A LEGENDARY SPIN ON FINE ART EXHIBIT SHOWCASES MUSIC INDUSTRY WORKS.

Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer

GLENDALE - Visual art created for album covers, magazines and publicity departments is getting noticed - after years of riding back seat to the music - at the ``Revolutions'' music industry art exhibit, which opened to the public Sunday.

The exhibit at Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale features a wide range of historic images, including a psychedelic Jimi Hendrix concert poster; a pastoral portrait of country singer Loretta Lynn; album covers for Pink Floyd; and a photo of the late rapper Eric ``Eazy-E'' Wright.

The show is a rare event for many of the artists, whose work may have been widely seen by music fans but never displayed in a museum.

``Back in the '70s and '60s, people were actually buying albums for the covers. And I guess when CDs started that stopped somewhat,'' said Joan Adan, curator for the exhibit.

With some 150 pieces, the free exhibit occupies three rooms at the museum. One room is dedicated to the album art of Storm Thorgerson, whose work for the band Pink Floyd includes the light-through-a-prism silkscreen for the ``Dark Side of the Moon'' and the cover from ``The Division Bell,'' with two Easter Island-style giant heads facing each other in a field.

Wearing a tie-dyed shirt, Pink Floyd fan Scott Snider, 39, of Sherman Oaks said he learned something about Thorgerson on Sunday.

``I didn't know he did any Zeppelin artwork, and I'm equally as much a Zepphead,'' Snider said.

Doug Schade, 56, stopped by the exhibit on a trip to Forest Lawn to visit family members' graves.

``I like the (photo) of Mick Jagger, 1965; that was a good one,'' Schade said.

While the Thorgerson pieces are in a traveling exhibit that has been included in the ``Revolutions'' show, many of the other pieces are from the artists' own collections.

``Some of the artists, it's the first time they've ever been framed,'' Adan said.

The exhibit opened Sunday, after a concert and reception the evening before, where singer Michelle Shocked performed.

``Revolutions'' is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Forest Lawn Museum at 1712 S. Glendale Ave. Admission is free. It closes Oct. 9.

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(1) Bruce and Jeanne Minnear, with son William, 10, view album covers by Storm Thorgerson at the ``Revolutions'' music industry art exhibit, which opened Sunday at Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale.

(2) Photographs of Bob Dylan and other rock icons taken by Guy Webster are part of the ``Revolutions'' exhibit that runs through Oct. 9 in Glendale.

Evan Yee/Staff Photographer