Methane Studios makes art rock for 10 years
Dave Matthews Band, Eric Clapton among clients
For accessAtlanta
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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.
A pink rocket resting on the Atlanta skyline is what Robert Lee designed for Luna.
One of the many posters Methane Studios has designed for Dave Matthews Band featured a smiley abominable snowman with skis.
EXHIBIT PREVIEW
Methane: 10 Year Anniversary Show. Free. 7 p.m. Aug. 23. Alcove Contemporary Arts Gallery, 2852 E. College Ave., Decatur. 404-663-0159, www.alcovearts.com.
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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.
