In its eighth year, the Goodfoot’s The Art of Musical Maintenance music poster show opens tonight. It’s my favorite time to go to the Goodfoot—when you can order a toddy and an obscene amount of chicken strips (Lincoln Log yourself a cozy little fort out ’em), then ogle the posters that cover every square inch of the bar’s walls. All prints are for sale—either framed or not—at very reasonable prices. My hubby was a bit of a poster junkie for a couple years, so I always knew it was a great spot to nail his Xmas present. There’s over 40 artists in the show, with some standouts including Ben Wilson, EMEK, and Guy Burwell. The Goodfoot isn’t adding the artwork to their website until Sunday, but I hope these lovelies made the cut:
Goodfoot, 2845 SE Stark, opening reception tonight 5 pm-2:30 am, through Jan 21
More hopeful inclusions after the jump, including a gratuitous movie poster (which is effin’ amazing).
All amazing pieces. Especially the first one!
I picked up some gems there last year. I’m running out of wall space this year…
I went last night – kinda disappointing this year, though there was some good stuff. “I wish that was for a different band” was a common comment, and there sure were a lot of skulls for non-hack artists.
Of the ones you hoped to be there, I think only the SY was.
I almost bought the Surfer Blood one, but there was an off-putting ice cream cone in the composition that, well, put me off.
Went last night, and that Wolf Parade poster was/is there. I largely agree with CC– there were a lot of posters that I wish were for different bands, or posters for bands that I like that I didn’t dig on the poster for.
I did score a sweet tUnE-YaRdS poster, though, and I really liked the Archers of Loaf and Explosions in the Sky posters that I saw.