Thus, the effect of community follows Ed into Utah, and his creative production comes to shape that place as well."Ī convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1975, Roth didn't just pay lip service to his faith but actively embraced it while continuing his design work.
"Within that time frame, Ed Roth emerged as both a regional and an international artist who not only stood as an icon for custom car ethos and all the alternative subculture that came with it, but also, his legacy has come to shape and inform the small town of Manti with the annual Rat Fink car show and reunion. "I was involved with the Granary when I curated their inaugural exhibition, so their mission-to exhibit local, regional and international artists, with particular attention to place and community-had been on my mind," she recalls.
For Laura Allred Hurtado, global acquisition art curator for the LDS Church History Museum, who is guest curating the exhibit, it was a bit of a stretch from her usual subject matter, but she found commonalities in his work. The exhibit Rat Fink! collects the art of Roth-in addition to fellow hot-rodder Von Dutch and outsider artist/ Juxtapoz Magazine founder Robert Williams-for the first time in Utah, at the Granary Art Center in Ephraim. But there's another side to the larger-than life figure, who was a Utah resident, living in Manti until his death in 2001. Roth was known for his instrumental role in the car culture of the period with his eye-popping, outlandish custom car designs, as well as cartoon characters like Rat Fink-a crazed rodent with a manic, ravenous grin and bulging eyeballs-a weirdo answer to Mickey Mouse. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth: You're probably familiar with the name, especially if you're 40 or older, and had any interest in the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s.
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