The Art That Defined A Generation
The Family Dog 1966-1970
Rock and roll in the 1960s exploded into an important and enduring counterculture that impacts fashion, politics, and a broad range of popular social values.
Right in the middle of this mid-60s explosion Chet Helms was organizing a series of weekly dance hall revues at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.
These events were the epicenter of the emerging psychedelic culture and featured some of the most important bands of the era, including Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead.
Five of the renowned Family Dog artists, known as the San Francisco Five, created artwork to promote these shows that captured the essence of the era, and their "throwaway" handbills became so important that they are now featured in Smithsonian traveling exhibitions, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Louvre, and Britain's Tate Museum.
Rhino Entertainment, the featured artists, and Jack Gallery have collaborated to print, publish and distribute these images in limited-edition signed and numbered fine art lithographs. The collection currently comprises 18 of the most significant images of the era, with more to be added over the years. This premiere at Jack Gallery will be the first time that this collection of remastered Family Dog images will be shown prior to their traveling to galleries worldwide.
Please join us to celebrate The Family Dog and the Art that Defined a Generation.
Family Dog fine art lithographs will be available for viewing and purchase starting Wednesday, June 18th
Jack Gallery
3rd and Fairfax
(on the plaza between the Farmers Market and the Grove)
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 933-4883