{"id":979,"date":"2010-04-18T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/04\/the-artistry-of-cole-gerst.html"},"modified":"2010-04-18T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T16:08:00","slug":"the-artistry-of-cole-gerst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/04\/the-artistry-of-cole-gerst.html","title":{"rendered":"The Artistry of Cole Gerst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S8s9cl3CbwI\/AAAAAAAAAwI\/GSoAGxH0E0o\/s1600\/dcfc.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S8s9cl3CbwI\/AAAAAAAAAwI\/GSoAGxH0E0o\/s320\/dcfc.jpg\" width=\"214\"><\/a>THE graphic design genius of Cole Gerst struck me the first time I saw his indie-rock posters for Spaceland and the T-shirts he designs as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.option-g.com\/\">Option-G<\/a>: Birds, bears and other animals against a cool, retro-modernist background.<\/p>\n<p>His work struck me as in the tradition of architect John Lautner and illustrator Charley Harper, with its mariage of nature and culture &#8212; what architecture historian Alan Hess has called &#8220;organic modernism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But his new work shows that marriage breaking down. The animals are still there, but in a much more perilous cityscape.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S8s9kb2nyOI\/AAAAAAAAAwQ\/c7esuuIHFec\/s1600\/stereolab.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S8s9kb2nyOI\/AAAAAAAAAwQ\/c7esuuIHFec\/s320\/stereolab.jpg\" width=\"207\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-gerst18-2010apr18,0,2576739.story\">HERE<\/a> is my piece on Gerst, and his new show at Ghettogloss Gallery, in today&#8217;s LATimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE graphic design genius of Cole Gerst struck me the first time I saw his indie-rock posters for Spaceland and the T-shirts he designs as Option-G: Birds, bears and other animals against a cool, retro-modernist background. His work struck me as in the tradition of architect John Lautner and illustrator Charley Harper, with its mariage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,283,40,167,282,61],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-graphic-arts","8":"category-indie","9":"category-john-lautner","10":"category-option-g","11":"category-spaceland","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}