Stanley Donwood‘s Over Normal exhibition at FIFTY24SF Gallery opens this Thursday, September 2, in San Francisco. We have some preview photographs from the “Over Normal” newspaper that Stanley compiled and created to coincide with the show, with the newspaper available at the gallery September 2—October 27, 2010.
For the rest of the photos, go to FIFTY24SF Gallery.
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All images will be available in the “Over Normal” newspaper, to be given at the FIFTY24SF Gallery from September 2nd through October 27th, 2010. All images provided by Stanley Donwood, exhibiting artist.
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With Stanley Donwood’s US premier here at the gallery in September, we decided to go back and look at some of his early work with Radiohead. This was one of Donwood’s first collaborations with Thom Yorke. It’s classic and we love it. We’ll have more album cover’s by Donwood in preparation for the show.
Stanley Donwood just posted some hints of what’s to come on his website. Stay tuned for more about his U.S. premiere opening September at FIFTY24SF
Forgive me if you’ve heard some of this before.
This starts in L.A. I found myself there once, trying to make artwork. It was the first time I had been to the west coast of America.
Part of the massive scale of Los Angeles involves the many advertising materials employed along the multilane highways that dissect the built environment.
I was in the car with my notebook, and for something to do I was writing down what all these signs and advertisements had to say. I realised that they only used a very few colours, and the colours were bold, brash, and used in very visually compelling combinations. About ninety per cent of the messages that flicked past my retinas were using seven colours.
I noted these colours down; red, green, blue, yellow, orange, black and white. All, I think, made from pigments derived from the petrochemical industry, the same hydrocarbon trade that has made modern Los Angeles possible. The colours were red, green, blue, yellow, orange, black and white. I decided to paint using these colours, straight from the tub.
This was some time ago, back in 2003, I think.
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