A Career Retrospective and Tribute to Miles Davis & Carlos Santana
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May 27-August 22, 2010
1320/1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco
(San Francisco) -- The Jazz Heritage Center (JHC), San Francisco's only permanent complex dedicated to jazz art and jazz history, is pleased to host an the first retrospective exhibit of the fine art work of Michael Rios.
The exhibit is comprised of large banners displaying a cross section of mural work, musical personality portraits and original paintings and prints showing the various elements found in the evolving style of 30 plus years of Rios' work. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 27 from 7:00-9 pm with the artist.
Michael V. Rios is a native of Oakland, California and graduate of the San Francisco Academy of Art College. Rios began as an illustrator for the San Francisco men's clothier, Roos Atkins and then became a partner in the commercial art and graphics studio, Winston, Rios & Brown.
In the 70's, Rios turned his attention towards San Francisco's Mission District and created some of the first large murals that brought him national acclaim and made the Mission District famous. One of these murals, aproject that he worked on with artist Robert Crumb, featured native Mission District musicians and used psychedelic colors and a collage like stylethat caught the attention of Carlos Santana. Santana inspired Rios to continue to do work that honored musical personalities, particularly Miles Davis with whom Santana had a devoted friendship from 1969 until Davis' death in 1991. Rios began working for Santana designing concert backdrops, custom clothing, guitars, and several album covers, including the Grammy Award winning "Supernatural."
Michael's commissioned artwork has appeared on several other recordings, including Grammy Award Winner Poncho Sanchez' "Latin Spirits," and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Steve Winwood's "About Time."Rios has also created original artwork for the LatinRecordingAcademy, the Mars Family, the Andre Agassi Foundation, Sony Signatures, LP Percussion and AGInteractive.
About the JazzHeritageCenter (JHC)
The Jazz Heritage (JHC) located within the new FillmoreHeritageCenter in the heart of the Fillmore District, is a non-profit and part jazz museum, part jazz cultural center, and part jazz art gallery. Showcasing art and historical exhibitions, concerts, films and youth programming, the JHC is working to preserve and promote jazz, an American national treasure, while celebrating its presence as an art form in San Francisco. The JHC includes the Lush Life Gallery, the Koret Heritage Lobby, the Take Five Gift Shop (located at 1320 Fillmore Street), and, the Media & Education Center (located at 1330 Fillmore Street). Please visit www.jazzheritagecenter.org for more information.
