Black Velvet and White Satin

Thursday, December 31, 1987
The Concert Hall

Artists John Grube, Alex Liros, and Clarence Barnes formed the collective JAC (an acronym of their first names) in 1980. The three artists worked together to produce collaborative large-scale paintings until the collective dissolved in 1988. As Daryl Vocat explains in his Xtra! article “Do You Know JAC?” the group approached painting as a social and collective practice; the artists “transported their art supplies to community events and documented people around them.” 

“At one GCDC fundraising dance we brought our easel along and set it up in the middle of the dance floor. Everyone passing wanted to make his or her mark! To participate in creating the lively disco dance on paper.”

- John Grube, JAC member

Thanks to Pink Triangle Press, we’ve reproduced the artwork that JAC created on the GCDC dance floor below.