Serigraphie Populaire (Seripop) is the Montreal-based design team of Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau. The couple of over four years, both musicians and music lovers, started merging their design and drawing talents into unique rock posters in March of 2002. Their distinctive style has graced posters for no-wave, noise rock and indie bands (such as Black Dice, US Maple, Lightning Bolt, Unicorns, Yo La Tengo, Hot Hot Heat, An Albatross, Black Eyes and Daughters), as well as promo pieces for art shows and music festivals.

When they aren’t working, Chloe and Yannick entertain themselves by staying home with their cats and collections of books and records, hosting dinner parties for friends, going to shows, playing music – in their noise rock band, AIDS Wolf – and watching old movies by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sam Peckinpah, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Otto Preminger and Francois Truffaut.

Presently, the two are keeping busy working on a number of projects for 2004, including a series of six full-tour poster designs (the first for the Chinese Stars/Daughters tour; the second, An Albatross), art prints, merchandise and album cover designs, and Black Rainbow – a mail-based media/art co-op with members in the United States, Canada, and France.

Seripop will be joining other artists for group shows in Washington D.C. (Gleaming the screen: an exbition of silkscreen poster art at Transformer Gallery Feb 7th-March 6th and Lubbock, TX, and at SHAZAM!: Contemporary Artists and the Influence of Comics, installed February 5th through March 7th at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD. Their work will also be showing at Montreal’s Casa del Popolo in April and at Chicago’s Foundation Gallery from March 26th through April 18th.
(bio written by Sara Plourde)