Stephanie Klavens

Artist/Photographer

Stefanie Klavens spent her wayward youth experimenting with fashion design and performance. She could be heard on WMBR’s Late Riser’s Club weekly as Luncheonette, the cooking show host who could not cook. After poisoning many people who were foolish enough to try her recipes, Luncheonette escaped the authorities by returning to her given name and turning her energies towards photography.

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ASK STEPHANIE A QUESTION:

With limited tools and budgets in the late 70’s and 80’s, what do you think was the driving force behind Boston Musician/Artists creating their posters?

A common theme of posters in the 80’s was the use of collage, what do you think was the reason for that design approach?

Do you get a sense that the posters in the collection offer a taste of each of the bands personalities?

What challenges do you think designers and artists encountered when creating new techniques for production?

Magnus Johnstone was a painter who also created event posters for the Punkt Data Gallery. His posters were full of a variety of intense imagery. What sort of feeling does his work evoke for you?

The Mission of Burma’s poster from the Paradise is a photo illustration of all four members combine as one person. What do you think the band might be telling us if anything?

There are many styles of work in the posters collected in the Boston Flashpoint Gallery, are there any that stand out to you and why?

If you look at the 80’s poster work and some of today’s posters, many still have much the same styles and look. Is this due to a lack of imagination or imitation of successful styles of the past?

Ralph Fatello’s unique caricature style stands out from the rest of the work in the gallery. What can you tell us about his design work?

Is there anything you would like to add to the narrative of design of Boston Band/Event posters of the 80’s?

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