Mural Project honors punk, skateboarding
Daniel Inez, the designer of the eighth entry of the Hermosa Mural Project, which will document the city’s punk and skateboarding roots. The mural will center on “The Church,” a former Baptist Church and converted art center that once served as housing and practice space for Black Flag. Inez is pictured with an image of the church split into Black Flag’s iconic “bars,” which he crafted for his art-and-apparel collective M1SK. Photo by Brent Broza In the process of reading the latest entry for the Hermosa Beach Mural Project, board member George Schmeltzer used a bit of deception. The Mural Project board had settled on punk rock and skateboarding as the theme for the eighth of what will be 10 murals celebrating Hermosa’s history. So they decided to reach out to a Hermosa native son with punk and art bonafides: Raymond Pettibon, brother of Black Flag founder Greg Ginn and designer of the band’s now-omnipresent “bars” logo. The only problem was that no one knew how to get in touch with Pettibon, who now resides in New York City, and whose stature in the art world is high enough that he had a retrospective last year in the New Museum in Manhattan. So Schmeltzer reached out to a New…
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