Emek (born Emek Golan in Israel in 1970) is a popular artist/graphic designer/illustrator designs concert posters since the early 1990s. He is widely credited with helping to revive the rock poster scene. He has become popular with collectors in the recent years. A November 27, 2006 profile of Emek in The Oregonian described how people from miles away flocked to a San Francisco poster show sponsored by The Rock Poster Society to get a chance to see and buy his work.

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  • Emek (born Emek Golan in Israel in 1970) is a popular artist/graphic designer/illustrator designs concert posters since the early 1990s. He is widely credited with helping to revive the rock poster scene. He has become popular with collectors in the recent years. A November 27, 2006 profile of Emek in The Oregonian described how people from miles away flocked to a San Francisco poster show sponsored by The Rock Poster Society to get a chance to see and buy his work. The article hailed him as "a savior of rock 'n' roll. Not the music, but the art. " In December 2007, Billboard (magazine) named the top 25 rock posters of all time. EMEK garnered 3 spots on the list, the most of any single artist. Emek's style, known for its attention to detail and layers of meaning, infuses socio-political commentary into pop culture imagery. In the tradition of psychedelic posters from the 1960s, Emek still draws his posters by hand. He was shaped by both rock art posters from the 1960s, and punk flyers from the 1980s. He studied art at California State University at Northridge. Emek's poster-making career accelerated in the 1990s with alternative rock acts from Europe and North America, including Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, Marilyn Manson and the Decemberists. Over the last decade, Emek's work has been shown in galleries across the United States, in Berlin, London and Tokyo. Also a fine art painter, Emek lives in Portland, Oregon, and comes from a family of five artists in California. He was born in Israel while his artist parents lived on a kibbutz. In the states, his family, including Emek's younger brother and sister, lived in the Los Angeles area. His father worked as a caretaker. There was no TV at the home, just a radio and a well-equipped art studio. His parents also stayed active in political causes ranging from social justice and the peace movement to environmentalism.
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  • Emek with his 2006 gig poster for High on Fire. (click for quote)
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  • Aaarght, Gig Posters, Post Neo Explosionism Indie rock, Propaganda, Lowbrow Art, Punk rock
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  • Emek (born Emek Golan in Israel in 1970) is a popular artist/graphic designer/illustrator designs concert posters since the early 1990s. He is widely credited with helping to revive the rock poster scene. He has become popular with collectors in the recent years. A November 27, 2006 profile of Emek in The Oregonian described how people from miles away flocked to a San Francisco poster show sponsored by The Rock Poster Society to get a chance to see and buy his work.
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