Shirts designed and hand-printed by the artist. 

Available as a collection only. Individual shirts not for sale. 

Really belong in a Miami graphic design museum.

Twelve historic one-of-a-kind hand-printed silkscreen t-shirts mostly from the 70s when artist, Randy Burman, was a participant of the Silkscreen Workshop CETA funded program administered by The Lowe Art Museum and the City of Miami Cultural Events Division. The program began in downtown Miami's Dallas Park Hotel (Miami's first high-rise) and moved about one month after the program began to another historic location – the original Pan Am seaplane hanger in Coconut Grove at the corner of Aviation Avenue and Bayshore Drive. The historically significant and iconoclastic collection includes a few shirts printed in the early 80s in his home studio. These are the artist's own samples that were kept (some worn) from that time. Two were exhibited at the Frost Art Museum's Place and Purpose Exhibition (about Coconut Grove artists) in 2021.

1. BULLSHIT CITY: White letters on a brown shirt printed at the Silkscreen Workshop facility and a private joke" commentary. Only one printed for and worn by the artist.

2. KWANZA: A logo designed by Randy Burman and applied to multiple items for a series of events sponsored by the City of Miami Department of Parks and Recreation. The artist printed t-shirts in one-color silkscreen from a palette of green, red, yellow and black ink on green, red, yellow and black shirts – envisioning attendees dressed at the events in a palette of African-themed colors.

3. OCIE'S GOOMBAY PRESERVES: The amiable Dorian Cooper worked as an administrator for the City of Miami Cultural Events Division out of the same office space in Coconut Grove where our Silkscreen Workshop offices were located. His mother made homemade preserves that she was going to sell at the Coconut Grove Goombay Festival. Seeing that Randy Burman was making t-shirts for the festival asked if he would design and silkscreen print labels for the jars as well as t-shirts.

4. SproutGardners: A "health food" restaurant whose cuisine consisted almost exclusively of sprouts and wheat grass. Randy Burman developed a sprout font and used it in the creation of their logo and in the design, silkscreen and other forms of printing and signage of placemats, menus, labels, t-shirts and signage.

5. PUREST FOOD ON THIS PLANET: designed and 2-color silkscreen printed for Sproutgardners

6. HOLI: Guru Maharaj Ji, the boy guru, was all the rage. Randy Burman knew many people who were drawn to his message of peace. In 1978 and 79 events were held at the Orange Bowl and the Miami Beach Convention Center. The HOLI event is a traditional Hindu celebratory event where colored water is sprayed or dumped on the followers. After Randy Burman silkscreen printed the one-color black image of Maharaj Ji he applied the rainbow of colors on each shirt with his finger. He sold all he had printed at the event on Miami Beach save this one shirt. 

7. You Are What You Eat:  Changing the popcorn to skulls on an appropriated image printed on movie popcorn cups, artist Randy Burman first silkscreen printed this as a 3-color fine art print in the Silkscreen Workshop. Later he silkscreened the same image as a one-color black on white t-shirt. 

8. ROCK SHOW: Can't recall his first name, but Adri was a concert promoter whose speciality was extending musicians' concert tours, who were already going to be in South Florida, to South America – mostly Caracas. Randy Burman designed and silkscreen printed several tour shirts including this one for the Joe Perry Project, Ark Angel and La Mishna Gente, July 20-21, 1982 tour. 

9. XTC, JOOLS HOLLAND & THE MILLIONAIRES CARACAS CRAZE: Another Adri Shows concert tour shirt. This one a two-color, black & red print on white shirt. The image was one the artist had used in a City of Miami newsletter about the Dallas Park Hotel demolition implosion. 

10. Silkscreen Workshop: Logo designed and silkscreen printed by Randy Burman 

11. COCONUT GROVE GOOMBAY FESTIVAL: designed and 2-color silkscreen printed by Randy Burman.

12. HIGH CLIMBER: A company we rented scaffolding from when we had "wall monkey" projects. Had my ex Ruth Beller and her fellow sign painter Ken Wallach pose for image. 

  

Please see and examine all pictures for details, they are considered part of the description 

 

Items are sold “AS IS” and NO RETURNS unless otherwise listed with conditions 

 

We used recycled boxes to help keep shipping rates as low as possible, we will always try to use suitable boxes for your item, but may have company logos, writings, or markings. 

  

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