February's feature is the Outsider Art of Lamar Sorrento...
LAMAR SORRENTO This Memphis Folk Art Champion has been a guitarist and all-around music lover almost since he was born on top of a Tennessee mountain, and he began painting his musical heroes in 1992. His art career took off in 1993, hardly a year after starting from scratch. A special idol of Lamar’s is the gypsy jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt, but his vivid portraits span the legends of blues, country, and rock & roll as well. A favorite among both art collectors and musicians, his paintings appear in museums and galleries, on several album covers, funky restaurant walls, including House of Blues and BB King's Blues Club, around the country and in the private collections of Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins, John Hiatt, Neil Young, Jimmie Vaughn, Marty Stuart, Mark Knopfler, Lucinda Williams, Jackson Browne, Morgan Freeman, Malcolm McDowell, Bonnie Raitt, David Caruso, Drew Barrymore, Elle McPherson and Sam Phillips, among others. When Lamar isn't painting musicians he's playing music. Recent dabbles include painting the cover art for Huey Lewis & The News’ new album “Soulsville”, Devon Allman’s “Honeytribe”, a ten foot tall guitar for the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame, and contributing two paintings of Johnny Cash to Bill Miller's book, "Cash: An American Man."
AnTHM Gallery, Black Mountain, NC 2010, debut of Lamar Sorrento's collection on the east coast.
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'Blue Kentucky Girl' $1200 painted on wood, framed.
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