Chris Shaw Poster Release

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, this poster release revolves around Moonalice Art Director Chris Shaw and his fine poster art for the Moonalice Poster Series, now totaling over 600 posters! Chris Shaw’s career as an artist began in the early 1980′s cre­at­ing fly­ers for punk bands in Boston. By the mid 80′s he moved to Cal­i­for­nia where he attended Cal­i­fo­nia Col­lege of Arts and Crafts, major­ing in both Print­mak­ing & Draw­ing. Along­side clas­si­cal print tech­niques, Chris also learned the art of screen­print­ing from Malaquias Mon­toya. Shaw was soon hard at work cre­at­ing a mul­ti­tude of polit­i­cal posters aimed against the Rea­gan-Bush Admin­is­tra­tions, as well as a smat­ter­ing of rock posters for local bands. Shaw’s art first came into the pub­lic eye in the form of immense black-light murals painted in many of San Francisco’s night­clubs. By the early 90′s he was work­ing with Bill Gra­ham Presents in San Fran­cisco, cre­at­ing rock posters, and stage­sets for many of the 90′s biggest bands: Kiss, Pearl Jam, Cypress Hill, Hole, Foo Fight­ers to name but a few. By 2000, as large-format dig­i­tal print­ing became a cost-efficient alter­na­tive to hand-painted stage and con­cert art, Shaw made the leap and began cre­at­ing posters and fine-art paint­ings full time. He toured Europe exten­sively for sev­eral years show­ing posters and paint­ings in numer­ous venues, from muse­ums and gal­leries, to night­clubs and bars. To date, Shaw has cre­ated thou­sands of rock posters and hun­dreds of paint­ings. His work is col­lected by both rock poster fans as well as art col­lec­tors. Shaw’s work has been fea­tured in sev­eral books, notably, The Art Of Mod­ern Rock. Shaw’s art­work has also been pub­lished in a numer­ous news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines both domes­ti­cally and abroad. Ger­man Rolling Stone mag­a­zine named Chris Shaw Artist of the Year in 2001. Shaw’s posters were also fea­tured in the 2009 doc­u­men­tary film Amer­i­can Artifact. Along­side paint­ing and his own poster designs, for the last sev­eral years Shaw has also art direct­ed the band Moon­al­ice. Shaw has cre­ated a series of over 600 posters for the band and reg­u­larly works with many of the best poster artists from the 60′s as well as today’s top artists. Four books off of Shaw’s work with Moon­al­ice have been pro­duced, The Moon­al­ice Leg­end, Vol­umes I – IV. Shaw’’s imagery con­tin­ues to pro­voke the viewer with intense color and sub­ject mat­ter. Shaw’s art­work clearly exists in the mod­ern world yet his use of geom­e­try and icono­graphic for­mu­las ref­er­ence dis­tinct clas­si­cal influ­ences. Often pre­car­i­ously bal­anc­ing pop-cul­ture or polit­i­cal themes with deeply sym­bolic imagery, Shaw cre­ates unique and stun­ning art­work that stands apart in todays image-cluttered world. Shaw recently had 2 shows for his paint­ings in the San Francisco Bay Area at the San Fran­cisco Museum of Mod­ern Art Artist’s Gallery (2011 & 2013), as well as appear­ing at Var­nish Fine Art (2012). Shaw is mar­ried to Moonalice artist Alexan­dra Fis­cher and cur­rently paints and designs posters from his stu­dio in West Oak­land, Cal­i­for­nia where he’s been hap­pily entrenched for over 20 years. For the next week, join us as we take a closer look at the art of Chris Shaw, including unreleased process pictures to some of his posters. To celebrate this occasion, Moonalice is opening up the poster vault to release some of the 184 posters Chris has designed for the band. For a limited time, add some art by Chris Shaw to your collection today at a special price. Available while quantities last. See more work by Chris at ChrisShawStudio.com or follow him on Facebook. June 7, 2013 Hum­boldt Brews, Arcata, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M600         October 28, 2012 Brook­lyn Bowl, Brook­lyn, NY Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M545         August 1, 2012 AT&T Park, San Fran­cisco, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M504             June 4, 2012 Great Amer­i­can Music Fes­ti­val, San Fran­cisco, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M482             May 11, 2012 Mt. Tabor The­ater, Port­land, OR Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M472             April 3, 2012 Yale Uni­ver­sity, New Haven, CT Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M446             September 24, 2011 Hum­boldt Hills Hoe­down, Red­way, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M412             August 18, 2011 Mt Tabor The­ater, Port­land, OR Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M400             June 7, 2011 Oak­land Col­i­seum, Oak­land, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M380       Commemorative Owsley Stan­ley Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M350               February 25, 2011 Orpheum Theater, Flagstaff, AZ Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M339         September 11, 2009 Marin Civic Cen­ter, San Rafael, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M210             August 30, 2009 The Blue Cafe, Long Beach, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M205             August 20, 2009 Wow Hall, Eugene, OR Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M198             June 12, 2009 Bon­na­roo Fes­ti­val, Man­ches­ter, TN Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M178             Commemorative John Molo Joins the Tribe Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M176               July 31, 2007 Union Square, San Fran­cisco, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M6             June 26, 2007 Union Square, San Fran­cisco, CA Moonalice poster by Chris Shaw legend   M4