“Teenage Head Hamilton #2”
Gary Spearin

Drawing
Graphite, pastel, BFK, and handmade paper
Signed, framed
7 1/4 x 11 in.
2023
$1,400

IN THE ARTIST’S OWN WORDS:

(Steve’s HAND)

Steve Marshall Mahon and I Orbs always shared an interest intuitive sense of music and art. The sounds/music/art in late 60s through 70s enlisted our ending childhoods to futures. Hometown live to concert hall productions, T-shirts to magazines, TV to movies, album covers to Warhol to Art; amassed, all inspiring our time(s). 

Readymade tool - alphabet stencil (now Font), exploited by avant-garde visual artists throughout 50s-60s, as well military to amateur indexing, and too, becoming a staple for rock bands (B&W fragile equipment noted cover: The Allman Brothers Band, Live Fillmore East, and Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, tracking/gliding movie-camera-shot  indexing stenciled amp backs. So birth of cool!  Steve stenciled TEENAGE HEAD lights/amps; They were iN!