Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Not all of rock's legends are musicians. Neon Park was working as a poster artist with Family Dog, a San Francisco design group, when he was asked by Frank Zappa to come to Los Angeles to paint the jacket for the next Mothers of Invention album. Park earned only $250 for his effort, and the cover was almost scrapped by Warner Brothers as too controversial, but it launched a career that would make him one of the most renowned and influential artists in the field of album cover art. Park's work combined flashy pop-art with cutting surrealist humor and visual puns, creating a complex and entertaining art that is equal parts brain food and mind candy.
Synopsis
Native of the San Francisco Bay Area. Neon Park became indelibly associated with major Los Angeles bands and musicians for whom he painted an array of astonishing surrealist visual puns for album covers. A thorough overview of his career has been long overdue. This joint effort by Las Gasp of San Francisco and La Lus de Jesus Gallery of Los Angeles has finally produced a book that pays homage to one of the great painters of rock'n'roll's golden age.