Hangar 18

To com­mem­o­rate Eric Clapton’s rockin’ his­toric Tokyo Budokan con­cert run in Feb­ru­ary 2009, a lim­ited edi­tion poster was com­mis­sioned from the Fire­house Kus­tom Rockart Co.  These gig posters were printed by tra­di­tional hand silkscreen­ing in a lim­ited edi­tion of 500 and are num­bered and plate signed by the artists, Ron Dono­van and Chuck Sperry.  The art fea­tures a tra­di­tional Japan­ese lantern along with the famous Bukokan, the site of so many Eric Clap­ton con­certs.  Each poster is  26.5″ x 14″ and now avail­able for pur­chase at Eric Clapton’s online store.

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This silk screened poster was cre­ated by Frank Zio for the Anti-Police Bru­tal­ity Art show at the Mama Buzz Cafe. On early new years morn­ing, Oscar Grant was shot & killed by a BART police offi­cer (most of which was cap­tured on video). Zio com­ments The work seeks to com­ment on ran­dom vio­lence with­out con­demn­ing, con­don­ing, judg­ing, or scape­goat­ing. The poster is cut with the con­tours and upper-left hole punch of an actual BART ticket. There are not to many of these in exis­tence, the edi­tion size was only 12.

And so it offi­cially begins…

Today will be one of those days always remem­bered, not only for the swear­ing in of the 44th pres­i­dent, but also for the begin­ning of a new blog, Hangar 18, by Nick Cer­nak, with con­tent focused on all the great art that comes out of the Fire­house Kus­tom Rockart Com­pany, home to Chuck Sperry and Ron Dono­van, now located in Oak­land, CA