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Art by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris
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including bios are listed below the posters.
The posters listed below are signed by both artists. Please contact for unsigned, which are available from $55-$90, shipped.
Signed Summer of Love DeYoung Museum and 23&Me by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris
$500.00
Summer of Love DeYoung Museum and 23&Me. Signed by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Price Includes Shipping
Signed "Summer of Love Dick and Jane" by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris.
$500.00
Summer of Love Dick and Jane by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Signed. Includes Shipping. $500
Signed M929 by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Space Cowgirl.
$450.00
Signed M929 by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Moonalice.
"Space Cowgirl"
Signed R90. by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Doobie Decibel System/Hardly Strictly Bluegrass © 2016
$450.00
Signed R90. by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Doobie Decibel System/Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco. 13x17.5. Shipping Included.$450
Signed R81 by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Doobie Decibel System and Midnight North at Wescott Theatre in Syracuse, New York
$450.00
Signed R81 by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Doobie Decibel System with Midnight North in Syracuse, New York. Includes Shipping. 13x17.5. $450
Signed R67. By Carolyn Ferris and Wes Wilson. Doobie Decibel System.
$450.00
R67. Doobie Decibel System and Midnight North at the Westcott Theatre in Syracuse, New York. By Carolyn Ferris and Wes Wilson. Signed. Includes Shipping. 13x17.5 $450
Signed by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. The Rock Poster Society Hall Of Flowers Event in San Francisco.
$450.00
Signed by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. $450. Shipping Included. Hall of Flowers, San Francisco.
Signed M1006 by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris.
$450.00
Signed M1006 by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Includes shipping.
Signed Bahr Gallery Poster by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris
$500.00
Stella, The Psychedelic Librarian. By Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. Signed. This long offset lithograph measures approximately 16.5" by 39". $500. Shipping Included.
Signed M963 Doobie Decibel System by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris
$450.00
M963 Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System. ©2016 Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. $450. Signed. Includes Shipping. 13x17.5
Signed M966 by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris
$450.00
Signed M966 by Wes Wilson and Carolyn Ferris. $450. Includes Shipping. 13" by 17.5". Image made originally for Moonalice Book 8. See projects section under menu above for more information.
NOT FOR SALE M911 › 4/20/16 Slim’s, San Francisco, CA poster by Wes Wilson & Carolyn Ferris
$0.00
MUST CHECK STOCK!! Wes and I were now art partners, but we hadn't quite figured out copyright yet on the Moonalice. We worked on this piece together. I was credited only for digital, because that is what we'd been used to doing!
I am not certain that I have any signed copies left. Send me a note, and I will check!
M911 › 4/20/16 Slim’s, San Francisco, CA poster by Wes Wilson & Carolyn Ferris
Photo Gallery of some of our work together....
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Since becoming art partners Wes and Carolyn have created over 30 images together. These images include artwork for logos, posters, product labels, and various other projects that will be seen here on the site.
Posters may have opened the door to Wes' artistic abilities, but they certainly weren't the only character in the room. Wes has enjoyed creating unique ink drawings and ink and watercolor art for many years. Carolyn had been an acrylic on canvas painter and digital poster artist before learning to create ink posters.
Since about 2009, the two joined Moonalice Poster artist team and found they enjoyed each others company at events. They even met a couple of times in New York with the Moonalice poster artist group for art shows. Left stranded with adventurous minds in New York on one of those trips, they partied through with their fellow poster artists during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. They'd been evacuated from a hotel just across the street from the famous dangling Crane visible from the hotel window, there was fear that the crane would explode on the street below if it fell!
In the beginning Carolyn worked with Wes through her digital art which included a cover Wes created for Rolling Stone Magazine. When visiting Carolyn in Fairfax, California at her home/studio, Wes transformed her art style into ink on paper with a poster lesson. Soon after, Carolyn moved to Missouri, the two merged as art partners, both working on the ink designs together. They also became engaged to be married and moved in together and moved forward to create over 40 pieces.
Wilson noted that although he'd worked with many artists, Ferris was his only art partner. They laughed a lot and talked about everything from culture to the stars.
With too many family worries, the two decided to separate, and Ferris returned to California.
She opened Carolyn Ferris Art Studio in downtown Fairfax, where she had a design/gallery studio by day, (by appointment only) and art classes by night and weekends taught by some of the best artists in the Bay area. Finally settling in Chico, CA. Wes died on January 24, 2020.
Posters may have opened the door to Wes' artistic abilities, but they certainly weren't the only character in the room. Wes has enjoyed creating unique ink drawings and ink and watercolor art for many years. Carolyn had been an acrylic on canvas painter and digital poster artist before learning to create ink posters.
Since about 2009, the two joined Moonalice Poster artist team and found they enjoyed each others company at events. They even met a couple of times in New York with the Moonalice poster artist group for art shows. Left stranded with adventurous minds in New York on one of those trips, they partied through with their fellow poster artists during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. They'd been evacuated from a hotel just across the street from the famous dangling Crane visible from the hotel window, there was fear that the crane would explode on the street below if it fell!
In the beginning Carolyn worked with Wes through her digital art which included a cover Wes created for Rolling Stone Magazine. When visiting Carolyn in Fairfax, California at her home/studio, Wes transformed her art style into ink on paper with a poster lesson. Soon after, Carolyn moved to Missouri, the two merged as art partners, both working on the ink designs together. They also became engaged to be married and moved in together and moved forward to create over 40 pieces.
Wilson noted that although he'd worked with many artists, Ferris was his only art partner. They laughed a lot and talked about everything from culture to the stars.
With too many family worries, the two decided to separate, and Ferris returned to California.
She opened Carolyn Ferris Art Studio in downtown Fairfax, where she had a design/gallery studio by day, (by appointment only) and art classes by night and weekends taught by some of the best artists in the Bay area. Finally settling in Chico, CA. Wes died on January 24, 2020.
Wes Wilson, the father of the 1960s rock concert poster, came into the world via Sacramento, California on July 15, 1937. As a child his interests meandered among artistic pursuits and an intense love for the natural world. His post-secondary studies reflected these interests; he focused for a time on forestry and horticulture before eventually coming to philosophy. By the latter half of the 1960s Wes found much inspiration in the avant-garde neighborhoods of San Francisco. Serendipity interrupted all of his plans, as is typical, and Wes Wilson soon found himself creating fine art for the masses. His style, inspired by the Art Nouveau masters, took what was understood about promotional art and turned it inside-out. Nearly cryptic letters filled every available space, lines melted into lines, colors clashed... and the psychedelic poster was born. The love of art and nature eventually carried Wes away to the beautiful Ozarks foothills.
Wilson and Ferris met in 2001 at Ledson Winery, a TRPS show. In 2013, they began to work on images from a distance. Eventually Ferris moved to Aurora, Missouri - buying one of his homes and they set up to art studios to create together.
Carolyn Ferris and Wes Wilson not only became art partners when she moved to the Ozarks, the two became engaged to be married. They lived together and worked on over 40 pieces together.
Wilson noted that although he'd worked with many artists, Ferris was his only art partner. They laughed a lot and talked about everything from culture to the stars.
Traveling often for camping and road trips. The two picked out the church in Arkansas and met with the woman who would marry them. They intended to marry on March 17, St. Patricks Day, 2018. However, there were too many family worries, so the two decided to separate, and Ferris returned to California. Wes died on January 24, 2020.
Wilson and Ferris met in 2001 at Ledson Winery, a TRPS show. In 2013, they began to work on images from a distance. Eventually Ferris moved to Aurora, Missouri - buying one of his homes and they set up to art studios to create together.
Carolyn Ferris and Wes Wilson not only became art partners when she moved to the Ozarks, the two became engaged to be married. They lived together and worked on over 40 pieces together.
Wilson noted that although he'd worked with many artists, Ferris was his only art partner. They laughed a lot and talked about everything from culture to the stars.
Traveling often for camping and road trips. The two picked out the church in Arkansas and met with the woman who would marry them. They intended to marry on March 17, St. Patricks Day, 2018. However, there were too many family worries, so the two decided to separate, and Ferris returned to California. Wes died on January 24, 2020.
Photo by: Carolyn Ferris copyright 2016
Read more:
- Current Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY 2014-2015 Exhibition. http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2014/12/18/rock-concert-posters-at-moma/
- Ben Marks (September 19, 2011). "Psychedelic Poster Pioneer Wes Wilson on The Beatles, Doors, and Bill Graham". Collector's Weekly.
- Alice Rawsthorn (March 16, 2009). "Tripping Back to the World of Psychedelia". The New York Times.
- Michael Erlewine. "A Brief Biography of Wes Wilson".
- Robert Brignall. "The Psychedelic Poster Art of Wes Wilson".
- Walter Medeiros. "Robert Wesley Wilson".
- Thomas Albright (March 3, 1973). "A Unique Radiance: Wilson's Giant Step Forward". San Francisco Chronicle.
Photo by: Wes Wilson copyright 2016
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Carolyn joined the Moonalice artist pool in 2009, and has created over 100 posters for Moonalice and Roger McNamee and others, within the Moonalice group she is known as the Queen of Surreal. An acrylic on canvas painting became her first poster in 1997 for Prodigy at the Warfield. She created the world's first singing canvas painting to illustrate Roger McNamee's song Silver Lining. She has worked with the Fillmore, Santana, Widespread Panic, and many other bands. She has enjoyed creating interactive paintings with Timothy Leary, as well as creating many illustrations for his published writing. Wes Wilson taught her how to create ink posters during a visit to California and later she moved to Missouri and became art partners with him.
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