Laguna Art Museum - Heart and Torch Exhibition

Laguna Art Museum
Heart and Torch - Rick Griffin’s Transcendence
June 24-September 30, 2007.

Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence, the artist’s first major retrospective and solo museum exhibition, opened on June 24, 2007. The exhibition, which included some 140 paintings, drawings, posters, album covers, and artifacts, surveyed thirty years of Griffin’s work from the 1960s until his death in 1991. The accompanying 156-page catalogue, published in association with Gingko Press, was the first publication to address Griffin’s impact on the surf, psychedelic rock, and born-again Christian movements.

In his art, Griffin expresses idealism and hope along with a darker side that perfectly embodied the contradictions of his era, with its mixture of hedonism, politics, and avant-garde expression, making him a cult figure that set the iconographic terrain for the 1960s and 1970s counterculture.

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