Destroy All Monsters: Seattle poster, 2000 signed by Art Chantry
For its 20th anniversary celebration in 2000, CoCA brought back curator Larry Reid, who had left in 1992. This exhibition offered a retrospective of Destroy All Monsters, a popular anti-rock band from Ann Arbor, MI, featuring two dozen works by band members and internationally acclaimed visual artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw with films by founder Carey Loren. The Seattle Weekly explained the content as “archival material of the 1970s Detroit-based band… Loren’s pseudo-documentary videos, photographs, posters and period artwork are on view, as well as two murals by Kelley and Shaw which complete a set of four which debuted at the Boyman’s Museum in Rotterdam in 1998 and a selection of Niagara’s bad-girl comix-influenced prints and paintings.”
17.25″ x 26.75″ silkscreen DAM banner poster, Seattle, 2000, was designed and signed by Art Chantry
Edition unknown but believed to be 100 copies.
An old surrealist trick was to take images that had no business being together and plopping them into the same image. Your mind wants to make associations. Design does that all the time.
— ART CHANTRY
About the artist: Art Chantry (b. 1954) has been making posters since he was fifteen. Among his influences are many forms of “outsider art,” such as monster magazines, hot-rod art, and psychedelic culture. He found much inspiration for innovative graphic ideas in an article on Polish posters.
Chantry’s sense of design relates to the punk scene in Seattle as he finds himself, with the avant-garde, creating posters for local rock concerts. Chantry has championed what he considers to be the “subculture” of design, a neglected commercial usage of the industrial trade seen in the tool catalogs of the 1940s and 50s.
Born in Seattle and raised in Tacoma, Chantry received what he describes as “a very potent taste of what it’s like to be poor in a single-parent family.” Chantry attended college in Bellingham, Washington. He graduated with a degree in painting but turned to the graphic work that had been his livelihood through his school years. In a curious way, Chantry’s ability to look for and reinvent the out-of-fashion, the purposely outside the mainstream international style, has resulted in his being selected for many exhibition and design magazines. — Smithsonian Museum of American Art
$ 300.00
