San Francisco Chronicle • SFGATE • August 14, 2011 • Photo: Sarah Rice
The Black Keys at Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco
The Black Keys, Outside Lands, San Francisco
August 13, 2011
20 x 34
6 colors on archival cream paper
Edition of 212
Signed and Numbered
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The Black Keys Iowa Poster Wins Award
Back to making posters after a long break painting my installation pieces for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Working on those big pieces was very rewarding. That said, I’m glad to be back, rockin’ and rollin’. I’m super happy to win Expressonbeans.com, Poster of the Week. Thanks everyone!
The Black Keys, Council Bluffs, Iowa – July 5, 2011
The Black Keys, Cage The Elephant, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
30 x 22
Edition of 212
6 colors on archival cream paper
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For this poster I used a font which evokes the kind of font used in the chrome names of cars, a clear reference to the automobile manufacturing industry that supports Akron, Ohio where the band is from. I’m from Dayton, Ohio so it’s a source of pride there that we build cars and car parts. Akron is a big manufacturer of tires. The font is saying, yep, The Black Keys built in Akron. You find a custom designed wallpaper specifically designed for The Black Keys. It’s similar to the kind of Edwardian wallpaper you encounter all over the heartland of Ohio (and coincidentally here in SF which has a rich Victorian era heritage). Wallpaper was one of the first industrial uses of silkscreen, and that’s why I use it from time to time – customizing designs specifically for each poster. The woman wears a sunflower in her hair, an obvious reference to the sun. I felt that the flood ravaged areas surrounding Council Bluffs were tired of hearing about the negatives surrounding the flood. I wanted to bring them an image that would bring a positive sun-drenched feeling to them. I’m sure that a lot of people who rocked out at the show were there to put their worries behind them. Rocking out to The Black Keys and a positive image like this one might be good medicine.
The Black Keys, Indianapolis – Regular and Variant Editions
The Black Keys and Booker T Jones played White River State Park near Indianapolis, Indiana on Friday, June 10 to a record-setting audience of 8000 people (Park officials agreed to raise the capacity of the show for a one time event). I made this limited, signed and numbered, edition of 300 handmade silkscreen posters for this ridiculously cool event. The orange-brown color will be a copper-gold metallic blend and the blue is a blue-silver metallic. I was seeing a lot of portraiture of the band out there so I went for 70’s soul.
Above is a digital jpeg of the poster. Below are the actual photos with edition information below each.
The Black Keys & Booker T Jones, Indianapolis
Friday, June 10, 2011
4 colors on archival cream paper
15 x 35
Edition of 300
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
The Black Keys & Booker T Jones, Indianapolis
Friday, June 10, 2011
4 colors on heavy textured stucco colored paper
15 x 35
Edition of 25
Signed and Numbered
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The Black Keys & Booker T Jones, Indianapolis
Friday, June 10, 2011
4 colors on gold coated paper
15 x 35
Edition of 15
Signed and Numbered
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