I'm a painter, DJ/promoter,art director,graphic designer, gallery co-owner, film programmer and a clog dancing percussionist...I am also Prussian/cherokee/appalachian hillbilly! Got that?
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Some of my paintings:
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Painting pictures, spinning records, illustration, graphic design, obscure 50s-70's rock-n-roll, psychedelia of all sorts,projecting film, really great cocktails, the color wheel,animation,growing flowers, cult cinema,fine wine,collecting vinyl, hopping the pond,chasing sunsets, travel to foreign lands, the UK, the west, classic automobiles, extra-terrestrials, yoga, the ocean,vintage clothing,vibrating color and patterns, go-go boots, deserts, optical illusions, mid-century modern design, swinging London, San Francisco, hallucinations,the desert,infrared space landscapes, ufos, clog dancing as percussion, vintage record players and stereo equipment, hosting movie nights , cabaret, drive-ins (esp. guerilla drive-ins and projection), road trips, groovy wallpaper and interiors, trees without leaves,trees with leaves, entertaining my puppy dogs, owls and of course butterflies...
RANDOM GRAPHIC DESIGN PIECES FROM OVER THE YEARS:
Someone to take me here:
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Primarily obscure 60s-70s Rock-n-roll, leaning towards psychedelia particularly of the later 60s but also garage,60s beat, early, prog,soul,soundtracks, Freakbeat,go-go,rnb,Krautrock, lounge,spaghetti western,sitar beat, ye'-ye', sleaze,trash, jerk, bossa nova,exotica, old country,surf, big beat, blues,rockabilly, american folk...you get the picture!
SOME POSTERS I DESIGNED FOR THE FRINGE FACTORY:
Me and the SPACE AMAZONS on the set of Candy Von Dewd and the Girls from Latexploitia, one of the films made at the Werepad.
See MY MOVIE NIGHT
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE,DEATH RACE 2000, DANGER DIABOLIK, THE TOUCHABLES, THE TRIP, PSYCH OUT, THE LOVE INS, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA VIXENS, 2000 MANIACS, ZARDOZ, MATT HELM,....Loads of old x-ploitation and cult movies from the 60's -70's, oh and yes, the 50's. Car chases, science fiction, sex, drugs and shock-n-roll, fashion, gore, go-go, camp, spy, psychedelic freak outs, arty 60s, band documentaries, old educational films, scopitones, trailers, Roger Corman, Hammer, American International, Hershell Gordon Lewis, Bava, Metzger, Argento, Bartel, Jack Nicholson, Santo, Ray Dennis Steckler...with lots of bitch goddess sluts, mad hippies, bikers, space monsters, junkies, beatniks and villains/heroes in leather suits....
Most of these films are in a 16-35mm archive housed at The Werepad in San Francisco...a theater/artspace/venue in SF I helped run and my home for years (Pictured below)
U.F.O, Night Gallery, Beat Club, Hullabaloo, Twilight zone, Space Giants, Banana Splits
From the Werepad's movie poster collection:
60's magazines from a collection I found in the attic, Ugly Things, Anything by Nick Toshes-right now Country the Twisted Roots of Rock n Roll, Oui (June 1967), Bloomingdales Book of Home Decorating, 1970
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The Cockettes, The Fool design collective, C.Jere, Terry Gilliam, Roger Corman, Poison Ivy, the Warhol Superstars, Peter Max, Roger Dean, Buckminster Fuller, Eichler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Tura Satana, Verner Panton, Emilio Pucci, Joan Miro, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Charles and Ray Eames, Halston, Mary Quant, Andy Warhol, Anais Nin and Susan Sontag