New Rock Poster Exhibit Opens at SPAC; On Display through July 30

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Jefferson Airplane, Bo Diddley, and The Doors are among the musical legends whose names cling, often in a creative, spiraling fashion to the posters of a new exhibition at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. 

Chromatic Scales: Psychedelic Design from the Tang Teaching Museum Collection features more than 30 recently acquired 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock concert posters designed by artists such as Jim Blashfield, Lee Conklin, and Bonnie MacLean, and the Big Five’s Wes Wilson and Victor Moscoso. 

The collection, which opened July 19, will be on view in SPAC’s new “The Pines” facility lobby and includes show of the era’s legendary west coast venues The Matrix, Avalon Ballroom, and the Fillmore Auditorium. 

Chromatic Scales is curated by the Tang in coordination with Christopher Shiley, Senior Director of Artistic Planning at SPAC.

Open to the public noon – 5 p.m. daily through July 30. Free. Check in at the Route 50 entrance.