AJ
Masthay
Masthay Studios, featuring the works
of Aaron "AJ" Masthay has been producing limited
edition concert memorabilia and fine art prints out of
West Hartford, CT since 2001. AJ's body of work includes
stone lithography, etching, monotypes, and egg tempera,
but is best known for his linoleum block prints.
"There is nothing like physically carving linoleum
to create an image, its almost primal. It is the oldest
form of printmaking, but by stretching the limitations
of the medium, you end up with some very interesting results.
With so much of our daily lives consisting of mass produced
items, I believe people really appreciate the quality
and craftsmanship of truly hand made pieces of art."
Arik
Roper
Arik was born in 1973 in New York City,
grew up in Richmond, Virginia, then returned to New York
to attend the School of Visual Arts from 1991-1995. Since
then he has built a universe of strange and familiar fantasy,
horror, surreal, and psychedelic imagery.
After starting out creating record and cd covers for a
variety of bands, he has continued onward and into more
diverse areas of poster design and graphic illustration,
and animation. He is currently a contributing artist to
such endeavors as Arthur magazine, Strange Attractor Journal,
The Conscious Alliance, and Bill Graham Presents among
others.
Carey
Thompson
Carey Thompson grew up on the east coast
in Virginia and North Carolina. He then traveled throughout
the western United States ending up in New Mexico where
he spent a year creating a core resonance with the American
southwest. Afterwards, Carey embarked on a four-year adventure
throughout Central America harnessing the winds of synchrocicity.
Exploring countless natural power spots and Mesoamerican
sacred sites, he developed a keen interest in ancient
cultures and their expression through the arts and cosmology.
Desiring a more rooted foundation, Carey landed in the
beautiful lands of Costa Rica where he spent a few years
tapping deep into the currents of Gaian creation. Copious
amounts of surfing and jungle trekking activated his being
to near saturation point as he continued to channel this
energy into creativity. He currently resides in San Francisco,
California where he now focuses on his artistic endeavors.
Carey describes his work as holomorphic transmission vision
crystals. The imagery channels through, sourced from the
universal matrix, and crystallizes into form onto templates
based on sacred geometry and other patterns of nature.
Beginning usually with only a seed of intention, the color
and form evolve unconsciously to create the finished art.
Revealing the interconnectedness of all things is the
primary intention of Carey's artwork.
Christian
Calabro
David
Hale
David is an artist currently
living in Cocoa Beach, FL, where he is enjoying life.
He probably has paint all over his hands, clothes and
about everything else he comes into contact with. David
received his BFA in painting from the University of Georgia
in Athens in 2006. He has called this planet his home
since 1984.
David
Heskin
Drowning
Creek
Gary Houston
Gary Houston has been designing
and screen printing for about as long. Being that they
have a mutual love for all types of music they decided
to form a loose partnership to design and hand print their
own posters. "It's to keep the spirit of hands on production
alive, and to give voice to less than mainstream musical
groups".
George Mench
J.
Garcia
Although intensely interested
in showing work and doing large-scale installations in
the gallery and museum settings, J. Garcia has invested
a large amount of time painting live on stage with musicians
and painting murals in the United States and abroad. He
has a tremendous amount of interest in painting large-scale
imagery on walls in the public space that informs a diverse
audience about the current social, political and spiritually
collective human experience.
In 1996, he began working with Judith Baca at the Social
Public Art Resource Center in Venice, California and found
himself examining public monuments as a basis for cultural
insight and a critique of social values from the perspective
of an artist. This viewpoint is one that developed in
consideration to what defines a neighborhood and how different
ethnic populations use public space differently. In June
of 1998, he found himself painting on stage with musicians
and working with Susan Cervantes at the Precita Eyes Mural
Arts Center in San Francisco, California.
Since then he has painted with a variety of multiple bands
across the United States, Europe and Japan in front of
audiences ranging from 500 to 90,000 people
Jamie
Huntsman
Jamie is a freelance illustrator living
and working in Moon Twp. PA. As an up-and-coming illustrator,
her "Hyper-Realistic" style has captured the
attention of the music industry as well as several corporate
clients. She is a graduate of Mount Union College where
she studied art, mass media communications and advertising.
JDK
Design
Jeff
Wood
Joy
Engine
Kris
Davidson
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Kris D graduated
with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia.
He currently lives in Athens, GA and San Francisco, CA.
Kris balances his time working devoutly in his studio
painting as well as collaborating with musicians by doing
live performance painting. Kris has created hundreds of
performance paintings over the past six years.
When he was 15, Kris began a series of what he would refer
to as doodles. Although he has drawn since before he can
remember, it was at this point when he began working with
the geometrical subject matter that is characteristic
of all of his work. These doodles have and still are developing
into the pattern intensive compositions that permeate
his paintings.
LEBO
Since 1996, David Le Batard, known
as LEBO, has been developing a distinct vernacular, signified
by his use of opaque, bold colors, stylized black lines,
musical metaphors and characters reminiscent of his Cuban-American
upbringing. He began exhibiting his repertoire of cartoons
images presented against flat fields of colors, with a
strong form of graffiti-esque designs that soon began
to attract widespread attention.
In the last few years LEBO's creative arms have branched
out into a variety of innovative directions, becoming
a lead designer for mosaic tile company, as well as designing
and executing various site specific installations and
creating one of a kind art pieces for commercial lines
such as Adidas and Gibson. In addition he is the art director
for Langerado Music Festival, a live music 3-day music
showcase that draws over 15,000 attendees each year. In
keeping with his musical background, LEBO has collaborated
with bands like Burning Spear, Thievery Corporation, The
Spam All-stars, the Disco Biscuits and jazz legend Wynton
Marsalis to create live music paintings.
Lori
Salisbury
Luke
Brown
Luke Brown is an intrepid explorer,
part of a new generation of visionaries recontructing
the templates of culture as we know it. His art speaks
of the spiritual mysteries in the human imagination. Mystical
experiences, dreams, medicine journeys, and channelled
lucid dialogues with the source of creativity itself,
seem to guide and be guided by the colourful symmetries
and living surfaces of his art. Much of his work emerges
from a graceful synthesis of digital and painting mediums.
Developing his work through mix and remix technologies,
Luke is constantly redefining his style as a spiritual
medium for growth. He is intent on mapping his hyperspatial
experiences with utmost accuracy, with whichever medium
seems best suited, as a form of multidimensional cartography.
Malcolm
Buick
Marq
Spusta
Marq Spusta began his adventure
in the late seventies, in Madison, Wisconsin. As soon
as he developed the motor skills, he began to exercise
his artistic ambitions. He attended the University of
Wisconsin-Stout along with a brief stint studying art
in Australia. Since graduation Marq has worked as a freelance
artist, illustrator, designer and an art instructor at
college and grade school levels. His artwork covers a
wide range of mediums and medias such as paintings, drawings,
digital graphics, logos, etchings, serigraphs, books,
websites, concert posters, shirts, package designs, concert
stages and whatever else comes his way. He is proud to
have created art for many great organizations, bands and
people including, Bill Graham Presents, The Black Crowes,
Conscious Alliance, Gnarls Barkley, Led Zeppelin, My Morning
Jacket, The Roots, The Black Keys, Peeping Tom, TeePee
Records, Tea Leaf Green, Dogfish Head Brewery and many
others. Marq currently resides in the foothills of Sequoia
National Park, California with his girlie, dogs and reptiles.
Mars-1
Martina
Hoffmann
Michael
Brown
Seldom does an artist of Michael Brown's
caliber come along to inspire today's fast-paced digital
world. Both serene and passionate at once, his images
speak from an ancient universal language of beauty that
anyone can understand and relate to. He fearlessly reaches
into his innermost visions and experiences, finding places
that many humans fear to confront in themselves. Exploring
the inner map of the psyche and the heart, he translates
what he finds into breathtaking imagery that illustrates
the journey of growth and transcendence from the inescapable
phenomenon of human conditioning.
Michael
Everett
In 1984, Michael attended his first rock
concert and recognized the appeal his art would have to
the music industry. Committed to a becoming a professional
artist, he became a 1989 Florida Academic Scholar and
attended the University of South Florida. Michael was
commissioned to create his first concert poster in 1995.
This poster for Grateful Dead was soon reprinted in a
second edition and displayed in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. Michael's subsequent festival posters, album
covers, and T-shirt designs were distributed nationally.
He began traveling in 1997 to support his career and was
captivated by the deserts and mountains of New Mexico.
Michael relocated to the Southwest and began his most
prolific period as a poster artist. His concert posters
featured such performers as David Crosby, Edie Brickell,
Los Lobos, The Black Crowes, Bruce Hornsby, Steely Dan,
Hanson, Ziggy Marley, Mickey Hart & Planet Drum, and
Sammy Hagar, and included collaborations with artists
Charles Shultz and Scramble Campbell. In 2000, Michael
moved to Boulder, Colorado to create new original artwork
and published his first independent poster lithographs.
Michael's transition to Northern California in 2001 inspired
an interest in botanical and aquatic subjects that signaled
a rebirth of creativity in his compositions. He published
posters to benefit Conscious Alliance, Unbroken Chain
Foundation, Reef Relief, Utah Rivers Council, and New
York relief efforts. Michael R. Everett continues to show
his original artwork in San Francisco and explore new
imagery through his life experience as an artist
Mike
Laughead
Currently Mike illustrates for
teen and children's magazines, designs tee shirts, designs
posters and writes and draws comics. He got his BFA in
Art with an emphasis in Illustration from Brigham Young
University - Idaho.
Before going to college, he was a missionary for the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for two years in
the wonderful country of Argentina. While there he learned
Spanish and not to be afraid to ask total strangers to
change their lives around.
He grew up in Iowa with two brothers and two sisters.
Most of the kids showed some interest in art, but Mike
is the only one to try to make a living at it.
Mikio
Kenedy
Ned Beebe
Nemo
Oliver
Vernon
Vernon lives in a renovated loft in Bed-Stuy,
where he paints and draws obsessively. His work is a constantly
flowing but constructive meditation on depth, mandalic
design, and the mystic spunk that lends organic shapes
their peculiar and sometimes alien sense of life. The
fluttering ribbons and liquid rhizomes that often float
through his evocative spaces are at once playful, probing,
and profligate. He paints on different types of surfaces,
working both with and against the grain of wood and canvas,
sometimes combining (and recombining) panels to form larger
works; sometimes he adds collage elements as well. Everything
serves to layer and invoke multiple dimensions: the dense
graphic surfaces of graffiti art, seeking depth; loopy
3D splatters and orbs; abstract voids and plunging tunnels
that suck you in like a SciFi tractor beam.
Richard
Biffle
Robert
Marx
Touring around, vending lot posters out
of his van, Rob Marx began his life of guerrilla artist
who has "seen the light" and proudly gives his art to
Conscious Alliance. R. Marx resides in the lakes region
of the White Mountains in New Hampshire where he is a
dedicated father and husband who tries to paint everyday.
Interests include Family, Color Theory, Design, Good Music,
Vinyl, Politics, Atlantis, 2012, Sacred Geometry, The
Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a FREE Society, Organics,
Glass Blowing, Rocks...Gems and Minerals, Wire Wrapping,
Contradictions, Pirates, 23, Pi, Chaos, perception, Chinese
watercolors, Driving for 72 hours straight and a COLD
DARK hotel room after a long Festival.
Robert
Venosa
Roman Villagrana
Ryan
Kerrigan
Ryan is a New Hampshire native who currently
resides in Berkeley, CA. His poster art has become a mainstay
in the world of Rock poster art and beyond. He has worked
with many of today's promoters and up and coming bands
(High Sierra Music Festival, Tea Leaf Green, the Slip,
Barefoot Manor, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and Umphrey's
McGee to name a few) as well as a host of concert venues,
festivals and alternative businesses. His use of color
and his immediately recognizable style are as free and
loose as the music it has been created for. "My first
love in art was the old psychedelic rock posters, and
to actually be doing that now is a dream come true. I
listen to the band as I'm creating the images, and just
let the feeling of the music come through in the colors
and design." Upcoming plans involve many new projects,
both musical and otherwise, as well as continuing to exclusively
use hemp paper for all prints.
"saNe"
Adrian Robert
My main interest lies in studying spontaneity
as a perpetually present force in our world. Our thoughts
and actions are constantly affected by forces beyond our
control, and my work seeks to work with that notion in
mind. As a painter, I feel like my compositions are guided
by the subtleties of the ever changing present. As a photographer
I feel like I am completely reliant on the alignment of
light and subject; my acquired technical skills with shutter
and brush only help better prepare myself for the rigors
of the moment, and offer a better chance at capturing
that essence in it's most fluid form.
Scott
Cranmer
His obsession with the mystical, spiritual
and esoteric aspects of life began about ten years ago
when his high school chemistry teacher told the class
about his experiences with astral projection. He began
drawing and painting towards the end of college and discovered
the mystic art of Alex Grey along with other visionary
artists such as Robert Venosa, H.R. Giger, Ernst Fuchs
and Gustave Moreau. In Cranmer’s artwork he always
works from the bottom up. He first lays the foundation
and work towards a climax. Then it becomes a matter of
tension; push and pull, give and take, light and dark,
good and evil. This leads to a symmetry that is reinforced
by his experience as a twin. All the while still aiming
for redemption and transcendence of duality.
Scott
Saw
Scramble Campbell
Stanley
Mouse
MUSIC IS MORE THAN SOUND. IT IS FEELINGS,
MEMORIES, IDEAS AND IMAGES. AND, NO ONE PUT A "FACE ON
ROCK MUSIC" BETTER THAN STANLEY MOUSE. WORLD FAMOUS FOR
HIS POSTERS AND ALBUM COVER ART, STANLEY IS SPECIFICALLY
RESPONSIBLE FOR DEFINING THE "LOOK" OF SOME OF THE MOST
FAMOUS BANDS IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY, SUCH AS THE BEATLES,
ERIC CLAPTON, JANIS JOPLIN, LED ZEPPELIN, JIMI HENDRIX,
JOURNEY, THE STEVE MILLER BAND, AND OF COURSE, THE GRATEFUL
DEAD. RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE "BIG FIVE" AMERICAN POSTER
ARTISTS, STANLEY'S ARTWORK HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN TRANSFORMING
ART AND DESIGN IN MYRIAD AND INCALCULABLE WAYS.
HIS ASSOCIATION WITH BILL GRAHAM AND CHET HELMS OF THE
FILLMORE AND AVALON RESPECTIVELY LED MOUSE AND KELLEY
TO NEW AREAS OF ARTISTIC EFFORT AND SUCCESS. ONE OF THEIR
BIG BREAKTHROUGHS CAME WITH THE CREATION OF POSTER IMAGES
FOR BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY, WHICH EVENTUALLY
BECAME THE JANIS JOPLIN SHOW. MOUSE'S WORK, UTILIZING
MANY ASPECTS OF ART NOUVEAU STYLE AND THE INFLUENCE OF
ALPHONSE MUCHA'S DISTINCTIVE DECORATIVE INVENTION AND
SENSUOUS BEAUTY, REDEFINED THE ART OF POSTER. HE BECAME
A MASTER OF POWERFUL YET PLAYFUL POSTER IMAGES.
Table
2 Press
Table2Press is a design and screenprinting
studio located in Boulder, CO that creates unique, hand-printed
stuff for people that need that kind of thing.We really
enjoy working with artists we respect and other humans
that can do things that we wish we could do. We are available
for all types of projects -- identity, collateral, apparel,
you name it.
The Heads of State
Tom
Giffin
Will Ruocco
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