Chuck Sperry

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Widespread Panic Oakland Poster

I would like to give a huge thank you to the hundreds of fans who lined up starting on Thursday morning until the opening on Friday noon for my Open House and Widespread Panic poster retrospective. I am very thankful to my friends, Carlos Hernandez and John Hancock, who came from Texas to make a wonderful print demonstration sponsored by Speedball Inks. Special Guest Bill Ham, thank you for your wonderful light painting installation and participation. I am grateful for the awesome staff who watched the door, manned the booth, and kept the spirit upbeat and really fun! I’ll be posting photos of the event this coming week – and yes! – photos of the variant editions – soon!

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Widespread Panic Oakland
34 x 22
Edition of 625
8 colors on archival cream paper
Signed and Numbered

I will be making a very limited release of artist proofs of this poster and variants editions on Sunday, April 6, 2014 at a random time.

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Chuck Sperry 311 Day New Orleans Poster Release Information

I had the great pleasure to design and print the official 311 Day 2014, New Orleans Poster. I created a goddess of spring with lilies (symbol of New Orleans) exploding in her hair, and handprinted this poster myself with my custom mixed heavy metallics and translucent ink tinting. Poster details and release information below.

311-REG

Official 311 Day 2014, New Orleans
Artist Edition of 60
18 x 33
6 colors on archival cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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311-GOLD

Official 311 Day 2014, New Orleans
Gold Edition of 12
18 x 33
6 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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311-WAVE-FOIL

Official 311 Day 2014, New Orleans
Wave Foil Edition of 12
18 x 33
6 colors on wave foil paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” Release Info

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“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” – Regular
20″ x 28″
Edition of 200
5 colors on archival cream paper
Artist signed and hand numbered
Printed by Hangar 18

Sold Out – Thank You!

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“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” – Variant
20″ x 28″
Gold Edition of 40
5 colors on gold metallic paper
Artist signed and hand numbered
Printed by Hangar 18

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Umphrey’s McGee Oakland Poster

UMPHREY-REGULAR

Umphrey’s McGee at The Fox Theater, Oakland
22 x 33
Edition of 325
7 colors on archival cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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UMPHREY-GOLD

Umphrey’s McGee at The Fox Theater, Oakland
22 x 33
Gold Edition of 12
7 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Sperry Print Reveal for Spoke Art Gallery’s “In Dreams: an art show tribute to the films of David Lynch”

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I am very proud to announce I will be taking part in Spoke Art Gallery’s March exhibition, “In Dreams: an art show tribute to the films of David Lynch” – opening Saturday March 8th 2014.

Featuring over 50 painters, print makers and illustrators from around the world, all paying homage to one of the greatest living film directors.

Opening night reception: Saturday, March 8th 2014.

Here’s a preview of my art for the exhibition which will be available exclusively through Spoke Art Gallery on March 8, 2014 (online soon after!):

REGULAR

“In Dreams, David Lynch”
18 x 35
Regular Edition of 80
Heavy metallic silver and three tints on metallic anthracite paper
Signed and numbered
INSTELLAR-BLUE
“In Dreams, David Lynch”
18 x 35
Interstellar Blue Edition of 25
Heavy metallic silver and three tints on metallic blue paper
Signed and numbered
SATIN-BLACK
“In Dreams, David Lynch”
18 x 35
Satin Black Edition of 15
Heavy metallic silver and three tints on satin black paper
Signed and numbered
LYNCH-WOOD-PANEL
“In Dreams, David Lynch”
18 x 35
Birch Panel Edition of 5
Acrylic & heavy metallic silver and three tints on birch panel
Signed and numbered
(framed)
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In my print “In Dreams, David Lynch” I made subtle reference to Milton Glaser’s portrait of Bob Dylan with my treatment of Mr. Lynch’s hair.  I slanted the tonality of this portrait toward monochrome to reflect David Lynch’s groundbreaking early black and white films Eraserhead andThe Elephant Man. I made this choice to refer, not only to David Lynch’s legendary and iconographic status as a cultural oracle, but also as homage to Mr. Glaser and to my artistic roots in rock’n’roll printmaking.

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