Ruby Mazur of The Rolling Stones Mouth & Tongue logo fame has left New York for Las Vegas. The artist whose works have graced everything album covers to cigar bands is opening Star City Galleries - a celebrity art gallery - which will be located in the Desert Passage Mall in the new Aladdin Hotel.
Although the gallery isn't set to open until the first week of August rounding up the celebrities and their artistic creations takes months of preparation. Mazur provided us with a partial list of celebrities whose paintings will be exhibited.
Tony Bennett, David Bowie, Pierce Bronson, Jon Mellancamp, Anthony Quinn, Paul McCartney, Tico Torres, Carly Simon, Peter Falk, Joni Mitchell, Tony Curtis, Billy D. Williams, Ronnie Woods, Christie Brinkley, Johnny Cash, Donna Summer, Gene Hackman, Jack Palance, Sharon Stone, Jane Seymore, Jon Entwistle, John Lennon, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Sylvester Stallone and Graham Nash.
"To celebrate the opening of the gallery there will be a group show consisting of myself, Tico Torres, Peter Falk and Pierce Bronson," said Mazur. "At the opening evening these celebrities will be there. Their original paintings will be for sale as well as signed and numbered lithographs. The lithos will be very affordable for the public to purchase. The lithos will range in price form $1,500 to $7,500," Mazur continued.
"Every month there will be another opening with a different celebrity's work," added the artist.
As for Mazur, he's known the world over for his legendary mouth and tongue logo used on The Rolling Stones' Tumbling Dice record sleeve. At the age of 21, the Brooklyn born artist was hired as Art Director of Paramount Records, and within that first year he received a Grammy award nomination for his design on the Crowfoot album.
Innovative and influential, his outrageous and trendsetting designs have graced over 3,000 various album covers for the likes of Elton John, Billy Joel, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Van Morrison, Jim Croce and B.B. King in addition to such movie soundtracks as Love Story, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Malcolm X and Lenny Bruce.
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