Sterling Andrews began photographing bands in the late 1990s, when she first became intrigued by the distinctive music scene emerging from the East side of Los Angeles. Drawn by the connectivity and sense of community between bands, Sterling developed a profound respect for the quality and power of the music being produced, and set out to capture images as honest and inventive as the bands themselves. Since that time she has had the opportunity to put her unique artistic touch on portraits of a number of musical artists she has photographed and has been published everywhere from the Los Angeles Times to Alternative Press, Spin, Filter and New York Magazine. Read on . . .
In 2008, several prominent California musicians agreed to take part in an unusual project. It was Sterling's vision to illustrate the DIY movement and pay respect to the process of creation in general. To not create just another coffee table book, but to fully participate in a process which would create something so much more than that. Sterling's vision was to create bizarre, whimsical environments from paper and paint, style and stage her subjects, and then photograph them in her home studio. What resulted from these sessions became the one-of-a-kind Gooseberries project.
Gooseberries is a collection of 11x11 fine art lithographs -- portraits of Silversun Pickups, Rogue Wave, Great Northern, Earlimart, the Happy Hollows, Afternoons, Rademacher, the Henry Clay People, the Pity Party, Death to Anders, Le Switch, and One Trick Pony -- as well as a DVD of time-lapse videos, interviews, and still images, all in gatefold LP packaging.
The Gooseberries project will be available in gorgeous limited edition 12" gatefold. Comprised of individual portraits of each of the twelve bands involved, it also includes a dvd documenting Sterling's painting process, the photoshoots, and artists interviews. The Gooseberries collection will be available in hand-signed, hand-numbered limited edition of 500, available through Eenie Meenie Records, Spring 2009. A Release Show takes place April 2, 2009, at the Center For the Arts, Eagle Rock.
