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After leaving the Navy and settling in San Francisco, David Singer supported himself with odd jobs and began experimenting with graphic art and collage. In 1968, he was encouraged by a fellow poster artist to visit the office of Bill Graham, the director of the Fillmore West concert venue, where he was offered a job. Singer’s work was a significant shift from the work of previous artists because his designs were more simple and readable, incorporating collage techniques and surrealist influences. Of all the artists, Singer produced the largest body of work for the Fillmore, creating sixty posters between 1969 and 1971.Label Type
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Prior to his involvement with the Fillmore West, David Singer was experimenting with collage art: physically cutting, pasting, and arranging images together to create scenes with symbolic imagery. He used these skills in this poster, where he’s created a collage of a human anatomical figure running on top of mushrooms, with a backdrop of a galaxy contained within a stone archway. It’s the sort of scene you might see in a strange dream; Singer himself described this poster as having “...a certain LSD mystique.”