Frank Romero

Going to the Olympics

2008

Title: “THE NEXT WAVE” Artist: JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD Medium: 4 color SERIGRAPH Substrate: COVENTRY RAG 320 GSM Edge: DECKLED Paper Size: 34.25″ x 44” Image Size: 30” x 40” Signed and Numbered Edition: 134/150 Year: 2009 John Van Hamersveld (born September 1, 1941) is an American graphic artist and illustrator who designed record jackets for pop and psychedelic bands from the 1960s onward. Among the 300 albums[3] are the covers of Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles, Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane, Exile on Main Street by the Rolling Stones, and Hotter Than Hell by Kiss. His first major assignment, in 1963, was designing the poster for the surf film The Endless Summer, after which he served as Capitol Records' head of design from 1965 to 1968. During that time, he worked on the artwork for albums by Capitol artists such as the Beatles and the Beach Boys.[5] He also oversaw the design of the psychedelic posters for the Pinnacle Shrine exposition.[6] The Endless Summer The Endless Summer (John Van Hamersveld illustration) In 1963, Van Hamersveld was hired by director and filmmaker Bruce Brown to design the iconic Endless Summer movie poster using a photograph taken by Bob Bagley, general manager and camera man for Bruce Brown Films. In the staged photograph originally taken at Salt Creek, Brown is positioned in the foreground with his surfboard on his head and the movie's two stars, Robert August...

Medium: Serigraph Image Size: 12 x 12 inches Edition size: 12 Year” 2001 Skulls and skeletons are a common theme in Chicano and Mexican art, especially in relation to the Day of the...

Signed, titled and numbered by the artist from the edition of 76. Artist and community activist Leo Límon lives and works in Los Angeles, where he was born ...

This print was featured in “Dreamland”, the first solo exhibition of a Chicano artist at MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art). The freeway and car culture...

Signed, titled and numbered by the artist, from the serigraph edition of 40 prints completed at Self Help Graphics in Los Angele. Trouble in Paradise is based on tourism postcards and California orange crate art...

Medium: 8 color Screenprint Year: 2023 Image Size: 20.75 x 14.5 inches Edition of 12 Over-exploitation led to a collapse in the green turtle population in the area, but it is now us...

This work is not a typical landscape by Alex Katz. It is a very stunning, nearly abstract work which is made of a combination of printing techniques like woodcut, lithograph and scre...

We are very happy to present this beautiful 4-part series by Rhys Coren. This British artist, born in 1983, has developed a very own and unique pictorial language, driven by color an...

silkscreen Two colours on Fine Art paper. Interior Photography, Romantic, Abandoned place, Nature, Window Work Title : Piscine Végétale Rose Artist : Marie Vandooren...

Nočni sprehod (eng. Evening walk). Original color silkscreen, 1981. Edition of 80 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. Metka Krašovec is one of the most important painters in contemporary Slovenian art. Her imagination and sensibility are manifested through fantasy images, creatures, landscapes and atmospheres with big interest in beauty. The essential thread for poetry of her painting is the search for beauty as an absolute ideal to which we can come close to, but can not quite reach. She quotes Matisse: “The artist has but one idea. He is born with it and spends a lifetime developing it and making it breathe.”, and for her, this idea is finding harmony in her duality of extreme precision and openness and joy. This is a series of prints...

Winds from the West is based on a view of East Matunuck State Beach in Rhode Island. This print was made at California State University, Stanislaus, in Turlock, California with assis...

Golden Hour was completed in October 2020 — an image that captures the magical time of sunset at the beach. The left part of the print is covered in a deep teal etching ink which is broken by the sun’s low glow over Second Beach in Middletown, Rhode Island. Waves crash by the rocks, and seagulls with shiny treasures, fly off to their nesting spots. Allison Bianco...