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Artists of Mystic Arts World
Psychedelic Rock Artists
Artists of Mystic Arts World
Mystic Arts Retrospective Show 2015
Opening reception Saturday July 25, 2015, Coastline College,
1515 Monrovia Ave, Newport Beach CA.
Mark your Calendar for this New Free historic event.
Art exhibit to feature Mystic Arts World: Their Mystic Artists created “works of that wild period”
http://stunewslaguna.com/component/content/article/16038-art-exhibit-to-feature-mystic-arts-world-040715
Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists, 1967-1970, is the first exhibition to examine the art produced by the Mystic Artists. There will be a special opening reception and panel discussion on Saturday, July 25. Mark your calendar!
http://stunewslaguna.com/component/content/article/16038-art-exhibit-to-feature-mystic-arts-world-040715
Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists, 1967-1970, is the first exhibition to examine the art produced by the Mystic Artists. There will be a special opening reception and panel discussion on Saturday, July 25. Mark your calendar!
Mystic Arts World (1967-1970), a head shop in Laguna Beach, was ground zero for psychedelic culture in southern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was there that a loosely organized group of artists interested in alternative culture, mystical experience and the transformation of society, “The Mystic Artists”, congregated and exhibited their art. Their artistic expression ranged from Beat assemblage to figuration to psychedelic art.
Dion Wright
“Starseed”
This exhibition, consisting of works of art by artists that exhibited at the Mystic Arts World, and related artifacts that reveal the context of the times, will be on view at Coastline Community College at 1515 Monrovia Avenue in Newport Beach from July 25 to Sept 26.
The exhibition owes a debt to the 2010 publication by Nicholas Schou of the book Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and ACID to the World. Schou’s book was the first to document the small group of surfer hippies based in Laguna Beach called The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, who helped shape psychedelic culture in southern California.
The Brotherhood, later dubbed the “Hippie Mafia,” developed concurrently with the Mystic Artists and took the Mystic Arts World as their headquarters. But while the Mystic Artists inevitably set the visual context for The Brotherhood, ultimately the utopian goals of the individual artists differed from that of the Brotherhood, who over time diverted their efforts to pioneering an international drug trade.
According to former Mystic Arts World gallery director Dion Wright, who collaborated on the exhibition: “While it lasted, Mystic Arts World was a focus of seminal, sometimes cosmological, and always super-conscious Art. This writer was dragooned into service early-on by John Griggs, who was determined to feature my Taxonomic Mandala within Mystic Arts World, and feature me personally as the maître d’ of presenting ‘far out, outtasight’ works of Art. What you see in this exhibition is a collection of surviving works of that wild period.”
“Starseed”
This exhibition, consisting of works of art by artists that exhibited at the Mystic Arts World, and related artifacts that reveal the context of the times, will be on view at Coastline Community College at 1515 Monrovia Avenue in Newport Beach from July 25 to Sept 26.
The exhibition owes a debt to the 2010 publication by Nicholas Schou of the book Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and ACID to the World. Schou’s book was the first to document the small group of surfer hippies based in Laguna Beach called The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, who helped shape psychedelic culture in southern California.
The Brotherhood, later dubbed the “Hippie Mafia,” developed concurrently with the Mystic Artists and took the Mystic Arts World as their headquarters. But while the Mystic Artists inevitably set the visual context for The Brotherhood, ultimately the utopian goals of the individual artists differed from that of the Brotherhood, who over time diverted their efforts to pioneering an international drug trade.
According to former Mystic Arts World gallery director Dion Wright, who collaborated on the exhibition: “While it lasted, Mystic Arts World was a focus of seminal, sometimes cosmological, and always super-conscious Art. This writer was dragooned into service early-on by John Griggs, who was determined to feature my Taxonomic Mandala within Mystic Arts World, and feature me personally as the maître d’ of presenting ‘far out, outtasight’ works of Art. What you see in this exhibition is a collection of surviving works of that wild period.”
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Paul Darrow
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TERRY LAMB
http://www.terrylambart.com/
http://www.terrylambart.com/
The exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of presenting sponsor RVCA. Additional generous support comes from the Croul Family Foundation, Jennifer and Anton Segerstrom, an Anonymous donor, Jennifer Vaughn and Larry Gonzalaz, the William Gillespie Foundation, Grand Central Art Forum, and Mary E.M. Houseal. Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists is curated by Bolton Colburn for Coastline Community College.
Artists who exhibited at the Mystic Arts World (MAW) included Carol Abrams, Isaac Abrams, Richard Aldcroft, Roger Armstrong, Jan Peters Babcock, Tom Blackwell, Mark Blumenfeld, Robert Ronnie Branaman, Jane Callender, Italo d’Andrea, Paul Darrow, Louis Delsarte, Khigh Alx Dhiegh, Philip Freeman, Ray Friesz, Louis Goodman, Reuben Greenspan, Bill Groves,
George Herms 1969 Foggy Wagons, Mystic Arts World: Southern California artist, writer, and musician George Herms was one of the founders of the West Coast assemblage movement. Influenced by the art of his close friend Wallace Berman, his work brings together discards, beach trash, urban detritus and other "found objects" to create a highly original and personal mix of collage, sculpture, and assemblage. 'Nude Herms with pole' for Foggy Wagons 1969 Herms interacted with poets and writers of the Beatperiod, such as David Meltzer, William Burroughs,Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg.
R.L. “Holly” Hollingsworth, Robert Jocko Johnson, Julie Kahn, Steve Kensrue, Karen Kozlow, Terry Lamb, Bob Laney, Ed Lutz, Robert McCarron, Joe Miller, Dwight Morouse, Jim Nussbaum, Harve Parks, Beth Pewther, Noble Richardson, Larry Rink, David Rosen, R.L. Bob Ross, Mary Riker Segal, Gayl Stenlund, Gerd Stern, Jon Stokesbary, Wiktor Sudnik, John Upton, Gordon Wagner, Andy Wing, Dion Wright, and Bob Young. A small section of the exhibition will include the posters and graphics that Bill Ogden did for the Brotherhood and Mystic Arts World.
The panel moderated by the original Mystic Arts World Gallery Director, Dion Wright, will include many of the people involved with the Brotherhood and MAW, on Saturday, July 25 at 6 p.m.
The public opening reception for Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists will be on
Sept 2, when Nicholas Schou, author of Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and ACID to the World, will talk about his book.
The exhibition runs from July 26 – September 26 at Coastline Art Gallery, Coastline Community College, 1515 Monrovia Avenue, Newport Beach.
Artists who exhibited at the Mystic Arts World (MAW) included Carol Abrams, Isaac Abrams, Richard Aldcroft, Roger Armstrong, Jan Peters Babcock, Tom Blackwell, Mark Blumenfeld, Robert Ronnie Branaman, Jane Callender, Italo d’Andrea, Paul Darrow, Louis Delsarte, Khigh Alx Dhiegh, Philip Freeman, Ray Friesz, Louis Goodman, Reuben Greenspan, Bill Groves,
George Herms 1969 Foggy Wagons, Mystic Arts World: Southern California artist, writer, and musician George Herms was one of the founders of the West Coast assemblage movement. Influenced by the art of his close friend Wallace Berman, his work brings together discards, beach trash, urban detritus and other "found objects" to create a highly original and personal mix of collage, sculpture, and assemblage. 'Nude Herms with pole' for Foggy Wagons 1969 Herms interacted with poets and writers of the Beatperiod, such as David Meltzer, William Burroughs,Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg.
R.L. “Holly” Hollingsworth, Robert Jocko Johnson, Julie Kahn, Steve Kensrue, Karen Kozlow, Terry Lamb, Bob Laney, Ed Lutz, Robert McCarron, Joe Miller, Dwight Morouse, Jim Nussbaum, Harve Parks, Beth Pewther, Noble Richardson, Larry Rink, David Rosen, R.L. Bob Ross, Mary Riker Segal, Gayl Stenlund, Gerd Stern, Jon Stokesbary, Wiktor Sudnik, John Upton, Gordon Wagner, Andy Wing, Dion Wright, and Bob Young. A small section of the exhibition will include the posters and graphics that Bill Ogden did for the Brotherhood and Mystic Arts World.
The panel moderated by the original Mystic Arts World Gallery Director, Dion Wright, will include many of the people involved with the Brotherhood and MAW, on Saturday, July 25 at 6 p.m.
The public opening reception for Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists will be on
Sept 2, when Nicholas Schou, author of Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and ACID to the World, will talk about his book.
The exhibition runs from July 26 – September 26 at Coastline Art Gallery, Coastline Community College, 1515 Monrovia Avenue, Newport Beach.
ORANGE COUNTY PSYCHEDELIC ART AND CULTURE FROM THE 1960S EXAMINED IN NEW EXHIBITION AT COASTLINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ORANGE SUNSHINE AND THE MYSTIC ARTISTS, 1967-1970 ON EXHIBITION JULY 27-SEPTEMBER 26, 2015
Newport Beach, CA (June 20, 2015)—From July 27 to September 26, 2015, Coastline Art Gallery at Coastline Community College in Newport Beach presents Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists,
1967-1970. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to examine psychedelic art produced in Orange
County by the Mystic Artists, a loosely organized group of artists interested in alternative culture,
mystical experience, and the transformation of society. These artists congregated and exhibited
their art at Mystic Arts World, a psychedelic emporium in Laguna Beach, which existed from
1967 to 1970. The shop was ground zero for hippie culture in Southern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and rich artistic and perceptual experimentation grew out of this burgeoning
psychedelic culture.
Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists, 1967-1970 is guest curated by Bolton Colburn, and features art ranging in style from Beat assemblage to craft and figuration to psychedelic art. Today there is a built-in cultural inclination to dismiss works of art that make reference to use of psychedelic substances,” said Colburn.
“While the reasons are many, including the fear of promoting the use of LSD, the attitude is a bit like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The search for self—the ultimate quest of the Baby Boomer generation—set the stage in the 1960s for one of the most remarkably open-minded and culturally fertile periods of the century, and mindaltering chemicals were a catalyst in making that possible. Given the level of fear and control prevalent in our culture today, it is worth taking a look at the cauldron of art and ideas arising out of the Mystic Arts World. The artists’ countercultural activity and mystical quest can still inspire us
today in our thinking about personal and global transformation. The exhibition includes both art that was exhibited at Mystic Arts World and, out of necessity, work by Mystic Artists dating from roughly the same time period. In addition, the exhibition features cultural artifacts that provide context for the time period. Dion Wright, who was the curator of the gallery program at Mystic Arts World and collaborated on the exhibition, provided a treasure trove of photographs, posters, exhibition announcements, flyers, and other material relating to Mystic Arts World.
Artists who exhibited at the Mystic Arts World included Carol Abrams, Isaac Abrams, Richard Aldcroft, Roger Armstrong, Jan Peters Babcock, Tom Blackwell, Mark Blumenfeld, Robert Ronnie Branaman, Jane Callender, Italo d'Andrea, Paul Darrow, Louis Delsarte, Khigh Alx Dhiegh, Philip Freeman, Ray Friesz, Louis Goodman, Reuben Greenspan, Bill Groves, George Herms, R.L. “Holly” Hollingsworth, Robert Jocko Johnson, Julie Kahn, Steve Kensrue, Karen Kozlow, Terry Lamb, Bob Laney, Ed Lutz, Robert McCarron, Joe Miller, Dwight Morouse, Jim Nussbaum, Harve Parks, Beth Pewther, Noble Richardson, Larry Rink, David Rosen, R.L. Bob Ross, Mary Riker Segal, Gayl Stenlund, Gerd Stern, Jon Stokesbary, Wiktor Sudnik, John Upton, Gordon Wagner, Andy Wing, Dion Wright, and Bob Young.
“While it lasted, Mystic Arts World was a focus of seminal, sometimes cosmological, and always
super-conscious Art,” said former Mystic Arts World gallery director Dion Wright, who collaborated on the exhibition. “This writer was dragooned into service early-on by John Griggs, who was determined to feature my Taxonomic Mandala within Mystic Arts World, and feature me personally as the maitre d' of presenting ‘far out, outtasight’ works of Art. What you see in this exhibition is a collection of surviving works of that wild period.”
The exhibition is on display July 27 to September 26, 2015, Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., with extended hours on Thursdays until 8:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
The gallery will be closed on Saturday, August 29.
Orange Sunshine and the Mystic Artists, 1967-1970 is made possible through the generous support of presenting sponsor RVCA. Additional support comes from the Croul Family Foundation, Jennifer and Anton Segerstrom, an Anonymous donor, Kristine E. Thalman and Family, the William Gillespie Foundation, Grand Central Art Forum, and Mary E.M. Houseal.
EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING
Programs will take place at Coastline Art Gallery at Coastline Community College (1515 Monrovia Avenue, Newport Beach, CA 92663). Admission is free.
Panel Discussion
Tuesday July 28
6:00 p.m.
A panel discussion moderated by the original Mystic Arts World Gallery Director, Dion Wright,
features many of the people involved with The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Mystic Arts
World, including Beth Leeds, Joe Miller, Carol Griggs Randall, Michael Randall, Star Shields, and
Gerd Stern. Beth Leeds is an artist and idealist operating mostly in Laguna Beach, whose creative medium beyond painting was largely political action, and the challenges of how to make the positive palatable to people only interested in short-term profits. Politics as Art. Beth was instrumental in several “happening”-type events, where she characteristically ignored the odds against her visions, and pressed on with marked courage and bravery during a time when idealism was often met with violence.
Joe Miller is an artist with cosmopolitan skills and boundless energy, who emerged from the USMC artillery to embrace bohemianism and to enter the field of art, where he might find elbow room for his wide arc of expression. When Mystic Arts World was bogging-down trying to get ready to open through the service of inefficient remodelers, Joe took over as straw boss and got the place up and running expeditiously. In 1968, he joined forces with Dion Wright and some other zanies to build the first Sawdust Festival under the umbrella of The Experimental Artists of Laguna Beach, such as they were, derived from USCO. The entrance of the Joe-Dion axis into the new show made the reactionary wing of the so-called rebel group bolt, in the face of real rebels, with the treasury, to go off and start the Art-A-Fair.
Carol Griggs Randall was the Godmother of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and widow of its short-lived founder, John Griggs, who also founded Mystic Arts World. She is the keeper of the keys to the kingdom, and maintainer of spiritual values.
Michael Randall was the Godfather of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, who was the original general manager of Mystic Arts World, and the de facto chief of the tribe after the demise of his friend and brother, John Griggs. Between them, the Randalls carry the torch of idealism represented by Mystic Arts World, and the movement that created it, up to and following the act of arson, which destroyed that spiritual center.
Star Shields is an artist and activist who expounded the ethereal possibilities of the art of the airbrush, and was the foremost exponent of militant vegetarianism during and after the Mystic Arts World era. He and his colleagues were the founders of the dedicated group, Love Animals: Don't Eat Them.
Gerd Stern is a poet and originator, along with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon, of the philosophy of the Beat Generation, popularized by Jack Kerouac. He is a renaissance man who helped Harry Partch construct his hand-made percussion instruments, just now being employed in the production: “LSD, the Opera”, for which Gerd wrote the libretto. In the mid-60s, Gerd conceived an art group, USCO, meaning US Company, characterized by joint effort without hierarchy, under the motto, “In a world of simultaneous operations, you don't have to be first to be on top”. USCO was an experimental society ensconced in a 19th Century Hudson River church where they pushed the frontiers of media to break new aesthetic ground in synch with the ideas of Gerd’s colleague, communications philosopher Marshall MacLuhan. Gerd coined the phrase “Human Be-In”, later expropriated by Doctor Timothy Leary, whose post-Harvard media events were produced by USCO. Stern published several volumes of poetry throughout the period, and continues to be a playful synthesizer of language, and the “matrix-man”, a sort of human switchboard through which cultural exponents were and are connected.
Dion Wright was a Festival of Arts exhibitor from 1959 to 1964, tail-end participant of post-Beat San Francisco culture including the Batman Gallery, and participant of the shift from Beat to Flower Child, Painter of the taxonomy Mandala in Woodstock New York in 1965, 66, while being ensconced within USCO, and showing at “USCO Down by the Riverside”, NYC, plus sampling the airs at Timothy Leary's Castala Foundation in Millbrook, NY. 1967 participant in Stewart Brand's “Whatever It Is” media Festival at San Francisco State, bearing witness to the Summer of Love while having a one-man show at the Canessa Gallery of Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Returned to Laguna Beach in 1967 to manage the art gallery function of Mystic Arts World. Maker of many mostly-representational sculptures in welded metals.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS The 1968 Exhibit Presented by the Bowers Museum
On display June 13-September 13, 2015
Bowers Museum
2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706
Museum hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
714.567.3600
The Art of Bill Ogden
Presented by Laguna College of Art + Design
On display July 2-August 31, 2015
Opening reception: July 2, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Laguna College of Art + Design Gallery
374 Ocean Avenue, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Contact Andrea Harris McGee for additional information at [email protected]
http://coastlineartgallery.blogspot.com/2015/04/orange-sunshine-and-mystic-artists.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-and-carol-randall/the-brotherhood-of-eternal-love-a-psychedelic-guide/paperback/product-22139474.html
Stanley Mouse
http://www.mousestudios.com/
Stanley George Miller (born October 10, 1940), better known as Mouse and Stanley Mouse, is an American artist, notable for his 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster designs for the Grateful Dead and Journey albums cover art as well as many others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Mouse
http://www.mousestudios.com/
Stanley George Miller (born October 10, 1940), better known as Mouse and Stanley Mouse, is an American artist, notable for his 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster designs for the Grateful Dead and Journey albums cover art as well as many others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Mouse
Haight-Ashbury Museum of Psychedelic Art and History
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Haight-Ashbury-Museum-of-Psychedelic-Art-and-History/245926795438005
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Haight-Ashbury-Museum-of-Psychedelic-Art-and-History/245926795438005
VIRTUAL KALEIDOSCOPE
http://inoyan.narod.ru/kaleidoskop.swf
http://inoyan.narod.ru/kaleidoskop.swf
Image from the cover of LIFE magazine, September 9, 1966, accompanied by the headline,
"New Experience That Bombards the Senses: LSD Art."
Read more: http://life.time.com/culture/life-photos-from-an-lsd-inspired-art-show-1966/#ixzz2QBtEnulP
LSD ART: http://life.time.com/culture/life-photos-from-an-lsd-inspired-art-show-1966/#1
"New Experience That Bombards the Senses: LSD Art."
Read more: http://life.time.com/culture/life-photos-from-an-lsd-inspired-art-show-1966/#ixzz2QBtEnulP
LSD ART: http://life.time.com/culture/life-photos-from-an-lsd-inspired-art-show-1966/#1
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Rick Griffin - Surfer Art, Psychedelic Art
http://www.amazon.com/Rick-Griffin/dp/0867194081
Richard Alden Griffin (June 18, 1944 – August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. As a contributor to the underground comix movement, his work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, designing some of their best known posters and record jackets. His work within the surfing subculture included both film posters and his comic strip, Murphy.
http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/surf-60s-psychedelia-born-again-the-trinity-of-artist-rick-griffin/
http://www.amazon.com/Rick-Griffin/dp/0867194081
Richard Alden Griffin (June 18, 1944 – August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. As a contributor to the underground comix movement, his work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, designing some of their best known posters and record jackets. His work within the surfing subculture included both film posters and his comic strip, Murphy.
http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/surf-60s-psychedelia-born-again-the-trinity-of-artist-rick-griffin/
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Dion Wright
http://www.dionwright.com/
http://www.dionwright.com/
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Grateful Dead logo;
Here is a large painting Bob did as part of a series of paintings based on the Authurian Legend (the ancient name Arthur is a form of "artos"= bear). This particular painting is hanging in Susan Wickersham's office at Alembic. Bob painted the picture over the course of three or four weekends in 1965, and took acid before beginning each session. This was the legend of the Red Dragon and the White Dragon fighting in a subterranean lake. It was the vibrations of the magical struggle which was the cause of difficulties in constructing a tower on the spot. Merlin was called in and determined the cause of the problem.
Here is a large painting Bob did as part of a series of paintings based on the Authurian Legend (the ancient name Arthur is a form of "artos"= bear). This particular painting is hanging in Susan Wickersham's office at Alembic. Bob painted the picture over the course of three or four weekends in 1965, and took acid before beginning each session. This was the legend of the Red Dragon and the White Dragon fighting in a subterranean lake. It was the vibrations of the magical struggle which was the cause of difficulties in constructing a tower on the spot. Merlin was called in and determined the cause of the problem.
TERRY LAMB
http://www.terrylambart.com/
http://www.terrylambart.com/
OWSLEY'S ART
http://www.thebear.org/
http://www.thebear.org/
After Laguna Police detective Neil Purcell busted Leary the day after Christmas 1968, the Brotherhood raised cash for his defense fund-and when that failed, to bust him out of prison. Bill Ogden drew this amazing poster.
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Bill Ogden
http://www.ogdenesqueart.com/
http://www.liquidsaltmag.com/2010/04/bill-ogden/
http://findartmagazine.com/2011/we-found-bill-ogden/
http://www.ogdenesqueart.com/
http://www.liquidsaltmag.com/2010/04/bill-ogden/
http://findartmagazine.com/2011/we-found-bill-ogden/
GARY GRIMSHAW
http://www.garygrimshaw.com/
http://www.garygrimshaw.com/
Gary Grimshaw's talent has kept him in demand and in the spotlight in a career covering the rock scenes in Michigan and the San Francisco area for over four decades. For those of us in the Detroit area, Grimshaw's work was our introduction to the psychedelic era. He was the primary poster and light show artist for Detroit's Grande Ballroom through 1969.
At the start of his career, the Detroit native became well known as the Grande Ballroom artist and later as the MC5 artist. These works stand out as the centerpiece of an enormously prolific output of art from the mid-1960’s to the late 1970’s. Gary Grimshaw is the awesome poster artist of the counterculture and did a poster for Blue Cheer.
Grimshaw was part of a dynamic collective of intellectuals, promoters, poets, artists, musicians - people that spent many years together in some form or another and in different circles of interest. As a Vietnam veteran he was an anti-war activist and a key player in the White Panther Party working to reform unfair laws and unjust incarcerations. His contribution was through art, and his art inspired and energized the people. He was a member of Trans-Love Energies and The Rainbow People’s Party. He worked on newspapers, magazines, created posters for music events and artwork for record albums.
In 2011 just months after returning home from a serious health odyssey, Gary worked on the Concert of Colors poster and several PJ’s Lager House designs. In 2012 Gary’s work with re-purposed images has taken center stage; classic Grimshaw designs are receiving an electronic restoration and new colors for a new purpose. He began this practice many years ago when he restored a flyer that was originally a mimeographed work; black ink on colored paper; he created and colored a digital file and enlarged it to the size of his other posters. “Love-In Detroit” is now one of Gary’s best selling and most colorful.
At the start of his career, the Detroit native became well known as the Grande Ballroom artist and later as the MC5 artist. These works stand out as the centerpiece of an enormously prolific output of art from the mid-1960’s to the late 1970’s. Gary Grimshaw is the awesome poster artist of the counterculture and did a poster for Blue Cheer.
Grimshaw was part of a dynamic collective of intellectuals, promoters, poets, artists, musicians - people that spent many years together in some form or another and in different circles of interest. As a Vietnam veteran he was an anti-war activist and a key player in the White Panther Party working to reform unfair laws and unjust incarcerations. His contribution was through art, and his art inspired and energized the people. He was a member of Trans-Love Energies and The Rainbow People’s Party. He worked on newspapers, magazines, created posters for music events and artwork for record albums.
In 2011 just months after returning home from a serious health odyssey, Gary worked on the Concert of Colors poster and several PJ’s Lager House designs. In 2012 Gary’s work with re-purposed images has taken center stage; classic Grimshaw designs are receiving an electronic restoration and new colors for a new purpose. He began this practice many years ago when he restored a flyer that was originally a mimeographed work; black ink on colored paper; he created and colored a digital file and enlarged it to the size of his other posters. “Love-In Detroit” is now one of Gary’s best selling and most colorful.
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Gary "Arab" Finnoe
Arab's real name is Gary Finnoe, he passed away in April 3rd, 2004. Gary Finnoe is the artist who did the Blue Cheer 2nd album, Outside-Inside, cover painting. If you look at the Blue Cheer Outside-Inside album cover, just beneath Paul Whaley's feet, you will see the portrait Gary did of himself. He signed it... Arab -Spring '68. His outstretched hands gesture as if offering his total self in painting his psychedelic vision for posterity. Years later, Gary's beatific smile never waned.
Arab's real name is Gary Finnoe, he passed away in April 3rd, 2004. Gary Finnoe is the artist who did the Blue Cheer 2nd album, Outside-Inside, cover painting. If you look at the Blue Cheer Outside-Inside album cover, just beneath Paul Whaley's feet, you will see the portrait Gary did of himself. He signed it... Arab -Spring '68. His outstretched hands gesture as if offering his total self in painting his psychedelic vision for posterity. Years later, Gary's beatific smile never waned.
Chet Helms and Wes Wilson
In spite of artistic differences, Chet Helms and Wes Wilson collaborated on the beginnings of what led to a revolutionary explosion of creativity. Images like these are just why Wes is refereed to as the father of Psychedelic Poster Art. Both Helms and Wilson are credited with the artwork on this poster. The images certainly scream at the viewer... "Strange things are going to happen at this concert advertised on this Poster"! This is probably exactly was Chet Helms wanted, and is one of the main elements of psychedelic poster art, an appeal to weirdness. 47 years ago on this day in 1966, Love, The Sons of Adam and The Charlatans played at the Fillmore Auditorium for the last Family Dog event to take place there. After that it was mostly ALL Avalon Ballroom with a couple of exceptions. Lights that night provided by Tony Martin's Light Sights. This "Poster From The Past" is Family Dog poster #4 in the original series. It was printed three times.
Wes Wilson
Chet Helms
http://www.wes-wilson.com/
http://www.classicposters.com/Jefferson_Airplane/poster/Family_Dog/1
In spite of artistic differences, Chet Helms and Wes Wilson collaborated on the beginnings of what led to a revolutionary explosion of creativity. Images like these are just why Wes is refereed to as the father of Psychedelic Poster Art. Both Helms and Wilson are credited with the artwork on this poster. The images certainly scream at the viewer... "Strange things are going to happen at this concert advertised on this Poster"! This is probably exactly was Chet Helms wanted, and is one of the main elements of psychedelic poster art, an appeal to weirdness. 47 years ago on this day in 1966, Love, The Sons of Adam and The Charlatans played at the Fillmore Auditorium for the last Family Dog event to take place there. After that it was mostly ALL Avalon Ballroom with a couple of exceptions. Lights that night provided by Tony Martin's Light Sights. This "Poster From The Past" is Family Dog poster #4 in the original series. It was printed three times.
Wes Wilson
Chet Helms
http://www.wes-wilson.com/
http://www.classicposters.com/Jefferson_Airplane/poster/Family_Dog/1
JORMA'S PSYCHEDELIC MUSEUM
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/psylodelic-museum-unearths-hippie-artifacts-from-woodstock-era-20130409?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
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Andrew Thompson
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-andrew-thompson.html
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-andrew-thompson.html
Lance Jost
http://www.lancejostdesigns.com/
http://www.lancejostdesigns.com/
Michael Rios
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Michael V. Rios is a native of Oakland, California, born on December 10th, 1947. While in his sophomore year at Oakland’s Fremont High School, Michael’s artistic talents caught the attention of his teachers, and he received a scholarship to the prestigious San Francisco Academy of Art College, which he attended from 1964 to 1966. Upon graduation from the Academy, Michael worked as an illustrator for the famous San Francisco men’s clothier, Roos Atkins. Rios then opened his own commercial art and graphics studio in North Beach (the Italian neighborhood of San Francisco). He also created children’s books, billboards, Fuller/O’Brien paint ads and other “high end” commercial art. It wasn’t long before this thriving young commercial artist became one of the hottest prospects in San Francisco’s advertising world. This next period of his life found Michael as the creative partner in Union Street’s “Winston, Rios & Brown”.
In the seventies, Michael became proficient in numerous mediums from acrylics to watercolors. After returning from an extensive trip to Europe, he found his way to the Mission District (the Hispanic neighborhood of San Francisco). Rios began taking an active interest in his new environment. His years of creating billboards were a natural transition for his new “mission in the Mission”. Rios created some of the first large murals that made the Mission District famous and his effort to “beautify the place I live in” brought him national attention.
It was inevitable that Michael Rios and Carlos Santana would come together, but it wasn’t until 1986 that these two supreme artists really took notice of each other. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Santana, Rios created the mural Inspire To Aspire, located on South Van Ness and 22nd Streets. Musical heroes, icons and symbols common to those who lived in the Mission are represented in this creation that spans three buildings. It was the inspiration for what became a beautiful friendship and a long, artistic collaboration between the musician and the painter.
Michael’s work for Carlos Santana has included concert backdrops, custom clothing designs, guitars, and several record album covers, including the Grammy Award winning “Supernatural.” Michael’s commissioned artwork has appeared on several recordings, including Grammy Award Winner Poncho Sanchez’ “Latin Spirits,” and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Steve Winwood’s “About Time.”
Michael Rios has created original artwork for such clients as the Latin Recording Academy, the Mars Family, the Andre Agassi Foundation, Sony Signatures, LP Percussion and AGInteractive. Today, Michael Rios’ work continues to cross boundaries and is highly regarded for its power, vision and color..
http://mvrios.com/welcome/
Michael V. Rios is a native of Oakland, California, born on December 10th, 1947. While in his sophomore year at Oakland’s Fremont High School, Michael’s artistic talents caught the attention of his teachers, and he received a scholarship to the prestigious San Francisco Academy of Art College, which he attended from 1964 to 1966. Upon graduation from the Academy, Michael worked as an illustrator for the famous San Francisco men’s clothier, Roos Atkins. Rios then opened his own commercial art and graphics studio in North Beach (the Italian neighborhood of San Francisco). He also created children’s books, billboards, Fuller/O’Brien paint ads and other “high end” commercial art. It wasn’t long before this thriving young commercial artist became one of the hottest prospects in San Francisco’s advertising world. This next period of his life found Michael as the creative partner in Union Street’s “Winston, Rios & Brown”.
In the seventies, Michael became proficient in numerous mediums from acrylics to watercolors. After returning from an extensive trip to Europe, he found his way to the Mission District (the Hispanic neighborhood of San Francisco). Rios began taking an active interest in his new environment. His years of creating billboards were a natural transition for his new “mission in the Mission”. Rios created some of the first large murals that made the Mission District famous and his effort to “beautify the place I live in” brought him national attention.
It was inevitable that Michael Rios and Carlos Santana would come together, but it wasn’t until 1986 that these two supreme artists really took notice of each other. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Santana, Rios created the mural Inspire To Aspire, located on South Van Ness and 22nd Streets. Musical heroes, icons and symbols common to those who lived in the Mission are represented in this creation that spans three buildings. It was the inspiration for what became a beautiful friendship and a long, artistic collaboration between the musician and the painter.
Michael’s work for Carlos Santana has included concert backdrops, custom clothing designs, guitars, and several record album covers, including the Grammy Award winning “Supernatural.” Michael’s commissioned artwork has appeared on several recordings, including Grammy Award Winner Poncho Sanchez’ “Latin Spirits,” and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Steve Winwood’s “About Time.”
Michael Rios has created original artwork for such clients as the Latin Recording Academy, the Mars Family, the Andre Agassi Foundation, Sony Signatures, LP Percussion and AGInteractive. Today, Michael Rios’ work continues to cross boundaries and is highly regarded for its power, vision and color..
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Cohen is an innovative artist who’s work has influenced many and brought to light some of the best writers we have. Born to deaf parents in 1935, Cohen begin spelling on his fingers when he was only one year old, validating his brilliant mind. Poet, publisher, artist, photographer and filmmaker, he was editor of such groundbreaking literary publications as The Great Society, and Gnaoua which introduced the work of such artists as William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Harold Norse. He published The Hashish Cookbook under the name of Panama Rose. He also produced Jilala, a mythic recording of trance music by a sect of dervishes, which was recorded by Paul Bowles is His mylar photos were printed in Life and Avant-Garde in the sixties. The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, his wildly psychedelic film odyssey, is an underground classic. In his loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Cohen created the “mylar images”, future icons developed by a “mythographer”. Among the reflected artists in his mirror: John McLaughlin, William S. Burroughs and Jimi Hendrix who said that looking at these photos was like looking through butterfly wings. In 1968 he also directed the “phantasmaglorical” films Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, an underground classic, and Paradise Now, and produced the film Kings with Straw.
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Andrew Jones
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Psychedelic Artists
The Fool were a Dutch design collective who had a profound influence on the British psychedelic movement of the 1960s, largely through their work with bands including The Hollies, Procol Harum, Cream and most notably The Beatles. This is the collective’s mind-blowing artwork for The Incredible String Band’s album The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion, which was released in July 1967.
Storm Thorgerson 1944 to 2013
Pink Floyd album art designer and childhood friend of Pink Floyd band members Storm Thorgerson had died at age 69. His family released a statement saying "He had been ill for some time with cancer though he had made a remarkable recovery from his stroke in 2003". He is survived by his mother Vanji, his son Bill, his wife Barbie Antonis and her two children Adam and Georgia. Storm designed such album artworks as the Dark Side of the Moon cover and many more since he got involved with the band back in 1968. He was a childhood friend of the band and was best man at David Gilmour's wedding to Polly Samson. Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David Gilmour said, "We first met in our early teens. We would gather at Sheep's Green, a spot by the river in Cambridge and Storm would always be there holding forth, making the most noise, bursting with ideas and enthusiasm. Nothing has ever really changed. He has been a constant force in my life, both at work and in private, a shoulder to cry on and a great friend. The artworks that he created for Pink Floyd from 1968 to the present day have been an inseparable part of our work."
Take a look at some of his work and exhibitions in our Storm Thorgerson gallery and the Storm Thorgerson album artwork for non-Pink Floyd bands too. Source [ BBC News, David Gilmour & Pink Floyd websites ]
Pink Floyd album art designer and childhood friend of Pink Floyd band members Storm Thorgerson had died at age 69. His family released a statement saying "He had been ill for some time with cancer though he had made a remarkable recovery from his stroke in 2003". He is survived by his mother Vanji, his son Bill, his wife Barbie Antonis and her two children Adam and Georgia. Storm designed such album artworks as the Dark Side of the Moon cover and many more since he got involved with the band back in 1968. He was a childhood friend of the band and was best man at David Gilmour's wedding to Polly Samson. Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David Gilmour said, "We first met in our early teens. We would gather at Sheep's Green, a spot by the river in Cambridge and Storm would always be there holding forth, making the most noise, bursting with ideas and enthusiasm. Nothing has ever really changed. He has been a constant force in my life, both at work and in private, a shoulder to cry on and a great friend. The artworks that he created for Pink Floyd from 1968 to the present day have been an inseparable part of our work."
Take a look at some of his work and exhibitions in our Storm Thorgerson gallery and the Storm Thorgerson album artwork for non-Pink Floyd bands too. Source [ BBC News, David Gilmour & Pink Floyd websites ]
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