

Play Guitar: The art of being what you're not
As printed in the summer edition of Art & Museum Magazine Movies, television and songs often inspire the formation of additional pieces of popular culture. The Kris Gebhardt painting, Play Guitar, was not only influenced by John Mellencamp’s hit “Play Guitar” but also born of Gebhardt’s past life as the singer-songwriter and fellow Indiana native’s trainer.
After a heart attack in the mid 1990s, Mellencamp enlisted the aid of then fitness author and trainer, Gebhardt. Melle