Alkaline Trio Art Retrospective By Heather Gabel

On October 7th, Heather Gabel will be hosting an art exhibit showcasing all of her work for Chicago’s Alkaline Trio. For over fifteen years, Gabel has been combining skeletons, lace, blood, back-alley surgery, and the style of a depressed-but-classy European great-grandmother to create one of the most enduring, stylish, and instantly recognizable branding campaigns in underground music. 

The showcase will take place at Chicago’s Johalla Projects and will feature a retrospective of her own work as well as her work with the band. The installation will include the original xeroxed/ hand drawn / cut/ pasted t shirt designs for the Alkaline Trio designs plus notes, album art, old photos, and sketches all pulled from Heather’s archives and displayed in classic ‘high school kid bedroom wall flyer collection’ style.

At the opening reception on Friday, October 7^th at 6 pm, Gabel will be on hand to answer your questions and will be releasing her limited edition book featuring all of the t shirt designs she’s done for the band as well as a limited edition series of prints of 10 designs handpicked by herself and the band that span the entire 15 years that they have been working together.