Spring Forward with Jacknife Posters and Firehouse
Spring Forward Poster Show featuring British silkscreen poster artists Jacknife Posters from Bristol, England and Firehouse of San Francisco.
Opening:
Thursday March 11th at 7pm
(2 days only – Thursday and Friday – March 11th & 12th)
Artrock Gallery
893 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
www.artrock.com
Ron Donovan and Chuck Sperry of the Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company met Chris Hopewell from Bristol, England at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas in 2005. In 2007, while conducting a silkscreen print demonstration at Flatstock poster convention, Chuck and Ron spoke at length to Chris about getting started with his own print studio. Inspired by the demonstration, Chris Hopewell went home to the United Kingdom and opened a silkscreen print studio with partners and called it Jacknife Posters.
By the time Firehouse toured the United Kingdom in 2008, Mr. Hopewell and the Jacknife print collective would have dozens and dozens of cool rock posters under their belt. Since 2007, Jacknife has been spreading art of rock to Great Britain – most notably by producing posters in the open air at the Glastonbury Music Festival.
Jacknife posters have a bold style informed by a punk aesthetic. Using surprising imagery, Jacknife pares their posters down to a clear, direct statement. They design and print their unambiguous, rebellious posters with a hands-on silkscreen process that informs their art.
Come and celebrate our San Francisco joint show as we get ready to go together to SXSW in Texas and later to the Glastonbury Music Festival in England as Jacknife has invited Firehouse to join them for the Glastonbury Music Festival print demonstration this June 23rd through June 27th.
- Firehouse and Jacknife will be sharing a booth at SXSW/Flatstock Poster Convention – March 17th, 18th and 19th
- Jacknife has invited Firehouse to join them for the Glastonbury Music Festival print demonstration in Somerset, England – June 23rd through June 27th.
SPECIAL PRINT RELEASE
2010 JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
FIREHOUSE GOLDENVOICE #94/#95
poster by CHRIS SHAW AND RON DONOVAN
