The Art of Moonalice Poster Show graphic by Carolyn Ferris

Moon­al­ice is a band that com­mis­sions a poster for every gig and gives them away for free. Since the band’s for­ma­tion in 2007, Moon­al­ice has pro­duced a unique series of over 460 orig­i­nal gig posters with art­work from over 20 artists.

Moon­al­ice posters fea­ture art­work from many of the leg­endary poster artists of the psy­che­delic 60′s as well as today’s top rock poster artists. Moon­al­ice is a band that lets poster artists do what they do best – make art! Unen­cum­bered by stan­dard con­straints, Moon­al­ice posters are as diverse as the artists who cre­ate them.

On Fri­day April 20, 2012, Moon­al­ice proudly presents the third Art of Moon­al­ice poster exhibit, part of the Tribal Pow-Wow at Slim’s in San Francisco. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Poster artists in attendance include:

David Singer • Stan­ley Mouse • Wes Wil­son • Chris Shaw • Alexan­dra Fis­cher • Lee Con­klin •
Dave Hunter • Car­olyn Fer­ris • Den­nis Larkins • Chuck Sperry • Den­nis Loren • John Seabury •
John Mavroudis • Lau­ren Yurkovich • Dar­rin Brenner • Gary Houston

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SLIM’S 333 11th Street, San Francisco, CA

The Art of Moonalice

An exhibit of Rock Posters created for the band Moonalice.

Moonalice is a band that commissions a poster for every gig and gives them away for free.  Since the band’s formation in 2007, Moonalice has produced a unique series of over 450 original gig posters with artwork from over 20 artists.

Moonalice posters feature artwork from many of the legendary poster artists of the psychedelic 60’s as well as today’s top rock poster artists. Moonalice is a band that lets poster artists do what they do best — make art! Unencumbered by standard constraints, Moonalice posters are as diverse as the artists who create them.

On Sunday, April 8, 2012,  Moonalice proudly presents a concert and poster show at the Brooklyn Bowl.  The full series of Moonalice posters will be on display and available for purchase at this first ever East Coast event. Many Moonalice poster artists will be attending the event in-person. The poster show opens at 4:20 pm, Moonalice’s concert will follow the poster show in the evening.

SUNDAY — APRIL 8, 2012

Poster Show opens at 4:20pm with an Evening Performance by Moonalice

Artists in attendance:
David Singer • Stanley Mouse • Wes Wilson
Chris Shaw • Alexandra Fischer • Lee Conklin
Dave Hunter • Carolyn Ferris • Dennis Larkins
Wendy Wright • Chuck Sperry • Ron Donovan
Dennis Loren • John Seabury • John Mavroudis
Lauren Yurkovich • Darrin Brenner

Also featuring posters by:
Gary Houston • Claude Shade • Grace Slick
George and Patricia Sargent

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Directions:

Jon-Paul Bail & Chuck Sperry present
OCCUPY Art!
an Art Course at the Free University

The Free University of San Francisco hosts an Art Class every Sunday from 2:30pm to 5:00pm (February 5th to March 4th) at Viracocha - 998 Valencia Street (at 21st Street), San Francisco, CA.

The Free University of San Francisco aims to make the highest level of education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or immigration status — a university free of money, taught for free. The only requirement for membership is a desire to teach and/or a desire to learn.

Course Description:

The Free University Art School is very proud to present Jon-Paul Bail (of Political Gridlock) prolific Bay Area artist who uses the streets of the world as his canvas. Since last year’s brilliant presentation of street art complete with a wheat paste demonstration (video taken by yours truly) at the Free University, Jon-Paul Bail has been extremely active making a series of Hella Occupy posters for the Occupy movement across California.

Based in the East Bay, JP set up a print station on site at Oscar Grant Plaza and the heart of the Occupy Oakland movement in the first days people gathered there. He began producing thousands of posters which have become iconographic to this historical event. As the movement spread and touched similar gatherings and actions across California, “JP” travelled and set up his mobile propaganda studio, printing at Occupy Oakland, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Occupy San Francisco.

Jon-Paul discusses his motivations, methods and will bring the art class to a live onsite, print session at the Occupy Education action scheduled for March 1st – location to be disclosed later. Chuck Sperry & Jon-Paul Bail are collaborating on a poster design which will be printed in quantity in the class, and later printed live at the Occupy Education demonstration scheduled for March 1, 2012.

Here’s a sneak peak of it:

Come early — limited room!

Jon-Paul Bail’s Bio:

Jon-Paul Bail (JP) founded Political Gridlock in 1991 and has been posting street art ever since. JP’s work is branded by strong cohesive messages and relevant imagery, putting a funny and sometimes shocking spin on popular culture. His work reference issues that are based in local, national and global communities. His first company was called Reagan Wear and was co-founded with Ron Donovan from The Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company. Having studied silk-screening with Malaquias Montoya at California College of the Arts from 1986 – 1989, JP graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991. His poster titled Inhail to the Chief , which depicts Barrack Obama smoking a blunt, was featured in rap artist E-40′s music video featuring Dem Boyz in 2010. He has done print work for Winston Smith and Emory Douglas and has shown work in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Rome, Italy. JP’s art is in the collections of the Legion of Honor, Oakland Museum, and Center for the Study of Political Graphics and has been published in four political art books (Yo! What Happened to Peace, Reproduce & Revolt, and two editions of Paper Politics).

A Sampling of Jon-Paul Bail’s Recent Work

Occupy Posters by Bay Area & Moonalice Artists

Pictured below is an Occupy poster designed by Chuck Sperry - included are other Occupy posters from Moonalice Poster artists Carolyn Ferris, Alexandra Fischer, Ron Donovan, Dennis Larkins, Chris Shaw, & Winston Smith.

Directions

Hella clean printing in Oakland, CA

I’ve been a fan of Jay Ryan for years, so I was very excited to see Practice & Space, a web series that investigates people’s commitments to their craft and filmed on location in their unique spaces, feature his screen print poster workshop The Bird Machine, inc. For those unfamiliar, Jay has been making hand drawn screen printed posters for bands, and the clubs they play at since 1995. See more of his work at TheBirdMachine.com

The Black Keys with Portugal, & The Man poster by Jeff Soto
January 24 & 25, 2012
Le Zenith — Lille & Paris, France
18″ x 24″ on Cream Speckletone paper
printed at Inhouse Printing, Chino, CA
Jaune édition of 200
Pourpre édition of 25
Vert édition of 10

Jeff Soto recently designed a gig poster for The Black Keys. He made a cool video to show a little of the process that goes into designing something to be screen printed. Great Job Jeff!

Jeff comments:

 The inspiration was sculptural works I got to see in France, in particular those celebrating the French Revolution. I designed the poster loosely as a representation of Marie Antoinetteís head. I wanted it to be beautiful and sculptural, and maybe just a bit tragic. I donít know where the Black Key’s music fits in, but to me, it works well. There is something tragic in their music, there’s passion and angst and sexiness, and I tried to put all that in.

The lettering was inspired by the fonts used in the Paris Metro. I couldn’t believe them the first time I saw them. It reminded me of 60’s era hippy letters, but older looking. I think my friends in Paris take it for granted that they’re surrounded by this beautiful old design work. I live on the west coast, so we never see any signs that old!

These posters sold out fast on his store website PotatoStamp.com - 3 minutes tops.  I wasn’t fast enough today and am still looking for a purple edition, my favorite version out of the three.