Carlotta Hester, The Pure Drop: Drawings of Traditional Irish Musicians, Singers, and Dancers
February 25, 2011
Fernando Sandoval, Bustin’ Loose, Photographs
November 6, 2009
Matthew Niederhauser, Sound Kapital: Beijing’s Music Underground, Photographs
February 6, 2009
David Burnett, Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley, Photographs
November 14, 2008
Henry Grossman, Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Day in the Life of Sgt. Pepper, Photographs
April 18, 2008
Carlotta Hester, Elemental Journey, Works on Paper
October 5, 2007
Allan Tannenbaum, John & Yoko: A New York Love Story, Photographs,
Celebrating the publication of John & Yoko: A New York Love Story (Insight Editions)
May 18, 2007
Jonathan Mannion, Photographs
April 13, 2007
Claude Gassian, Photographs
March 9, 2007
Mark Dell’Isola, Paintings from Guam and Palau, 2006-2007
February 2, 2007
Susie J. Horgan, Punk Love, Photographs
Celebrating the publication of Punk Love (Universe/Rizzoli)
November 10, 2006
Al Wertheimer, Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis
Celebrating the publication of Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis (Insight Editions)
September 29, 2006
Frank Stefanko, Patti Smith: American Artist, Photographs
Celebrating the publication of Patti Smith: American Artist (Insight Editions)
July 14, 2006
Jay Burch, Paintings
June 2, 2006
Richard Evans Schultes, The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes, Celebrating the publication of The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes (Insight Editions)
April 28, 2006
Michael Bartlett, Photographs of Gardens
December 2, 2005
Mark Seliger, In My Stairwell, Photographs,
Celebrating the publication of In My Stairwell (Rizzoli)
September 23, 2005
Donovan, Sapphographs
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Govinda Gallery
June 23, 2005
Ken Regan and Gered Mankowitz, Photographs of the Rolling Stones from the Rock & Roll Portfolio
April 29, 2005
William Coupon, Photographs
April 15, 2005
David Fenton, Shots, Photographs
March 11, 2005
Mark Dell’Isola, Paintings
January 21, 2005
Ken Regan, Photographs of Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Review
Celebrating the publication of The Rolling Thunder Logbook by Sam Sheppard (Dacapo Press)
December 3, 2004
Kate Simon, Rebel Music: Bob Marley and Roots Reggae Music, Photographs
October 22, 2004
Carlotta Hester, Paintings and Sculpture
September 17, 2004
Neil Leifer, The Greatest of All Time: Photographs of Muhammad Ali
Celebrating the publication of G.O.A.T. (Taschen, 2003)
August 2004
Group Exhibition, Mixed Bag 2
May 21, 2004
Walter Iooss Jr., Classic Golf, Photographs
April 2, 2004
Group Exhibition, Hip-Hop Immortals, Photographs
February 20, 2004
David Waters, Collages
December 16, 2003
Group Exhibition, Mixed Bag
November 7, 2003
Dick Waterman, Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive, Photographs
Celebrating the publication of Between Midnight and Day (Thunders Mouth Press, Avalon Publishing Group)
September 19, 2003
Frank Stefanko, Days of Hope and Dreams: An Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen, Photographs
Celebrating the publication of Days of Hope and Dreams: An Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen (Billboard Books)
June 20, 2003
Roberto Salas, Photographs
April 4, 2003
Walter Iooss, Jr., Classic Baseball , Photographs
Celebrating the publication of Classic Baseball (Harry Abrams, Inc.)
January 17, 2003
Mark dell’Isola, Paintings
November 8, 2002
Barry Feinstein, Photographs
September 20, 2002
Group show, 40 X 20: The Rolling Stones Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition
Celebrating the publication of Rolling Stones: 40×20 (Billboard Books)
August 2, 2002
Ed Kramer, Photographs
June 7, 2002
Mick Rock, Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust and Other Photographs
April 26, 2002
Milton Greene and Art Kane, Photographs
March 15, 2002
Jim Marshall, Photographs
February 1, 2002
Group Exhibition, George Harrison: A Photographic Tribute
December 14, 2001
Neil Leifer, Photographs
November 8, 2001
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, Paintings and Sculpture
October 30, 2001
Cynthia Connolly, Lely Constantinople, and Antonia Tricarico, Itinerant, Photographs
September 21, 2001
Danny Clinch, Photographs
August 3, 2001
Amalie Rothschild, Live at the Filmore East, Photographs
June 15, 2001
Korda, Photographs of the Cuban Revolution,
and Jose Figueroa, Photographs of Contemporary Cuba
May 11, 2001
Anton Corbijn, Photographs
April 6, 2001
Carlotta Hester, Paintings and Sculpture
February 2, 2001
Group Show, Graffiti Art
December 8, 2001
Henk Tas and Joel Brodsky, Photographs
November 3, 2001
Robert McNeeley, The Clinton Years, Photographs
September 22, 2000
Govinda Gallery Twenty-fifth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition
May 26, 2000
Glen E. Friedman, Photographs
April 14, 2000
Don Parkinson, Ecce Puer, Sculpture
March 24, 2000
Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, African Ceremonies, Photographs
February 11, 2000
Hamburg Days, Photographs, Paintings and Drawings
January 14, 2000
Group Exhibition, Eternity
October 28, 1999
Mark Seliger, Physiognomy, Photographs
September 23, 1999
Carlos Sosa, Paintings and Sculpture
July 8, 1999
William Claxton, Jazz Seen, Photographs
May 21, 1999
Daniel Kramer, Photographs of Bob Dylan
April 8, 1999
Mick Rock, A Photographic Record
January 28, 1999
Mark Dell’Isola, Paintings from Bali, Belau and Guam
December 11, 1998
Harry Benson, The Beatles Now & Then, Photographs
November 5, 1998
Gered Mankowitz, Eye Contact, Photographs
October 1, 1998
Sueraya Shaheen, Small World, Photographs
September 17, 1998
Lucian Perkins, Runway Madness, Photographs
July 9, 1998
Bill Gottlieb, The Golden Age of Jazz, Photographs
May 29, 1998
Jacques Lowe, JFK Remembered, Photographs
April 16, 1998
Howard Carr, Recent Work
March 5, 1998
Herb Greene, The Acid Age of San Francisco Rock, Photographs
November 20, 1997
Al Wertheimer, Elvis 56, Photographs
October 9, 1997
Stuart Sutcliffe, Drawings
September 11, 1997
Jurgen Vollmer, From Hamburg to Hollywood, Photographs
July 10, 1997
District Curator’s Jazz Arts Festival, Monk’s World, 12 Photographers
June 5, 1997
Abigail Adams Greenway, Paintings
April 10, 1997
Greg Gorman, Inside Life, Photographs
February 13, 1997
Conrad Hinz, Paintings
December 12, 1996
Ross Halfin, Photographs
October 10, 1996
The Cool & The Crazy: Images of Punk, 45 Photographer Group Show
September 12, 1996
Herman Leonard & Jeffrey Kliman, Photography You Can Hear
August 1, 1996
Neil Leifer, Sports, Photographs
June 20, 1996
Baron Wolman, My Generation, Photographs
March 21, 1996
Ron “Fish” Clifton, Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings
November 16, 1995
Stuart Sutcliffe, Paintings & Drawings
September 21, 1995
Howard L. Bingham, Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey, Photographs
August 3, 1995
Lynn Goldsmith, Photo Diary, Photographs
June 29, 1995
Gered Mankowitz, Photographs
May 11, 1995
Anita Kunz, Paintings
April 6, 1995
William Fick, Linocuts
February 16, 1995
Bob Gruen, Photographs
December 15, 1994
Conrad Hinz, Portraits, Drawings and Paintings
November 10, 1994
Margarite D’Arsinoe, Drawings,
and Fred Kahler, Paintings
October 6, 1994
Peter Wise, Pastel Landscapes
July 28, 1994
Henry Diltz, Elliot Landy, Lisa Law, Joseph Sia and Baron Wolman, Woodstock, Photographs
June 6, 1994
Astrid Kirchherr and Max Scheler, Photographs
May 5, 1994
Walderedo De Oliveira, Paintings
March 31, 1994
Philip Estrada, Crosses, Constructions
February 25, 1994
Firooz Zahedi, Portraits, Photographs
January 20, 1994
Arthur Grace, Comedians, Photographs
December 9, 1993
Phil Stern, Hollywood, Photographs
November 4, 1993
Douglas Kirkland, Icons, Photographs
September 30, 1993
Linda McCartney, Portraits of an Era, Photographs
July 8, 1993
The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition
June 10, 1993
Gendron Jensen, From Eagles Nest, Drawings
March 4, 1993
Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton, Seeing the Unseen, Photographs
January 28, 1993
William Fick, Recent Linocuts
November 19, 1992
Ron Banks, Paintings
October 14, 1992
Eric Clapton & Peter Blake, 24 Nights, Drawings
October 1, 1992
Artists for Freedom of Expression, 16 Artist Group Show
May 8, 1992
Howard Finster, The American Flag Paintings
March 21, 1992
Annie Leibovitz, The White Oak Dance Project, Photographs
February 6, 1992
George Hurrell, Hollywood Portraits, Photographs
December 12, 1991
Jay Burch, Paintings
November 14, 1991
Stillman Rockefeller, Paintings
September 26, 1991
Christopher Makos, Icons, Portraits, and Man Ray, Silkscreens
March 16, 1991
Jerry Garcia, Paintings, Drawings and Prints
February 7, 1991
Bob Aselage, Sculpture
December 6, 1990
George Butler, Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Portrait, Photographs
November 1, 1990
Greg Gorman, Volume I, Photographs
October 11, 1990
Bob Colacello, Holy Terror, and Andy Warhol, Exposures, Photographs
June 14, 1990
Margarite Moffly, Sculpture
May 10, 1990
Christopher Makos, New Paintings and Prints
March 29, 1990
Douglas Kirkland, Light Years, Photographs
February 1, 1990
Mark Kostabi, Paintings and Drawings
December 7, 1989
Jay Burch, Paintings and Drawings
November 2, 1989
Michael Cooper, Blinds and Shutters, Photographs
September 21, 1989
Gendron Jensen, Wikoniwin, Drawings
June 1, 1989
Christopher Makos, Photographs of Andy Warhol
April 13, 1989
New Nudes, Group Show, Photographs
March 2, 1989
Rana Rule: The Nepalese Royal Court 1846-1851, Vintage Photographs
December 7, 1988
Margarite Moffly, Sculpture
September 22, 1988
Howard Finster, Man of Visions, Paintings
April 28, 1988
Jay Burch, Paintings
March 24, 1988
Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton, Stopping Time, Photographs
February 11, 1988
Andy Warhol, The Last Prints, Silkscreen
December 4, 1987
Ron Wood, Decades, Paintings and Prints
November 5, 1987
Matthew Rolston, Magazine Work, Photographs
September 9, 1987
Byron Peck, Paintings
June 4, 1987
Mati Klarwein, Not So Still Lives, Paintings
April 10, 1987
Annie Liebovitz, Photographs
October 30, 1986
Ritual and Domestic Objects of Nepal, Curated by Ian Alsop
September 25, 1986
Christopher Makos, Architecture and Design, Photographs
May 22, 1986
Byron Peck, Paintings
April 17, 1986
The Golden Age of British Photography 1839-1900
November 14, 1985
Kim Murray, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
September 26, 1985
Erica Lennard, Photographs of India
May 23, 1985
Andy Warhol, Ads, Silkscreens
April 12, 1985
Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton, Moments of Vision, Photographs
November 30, 1984
Annie Liebovitz, Photographs
November 2, 1984
Christopher Makos, War Games, Photographs
September 28, 1984
Howard Carr, Paintings
June 1, 1984
Erica Lennard, Ruins, Photographs
May 4, 1984
Peter Wise, Toys, Drawings
April 6, 1984
Bob Venosa, Astral Circus, Paintings
March 2, 1984
Carol Beckwith, The Maasi and the Wodaabe, Photographs
November 18, 1983
Andy Warhol, Endangered Species, Silkscreens
October 14, 1983
David Schofield, Drawings
September 16, 1983
Liza Phillips, Paintings
May 20, 1983
Mati Klarwein, Portraits
April 1, 1983
Christopher Makos, World Tour, Photographs
January 21, 1983
Bob Hammett, Paintings and Drawings
October 19, 1982
Stella Reichman, Paintings
April 23, 1982
Michael Halsbad, Portrait Photography
November 30, 1981
Visionary Painters, Group Show
September 29, 1981
John Lennon, Bag One, Lithographs
May 28, 1981
Roy Edwards, Paintings
May 6, 1981
Christopher Makos, Photographs
April 11, 1981
Martin Kotler, Paintings
March 6, 1981
Marsha Donahue and Martin Kotler, Paintings of Washington
December 11, 1980
Peter Wise, Drawings
October 4, 1980
Kim Murray, Illuminations from the Bhagavad-Gita, Paintings
June 5, 1980
Bob Venosa, Drawings and Paintings
December 7, 1979
Roman Bukowinsky, Icons
November 1, 1979
Gregory Kwater, Paintings and Drawings
October 4, 1979
Alexis de Boeck, Paintings
April 7, 1979
David Waters, Paintings
December 1, 1978
Michael Knigin, Prints
September 21, 1978
Art Beatty, Mystical Landscapes
October 27, 1978
Howard Carr, Paintings
May 5, 1978
E. S. Curtis, North American Indian Photographs
March 1, 1978
David Waters, Collages
December 2, 1977
Bill Cox, Etchings
November 1, 1975
Bolivian Weavings
September 16, 1975
Kim Murray, Paintings
* Photograph Copyright ©Howard Bingham. All Rights Reserved. From Howard Bingham’s Govinda Gallery exhibition Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey, September, 1995.
]]>Hester’s live action drawings of musicians, singers, and dancers were created in every festival setting including street sessions, theaters, dance classes, pub sessions, tutor’s classes, outdoor concerts, cross-border sessions, and more.
Musical artists from over 15 counties in Ireland (North and South), as well as Scotland, England, and the United States are depicted in these drawings.
This exhibition is a tribute to the amazing artistry and remarkable spirit of traditional Irish music and dance. It is also a unique and engaging artist’s document of the now historic music festival, Fleadh Cheoil 2010.
The Pure Drop reviewed in The Washington Post:
The Pure Drop reviewed in The Irish Voice:
The Pure Drop reviewed in The Anglo-Celt:
The Hellenic American Union is delighted to announce the exhibition, Donovan: Sapphographs which opened on June 1st, 2010 at the Hellenic American Union galleries, in Athens Greece. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and Govinda Gallery in Washington D.C., curated by Govinda’s Christopher Murray. An online catalogue has been published for this Donovan’s first exhibition in Greece. Adamson Atelier, master printers, have produced the large format works on paper.
The exhibition features twelve monumental works on paper from the Sapphographs series. Inspired by the lyric poetry of Sappho (7th century B.C.), Donovan captures in visual form the mythic beauty of an ancient artistic tradition. Donovan recently said that he ″wishes to encourage the youth of the world to compose poetry again.″ He wants to ″stand with the young Greek poets and be part of returning poetry to the popular culture where it belongs.″
Exhibition curator Christopher Murray writes: “Donovan: Sapphographs evoke the aesthetic sensuality of nature and the power of its rituals to inspire artistic creation. Sappho has been represented and reinterpreted through many artistic mediums since her own time, over 2,500 years ago, up to today. Depicted by some of the greatest painters in museums through the world, in illuminated manuscripts, by playwrights, in novels, in fashion, in ballet, and in popular music, Sappho has been updated in different times in different ways.”
In conjunction with the exhibition, the California based art team Revolver is presenting a multimedia installation as a tribute to Donovan: Sapphographs. This installation will allow spectators to experience the Sapphographs in three dimensions.
A compelling series of poetry readings, music and dance performances, and symposiums entitled SapphoFest has been organized around Donovan’s exhibition.
Donovan has also composed the melody Be Mine for some of Sappho’s fragments which is available on Amazon as a download and a cd and will perform the song at the opening of the exhibition.
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- Jan 8 – Mar 28, 2010 The Grammy Museum :: Los Angeles, CA
- Apr 20 – Jun 20, 2010 Boca Raton Museum of Art :: Boca Raton, FL
- Jul 10 – Oct 10, 2010 Museum of the Shenandoah Valley :: Winchester, VA
- Oct 30, 2010 – Jan 23, 2011 National Portrait Gallery :: Washington, DC
- Feb 19 – May 15, 2011 James A. Michener Art Museum :: Doylestown, PA
- June 4 – Aug 21, 2011 The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum :: Little Rock, AR
- Sep 10 – Dec 4, 2011 Mobile Museum of Fine Arts :: Mobile, AL
- Dec 24 – March 18, 2012 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts :: Richmond, VA
- April 7 – July 1, 2012 Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum :: Abilene, KS
- July 21 – Oct 14, 2012 Memphis Pink Palace Museum :: Nashville, TN
- Nov 2 – Feb 3, 2013 Tennessee State Museum :: Nashville, TN
- Feb 23 – May 12, 2013 The Schumacher Gallery, Capital University :: Columbus, OH
Alfred Wertheimer’s photographs of Elvis Presley are a national treasure. They are a unique visual record of the most exciting and influential performer of our time. Taken 50 years ago, Wertheimer’s photographs document Elvis Presley at the pivotal moment of his explosive appearance onto the cultural landscape. After these photos were taken, no photographer ever again had access to Elvis that Wertheimer enjoyed. 
Apart from Elvis’s own recordings from this period, Wertheimer’s photographs are the most compelling vintage document of this musical artist in 1956.
Elvis at 21 features over forty of these stunning and intimate black and white photographs. This exhibition also celebrates the publication of Elvis 1956 (Welcome Books), with photographs and text by Alfred Wertheimer and edited by Chris Murray, owner and director of Govinda Gallery. Many previously unpublished photographs along with the author’s personal recollections document the young man who invented the rock and roll persona as we know it and would become an enduring international cultural icon.
Since 1995, Murray has presented Wertheimer’s work in several exhibitions, including his first major one-person exhibition in 1997 at Govinda Gallery and in the exhibition Artist to Icon: Early Photographs of Elvis, Dylan, and the Beatles organized in 2001 in conjunction with the Experience Music Project, Seattle.
- John Lennon
Press & Media »
- The Herald, Monterey County – February 1, 2010
- Los Angeles Times – January 8, 2010
- NPR – January 7, 2010
- USA Today – January 3, 2010
- Vanity Fair – January Issue
- Smithsonian Institution – December 2009
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A formidable new wave of Chinese musicians is taking Beijing by storm. Revolving around four venues spread across the city, a burgeoning group of performers are working outside government-controlled media channels, and in the process, capturing the attention of the international music community. They now constitute a fresh, independent voice in a country renowned for creative conformity and saccharine Cantonese pop. In Sound Kapital, photographer Matthew Niederhauser captures the energy of the personalities and performers at D-22, Yugong Yishan, 2 Kolegas, and Mao Livehouse. These revolutionary Beijing nightclubs remain at the core of the city’s creative explosion by hosting an eclectic mix of punk, experimental, rock, and folk performances. There is no doubt that these musicians will continue to break ground within Beijing’s nascent artistic landscape, helping to push the boundaries of an already expanding realm of independent thought and musical expression in China.
This exhibition celebrates the publication of Sound Kapital: Beijing’s Music Underground (Powerhouse Books, 2009). Copies of Sound Kapital are available through Govinda Gallery. Original limited edition prints of Matthew Niederhauser’s photographs are available, for the first time, to collectors through the gallery.
Matthew Niederhauser will be attending the opening and signing copies of Sound Kapital.
Press & Media »
- Intelligent Life — October 18th, 2009
- MTV IGGY — November 6th, 2009
- New York Times — November 12th, 2009
- The Washington Post — November 13th, 2009
- PopMatters — November 16th, 2009
- BrightestYoungThings — November 17th, 2009
Featured events from Donovan Days include the first European exhibition of Donovan’s extraordinary Sapphographs, a tribute concert celebrating Donovan’s music with Donovan as headliner, and the Irish premier of the documentary feature film, Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan.
Friday 10th July, 8 pm:
Sapphographs
Launch of Donovan’s Sapphographs exhibition
Cavan County Museum
Virginia Road, Ballyjamesduff
County Cavan
Cavan County Museum is pleased to present the first European exhibition of Donovan’s Sapphographs. Inspired by the lyric poetry of Sappho (7th Century B.C.E.), Donovan captures in visual form the mythic beauty of an ancient artistic tradition. Donovan’s Sapphographs evoke the aesthetic sensuality of nature and the power of its rituals to inspire artistic creation. Curator Chris Murray writes in the exhibition catalog, “Donovan’s Sapphographs are perhaps the finest contemporary homage to the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece.”
Donovan’s Sapphographs have been exhibited at Govinda Gallery in Washington DC, The Embassy of Greece, Washington DC, and at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore Maryland. A tour of Donovan’s Sapphographs in Greece is scheduled for the summer of 2010.
Saturday 11th July, 8:30 pm:
Donovan Days Concert
Cavan County Museum
Virginia Road, Ballyjamesduff
County Cavan
This concert is a celebration of the Scottish and Irish Celtic traditions which have influenced Donovan’s music, songs and poetry. Donovan will headline the concert as special guest. Other musical guests performing will include Sean Ó Sé, the renowned singer and performer from west Cork; Noel Battle, 12 times All-Ireland mouth organ champion, and Seamus Fay, Cavan’s legendary lilter, along with the talented and dynamic Nyah musicians. A special marquee will be constructed on the museum grounds for this unforgettable musical evening.
Sunday 12th July, 2:30 pm:
Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan
Film premier and discussion
The Ramor Theater
Main Street, Virginia
County Cavan
The historic Ramor Theater is the venue for the Irish premier of director Hannes Rossacher’s documentary feature film on the life and work of Donovan. This screening will be followed by a discussion with Donovan and his wife and muse Linda Lawrence, moderated by Donovan’s friend and exhibition curator Chris Murray.
Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan depicts the extraordinary life of 60´s folk-pop phenomenon Donovan. An amazing success story covering a career spanning more than four decades of Donovan’s life, Sunshine Superman is full of rare anecdotes about colleagues, musical collaborators and friends. This award-winning film also features appearances by Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Mickie Most, Rick Rubin, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, film directors Franco Zeffirelli and David Lynch, and many more.
The Donovan Days celebration will be complimented with an exciting and varied line-up of workshops and performances for children and adults at the Cavan County Museum complex. Donovan Days will be a unique opportunity to meet one of the most creative artists of our time in intimate surroundings as he shares his music, art and song with us.
Press & Media »
- TV3 Ireland AM – July 10th, 2009
- Hot Press Magazine – July 9th, 2009
- The Anglo Celt – July 1st, 2009
- The Anglo-Celt – April 15th, 2009
For more information, contact Cavan County Museum
Tel. 049 8544070 www.cavanmuseum.ie www.cavanmusic.com
Stanley Mouse
Legendary concert promoter Bill Graham referred to Stanley Mouse as one of the most important figures from the 1960s. Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart calls Stanley Mouse “part of our mythology.” Creating images such as Zig Zag Man, psychedelic posters for the Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom, the skull and roses motif for the Grateful Dead, and the flying horse for the Steve Miller Band’s album Book of Dreams, Stanley Mouse has created among the most iconic artwork of our time. His art has come to visually represent bands such as the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Co., Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, and Journey, among many others.
Stanley Mouse will be attending the opening of his exhibition at Govinda Gallery which will take place on Monday, April 13th from 6pm to 9pm. This exhibition presents a rare opportunity to see the original art of Stanley Mouse. Stanley Mouse’s original drawings, paintings, and lithographs are available to collectors through Govinda Gallery.
— Joel Selvin
Videos »
Courtesy FOX 5 DC – April 15th, 2009 – 6:01 minutes
Press & Media »
- The Washington Post – April 12th, 2009
- The Washington Post – April 10th, 2009
In honor of Bob Marley’s birthday on February 6th, Govinda Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley. Soul Rebel presents for the first time David Burnett’s extraordinary photographs of one of the most beloved and respected international musical artists of our time. On assignment for Time Magazine, Burnett first photographed Marley at his home in Jamaica in 1976 and continued to document Bob Marley and The Wailers on the Exodus tour in Europe while on their bus, in rehearsals, and during performances throughout Europe during the spring of 1977. 
Burnett’s award-winning talent, coupled with Marley’s larger-than-life charisma, resulted in this extraordinary collection of previously unseen photographs. Also included in the exhibition are compelling images of The Wailers, Peter Tosh, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and more.
This exhibition celebrates the publication of Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley (Insight Editions, 2009). Featuring David Burnett’s photographs and stories, published for the first time, Soul Rebel is sure to be a treasured book for music lovers around the world. Soul Rebel features a foreword by acclaimed author Chris Salewicz, one of the leading writers on Jamaican music and culture, as well as an introduction by Soul Rebel’s editor, author and curator Chris Murray.
David Burnett launched his photographic career as an intern at Time magazine in 1967. From 1970 to 1972, he covered the Vietnam War as a staff photographer for Life magazine. In 1975, he co-founded Contact Press Images in New York. Traveling to more than 75 countries, Burnett has produced photographic essays for Time, Life, Fortune, The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and many others. His awards include “Magazine Photographer of the year” from the Pictures of the Year Competition, the “World Press Photo of the Year,” and the Robert Capa Award from the Overseas Press Club, to name but a few.
Chris Salewicz has been writing on popular culture, particularly reggae and other world musics, for more than 20 years. He was a senior features writer for NME, has written for The Sunday Times, The Face, and Q magazine and wrote the authorized book Bob Marley: Songs of Freedom (with photographer Adrian Boot), and Rude Boy, a memoir about his relationship with the island of Jamaica, among many other books. Salewicz edited the booklet contained in the award-winning 4-CD box set Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music, and co-wrote the script for the 1999 movie Third World Cop, which broke Jamaican box office records.
Chris Murray is the founder and director of Govinda Gallery and has organized over two hundred fifty exhibitions of paintings, drawings, and photographs many of which have traveled throughout the United States and abroad, including countries such as Germany, Spain, Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Mexico and Cuba. He has edited and authored over a dozen books and catalogues, including Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive (Avalon Publishing Group/Insight Editions, 2003), Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis (Insight Editions, 2006), Knockout: The Art of Boxing (Insight Editions, 2008), and John and Yoko: A New York Love Story (Insight Editions 2008).
Videos »
by Dan Snider – courtesy Palace Publishing – 2.5 minutes
Press & Media »
- Voice of America – April 6th, 2009
- National Public Radio – March 11th, 2009
- Jamaica Gleaner News – March 17th, 2009
- The Photography Channel – February 12th, 2009
- Good Morning America / ABC News – February 6th, 2009
- The Reliable Source – February 9th, 2009
- The Washington Post – February 10th, 2009
- Jamaican Embassy Press – February 17th, 2009
Taken during a single night’s session–as the band recorded “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”—these photographs offer a compelling portrait of four of the most popular and publicized figures of the 20th century. Grossman’s uniquely intimate account documents The Beatles’ captivating individual personalities while attesting to their collaborative power at their creative peak.
Henry Grossman’s career began in the early 1960s. As a contributing photographer for Time, Life, Newsweek, and People Magazine, Grossman covered a variety of important figures, including Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Nelson Mandela, Duke Ellington and Truman Capote. Grossman gained unprecedented access to President John F. Kennedy in the White House and abroad. Through his work he also befriended The Beatles and went to Abbey Road Studios to photograph them during the legendary Sgt. Pepper session.
— Paul McCartney, Abbey Road Studios, 1967
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