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Lee Conklin is best known for the posters he created for Bill Graham’s rock and roll concert venue, the Fillmore West. Every poster artist in San Francisco wanted to work for Graham, so in February 1968, Conklin decided to try his luck and took a portfolio of his drawings into Graham’s office. Thankfully for Conklin, Graham liked his work, which uniquely takes bizarreness to an extreme, and gave him the job. His work builds upon the Fillmore’s poster artists before him, creating designs that are weird, mind-bending, and heavily influenced by his experiences with psychedelic drugs.Label Type
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Conklin’s style and subject matter reflect the altered states of mind to which those of the counterculture movement were drawn. As part of his particular psychedelic imagery, Conklin was very interested in depicting disjointed human limbs; they’re present on a vast majority of his work for Fillmore West. This design depicts a mountain of noses, legs, hands, breasts, and eyes surrounded by pink clouds with faces.