My Widespread Panic poster won Poster of the Week on Expressobeans. You can not, will not, keep a good man down. I appreciate the recognition; a deep heart-felt thank you to my supporters!
A Few Words About Printing and Art
As someone who has actually been “in the trenches” printing all of my own posters, I have a right to a few words here on the subject.
To this day, 16 years and still going strong, I design and print all of my own posters and prints.
I don’t like it when artists who don’t print their own work act like they do. That’s elitist, untruthful and wrong. I think it’s part of the class system that we have grown to culturally accept having to do with working with your hands. As if manual dexterity is of a lower order of importance in the making of art, than to make something with your mind and to direct the labor to produce it. I feel this relationship of the artist as boss who directs labor to produce art, further emphasizes the elitism of a class stratified society.
In fact, working with your hands while using your mind is the very essence of artistic activity. This activity unifies the physical and cerebral into one activity. When I make my own art – when I actually print it – it is the fullest expression of my command of my mental artistic aims and my physical material conditions. It is pretentious to lead people to believe you produce your own prints, when you pay someone else to produce them.
If it is so glorious to produce the print, as many claim to do, when they do not, then why not get into the print studio and do the actual work. By working with the actual printing you will learn something about color, composition, design, screen printing itself (which is a physical activity), paper, ink, texture, luminosity, and the relationship between color and form. It will make you a better artist. If you do not print your own editions, don’t pretend like you do; It’s untruthful, and therefore can not be art. Truth is Beauty and Beauty is Truth. There I said it.
Full interview at Inside The Rock Poster Frame
TRPS Poster Wins Award
I’m really happy to report that my TRPS 2010 poster won Poster of the Week on Expressobeans! Thanks everyone!
Marty Hohn, President of The Rock Poster Society (TRPS), is offering some of the last of the edition of this poster through Expressobeans with a Rock Poster Society Membership. Click here and Private Message “Anners84.”
From Marty: “TRPS has a number of these posters left over from the show. With approval from both Chuck and the Expressobeans staff, we’ve decided to offer them to EB members. These copies are from the signed / numbered run of 125, same ones we sold at the door in San Francisco on Saturday. We held back a bunch of the lower numbers, and most of those will go out at random in this sale. Here’s the deal. You get Chuck’s awesome show poster. plus a one-year TRPS membership for $125. With the membership you get the TRPS t-shirt of your choice, discount at our shows, membership card, newsletter, stickers, and occasional cool poster deals. Plus your membership dues help us do what we do for the artist / fan community. You can go to http://www.trps.org and click on membership to see more.Of course, all proceeds from the sale of this poster go to the TRPS Artist Relief Trust.”
Milano Block Party, September 18, 2010
Giuseppe Roncen, famed editor of Italy’s car culture and motorcycle magazine Lowrider, called on me to do a piece for him for The Milano Block Party, a rock’n’roll motorcycle, hotrod, skate, surf, bike show and street party. He asked for my take on – an homage to – Gilbert Shelton’s “Shakedown Street” record cover for The Grateful Dead. My job was to set “Shakedown Street” in Milan, Italy. I saw it as a great chance to pay respect to my home-away-from-home. I wanted to rock out Giuseppe for the hospitality and friendship he showed me while I was staying in Italy. I won’t be able to attend the party, but I’ll be there in spirit!
Here are the show specifics in Italian:
Venerdi 17 settembre 2010
Inaugurazione del “BLOCK PARTY” e premier del film documentario “Onde Nostre”:
Presso il Cinema “Fontana” verra presentato il film documentario realizzato da Luca Merli e Matteo Ferrari sulla cultura surf diffusa sulle spiagge italiane
http://www.behindmagazine.com/contents/?page_id=12920
Art Show Opening party:
Presso “La Fonderia Napoleonica” si terre l’opening party ad inviti per la presentazione dell’evento e degli artisti presenti (dalle 21,00)
Dalle ore 22,30 l’evento sara aperto al pubblico a titolo gratuito e prevede l’apertura del “THE BLOCK PARTY – ART SHOW” con la partecipazione dei diversi artisti e ospiti coinvolti
http://www.fonderianapoleonica.it/
Sabato 18 settembre 2010
Kustom Kulture Art Show:
Evento all’interno del “La Fonderia” prende avvio alle ore 14,30 e si conclude alle 24,00
L’evento sara aperto al pubblico a titolo gratuito e prevede la mostra delle opere presenti al “KUSTOM KULTURE ART SHOW” con la partecipazione dei diversi artisti
Block Party (gli eventi in programma potranno subire modifiche )
Via Thaon di Revel viene chiusa dalla Rotonda di Segrino al Viale Stelvio . L’evento prende avvio alle ore 18,00 e si conclude alle ore 24,00.
Nel corso dell’evento sara articolato un calendario di momenti di aggregazione in strada (concerti, giochi per bambini)
Con il supporto dei principali attori di settore, sara organizzato un Contest per Skate e BMX, con la realizzazione di rampe per permettere agli atleti invitati di gareggiare e esibirsi nei diversi stili
L’evento sara aperto al pubblico a titolo gratuito
Domenica 19 settembre 2010
Kustom Kulture Art Show
Evento all’interno del “La Fonderia” prende avvio alle ore 11,00 e si conclude alle 17,00. L’evento sara aperto al pubblico a titolo gratuito. Nel corso dell’evento sara organizzato un Brunch con la presenza dei diversi artisti e ospiti coinvolti all’evento
Deftones Poster Wins Award
My Deftones poster won Poster of the Week on Expressobeans. That makes two posters in two weeks. I appreciate the support; thanks everyone!
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