Chuck Sperry

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“The Roots” Poster

“The Roots” – art & rock show – Firehouse, Jacknife, Chase Marshall and Jorge Gamboa

Bands: Burnt House and Hogwind

Edition of 125

22 x 31

5 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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I had the great pleasure to meet Teresa Nittolo, who is the present-day owner of The Original Firehouse, the root of the Firehouse in The Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company. I am happy to announce that I am having an art show at The Original Firehouse, the very place where Ron Donovan and I got our artistic start. This is a very rare opportunity to visit the place where The Firehouse began – a return to The Roots.

“The Roots” Art Show

Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company, Jacknife Posters (UK), Jorge Gamboa (paintings), Chase Marshall (handmade lamps and art)

Bands have been added! We’ll rock out to Burnt House and Hogwind

The Original Firehouse, 1648 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6pm until late.

I will be exhibiting rare and formerly unavailable posters and prints for this very special evening!

Teresa Nittolo plans to continue this artistic tradition, as quoted in The Bold Italic (February 17, 2012), she “plans to make Firehouse a multifaceted space that would include a café with outdoor seating, a small but well-curated library, a market-like area of rotating local vendors and artisans, a massive event space upstairs, and a rooftop garden. They are staring down the home stretch and they need their community’s support to get them across the finish line. Their dream is big and has come with even bigger challenges, but it’s wholly committed to bringing people together to create an inspiring story and space.”

Unfortunately, Firehouse 8 has gone into foreclosure (THEY ONLY HAVE UNTIL MARCH 8th) and Teresa and Gavin need help to hold onto it and bring their big dreams into reality. Angel investors take note. If this building goes into foreclosure, it will most certainly never be an art space again. Teresa is so very close! She needs your help! Help keep the Firehouse 8 Project alive and heading towards success!! Donate funds to the IndieGoGo campaign, or if you can offer your services or support in any other way please email Teresa at [email protected].

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Widespread Panic Wood Tour Variant Editions

Widespread Panic Wood Tour

Artist Proof Edition

22 x 31

6 colors on archival cream paper

Signed / Artist Proof

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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Widespread Panic Wood Tour

Pine Wood Grain Edition

22 x 31

6 colors on pine wood grain paper

Signed and Numbered

Edition of 25

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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Widespread Panic Wood Tour

Birch Wood Grain Edition

22 x 31

6 colors on birch wood grain paper

Signed and Numbered

Edition of 25

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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Widespread Panic Wood Tour

Wood Grain Foil Edition

22 x 31

6 colors on wood grain foil

Signed and Numbered

Edition of 25

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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“It’s Only Rock & Roll” Chuck Sperry and Jacknife Posters at Mr. Musichead, Los Angeles

“It’s Only Rock & Roll” Art Show

Chuck Sperry & Jacknife Posters (UK)

Mr. Musichead, 7511 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA – (323) 876-0042

Saturday, March 10, 2012, 7pm until 10pm.

I will be exhibiting rare and formerly unavailable posters and prints for this very special evening!

My good friends Chris Hopewell and John Finch of Jacknife Posters from Bristol, England, are coming to the United States for a visit. We’re having a special party at The Original Firehouse in San Francisco on Thursday, March 8th, and then we’ll be turning the wheel south to Los Angeles for a rare one-night appearance on Saturday, March 10th at Mr. Musichead on West Sunset Boulevard. We’re on our way to Austin, Texas for Flatstock 33 at the SXSW Music Festival. Chris Hopewell recently completed a movie as co-director with Crispin Mills, called “A Fantastic Fear of Everything.” starring Simon Pegg. So we’re having a special party in Los Angeles to celebrate – please come and join us.

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“The Roots” Firehouse Poster Show in San Francisco at The Original Firehouse

I had the great pleasure to meet Teresa Nittolo, who is the present-day owner of The Original Firehouse, the root of the Firehouse in The Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company. I am happy to announce that I am having an art show at The Original Firehouse, the very place where Ron Donovan and I got our artistic start. This is a very rare opportunity to visit the place where The Firehouse began – a return to The Roots.

“The Roots” Art Show

Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company, Jacknife Posters (UK), Jorge Gamboa (paintings), Chase Marshall (handmade lamps and art)

The Original Firehouse, 1648 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6pm until late.

I will be exhibiting rare and formerly unavailable posters and prints for this very special evening!

 

The Firehouse located at 1648 Pacific Avenue is a landmark building built in 1917; I had the privilege to make silkscreened rock poster there from 1997-2001. I came to love this building. This lovely place was a great source of inspiration.   This crucial jump-start to my artistic career gave me the firm foundation for my recent achievements, exhibiting at the SFMOMA last year, representation at Varnish Fine Art Gallery, inclusion in SCOPE Miami / Art Basel last year, my large exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library and inclusion in their Art, Music and History Archive, and inclusion of my posters in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Teresa Nittolo plans to continue this artistic tradition, as quoted in The Bold Italic (February 17, 2012), she “plans to make Firehouse a multifaceted space that would include a café with outdoor seating, a small but well-curated library, a market-like area of rotating local vendors and artisans, a massive event space upstairs, and a rooftop garden. They are staring down the home stretch and they need their community’s support to get them across the finish line. Their dream is big and has come with even bigger challenges, but it’s wholly committed to bringing people together to create an inspiring story and space.”

Unfortunately, Firehouse 8 has gone into foreclosure (THEY ONLY HAVE UNTIL MARCH 8th) and Teresa and Gavin need help to hold onto it and bring their big dreams into reality. Angel investors take note. If this building goes into foreclosure, it will most certainly never be an art space again. Teresa is so very close! She needs your help! Help keep the Firehouse 8 Project alive and heading towards success!! Donate funds to the IndieGoGo campaign, or if you can offer your services or support in any other way please email Teresa at [email protected].

Photos: Chip Walker

I will be exhibiting rare and formerly unavailable posters and prints for this very special evening!

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Free University Art School “Occupy Art” with Jon-Paul Bail

The Free University of San Francisco aims to make the highest level of education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or immigration status—a university free of money, taught for free. The only requirement for membership is a desire to teach and/or a desire to learn.

Jon-Paul Bail & Chuck Sperry, “Occupy Art,”  Free University Art School Event

Every Sunday, February 5, 2012 through March 4, 2012 – 2:30PM to 5PM

Viracocha

998 Valencia Street (at 21st Street)

San Francisco, CA

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Course Description:

The Free University Art School is very proud to present Jon-Paul Bail prolific Bay Area artist who uses the streets of the world as his canvas. Since last year’s brilliant presentation – street action / wheat paste demonstration – at the Free University, Jon-Paul Bail has been extremely active making a series of “Hella Occupy” posters for the Occupy movement across the length and breadth of California. Based in the East Bay, “JP” set up a print station on site at Oscar Grant Plaza and the heart of the Occupy Oakland movement in the first days people gathered there. He began producing thousands of posters which have become iconographic to this historical event. As the movement spread and touched similar gatherings and actions across California, “JP” travelled and set up his mobile propaganda studio, printing at Occupy Oakland, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Occupy San Francisco. Jon-Paul discusses his motivations, methods and will bring our art class to a live on-site, print-making session at the Occupy Education action scheduled for March 1st – location to be disclosed later. Chuck Sperry and Jon-Paul Bail are collaborating on a poster design which will be printed in quantity in the class, and later printed live at the Occupy Education demonstration scheduled for March 1, 2012.

Come early / limited room!

Jon-Paul Bail / Chuck Sperry Collaboration in process:

Here is a sampling of posters Jon-Paul is presenting to the class – which he designed, printed and collaborated on:

 

Bio:

Jon-Paul Bail (JP) founded Political Gridlock in 1991 and has been posting street art ever since.  JP’s work is branded by strong cohesive messages and relevant imagery, putting a funny and sometimes shocking spin on popular culture.  His work reference issues that are based in local, national and global communities.  His first company was called Reagan Wear and was co-founded with Ron Donovan from The Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company.  Having studied silk-screening with Malaquias Montoya at California College of the Arts from 1986 – 1989, JP graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991.  His poster titled Inhail to the Chief , which depicts Barrack Obama smoking a blunt, was featured in rap artist E-40′s music video featuring Dem Boyz in 2010.  He has done print work for Winston Smith and Emory Douglas and has shown work in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Rome, Italy.  JP’s art is in the collections of the Legion of Honor, Oakland Museum, and Center for the Study of Political Graphics and has been published in four political art books (Yo! What Happened to Peace, Reproduce and Revolt and two editions of Paper Politics).

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