Rock On! at the Amarillo Museum of Art with the Posters and Music
from the 60s and 70s
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May 14, 2010
Rock On! The Art of the Music Posters from the 60s and 70s
Amarillo Museum of Art
June 18 through September 5, 2010
Rock On! The Art of the Music Posters from the 60s and 70s, the
summer exhibition at the Amarillo Museum of Art, will set the theme
for the opening night fundraising gala on Friday, June 18, 2010.
Party goers will enjoy a private viewing of original posters of the
period; the opportunity to purchase authentic rock and roll
memorabilia (such as a one-of-a kind handcrafted bracelet made from
guitar strings played by Peter Frampton); and eat, drink and be merry
with MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC. Lovers of the Grateful Dead, the Rolling
Stones, Bob Dylan, the Clash, the Who, Pink Floyd, the Talking Heads,
the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and their contemporaries will dance the
night away while helping support AMoA's school outreach program that
serves Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. For reservations and ticket
pricing, please email [email protected], call 806-371-5050, or visit
AMoA's website at www.amarilloart.org.
The exhibition will be open to the public from June 19 until
September 5. More than 75 vintage offset lithographs will be on
display. From late 1960s psychedelia through the emergence of punk in
the late 1970s, Rock On! highlights the work of leading graphic
artists who fused their visual talents with the musical vision of the
era's influential bands to create some of the most enduring pop
culture images of the 20th century.
Many of these posters came out of the San Francisco Bay Area, home to
a crop of young visual artists and two now-legendary rock clubs
during the 1960sFillmore West and the Avalon Ballroom. Numbered
among the artists were Stanley Mouse and the late Alton Kelley, the
San Francisco-based team who created the Grateful Dead's famous
skull-and-rose emblem; Milton Glaser, photographers Brian Duffy and
the late Richard Avedon, Gerald Scarfe, Victor Moscoso, and John Pasche.
Their colorful and highly creative promotional posters represent a
unique intersection of fine art, music, and commerce. They reflect
the "hippie" ethos and anti-war, anti-establishment attitudes that
were prevalent in San Francisco and across the U.S. in the late 1960s
and into the 1970s.
During the exhibition AMoA will host author Paul D. Grushkin, who
will speak about his book The Art of Rock Posters from Presley to
Punk, and artist Victor Moscosco, whose Swirl Dance poster for
Quicksilver Messenger Service and Steve Miller Blues Band at Avalon
Ballroom will be on exhibition.
The Amarillo Museum of Art is located at 220 South Van Buren on the
Washington Street campus of Amarillo College. Hours are Tuesday-
Friday from 10 5 and Saturday and Sunday from 1-5. Every day is
free admissions day at AMoA. For more information, please call
371-5050 or check our website at www.amarilloart.org.
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