Half a mo. Maximum the second.
Ruby Mazur, creator of the Rolling Stones’ lips-and-tongue logo, received a call most artists only dream about.
A native New Yorker and a Las Vegas resident since 2000, Mazur has been invited by the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to show a retrospective exhibition of his entire collection of paintings.
“That’s heavy, man,” Mazur said Thursday. The Whitney is considered among the worlds’ top contemporary museums.
Las Vegans might get first peek at the exhibition. Mazur not only has a one-man exhibition at Art de Vignettes at the Fashion Show Mall on July 22, but the Whitney might launch the exhibition here, Mazur said.
His Stones’ logo was selected in 1971 after Mick Jagger asked Mazur to create it. It made an immediate splash.
“I did it over a weekend and when I took it to his house on Mullholland Drive (in Hollywood), I gave it to him outside by his pool. He got so excited he pushed me, and I fell back into the pool, fully dressed.”
The logo remains the Stones’ emblem.
“It made me,” Mazur said.
He’s done more than 3,000 album covers, including childhood pal Billy Joel ’s “Cold Spring Harbor,” Elton John ’s “Friends,” and the soundtrack album cover and artwork for the advertising campaign for “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”
{ Las Vegas Review Journal, 2000 | Rubymazurgallery.com }
photo { Tim Barber }
