The Art of Moonalice
Relix magazine just published an article by Roger McNamee about preserving poster art that’s not to be missed! In the piece Roger explains why poster art matters to Moonalice and talks about the Moonalice poster series, currently at 786 original works of art. Most exciting is a new project in the works, the Haight Street Art Center.
“How about a rock poster print shop and exhibit gallery?” – Roger McNamee
Read the full article at Relix.com.
Art Business News has named ¡ORALE! Kings and Queens of Cool at the Harwood Museum one of the top 20 art exhibitions of this past year. The four-part exhibition celebrates the post-pop art movement of West Coast surfer, street and car cultures, as well as Hispano expressions of northern New Mexico. With more than 300 works by 150 artists including Dennis Larkins, David Singer, Alton Kelley, Lee Conklin, Stanley Mouse, Wes Wilson, & Winston Smith, the exhibit highlights graffiti, tattoos, post-pop illustrations, pinstriping and rock poster art, subverting ideas of “lowbrow art” and celebrating the “outsiders” of creation. See the complete list at artbusinessnews.com.
The exhibition is running until Sunday, January 25, 2015. HarwoodMuseum.org.
featuring music by Moonalice and The Fall Risk
Saturday, December 20th, 2014 at Slim’s, San Francisco, CA
Bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate and receive a set of sixteen Moonalice posters!
Also featuring
Tickets: $15 – buy online now – All Ages Show 6+ – Doors: 7:00pm Show: 8:00pm
Slim’s 333 11th St, San Francisco
If you can’t make this show, join us on Couch Tour for the free HD video stream provided by MoonTunes™ at Moonalice.com. Moonalice set: 9:30pm
International Terminal
Departures – Level 3 – Pre-Security
September 2014 – March 2015
From 1966 to 1971, an unprecedented quantity of extraordinary graphic art was produced in the San Francisco Bay Area. This resulted from the demand for posters, handbills, and flyers advertising rock concerts in San Francisco. The two main patrons of this proliferation of posters were Bill Graham – who promoted concerts at the Fillmore and Chet Helms, leader of an organization called the Family Dog, which produced concerts at the Avalon Ballroom.
Poster artists were often inspired by Art Nouveau masters such as Alphonse Mucha whose blocky lettering was made psychedelic by Wes Wilson. Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse were further drawn to advertising art and appropriated images. Mouse and a Southern California artist named Rick Griffin were also infatuated with the artwork that grew out of hot-rod car culture. Victor Moscoso, on the other hand, created posters that nearly vibrated before the viewer’s eyes.
This exhibition features over 150 posters created by these five artists along with many lesser-known artists who designed posters for shows at the Fillmore and Avalon featuring bands such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators.
Guest curator Ben Marks is the Senior Editor of CollectorsWeekly.com and the Vice-President of The Rock Poster Society, whose members kindly loaned all of the posters, postcards, handbills, tickets, and other ephemera for this exhibition. For more information about The Rock Poster Society, please visit TRPS.org.
View the exhibition online.
When Art Rocked is located pre-security in the International Terminal Main Hall Departures Lobby, San Francisco International Airport. The exhibition is on view to all Airport visitors from September 29, 2014, to March 22, 2015. There is no charge to view the exhibition.
SFO Museum was established by the Airport Commission in 1980 for the purposes of humanizing the Airport environment, providing visibility for the unique cultural life of San Francisco, and providing educational services for the traveling public. The Museum was granted initial accreditation from the American Association of Museums in 1999, reaccredited in 2005, and has the distinction of being the only accredited museum in an airport. Today, SFO Museum features twenty-five galleries throughout the Airport terminals displaying a rotating schedule of art, history, science, and cultural exhibitions, as well as the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum, a permanent collection dedicated to the history of commercial aviation. To browse current and past exhibitions, research our collection, or for more information, please visit www.flysfo.com/museum.
The Rock Poster Society presents it’s annual event Festival of Rock Posters on Saturday, October 25, 2014 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Held at the San Francisco County Fair Building (also known as the Hall of Flowers), this is a must for fans of concert posters!
Attendees will find everything from vintage psychedelic treasures to modern silkscreen rock posters, and of course Moonalice posters! Don’t miss this great opportunity to meet the artists behind the poster, and get your favorites signed by them too.
This event runs from 10:00am to 6:00pm and admission will vary depending on the time you arrive, after 3:00pm the event is FREE. Complete list of artists and vendors attending at TRPS.org or join the event on Facebook for more information.
Alexandra Fischer
Carolyn Ferris
Chris Shaw
Chuck Sperry
Dave Hunter
David Singer
Gary Houston
John Seabury
Lauren Yurkovich
Lee Conklin
Stanley Mouse
Wes Wilson
County Fair Building 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco