Luke Martin 'Garcia: The Decades Between' Prints Available

Artist: Luke Martin
Title: Garcia: The Decades Between
Medium: 7 Color Screen Prints
Size: 12 x 36 Inches Each
Edition: RARE
Price: $200/Set

*there also some nice variants available

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Luke Martin is a Maryland based illustrator and screen printer who has become a rising star in the rock-poster world. Born in 1996 on the rural Eastern Shore he jokes his hometown had “one gas station and two stoplights” he spent study halls drawing retro futuristic cities in notebook margins instead of attending class. That self-taught draftsmanship led him to Towson University in 2015, where a single screen printing course hijacked his attention; he dropped out a year later, bought a press and began pulling all nighters in a Baltimore basement under the alias Suburban Avenger Studios.

Martin’s process marries analog precision with digital punch. He scrapes meticulous pen and ink drawings on clayboard, scans them, then colors in Photoshop, building surreal, narrative packed tableaux that ripple like sound waves made visible. Psychedelic landscapes melt into mythic creatures, while bold palettes, electric blues, ember reds and sunset gradients pulse with the energy of a front row riff. The result feels like a lucid dream set to arena volume.

Since 2017 he has created official posters for Phish, Metallica, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails and Dead & Company, often selling out within minutes. Each design functions as a set-list in pigment: hidden Easter eggs reference song lyrics, tour inside jokes or venue history, rewarding fans who scrutinize every tendril of linework. In 2024 he published Nothing New, a 472 page retrospective that sold out on pre-order, cementing his reputation as a new generation godfather of gig art. Despite the hype, Martin still hand pulls limited editions in his studio, drinks too much coffee and posts progress clips to Instagram, proving that obsessive craft and DIY spirit can share the same stage.