Joanne Kaliontzias
Artist/Designer
Joanne Kaliontzis grew up in the Boston area and was often found at the Harvard Coop import record section as a teen. She vividly remembers buying Human Sexual Response’s Figure 14 on the same day as The Clash’s Sandinista album. In a ‘Where were you at last night?’ conversation with her dad, Joanne shared her first encounter with Billy Ruane. Her dad’s response, “I bet that boy went home and told his father about a strange girl he saw.”
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Joanne met Mission of Burma when at an all-ages PIL concert at The Channel. From then on she was known to them as “Joanne from the City of the Dead” –a moniker Clint Conley gave to the City of Providence, where she was attending RI School of Design. While at RISD Joanne spent about as much time at the Living Room and Lupo’s as she did studying Graphic Design.
Joanne returned back to Boston in the mid eighties and worked in TV & film. Now she works as a graphic designer and artist and lives around the corner from where The Channel used to be the Fort Point neighborhood. If you ask her nicely, she might design your next record cover or gig poster… -As long as payment is not guest list for life…
www.jkali.com
ASK JOANNE A QUESTION:
Collage was a popular style in many of the band and event posters 80’s and is still relevant today. Why the reoccurring trend?
Do you think poster design of the 80’s was more decorative as opposed to providing utility of purpose?
When you look at Ralph Fatello’s illustrative style what does it tell you about the artist?
There are many styles of work in the posters collected in the Boston Flashpoint Gallery. Is there a style that stands out to you and why?
Do you think there was a conscious consideration given to the balance between the art and the message in these posters?
The illustrative posters in Marc Thor’s collection reflect an urban night time feeling. As a designer what does his work communicate to you?
How would you describe the work by Mark Andraesson from the band La Peste?
If you look at Dini Lamot’s poster from Cantones, what do you think he might be saying?
For years it seemed the rock poster was a dying art form. What do you think attributed to its current resurgence and why do you think it’s survived all these years?
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