"Cyberdelic Neo-roccoco....."
Lee Conklin at The Rock Poster Society (TRPS) Festival of Rock Posters, San Franscisco, 16 October 2004 Lee Conklin (b.1941) produced some of the most exciting, stimulating and strange posters to come out of the melting pot that was San Francisco during the latter part of the 1960s. Calling his art "cyberdelic neo-rococo", Conklin referenced the Sixties psychedelic alongside the Late Baroque, 18th century art movements - a combination which remains somewhat unique. His work is included amongst the iconic Fillmore series of concert posters which are renown in the history of psychedelic art and much prized by collectors and cultural institutions alike. Conklin is not listed as one of the famous five rock poster artists who kicked off the movement in 1966 - namely Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso and Alton Kelly - however he was a prolific and important contributor between 1968 and 1970. Like Bonnie Maclean, Conklin is less well known, yet his work ...