The Stephen King show opens at
Gallery 1988 (West) tomorrow night. I have two pieces in the show, including "I Am The Doorway" shown above.
My piece is 3-D cut paper and obviously based on the initial paperback cover of
Night Shift with art by Don Brautigam (shown below with it's die cut outer cover).
Brautigam (1946-2008) created the covers for the paperback versions of some of King's earliest books, including
The Stand,
Firestarter,
The Dead Zone,
Different Seasons, and
Cujo (as well as numerous other books and well known record album covers as can be seen
here.) Even before I'd ever read a Stephen King book I was drawn to the covers. As far as I'm concerned none of the covers of subsequent editions has come close to recreating that sense of the uncanny that Brautigam's covers brought to King's works.
The covers for
Night Shift and
The Stand resonated with me the most, and I'd initially planned to recreate both of them, but time and life had other intentions.
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