Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 28-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
For the month of September, paintings and illustrations for David Lester’s MAGNET column Normal History are on exhibit for the Black Dot Museum Of Political Art at Northern: the Olympia All Ages Project. Panels from The Listener graphic novel are included in the exhibit.
Links to art pages updated every week in September.
The exhibition also features work by Jean Smith, including paintings by Martin Lewis, a character in her recently completed novel The Black Dot Museum Of Political Art. In his series “No Coal” and “Raven Coal Mine,” Martin makes political art in an attempt to prevent an environmentally destructive coal mine from opening off British Columbia’s pristine coast. In his abstract expressionist series “Nine Symptoms Of Narcissism,” Martin’s paintings reveal a possible cure for the incurable disorder.
