THE JEREMIAH SHOW Featuring Larry Vigon and David Ellis

Aquean is a visually immersive meditation on California’s fragile coastline, where music-world image makers Larry Vigon and David Ellis transform ocean, stone, and memory into a haunting dialogue between beauty and impermanence.

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 Common, 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, 6 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/

LARRY VIGON PHOTO CREDIT: Eric States

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THE JEREMIAH SHOW Featuring Graham Palmer

Redacted Choir Rises: Graham Palmer Channels Atmosphere and Urgency on Blood Waves EP

On California’s Central Coast, composer, producer, designer, and engineer Graham Palmer has built his career around one core idea: sound should serve the story.

A graduate of UC Santa Barbara (B.A. in Film and Media Studies, minor in music) and Berklee College of Music (M.A. in Music Production), Palmer moves fluidly between records, radio, film, theater, and live performance, shaping projects from the inside out with a storyteller’s instinct and a musician’s ear.

Before stepping behind the console as a producer, Palmer spent much of his early adult life on the road as a touring musician with the Mad Caddies, performing in more than 30 countries and contributing to a catalog that has sold over 500,000 albums worldwide. The experience sharpened his sense of collaboration and improvisation—skills that now inform his production work at Surprise Studio, the creative space he built in 2021. There, he composes original music, produces artists, and designs immersive sound for screen and stage, including his recent score and sound design for UC Santa Barbara Theatre Department’s production of Animal Farm, directed by Sara Rademacher.

Palmer is also celebrating the release of Blood Waves EP, a new project created with bandmate Jordan Dalrymple under the name Redacted Choir.

LISTEN - Redacted Choir Blood Waves EP

Whether he’s engineering a podcast, scoring a short film, or producing a full-length album, Palmer keeps the process focused and collaborative. “Whether it’s a podcast, a short film, a live show, or a full album,” he says, “I try to keep the process fun, and rooted in good storytelling.”

Connect with Graham Palmer at graham@surpriseenterprises.com

SURPRISE STUDIO WEBSITE: https://www.surpriseenterprises.com/

Any and all proceeds from the Blood Waves EP will be donated to @immdefense to help protect our communities

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