The rock poster art of Randy Tuten is among the most skillful and sophisticated work of its kind to emerge from the psychedelic era. While lacking the personal and social resonance common to the output of his contemporaries, his pieces possess a rare sense of craft and clarity grounded firmly in the traditions of classic commercial advertising. A native of San Francisco born September 28, 1946, Tuten was raised in Los Angeles, where his ongoing obsessions throughout childhood remained drawing and surfing. While in high school he enrolled in elective advertising courses, developing the taste for commercial art that influenced his later professional work; he also frequently cut class to attend area gallery shows.