Showing posts with label Steve Gullick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Gullick. Show all posts

Saturday, June 28, 2014

FRUSTRATION!!!

             


Photo credit: Alchemist, Brion Gysin (1959) - William S. Burroughs






A guest blog piece I did for "Artnois" with my partners in "Crime Rock" 



http://artnois.com/razors-edge-crime-rocks-brandon-jordan-frustration/

Magda Becerra & Jesenia Meraz are the very talented women who created LA’s “Artnois” Magazine.  Celebrating two years in August and with 84 million readers each month, Artnois has featured 144 artists from around the globe including the UK, Argentina, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and the U.S. 



Very nice article on my friend, Portland’s own Hickory Mertsching.  Stay posted for gallery exhibit news next month!

http://inthemake.com/hickory-mertsching/


                                          Cover Illustration - Hickory Mertsching



83% funded & 23 days to go…Steve Gullick’s Nirvana Diary. Check out the signed prints as well!

                               http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/nirvanadiary



Coming soon from artist, William Esdale “BKN Gallery” – Several years in the making, BKN will curate video, performance art, photography, artist interviews & more.  Keep posted for open artist call information coming soon!

Two more originals have Palm Desert homes… 

 Thank you Richard Danskin Galleries & my new collectors on the recent sales of “Love Bends the Earth, the Moon” and “One Day You Will Always Be Loved.”  


I’m busy working on psychedelic cover designs for Australia’s Dolly Rocker Movement frontman Daniel Poulter, and there is a brand new noir painting in my studio nearly complete…stay posted for images later on next week.


Lastly, if you wake up on the wrong Metrolink and find yourself heading south toward that surreal wasteland behind the Orange Curtain don’t worry…there is one O.C. gallery that has at least some culture!  Head to the Lab in Costa Mesa and check out the art+design+bookstore “As Issued” who recently hosted LA’s own urban creative collaborative, “Cat Cult.” 

CAT CULT - GRAFITTI ARTISTS


                                                           HAPPY SUMMER!

Saturday, June 07, 2014

STEVE GULLICK - THE NIRVANA DIARY - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Memories

  


 "The heavy focus of this photographic journal is on Nirvana but I feel the story to be incomplete without the other artists that were an essential part of my musical landscape, the likes of Jesus Lizard, Mudhoney, Melvins, Screaming Trees, Hole, Soundgarden."
                                                  


If you don’t know the name Steve Gullick you’re either too young to remember Grunge or so old you only remember grunge in reference to the sticky deposits on the bottoms of your shoes after leaving the cinema; in either case you have no business reading my blog.

For those of you still with me, unquestionably some of the most iconic images that come to mind when defining the Seattle sound of the 90’s were taken by photographer, musician, Steve Gullick. Created without pretense - hold the posing, the premeditated artistic introspection and the digital deception; these are the real deal. Whether snapped in the middle of a mosh pit or shot candidly after a show, for over 20 years this hard-working UK photographer has been documenting the music he loves and sharing it with the world via Rolling Stone, NME, Wire and Melody Maker, among many others. Influencing artists from around the globe, Steve has an uncanny ability to capture the essence of his subject matter.

Nevermind the noir lighting, the quirky composition and all the usual encumbrances that differentiate those who take photos from those who are 'photographers' – here, it’s all about honesty, and as an artist and daughter of a photographer, that’s exactly what grabbed my attention so many years ago. 


I spent a good part of my youth in Portland and Seattle in the 90’s. After being forewarned to ditch my “L.A. identity,” let alone the license plate of my car, as tolerance of disenfranchised Californians migrating north gobbling up the cheap real estate and polluting the pristine bike paths was wearing thin, I reluctantly morphed into a torn-jeaned, flannel-wearing caffeine connoisseur, albeit Torrefazione (RIP) pre-Starbucks.

 But how did this happen? Had I lost my edge? And how was it that nobody under those nebulous skies even cared about the Circle Jerks, hung out at the Zero Club, or had even heard the name Billy Zoom? What did they know about music! Because I was fortunate enough to experience the northwest of the early 90’s, that strange amalgamation of disenfranchised Reagan-era youth and Silicon Valley transplants flush with their Clinton-era money market accounts, I eventually found out exactly what they knew; it was what a 20-something year-old British photographer was smack in the middle of documenting, and it was something that was just about on the verge of changing the world. 

                                                   Pearl Jam - Photograph Steve Gullick

It’s easy to remember the music that defined this era, even the wicked twist of fate moments listening to the Muzak version of "Negative Creep" at the local supermarket. For some of us, those were the sounds that defined who we were and what we valued...but without the photographs - the imagery, that permanent visual time stamp that completes our mental scrapbooks, remembrance tends to slip away and pale with the passage of time. 

                               Mudhoney - Photograph Steve Gullick - Aug. 1991, London

So the next time you too find yourself tripping back through memory lane, you can attach a name and quietly thank the artist responsible for bringing you so many of those memories. 

 Or better still, you can pay it forward today by joining me in support of an amazing new photobook –

  “Steve Gullick – Nirvana Diary.” http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/nirvanadiary



There are ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT to make this book a reality. I know you care because you read my blog, so now it’s time to give back…
                                            Nirvana  - 1991  Photograph by Steve Gullick
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