We are happy to announce that TRPS commissioned us Alexandra Fischer and Chris Shaw to design this year’s Artist Relief Fund poster for the show on October 8th in Golden Gate Park. This is our first collaboration when it comes to the artwork & design on a poster and we are very happy that the poster was successful in supporting the Artist Relief Fund this year. Silkscreened at the FireÂhouse by Ron Donovan & Chris Shaw, with 3 different metallic inks, this 5 color poster is a reflective marvel of screen-printed goodness.
For everyone who didn’t have a chance to get one at the show, we will be releasing these here at a random time on Friday.
TRPS Festival of Rock Posters poster by Alexandra Fischer and Chris Shaw
October 8, 2011 – Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
SHOW EDITION
printed on Blue Linen paper
Edition of 125
Image impression: 17.5 x 22.5
Paper size: 19 x 25
Signed & Numbered
SOLD OUT
RED VARIANT
printed on Red Linen paper
Edition of 60
Image impression: 17.5 x 22.5
Paper size: 19 x 25
Signed & Numbered
SOLD OUT
GOLD VARIANT
printed on Gold Linen paper
Edition of 20
Image impression: 17.5 x 22.5
Paper size: 19 x 25
Signed & Numbered
SOLD OUT
SILVER FOIL VARIANT
printed on Silver Foil
Edition of 6
Image impression: 17.5 x 22.5
Signed & Numbered
SOLD OUT
Chris Shaw and Chuck Sperry printing Shaw’s Public Enemy poster for the Regency Ballrooom, San Francisco – August 19, 2011. This video was shot August 18 at Hangar 18, Oakland, California. Watch it in HD, its better.
The poster is #139 in the Firehouse-Goldenvoice series.
I was thrilled when Chuck Sperry asked me if I wanted to do a Public Enemy poster for his Goldenvoice series, I’m a huge Public Enemy fan from way back when. Doing a poster for a band you love isn’t always as great as it sounds, sometimes you can get hung up on trying to get a perfect image and idea and overwork the art. Trying not to over-think things, I decided to go with an old-school political poster, the kind of thing I was making in the 80’s when I listened to P.E. constantly. I’ve made a ton of art over the years listening to that band, and felt like going back to my roots.
Somehow I think I’ve wanted to make this poster for a long time. The last time I made a Public Enemy poster it was for the Fillmore, I don’t think a riot cop with a bloody baton would have passed pre-screening over there. In particular, I decided to make this poster a BART cop. BART is a Bay Area transit agency who’s police force has been involved in some very questionable shootings, have been handling themselves pretty badly, they’ve been in the news a lot. Knowing the band, the image seemed fitting, and timely.
The image is a collage of pieces from different riot cop photos, put together to make an especially sinister figure. I altered a lot of the small details along the way then separated the art into 3 colors, standard “politics” black & red, plus a bright silver… the silver gives it that rock poster feel. For the variants, we printed a pure cyan instead of the black plate, and used some different stock. A big thanks Chuck for being the master of his press, this was an especially clean run of posters.
Silkscreen poster printed by Chris Shaw & Chuck Sperry at Hangar 18, Oakland, CA.
Public Enemy poster by Chris Shaw
August 19, 2011
Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, California
Firehouse-Goldenvoice series #139
18′ x 28″ impression on 20″ x 30″ 100 lb. Cougar paper
Edition of 145
Signed & Numbered
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