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Amos Goldbaum
I ran across this guy selling prints in the Embarcadero art faire: he was basically the only person that wasn’t selling unbearably crappy and treacly stuff. I love his line work and the restrain it takes to allow the lines and negative space to speak for themselves. It reminds of Shel Silverstein. I always have trouble reigning it in: given the chance, I’ll over ornamentalize something until it looks like an Italian-American wedding. Slowly, slowly, I’m learning. But Amos has it down.
Amos is an old friend of mine from Grinnell, Iowa. I just last night played a show where the main guy, another friend named Joe McNertney had gotten a box of stickers designed by Amos. It was cool to see fresh work from him, as always. My wife and I purchased a couple of his box pieces from him when he attended the college, and they are prize pieces in our art collection. I understand he is becoming part of the art culture in San Francisco, and think it’s fantastic.