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SUMMARY:Carlos Hernandez: Day of the Dead Rock Stars
DESCRIPTION: Official web siteCarlos Hernandez: Day of the Dead Rock S
	tars Cactus Music and the Record RanchNovember 1\, 2008-January 15\, 2
	009 Cactus Music presents an exhibition\, Carlos Hernandez: Day of the
	 Dead Rock Stars.When Cactus Music was resurrected last year its walls
	 were covered with images of dead rock stars. The paintings of such ac
	ts as the Ramones\, Patsy Cline and Jimi Hendrix were boldly colorful 
	and skeletal\, done in a Day of the Dead style.Though they hung in the
	 store for weeks\, the paintings all found buyers within days\, which 
	their creator\, local artist Carlos Hernandez\, said "was a very surpr
	ising end to what I thought was just an experiment.''Hernandez has a n
	ew series of pieces in his Day of the Dead Rock Stars series that will
	 be revealed during a reception at Cactus Saturday. They'll remain on 
	display through January. Among the painted dead are Bob Marley\, Joe S
	trummer\, Bo Diddley\, Dennis Wilson and Jim Morrison.Hernandez\, 46\,
	 was born and raised in Lubbock. He remembers admiring Day of the Dead
	 art as a kid. After earning a design degree from Texas Tech\, he move
	d to Houston in 1992. Here he began having a backyard Day of the Dead 
	celebration at his home\, which is when he hit on the idea of fusing h
	is enthusiasm for music (he used to drum in the Flaming Hellcats) and 
	Day of the Dead art."I wanted to participate in this tradition\," he s
	ays\, "but I didn't want it to be family or anything too personal."He 
	did his first dead rock star painting in 2001\, a skeleton Joey Ramone
	 shortly after the punk legend died. Hernandez says "something clicked
	."The research process is more labored than the painting. Hernandez sc
	ours online materials\, albums and biographies trying to find a way to
	 represent an artist with a limited amount of paint and a handful of c
	arefully chosen words. They end up efficiently iconic.His Joe Strummer
	 has the Clash singer/guitarist screaming out a bright red and blue Un
	ion Jack."I try to do them really fast\, so it has a folk-art feel to 
	it\," he says. "If I take my time with them\, they don't look right. T
	hey look too planned out."There should be 10 new paintings this year\;
	 a lack of electricity after Hurricane Ike put Hernandez off his sched
	ule by several days. He does his Day of the Dead Rock Stars work aroun
	d his day job as creative director of Harris Hernandez\, an advertisin
	g/marketing/PR company.He'll also be offering some less expensive prin
	ts as a budget alternative\, which was suggested by some fans of his w
	ork last year."Some people just have this strong attachment to music\,
	" Hernandez says. "They want something different that shows this conne
	ction. Maybe that's why the paintings sold so fast."And from a creativ
	e standpoint\, there isn't a shortage of subjects."(The above was repr
	inted from a Houston Chronicle article by Andrew Dansby).Pictured: Day
	 of the Dead Rock Stars painting of Jim Morrison by artist Carlos Hern
	andez. \n
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