The first time I recall seeing the art of Robert Williams Lyndon Johnson was President.
It was in a magazine about custom cars and drag racing during its height in So. Cal: the 1960s. His work with Ed Roth is immortal!
During those years I was very much taken with stock cars, drag racing, skate and surfboarding, and even custom bikes and off road riding before they became as institutionalized as they are now.
Leaders among that culture visually were men like Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, or Robert Crumb...But the monstrosities of Williams had me so stoked, I attempted a number of copies for my grammar school sketch book.
He's reaching new heights now as a sculpture and is showing at the CSUN art gallery. Be there or be normal!
Here he is seen with storyboard artist and old mate Paul Power at the gallery today.
