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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

Mural painted by Emory Douglas and Rigo 23 at the New Museum in the 2nd Floor Gallery. Courtesy New Museum, New York. Photo by Benoit Pailley.

Rigo 23 and Emory Douglas Speak Out — Art In America.

Kasama Podcasts presents an interview with former Black Panther Minister of Culture Emory Douglas. The interview was conducted by Kazembe Balagun. The interview took place at the New Museum on the eve of his exhibition opening. Listen here.

“I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
- Malcolm X

To commemorate the opening of “Emory Douglas: Black Panther” at the New Museum in NYC, Station 4 is proud to release a new historic screenprint featuring original artwork by Emory Douglas…

“Malcolm X”
Printed by Political Gridlock at Firehouse Kustom Rockart Co.
(c) 2009 Emory Douglas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
6 color screenprint
Printed on canvas
Dimensions: 18” x 18” (45.72 x 45.72cm)
Each canvas is incomparable and varies in appearance and detail
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition of 13
$300

Available here.

Emory Douglas: Black Panther
An Exhibition Curated by Sam Durant for the New Museum

July 22nd – October 18th

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
(212) 219-1222
www.newmuseum.org

Click here for directions.

“Emory Douglas: Black Panther” includes a wide variety of Douglas’s work done while a member of the Black Panther Party. Curated by the Los Angeles artist Sam Durant, whose work often deals with political and cultural subjects in American history, the show includes approximately 165 posters, newspapers, and prints dating from 1967–76.

Durant met Emory Douglas in 2002 and began working on a book of Douglas’s work, which resulted in a monograph published in 2007. Two years later Durant curated “Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which serves as a model for the exhibition at the New Museum.

The presentation of “Emory Douglas: Black Panther” at the New Museum is organized by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator with Amy Mackie, Curatorial Assistant.

Station 4 is proud to present the art of Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of The Black Panther Party, by introducing three historic propaganda art pieces originally published in the Black Panther newspaper in 1970 and 1971.

The featured limited edition art pieces are the first of a twelve print series and the images have never before been available to the public as art prints.

For more information or to purchase a set please click here.