Grateful Dead backbeat and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame recipient Mickey Hart has announced a one-of-kind art exhibit and digital auction in collaboration with Terrapin Station Entertainment. Available for one week only, the not-to-be-missed event celebrates Dead & Company’s Dead Forever Experience as Las Vegas’ state-of-the-art Sphere venue and Jerry Garcia’s birthday on Aug. 1. 

Now through August 3, fans of Hart’s vibrational expressionist practice can view his art via the Art At The Edge of Magic Exhibit at The Venetian in Las Vegas or online, where bids can be placed on four unique paintings. Included is “Da Bolt,” a 30 x 30-inch acrylic painting that centers the Dead’s signature 13-point lightning bolt with radiating lines of green, blue, and purple emanating from the center.

Contrived from oil paints, “Da Blues” represents Hart’s abstract side through the deliberate use of organic merging of color and line. Striking blue tones seem to emulate a cosmic look at the Earth’s waterways while piercing red spreads like wildfire across a global landscape. “Smokin’ Rhythms” captures the pulse of paint on canvas with speckles of color seemingly spontaneously applied, in addition to “Token Rhythm,” which could easily be the sister piece to the former. 

Connecting his music and art practice, Hart said in a 2023 Relix interview, “I sometimes even paint at night when I’m deep into a project because it reflects back into the music—one feeds the other. It’s not any different from what I do in my day job. It’s the visual component to it.” Read the complete conversation here. 

Visit edgeofmagicauction.com to view artworks up for bid. For folks in or headed to Las Vegas for the second to last Dead Forever weekend at Sphere, Hart’s exhibit is on display at the Venetian through Aug. 3.