CONCERT POSTERS BY MARIAN ZAZEELA


 
Marian Zazeela created posters for most of La Monte Young's concerts since 1962 and for Pandit Pran Nath's New York City performances since 1970. "In 1981, one could have picked up an Artforum and seen a two-page spread announcing concerts at Harrison St. The graphic was in Zazeela's instantly recognizable, delicate and starry style-announcing concerts that one knew would be performed with her lighting, and with her mobiles overhead. Zazeela's and Young's practice was one of the pillars of the scene, bringing you back to a sensibility that could be found nowhere else." -Henry Flynt, from Marian Zazeela-Forty Years in Marian Zazeela, Drawings, Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, 2000.
In response to many requests, Marian Zazeela now has provided limited numbers of some of her posters for sale to benefit MELA's programs. The eight posters listed below represent a first selection; others will be made available from time to time. Each poster is signed and dated by Marian Zazeela and, where appropriate, by La Monte Young as well. Each poster is covered with acid-free paper, rolled and shipped in a heavy weight mailing tube. If you plan to purchase several posters, you may contact us and request a lower shipping quote. For poster orders outside the US, please add the shipping surcharge, $17 for standard airmail or $46 for registered, insured airmail. Go HERE to view a page with Internationl Shipping "add to cart" buttons.

MZ-1 Dream Festival Calendar, 1975; 44.2 cm x 33 cm (17-3/8" x 13"); photo-offset prints; black ink reversal on white coated paper stock; heptagonal, dot-style design, with calendar below in black ink on white stock. For the first two-month Dream Festival at Dia Art Foundation, 141 Wooster Street, New York City, March 30 - May 31, 1975. Segmented, heptagonal design created with dot-style patterns; outer segments of heptagon were replaced with artists and titles of each of the seven events in Festival; hand-calligraphed Calendar of Events below. More info...
MZ-2 Dream Festival Dream House, 1975; 43.2 cm x 27.9 cm (17" x 11"); photo-offset prints; black ink on white matte stock. For the La Monte Young Marian Zazeela Dream House concerts and installation, March 30 - April 27, 1975, the first event in the 1975 Dream Festival. One of seven variations of the heptagonal, dot-style design Zazeela created for the Festival, this poster reproduced the original drawing in its entirety. More info...
MZ-3 30-Year Retrospective Concerts, 1987; 40.7 cm x 40.7 cm (16" x 16"); photo-offset prints; colored inks on white coated stock; double line dot-style border; design is a combination of calligraphy and type; poster intended to be displayed on the diagonal, as a diamond. For MELA Foundation La Monte Young 30-Year Retrospective Concert Series March 29 - May 21, 1987; Dia Art Foundation Performance Space, 155 Mercer Street, New York City; Series included 7 concerts of The Well-Tuned Piano in The Magenta Lights, Sound and Light Environment Installation, Chords from The Well-Tuned Piano in a setting of The Magenta Lights; Concerts of works from the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s; concert of tapes from the Archives; panel discussion. More info...

MZ-4 The Theatre of Eternal Music Big Band, 1990; 55.8 cm x 44.1 cm (22" x 17"); photo-offset prints; purple ink reversal on white coated stock; drawing is a spiral dropped out of dot-style patterns within a large square. For The Theatre of Eternal Music Big Band Concert Series, March 5, 12, 19, 26, 1990, in the La Monte Young Marian Zazeela Dream House, during the closing month of the one-year Sound and Light Environment at Dia Art Foundation, 548 West 22 Street, New York City, presented by MELA Foundation. More info...

MZ-5 Light, 1978; 35.8 cm x 28 cm (14-1/16" x 11"); photo-offset prints; magenta and purple inks on white matte coated stock; dot-style mirror-image shadow of exhibition title with dot-style border surrounding all calligraphy. For Marian Zazeela exhibition of Light, September 10 - 24, 1978, Dia Art Foundation at Heiner Friedrich, Inc., 393 West Broadway, New York City. More info...

MZ-6 The Well-Tuned Piano, 1978; 35.8 cm x 28 cm (14-1/16" x 11"); photo-offset prints; blue and magenta inks on white matte coated stock; dot-style mirror-image shadow of concert title with dot-style border surrounding all calligraphy. For The Well-Tuned Piano concert series, September 17, 19, 21, 24, 1978, Dia Art Foundation at Heiner Friedrich, Inc., 393 West Broadway, New York City. More info...
MZ-7 Pandit Pran Nath Morning Ragas, 1978; 35.2 cm x 28 cm (13-3/4" x 11"); photo-offset prints; green and magenta inks on white matte coated stock; dot-style mirror-image shadow of concert title with dot-style border surrounding all calligraphy. For Pandit Pran Nath Concert of Morning Ragas, September 10, 1978, Dia Art Foundation at Heiner Friedrich, Inc., 393 West Broadway, New York City. More info...
MZ-8 Dream House, 1974; 35.9 cm x 28.5 cm (14-1/8" x 11-3/16"); photo-offset prints; black ink reversal on white coated paper stock; dot-style all-over drawing surrounding title calligraphy with additional information in calligraphy below. For Dream House concert series and environment, April 28 - May 5, 1974, The Kitchen, 59 Wooster Street, New York City. More info...

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