Eleven
Turned up to Eleven
This image is a good example of the modern iteration of Mouse’s skeleton theme, which usually contains a reference to rock music and musicians. It began with the classic Mouse and Kelly skeleton and roses poster for Grateful Dead at the Avalon Ballroom in the late Sixties (which image they basically lifted whole from a 19th century illustration for the Rubiyat…). The skull and roses became iconic for the Dead and Mouse did several album covers for the band and for individual members’ other releases.
Stanley Mouse is a prolific artist who fortunately happened to be in the right places at the right times, like Motown in the Fifties, San Francisco in the Sixties, Santa Fe in the Eighties, and Sonoma County in the present.
He continues to be relentless in pursuit of his art while living a life that is an epic of the times. Mouse has put a brush to many great opportunities as they arose and, in no small measure, has helped shape our cultural evolution.
Rockin Roses Gallery is the pinnacle collection of Stanley’s life and work.
In June of 2010, Stanley Mouse and friends opened a gallery in Healdsburg, California featuring many of his most influential works of art as well as new pieces. At Rockin Roses Gallery the public can admire and purchase a Mouse original, print or giclée for their collections. Stanley frequently paints at the gallery in the afternoons, so watch this website for updates as to when he’ll be on site.
Stanley 2.0