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Jeremy Schultz was born in a time before nostalgia, when awkward behemoths spit fire and fury across the earth, wreaking havoc on creatures more slight in stature and ferocity. He was raised on a diet of small grubs and platypus blood, and spent most of his childhood crafting small loincloths for himself and his sister out of mud and pumpa grass.

When Jeremy was six he developed a new form of greeting, which later came to be known as the “low five”, a distant cousin of the already popular high five.

His educational life was riddled with strife. He bounced from one prep school to another, knocking up girls and knocking down boys. But this is where he began to draw, and draw he did. He drew weapons, exotic plants, cloud formations, and bifurcated water slides. He drew underwear and pillows, whisky and worms, and sometimes he even drew blood. Jeremy began to draw the creatures from his youth, the small ones who were devoured by the large behemoths. Then he began to draw the behemoths as well.

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Po’ Boy Art presents “Fool’s Gold Art – OR Recessionary Kindlin’” over 150 Rock posters, art prints, and handbills, past to present from artists EMEK. Show open’s First Friday Aug 6th from 5-11pm, the show will be up until Sept 1st

Emek has been referred to as “The Thinking Man’s Poster Artist”. Coming from a unique family of 5 artists, Emek has made his mark creating special limited edition silkscreen posters for live concerts around the world. Emek’ style thrives on attention to detail, coupled with layers of meaning in the artwork. His infusion of socio-political commentary into pop culture imagery has made his work instantly recognizable in the field. Emphasizing craftsmanship, his work is mostly hand-drawn in the tradition of the classic psychedelic posters from the 1960′s. Born in the 70′s Emek was also strongly influenced by the DIY punk flyers of the 80’s. ”I appreciate the creative freedom this medium allows me because the bands generally give me total freedom as long as I advertise the show info. I am allowed to dip into the recesses of my imagination and see what spills out onto the page. This allows me to be my own art director and I am able to experiment with different concepts and styles to keep things fresh. Today’s disposable culture paves the way for tomorrows collectable nostalgia…I’m just trying to make it interesting” Over the last 2 decades, Emek has created hundreds of posters for some of the top alternative bands and events, like Radiohead, Coachella, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, System of a Down, Jane’s Addiction, The Flaming Lips, to name a few, as well as album covers from Neil Young and Pearl Jam to Henry Rollins and Erykah Badu. Emek’s work has been shown in galleries across the United States, Berlin, London, Tokyo, Belgium and Canada. He has been interviewed on CNN, featured in dozens of magazines and books, including covers of Juxtapoz magazine.