Punk Portraits: L.A. Punk 1977
Punk Portraits is the title I’ve given to an early body of my work documenting the original punk rock explosion in L.A. as it happened. Now that punk is fast approaching the 30th anniversary of its 1977 detonation, I’ve uploaded some additional artworks to my online gallery that serves as a portfolio of artworks from that period. These latest additions include my portraits of Darby Crash, Pat Smear, and Lorna Doom of the Germs, a bleak urban landscape depicting Hollywood Boulevard as it appeared in 1980 near the vicinity of the city’s first punk club, The Masque, as well as one of my favorite drawings from that time, my likeness of Chris D., lead singer for the band, The Flesh Eaters.
[ Darby Crash & Pat Smear – Vallen. Pen on paper, 1979. The Germs were one of L.A.’s most notorious original punk bands, and now the subject of a major motion picture – What We Do Is Secret. In 1979 I made a series of quick sketches of The Germs as they performed in L.A., this particular drawing portrays lead singer Crash, and guitarist, Smear. ]
