Garbage at the Warfield 10/1 & Shpongle at the Warfield 10/5 – Hurricane Sandy Benefit Releases

Garbage at the Warfield, October 1, 2012

Firehouse-Goldenvoice No. 165

15 x 22.5

Edition of 125

3 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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A portion of my proceeds from this release have been donated to the American Red Cross.

Shpongle presents The Masquerade at the Warfield, October 5, 2012

Firehouse-Goldenvoice No. 166

16.75 x 22.5

Edition of 125

3 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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A portion of my proceeds from this release have been donated to the American Red Cross.

Shpongle / Garbage Uncut Variant

35 x 23

Edition of 20

3 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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A portion of my proceeds from this release have been donated to the American Red Cross.

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Here are the final two designs I worked on last month – while working on my presentation for Trimarchi, the largest design conference of it’s kind in the Spanish speaking world. Steeped in the amazing psychedelic poster art of Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin – and having the original Mouse/Kelley 13th Floor Elevator poster framed and hanging on my drawing studio wall for twenty years – I made this as a very tongue-in-cheek parody of that poster. I liked that Gary Grimshaw (making a poster for the Grande Ballroom) and Mouse/Kelley (making a poster for the Avalon Ballroom) had coincidentally drawn from the same source photo in Life magazine. I felt it would be interesting to draw the syllogism into my own re-contextualization of the same source in the 21st Century. I altered the source image into a portrait of Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage. I invented a parody of the Family Dog logo with one of my masonic zombie shriners which says: “The Snot-nose Kid Pays Homage to Mouse • Kelley.”

Photo source: “Art of the Dead” soon to be published book by Phil Cushway

As an illustration of why this release demands a benefit to the American Red Cross and hurricane Sandy relief, here is a photo of Stanley Mouse and I calmly texting friends and family as we are being evacuated from our hotel in Manhattan which was directly under the infamous damaged construction crane many of you, no doubt, saw on CNN.