Houston, Gary

[Double Signed] Jackie Greene w/Mark Karan and Jemimah Puddleduck Concert Poster, December 31, 2009, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California

Portland, Oregon: Voodoocatbox, 2009. [Double Signed] Jackie Greene w/Mark Karan and Jemimah Puddleduck Concert Poster, December 31, 2009, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California

Poster measures 13 x 20 inches on sage green paper with six-color silkscreen artwork. Limited to 230 posters, this being number 38. Signed by Jackie Greene and designer Gary Houston. Minor moisture damage along top edge which is most evident on verso. A couple very light paper indents. Verso is blank. Very good condition.

Concert poster for the Jackie Greene w/Mark Karan and Jemimah Puddleduck Concert, December 31, 2009, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California

Jackie Greene is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and performer known for his blend of Americana, roots rock, and blues. Hailed as a “musician’s musician,” he’s released acclaimed solo albums like Gone Wanderin', American Myth, and Back to Birth, toured with B.B. King and Susan Tedeschi, and played with Phil Lesh & Friends, Trigger Hippy, and The Black Crowes. His work spans guitar-driven rock, soulful piano ballads, and folk traditions--Wikipedia.

"Since 1995, Gary Houston has humbly operated under the moniker of Voodoo Catbox, a well-known entity in the poster industry. He is most well known as the signature artist for The Portland Waterfront Blues Festival, and his unique scratch-board style has become the timeless branding of the festival since 2001. Houston describes the work he does as hands-on, physical, creative, and romantic. “It’s leaving a little bit of history,” Houston told Oregon Music News in 2009.

Houston’s process is painstaking, and that’s what gives his work its signature rawness. Using scratchboard—a rigid surface coated in a layer of clay beneath a thin film of ink—Houston meticulously scratches out his designs, revealing stark, detailed images beneath the black surface. Once the scratchboard image is complete, Houston transfers the design into a screen print, layering vibrant inks one by one. Besides scratchboard, Houston uses other processes. Sometimes he creates an ink drawing, and then there are times when he uses rubylith, a handcut film, to create an image. Houston still handcuts his color separations on a light table, cutting rubylith with an Xacto knife—just trying to keep old school alive." (From Rock Poster Society website)

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Price: $95.00