Emek

Emek x is a designer, illustrator and fine art painter. Famously penned The Thinking Mans Poster Artist by punk rock singer Henry Rollins while working on his album cover for A Rollins in the Wry, amongst other Rollins album covers and gig poster commissions. Emeks art has appeared in films, galleries, and walls of fans and venues worldwide. His prints are often signed and numbered where the limited quantity of the edition increases the rarity of the product. Emeks work is highly sought after by collectors of his work, as well, as fans of the performer. Emek regularly attends the annual Hall of Flowers in San Francisco, California hosted by TRPS . The largest collection of Emek art and merchandise to browse and purchase is at The Peoples Art of Portland Gallery in Portland, Oregons Pioneer Square Mall. As resident artist, Emek releases new and rare works to the gallery with frequency. New release gig posters, prints and merchandise are available for purchase through his online store a

Emek was born on a kibbutz in Israel to artists Lynda Golan and Yuval Golan. There was no TV in the home, just a radio and a wellequipped art studio. As a youth his family moved to the Los Angeles, California area, where Emeks father worked as a muralist kinetic sculptor and caretaker of a property owned by a Universalist Unitarian Church, his mother a psychologist fine art painter, respectively. After relocating to America, his brother Gan Golan, The New York Times Best Seller list book writer illustrator of The Adventures of Unemployed Man and Goodnight Bush and sister Yasmin, a culinary artist illustrator were born. His parents remained active in political causes from social justice and the peace movements to environmentalism. All together Emek was raised within a family of five artists. Emek continues familial traditions, marrying an art teacher sculptor and raising their two children with similar artistic influence.

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