Renaissance & Rebellion - Flipbook - Page 196
“SOME ARTISTS ARE GOOD, LESS ARE GREAT, AND FEWER STILL BECOME
LEGENDARY. SUCH IS THE CASE WITH RICK GRIFFIN.”
GRIFFIN IS CONSIDERED AN “ORIGINAL LOCO” AND A TRUE SOCAL ARCHETYPE. HE GREW UP IN THE CULTURALLY
MIXED AREA OF LAKEWOOD IN THE 1950S WHERE HE WAS FASCINATED BY KUSTOM CAR AND TATTOO ART. BY JUNIOR HIGH HE LEARNED TO SURF AT RAT BEACH AND HAGGERTY’S, EVENTUALLY MOVING TO PALOS VERDES WHERE
HE CREATED ART FOR HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK AND THE HAGGERTY’S SURF CLUB. THROUGH HIS ART, GRIFFIN
PROFOUNDLY IMPACTED THE PARALLEL WORLDS OF SURF AND ROCK, FROM EARLY SURF DRAWINGS AND LOGOS FOR
GREG NOLL SURFBOARDS AND THE ICONIC SURFER MAGAZINE CHARACTER "MURPHY," TO THE ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE LOGO, ZAP COMICS AND ICONIC POSTERS SUCH AS FOR JIMI HENDRIX AND GRATEFUL DEAD, AS WELL AS THE
SURF FILM PACIFIC VIBRATIONS AND MUCH MORE.
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