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Cubicle Poster Exhibition Pt 1

The Cubicle Poster Show July 1, 2008- June 30, 2009

I decided to have a year long poster show in my cubicle at work. The only rule that I started with was that I had to totally change the posters every two weeks.

For the most part I collect posters that have some kind of Rhode Island connection. Either the concert was in RI, the band is from RI, or the artist is from RI. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part the posters I hung had some kind of RI connection.

The photos I am posting were not taken with a fancy camera under ideal light. Sometimes the photos don't show the real detail of the print, and for that I apologize to the artists.

Thanks, I hope you enjoy.
MG

Cubicle #1 July 1, 2008-July 14, 2008
Recent Acquisitions

The first show I hung was made up of posters I had recently obtained. I attended the Dinogah and Pearl Jam concerts, got the Big D poster from a charity event, and got the AS220 poster at an art show at 5 Traverse Gallery in Providence.

Jay Ryan
http://www.thebirdmachine.com/

Sandusky Bay Poster Works
http://www.sanduskybayposterworks.com

Ames Brothers
http://www.amesbros.com/

Jay Z
http://www.jayrz.com/indexhibit/

Cubicle #2 July 14, 2008- August 1, 2008
DKM Ballpark Tour Series

This second exhibition is made up of Dropkick Murphys posters from their 2008 Summer Tour of all the Red Sox minor league ballparks. The Bosstones opened, but didn't make the poster. I went to the RI show and got the set there. I think these are still available on the DKM website.

Peter MacPhee
http://www.skidderdesign.net/

Peter MacPhee

Peter MacPhee

When you combine all three the bottom forms a panorama of Fenway Park in Boston.

Cubicle #3 August 1, 2008- September 2, 2008
Recent Acquisitions (pt2)

Exhibition 3 is made up of things I'd recently obtained. The connection between them is that the Budai poster is for a Lightning Bolt/ White Mice show and the other two prints are from Brian Chippendale who plays drums/ vocals for Lightning Bolt.

Mike Budai
http://www.myspace.com/mikebudai

Brian Chippendale

Brian Chippendale

Cubicle #4 September 2, 2008- Sept 15, 2008
Pete Cardoso Shadow Exhibition

This show was a Pete Cardoso shadow exhibition. Pete had a 10-year retrospective of his prints at AS220, so I hung a bunch of his things I'd gotten over the years as a tribute. Pete has always been great to me as a collector and I really enjoy his work. For a long time in the 90's and early 2000's I would attend shows depending on whether Pete had done a poster or not.

Peter Cardoso
http://www.ghost-town.net/

Peter Cardoso

Peter Cardoso

Peter Cardoso

Peter Cardoso

Cubicle #5 Sept 15, 2008-October 1, 2008
Seripop/ Serigraphie Populaire

Seripop doesn't have a real direct Rhode Island connection- they are based in Montreal, Canada. They have had a few art shows in Rhode Island and their band AIDS Wolf has played Providence a few times.
For those who don't know, Seripop is two people, Chloe Lum and Yannick Desrenleau. I really love their posters and Chloe has always been really nice and sends me lots of great stuff.

Seripop
http://www.seripop.com/

Seripop

Seripop

Seripop

Seripop

Cubicle #6 October 1, 2008- October 15, 2008
Tor Johnson Records

Tor Johnson Records is a small Rhode Island label run by a nice guy named Paul. Paul has always has posters made for the shows he promotes and the ones I hung are a selection of them. He's currently promoting "Loud Nights," monthly shows at Firehouse 13 in Prov.and is doing a poster for each one. Check the label and its wares out here: http://torjohnson.anewlanguage.org/

Devil's Rainbow Printing
http://www.myspace.com/devilsrainbowprinting

Micro Press Design
http://www.micropressdesign.com/

Micro Press Design

Micro Press Design

Micro Press Design

Cubicle #7 October 15, 2008- October 31, 2008
anonymouse Shadow Show

anonymouse plays in the White Mice and makes posters for their shows and other shows. He does a ton of other things like hosting show and booking bands here and there and putting out a pirate radio Dub CD collection. He had a poster show at White Electric Coffee in Prov. and this is my shadow show.

anonymouse
http://www.thewhitemice.com/news.htm

anonymouse

anonymouse

anonymouse

Cubicle #8 November 1, 2008-November 14, 2008
Boxing Style Show

The 311, Tool, and Powerman 5k posters were all done by Jim Draper. I'm not sure who made the other two. All 5 are from Providence shows in the 90's.
This exhibition made me claustrophobic, something about these made the cubicle space small.

Unknown

Jim Draper

Jim Draper

Jim Draper

Jim Draper

Cubicle #9 November 15- December 1, 2008
Michaela Colette Zacchilli (Mickey)

Micky started making posters at the AS220 print shop a few years ago I guess. She's quickly become the most prolific artist in town and it seems she has a new poster out every week or so, all hanging around town advertising shows. There are usually a few copies of her posters for sale at shows which seems to be the only way to get them. She does sell comics on her website:
http://www.michaelacolette.com/

Mickey

Mickey

Mickey

Mickey

Mickey

Mickey

Cubicle #10 December 1, 2008-December 15, 2008
Mighty Mighty Bosstones Hometown Throwdown Exhibit

I've been going to the Hometown Thrown for a really long time. After a hiatus they are back doing the Throwdown from Dec 26-31. This is a selection of Throwdown posters from over the years. I actually worked the merch booth selling the 2007 Red Sox themed poster done by Mike Martin at EngineHouse13. Pete Cardoso curated the series that year and he let me work the booth for one of the nights when he couldn't attend. Its the only time I've ever worked the merch booth at a show and I had a blast.

NYE 1997 Worcester with the Amazing Royal Crowns and the Dropkicks.

1998 Throwdown

1999 Throwdown

2000 Throwdown art by Adam Swinbourne
http://www.adamswinbourne.com/

Night 2 2007 Throwdown art by Mike Martin/ EngineHouse13
http://www.enginehouse13.com/

That's the end of Part 1. Part 2 soon.

Cubicle Poster Exhibition Part 2

Here is Part 2 of my Cubicle Poster Exhibition.

Cubicle #11 January 5, 2009- January 15, 2009
Lightning Bolt tour show.

Lightning Bolt is probably the most famous current Providence underground band. They were on tour in Fall 2008 in Europe and I picked up a few posters (from my cubicle) as they went.

This is from 2001, I have no idea who the artist is.

Bongout is the artist for this. I think this is their 3rd Lightning Bolt poster. The show was in Berlin, where Bongout is based.
http://www.bongout.org/

This is the Providence show for this tour, before they went to Europe. Art by Jay Zehngebot
http://www.jayrz.com/indexhibit/

This is a show from the Netherlands 2008.
Bert Scholten
http://www.bertscholten.com/

Cubicle #12 January 15, 2009 – January 30, 2009
http://www.jrtmcp.com/

JRTMCP is a guy who works out of the Grant Building in Pawtucket, which is also home to Pete Cardoso, Pete MacPhee, and others. JRTMCP makes posters for RI shows as well as layout work, illustration, and clothing design.

JRTMCP, Wilhelm Scream April 26 2008

JRTMCP, Vanna March 22 2008

JRTMCP, Strange Guitar December 6 2008

JRTMCP, Strange Guitar September 13 2008

JRTMCP, Math the Band October 14 2008

JRTMCP, None More Blacker September 13 2008

Cubicle #13 Feb 2, 2009- Feb 13, 2009
Commemorative Posters

These are all reprints of older Rhode Island shows. I could never afford the originals so I'm glad that these are being made.

The Mad Peck
http://www.madpeck.com/

Globe Poster Classics
http://globeposterclassics.com/
Commemorative for a show from October 4 1963

bootleg
This is the best reprint for this show that I've seen. It gets the color difference between the two colors of red correct.
Show was July 30, 1966

Cubicle #14 Feb 16, 2009-Feb 27, 2009
Magic Lantern Series- All women of Providence artists

Magic Lantern Cinema is a film series in Providence that is held at the Cable Car Cinema. Each show has a theme and a silkscreen poster. The poster artists rotate around town so these are a great way to get a cross section of Prov. artists. The whole series is archived on the Magic Lantern Cinema website: http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/
This set of posters if from various Magic Lantern shows, with the theme being that all the artists are women.

Jungil Hong
(no website)

Jo Dery
http://www.jodery.com/

Xander Marro

Samantha Pierce

Cubicle #15 March 2, 2009- March 20, 2009
Peter MacPhee /Dropkick Murphy’s posters

Like the Throwdown at Christmas, the Dropkick Murphy's St Pats Shows are a yearly event in my life. Peter MacPhee has been doing the posters for the last few years, this is a selection of mostly his DKM stuff.

E Kaplan
2005 was the last year that Pete MacPhee didn't do the St. Pats poster. This is small, photocopy maybe with some highlighter.

Peter MacPhee (2008)
http://www.skidderdesign.net/

Peter MacPhee
This is an older DKM poster from a Lupo's show.

Peter MacPhee (2006)

Cubicle #16 March 23, 2009 – March 31, 2009
Devil’s Rainbow Printing

Devil's Rainbow Printing is a bunch of guys from Prov who have been printing shirts and stuff as well as making posters. Some of them are members of The Body and Get Killed.

Devil's Rainbow Printing

Devil's Rainbow Printing

Devil's Rainbow Printing

Devil's Rainbow Printing

Cubicle #17 April 1, 2009- April 15, 2009
Meredith Stern

Meredith makes posters and prints and works at AS220 booking shows. She does a lot of Linoleum Block Print's and this is a selection of (mostly) things she did for justseeds.org.

Meredith Stern
Poster for a 2009 show that was during this cubicle exhibition. I volunteer as a poster hanger for AS220 and I hung these around town.

Meredith Stern
Fight For Radical Social Change (Linoleum Block Print)

Meredith Stern
Jane Collective, People's History poster

Meredith Stern
A Never Ending Game of (4 color stencil & linoleum print)

Meredith Stern
We Want Peace (1 color block print)

Cubicle #18 John “The Mad Peck” Peck April 20, 2009- April 30, 2009

This show coincides with the Brown University Spring Weekend concert. These posters were done by John Peck (The Mad Peck) who was a Brown student in the late 60's. He did RI posters from about 1966-1971. John also drew comics for underground papers and wrote and drew comic music reviews for Creem Magazine in the 70's. These are reprints available at the Brown university bookstore.

John Peck 1970

John Peck 1970

John Peck 1969

John Peck 1970

Cubicle #19 Mat Brinkman May 1, 2009 – May 15, 2009

Mat Brinkman was one of the architects of Fort Thunder and even though he doesn't live in RI currently, his influence is still felt.

Mat Brinkman 2006

I'm not 100% that Mat made this.

Mat Brinkman 2001

Mat Brinkman 1999

Mat Brinkman 2006

Cubicle #20 Alec Thibodeau May 18, 2009- May 29, 2009

Alec Thibodeau makes really amazing show prints and other silkscreen prints as well as comics. Check out inkape.com and get on the bus.

Alec Thibodeau

Alec Thibodeau

Alec Thibodeau

Alec Thibodeau

Alec Thibodeau

Cubicle #21 Leia Bell June 1, 2009-June 15, 2009

Leai Bell doesn't have a RI connection that I know of. It had been really rainy so I wanted some art that was bright, colorful and uplifting so I went with these.

Leia Bell
http://www.leiabell.com/

Leia Bell

Leia Bell

Leia Bell

Cubicle #22 James Quigley “Gunsho” June 16, 2009-June 30, 2009

I thought I would end the year with one of my favorite RI artists, James Quigley (Gunsho). James makes some great prints and posters and you can always count on them being excellently printed.

James Quigley
http://www.gunsho.com/

James Quigley

James Quigley

James Quigley

So that's a year in my cubicle. There were lots of things that I wanted to include that I never got to, like shows of Newport Jazz and Folk Festival posters, but maybe I'll keep rotating things in my space and posting them here.