Bringing together the worlds of music and design, artists Jody Weinmann and Jeremy Lee presented a series of concert posters at the Manhattan WCO Center promoting a group of bands from Chicago's independent label Comptroller Records. On the first night of July, attendees of the exhibition's opening were treated with a performance by The Spectacles, a band comprised of Weinmann and Ben Fong, also on the Comptroller label.

Hailing from Chicago, Weinmann and Lee, both grads of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Masters of Arts in Teaching Program and full-time art teachers in the same city, presented the culmination of eight months of collaboration in a series of 4-poster collections. Psychedelic and playful, each set of posters, when viewed in sequential order, creates a short narrative of otherworldly characters and fantastical scenarios. Created digitally and printed in black on large sheets of white paper, each piece is a working concert poster, used for promotional purposes by the Comptroller Records bands. In addition to the posters, each artist presented a sampling of their individual work. Lee's series of intricate pen-and-ink drawings stayed in accordance with the show's whimsical feel, as did Weinmann's series of graphic comic strips.

After guests mingled and drank wine while taking in the artwork, they were treated to a live performance by The Spectacles. Weinmann and Fong played through several of their electro-pop creations, backed by the reliable beats of a drum machine. With Weinmann on vocals and guitar and Fong playing electric bass and keyboard, the catchy and melodic music created a perfect fusion with the whimsical art with which it was surrounded.

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