight Street Art Center

Given the mission of the Haight Street Art Center to promote the “advancement of poster art and artists,“ it’s perhaps fitting that HSAC’s latest exhibition, “Queer Visions,” now on view through August 15, opens with a display of posters. The sheets in question are by an artist named Todd Trexler, who, in the early 1970s, […]

Marin’s Rock Art Scene at MarinMOCA

If you haven’t viewed “Marin’s Rock Art Scene” at MarinMOCA, you have plenty of time to do so because the show is up through November 8 (a live panel discussion with Jay Blakesberg, Paul Liberatore, Dave Getz, and Jonathan Korty is scheduled for September 30). A few of us from TRPS stopped by the other […]