Friday Mar 06, 2026
Larry Vigon + David Ellis: Aquean
Larry Vigon built his name at the center of rock history, designing more than 200 iconic album covers for artists including Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Counting Crows, Bonnie Raitt, and Eric Clapton, earning induction into the Album Cover Hall of Fame in 2020. Today, the Santa Barbara-based designer and fine artist channels that same visual instinct into books, posters, and gallery work, all of which are shaped by decades of curiosity, music, and image-making.
David Ellis began as a studio session musician, playing drums for Eric Carmen, Tom Snow, and B.B. King and Charles Brown. He moved towards a career in photojournalism before moving into environmental and fine art photography. His award-winning series Lobospheres earned international recognition, including a 2025 Gold Award at the Japan International Art Exchange in Tokyo, and reflects his evolution into photographic expressionism—reshaping coastal landscapes into emotional terrain that complements Vigon’s design-driven sensibility and underscores a long friendship rooted in shared creative curiosity.
Their new Santa Barbara exhibition weaves together Aquean, Flotsam & Jetsam, and Ellis’ Lobospheres into a meditation on California’s coastline as both subject and metaphor. Through large-scale prints, dimensional collage, found objects, and expressionist photography, the ocean becomes archive and eraser—holding memory even as it signals impermanence. At the center is Point Lobos, where Ellis’ mythic forms emerge from tar-streaked stone against the stark reality of rising sea levels, while the broader collection drifts between permanence and loss, beauty and erosion. The result is a show that feels both reverent and urgent, asking viewers to reconsider what endures—and what may soon vanish—along the Pacific edge.
OPENING: THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 4:30-6:30 pm
ARTIST’S TALK: THURSDAY, APRIL 16, Reception 6:15 pm, Talk begins at 7:00 pm.
EXHIBITION DATES: APRIL 9 - JULY 26
MORE INFORMATION: SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM
LARRY VIGON’S WEBSITE - https://www.larryvigon.com/
DAVID ELLIS’ WEBSITE -https://www.daellisphoto.com/
Chapters
00:00 The Call of the Ocean
10:55 Art and Nature: A Creative Journey
18:06 The Lost Souls of Point Lobos
31:18 Finding Inspiration in Everyday Objects
42:13 The Art of Distortion in Photography
48:40 The Role of Viewer Interpretation in Art
49:35 Embracing Mistakes in the Creative Process
01:05:06 Collaboration and Inspiration in Art
01:09:15 Dreams and Their Influence on Art
01:13:52 The Upcoming Exhibit: Aquian Impressions
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