For the past 10 years, Atlanta-based artists Robert Lee and Mark McDevitt have been collectively rocking the music event poster scene as Methane Studios. The company began silkscreening posters out of a garage. But its striking counterculture rock aesthetic began attracting major acts and an audience looking to get its mitts on copies of the posters.
On Aug. 23, Methane Studios celebrates its decade of illustrating rock 'n' roll style with a show at Alcove Gallery. Local rock act Warm in the Wake performs.
We picked a few of our favorites out of the Methane vault to share.
This poster proclaims the Atlanta stop on the popular indie band's 2004 farewell tour. Lee rests a massive, pink cartoony rocket in the clouds and in the middle of a cityscape. The performance took place at the now-defunct Echo Lounge.
Lee's take on Eric Clapton finds a guitar case being entangled in what seems to be kudzu underneath an interstate sign. The poster was for a May 2008 show at the Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa.
This act has become a frequent client. A poster of the 2005 winter tour stop in State College, Pa., is one of many. Illustrated by McDevitt, it stars a smiley abominable snowman with skis.
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