David Welker Studio Visit By Matthew Eller

Please welcome a new member to the Inside the Rock Poster Street Team, Matthew Eller. By day Matt is a practicing lawyer specializing in civil law practice focusing on copyright law, intellectual property, licensing, transactional law, and real property law. But at night his inner art dork alter ego is set loose on the streets of New York City. Matt currently writes for Street Art News but will be doing stories for Inside the Rock Poster from time to time as well. For the first one he visited David Welker in his studio.

Now I give you Matt:


David Welker – Studio Visit & Upcoming Show @ Bottleneck Gallery NYC

David Welker best known for his work designing album covers and concert posters for such bands as Phish, Primus, and the Black Keys (just to name a few) invited me into his studio to witness his creative process and how his work is affected by the space.

Welker’s studio is a large fourth floor renovated loft in Downtown NYC encompassing the majority of an entire floor of an unmarked commercial style building. Welker not only designs, sketches, and silk screens his prints (smaller editions usually under 500) in the loft space, but also lives there with his wife (who he collaborates with regularly) son, and Italian greyhound Honey.

During the visit Welker discussed with me a current commission by Mojo magazine editorial of a Beck sketch (for his new album “Morning Phase”), a concert poster (very limited 200 piece run) for The Black Keys upcoming NYC show at Roseland Ballroom on January 31st., 2014, and in particular his upcoming three man show at The Bottleneck Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn Featuring Craig “Tapecat” McCudden, Zach Landrum, and himself opening on May 2nd, 2014.

Stay tuned for more information concerning his upcoming Bottleneck Gallery group exhibition, and enjoy some photos below of Welker at work in his studio.

For more information on Welker and his work: http://www.davidwelker.com/index.htm

Author: Matthew A. Eller
All Studio Photos & Text Copyright Matthew A. Eller 2014
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Don't forget David will be selling his Black Keys posters today at 3PM EST

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1xRUN x Pow Wow 2014 Featured Artists Announced! Dabs Myla, Glenn Barr, Nychos, Ron English, Tristan Eaton, Bask, Cope2 and more

Pow Wow Hawaii 2014 Featured Artists Announced
New Releases Each Day At 3pm EST Starting Mon. Feb. 3rd

The team at 1xRUN is excited to announce a unique partnership with Pow Wow Hawaii, the world’s leading mural festival. This February 1xRUN will arrive in the Kaka’ako district of Honolulu starting on February 3rd. At 3pm EST they kick off a series of 40 + print releases by participating 2014 Pow Wow artists, wrapping up on February 18th.

With an expansive roster of over 50 artists converging on the island to paint large scale murals for nearly two weeks Pow Wow Hawaii is a one of a kind event not to be missed. As things wrap up 1xRUN will host a special print exhibition on February 14th at Loft in Space / Fresh Cafe. Along with the expansive 1xRUN print exhibition they have partnered with PangeaSeed to exhibit prints from their archives and their new Sametan figure customized by over 30 global artists.

View All Pow Wow Featured Artists: Roids, Ron English, Tristan Eaton, Aaron De La Cruz, BASK, Meggs, Persue, Angry Woebots, Dave Kinsey, 123 Klan, INSA, Brenden Monroe, Hannah Stouffer, Inti Circle, Cope2, Indie 184, Kofie, Mimi Pond, Gage Hamilton, Wayne White, Tatiana Suarez, Reka, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Gaia, Glenn Barr, Nychos, Apexer, NAME Madsteez & Roids ASKEW Kamea Hadar, & Dabs Myla.

Featured Hawaiian Artists Curated by Estria & Prime + Jasper Wong and Kamea Hadar co-directors of Pow Wow Hawaii: Aidan Monahan, Meleanna Meyer CKaweekS Defer Beak McFlaps Brook Parker Ekundayo, & Carl Pao.

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Tyler Stout The North Woods Print Release

Regular Blue Edition

Grey Variant

Details from Tyler Stout on his new print The North Woods and how you can get one:

I was asked a few years back to do a piece for Roq la Rue Gallery's Unpredictable Gravity group show, a benefit for cancer charities. The show's title "Unpredictable Gravity" is a reference to the roller coaster of emotion that a family goes through after a cancer diagnosis. i said yes. and now, a few years later, a month after the show actually opened, i have something for it. talk about timing. and how poorly i manage mine.


Tyler Stout - "The North Woods" variant grey
18x24, 3-Color Screenprint
Edition of 85
$50

it will be available at Roq la Rue Gallery on Thursday, February 6th from 4-9PM.
one per address / cash only

the print will be sold to walk-ins only until February 8th. any remaining prints will be made available for online sales at a TBD date/time.

regarding the details of how this works, the gallery has their charity that they will be giving 25% of the sales to, i have my charity that i will be giving 25% to, and then the gallery gets 25% and i get 25%. so, that's the breakdown.

info about the piece itself - its actually locations and buildings of seattle, i tried to somewhat capture the nautical feeling of this port city. thus the boat. there's a few inside meanings on the piece that i guess are personal to me, but i had the idea of cancer, recovery, remission, all that stuff on the brain, and tried to kinda paint that in a somewhat hopeful light.

the title is a slight, very slight reference to the book Walden. thoreau mentions 'the maine woods' and i guess i think of seattle as the north woods. since i am north of seattle, the pacific northwest. it made sense at the time. now its probably pretentious sounding. great. success.

the above print will only be sold at Roq la Rue, i will have the regular blue version for sale at a later time.

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Yellowcard Bloomington Poster by Joel Hunter

Joel Hunter along with Thommy and Chris make up 1/2 Hazard Press. They have just released a really cool looking poster for the band Yellowcard. 10 years after releasing their first groundbreaking album, Yellowcard has released Ocean Avenue with a completely re-recorded Acoustic set and a nation wide tour to boot.

The poster is 16 x 20 inches 3 colors with an edition of only 100 signed and numbered and it's only $15. Check out the detail pictures it's really cool looking poster. They have one for Taking Back Sunday that looks great to along with several others, be sure to check them all out.

Buy it at www.HalfHazardPress.com

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Kii Arens Sydney Opera House Print

Kii Arens just released a rare art print, rare in the fact he seldom does art prints. Sydney Opera House is a 18" x 24" Fluorescent Lithograph print that is a Signed and Numbered series of 100.

Buy it at LaLaLandPrints.com

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Winner of the Macklemore Andy Vastagh Poster

Well this weeks giveaway was centered around the Super Bowl and man that was a disappointing game. I know many artists are Seattle area residents and fans so congrats to you but not a fun game to watch really. But we do have a winner for the Andy Vastagh Macklemore & Lewis poster. As I said you had to get the winning team right in order to win the poster. It took 5 tries until the ole Random Number Generator found a Seattle fan.

#20 sorry
#29 sorry
#63 sorry
#36 No team listed sorry

The really strange, weird crazy thing about the winning comment, it was #35 the same amount of points Denver lost by. So Wes scroggins is the winner, email me your address and I will get the poster out to you this week.

Thanks to everyone that entered and to Andy Vastagh for providing the poster, be sure to check out his work at www.bossconstruct.com

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Pixies Asheville Poster by Dig My Chili On Sale Now

The Pixies played last night in Asheville, North Carolina and the guys at Dig My Chili just crushed another poster. I know almost everyone is watching the Super Bowl right now ( c'mon Peyton get it together) but I could not hold off on showing this one to you folks.

The regular edition in yellow is 6 colors 18 x 24 with an edition of 135. The blue variant has an edition of 40. Both are printed on Mohawk Loop Granite paper which I have never heard of but sounds sexy as hell and I can't wait to see it.

Buy the Pixies posters at DigMyChili.com

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Pearl Jam Ken Taylor Perth Poster

Ken Taylor wrapped up Pearl Jam's tour with a poster for his hometown for the band in Perth. Ken recalled one of his childhood memories of summer time in Perth by using the Red Back Spider as the subject of the poster with a little Lightning Bolt twist to it wrap up the Big Day Out Australian Tour. The poster is 12 x 36 full bleed (meaning the ink goes right to the edge of the paper) 5 colors with metallics.

Eddie Vedder starts his sold out solo tour on February 7 all 11 dates are sold out and it will be a good time for those going.

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Be My Valentine Charlie Brown Poster from Dark Hall Mansion

Dark Hall Mansion, www.DarkHallMansion.com, is so very happy to share our officially licensed 2014 Peanuts print for Charles M. Schulz's ode to semi-unrequited love, the 1975 classic, “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown.” On sale next Wed, February 5, 2014, at a random time between 9:30 AM PST and 11:30 AM PST and arriving just in time for that special Valentine's Day gift or just to treat yourself.

Dark Hall Mansion's guest artist for this year's "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" is the extremely talented Ms. Lorelay Bove, who needs little introduction aside a Googling of her name. Born in Spain and having begun her career with Pixar, she now works for the Walt Disney Animation Studios and has been involved in visual development, color characters and more on "The Princess and the Frog," as well as having worked on "Tangled," "Winnie the Pooh," and handling lead designer duties in sugar rush from "Wreck it Ralph." However, it's her striking personal artwork and brilliant line that drew us to her work, her stylish and gorgeous line work so evocative of legendary illustrator, Rene Gruau, whose work shaped high fashion, magazine covers, and film poster work.

From Lorelay:
"I loved watching old classic Hollywood films, and Disney animated cartoons when I was young, and that still reflects in my art today. I usually like to paint stories, my experiences, and my travels. I think is fun to capture the sincerity and feeling in my happenings in life and translate into my work, because it makes it more real, and the audience will connect to the art work, and that’s very fulfilling, when the audience giggles or understands it, then it makes me happy and it makes me want to experience life even more, so I can share through my paintings. Life is what inspires me."


All DHM "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" editions measure 18″ x 24,” are strictly limited, numbered, and individually screen printed with Editions as follows:

Standard: “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" (Edition of 280)
Variant: “Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown"  (Edition of 50)

*Plus a select run of just 5 of each style-Standard and Variant-printed on 18″ x 24″ panels of wood:
“Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" (Standard art) Wood Edition of 5
“Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" (Variant art)  Wood Edition of 5

Standard: $65
Variant: $100
Wood Edition: $250

All Editions go on sale next Wed, Feb 5th, 2014 at Dark Hall Mansion.
They’ll go on sale on our dedicated Store page at a random time between 9:30 AM PST and 11:30 AM PST here: http://www.darkhallmansionstore.com/

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Winners of the Tom Whalen The Chase Poster

You got guys really dropped some good trivia for this Tom Whalen The Chase Beast Poster giveaway learned a few new things. Certainly was fun reading all of it.

The 3 winners are comments 24, 25,26. Hey don't ask me the Random Number Generator did it.

24 Wayne Stiles
25 Mr Klauss
26 Erica Jim

I need all of you to email me your address' and I will forward them on to the folks sending out the posters. My email is towards the top on the right hand side.

Thanks again to the folks at GSN for the giveaway and remember the final episode is this Tuesday night.

 THE CHASE - new episodes air every Tuesday at 8/7C only on GSN! With the season finale scheduled for February 4th
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Hosted by: Brooke Burns
Network: Game Show Network

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