June 11, 2011 — Jan­u­ary 12, 2012

Bay Area rock poster art con­tem­po­raries Chris Shaw, Chuck Sperry, and Ron Dono­van stand out amongst their pre­de­ces­sors in the Bay Area tra­di­tion of poster mak­ing that spans nearly 50 years. Through their pro­lific bod­ies of work, the mas­ter­ful artists have brought inno­vation, inven­tion, and new mean­ing to this art form. Each distinc­tively fuses pro­pa­ganda, imagery, text, and his­tor­i­cal art ref­er­ences with Pop and rock-poster art sen­si­bil­i­ties to cre­ate acces­si­ble, relat­able imagery that is at once empow­er­ing and unde­ni­ably populist.

Minna Street windows

A col­lab­o­ra­tive art work involv­ing three indi­vid­u­ally cre­ated win­dow instal­la­tions, Dono­van, Shaw, and Sperry layer silkscreen, paint­ing, col­lage, and mixed media to trans­form two-dimensional imagery into three-dimensional expres­sion. Show­ing rev­er­ence for man’s commu­nicative nature, they ref­er­ence the renewal of the idea that art has a purpose.

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