Collection: Rockin' Jelly Bean / Erostika

Rockin' Jelly Bean began his career in Tokyo in 1990, working in the low-brow tradition of artists such as Ed Roth, Robert Williams and Robert Crumb, whose influence runs through his line and colour. A move to the United States in 1996 took him into the Los Angeles low brow art scene, where he showed in group exhibitions alongside artists including Coop and Kozik and set up the label Erosty Pop.

After seven years in Los Angeles he produced the Erostika shop in Harajuku in 2004, and Erostika became the home of his own label, built on the theme of being totally shameless, dirty and obscene, with posters and apparel at its centre. His work has since moved across independent and major projects, at home and abroad, and into the world of contemporary art.

This collection brings together the Rockin' Jelly Bean and Erostika pieces we hold: numbered silkscreen prints, posters, apparel and collaborations, from gig and gallery editions to licensed character work. In our handling, the edition number, the signature, the paper and the frame are the details to check first. Our Rockin' Jelly Bean guide to editions, prints and collaborations explains how we read them, and the silkscreen print entry in our Lexicon covers the process itself.

Read next: the companion Erostika shelf. In the Lexicon: offset print. New to the archive? Start here or browse the Lexicon A–Z.