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Archives for February 2017

February 13, 2017 By squirt

Sperry “Justice” On View At Fort Wayne Museum Of Art In Permanent Collection

A Year of Making Meaning: New Additions to the Collection 2016
December 10, 2016 – March 5, 2017

“A Year of Making Meaning: New Additions to the Collection 2016 showcases the highlights of works FWMoA has acquired in its permanent collection over the last year.

The artwork selected gives an overview of our recent focus in collecting. While we are always on the hunt for great works of art, our recent collecting focus includes contemporary glass, photography, and painting; all of which is shown in this gallery. This focus is tied directly to our strategic goal of growing the permanent collection with objects of diverse media and maker.

Another aspect highlighted in A Year of Making Meaning is the way in which we expand our collection. Acquisition occurs through gifts or donations from collectors, and purchases directly from artists, galleries, and auction houses.

Through these various avenues of procurement we have opportunities to continually make strategic purchases for the collection. As a museum we are committed to collecting, preserving, and presenting American and related art to engage and educate you, our audience. This exhibition allows us to share with you the numerous works in our collection that may not always be on public display. As our collection grows, we take pride in sharing our treasures with you and future generations of art lovers in our region.” – FWMOA

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February 10, 2017 By squirt

“Have a Heart for Students” Art Auction

I’ve donated a set of my Jerry Garcia Art Prints to California State University Monterey Bay “Have a Heart for Students” Art Auction

Ends February 17th at 9:00pm EST

On Saturday, February 18, 2017, CSUMB will celebrate the 19th Annual Have a Heart for Students Dinner & Auction, CSU Monterey Bay’s largest student fundraiser. Your support in this ever growing and important event has allowed us to make education possible for countless students!

Jerry Garcia “Orpheus” auction link

Jerry Garcia “Captain Trips” auction link

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: California State University, Chuck Sperry, Have a Heart for Students, Jerry Garcia, Monterey Bay

February 9, 2017 By squirt

Jerry Garcia “Orpheus” Art Print

Jerry Garcia (Summer), 2017
21 x 32
Edition of 500
9 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

This poster was officially available through the Jerry Garcia Estate.

I will be making my artist copies available only through my art shows and live appearances through the end of 2017.

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In the second print of my portrait series, “Jerry Garcia (Summer)”, I hope to capture the vitality, good humor, and optimism of the Grateful Dead’s lead guitarist and principal vocalist, the one who anchored the concert hall with his good nature, while a wild, free improvisation swirled through him and around him. I wove a psychedelic paisley pattern throughout the design rendered in nine colors, including bright hues, hand-blended metallics and translucent glazes. My aim is to portray the vital Jerry, an “Orpheus” who could charm savage nature with music, a “Dark Star” who journeyed from the Haight-Ashbury to the Pyramids of Egypt.

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Jerry Garcia

February 1, 2017 By squirt

“Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry” On Sale

 

Chuck Sperry’s new book “Helikon” gathers together his masterfully screen printed wood panel series of contemporary-classical muses: work inspired by the spirit of the modern rock poster, graffiti, and the utopian ethos of 1960’s psychedelia.

“Helikon” presents 36 sumptuously photographed Sperrys paired with the prose or poem — from Homer to Nick Cave — that inspired each. Over a  dozen photos by Shaun Roberts give the reader an intimate portrait of the artist at work.

“Helikon” is Sperry’s beautifully designed, hand-bound coda to 5 years of artwork devoted to the perennial theme of Orphic Dionysian mysteries.

Foreward by New York Times’ bestselling author, Charles Bock, Beautiful Children, Alice & Oliver (Random House), and Best of NYC Culture 2016, Village Voice.

Hangar 18 logo


Published by Hangar 18
Foreward by Charles Bock
Hardback Second Edition of 2000 / “Silver Edition”
Silver embossed cover
9 x 12 inches / 136 pages
54 color illustrations
Printed and bound in the United States
ISBN: 978-0-9981407-1-1

This book will be available again after New Years on January 2.

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“Sperry draws from a deep, classical tradition of storytelling to visualize the famed and obscure characters from mythology. He continues by personifying “Music,” “Justice,” and “Equity” — putting faces on the concepts that seem to inspire his work greatly. Vivid and striking, the works inside Helikon are beautiful on the surface, but combined with the text, both classical and modern, they give insight into the muses that drive Sperry to create.” – Liz Ohanesian, Hi-Fructose, The New Contemporary Art Magazine, vol. 43

San Francisco artist Chuck Sperry has earned his right in the rock ‘n roll hall of fame….. not for music but for his incredible talent of designing and silkscreen printing distinctive rock posters, he has a slew of famous names that he has worked with and his artwork has been exhibited at some leading art and music institutions. Chuck has honed his craft to perfection, with 20 years of experience behind him — Kylie Dexter, Beautiful Bizarre

In Helikon, the words transport us, allowing us to see Sperry’s work through fresh, yet ancient, eyes. Importantly, they drive from our minds thoughts of the transitory — that Tethys was first introduced to the world as a Dave Matthews poster; that Artemis and Naiad made their debuts before fans of the Black Keys; that Olympia, Daphne, Semele, and Thalia were Panic ladies before they were Sperry’s muses. — Ben Marks, Wink Books

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Helikon, Muses, The Muses of Chuck Sperry

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About Chuck Sperry

Chuck Sperry lives in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where he’s made his particular style of rock poster designs for over 20 years. He operates Hangar 18, a silkscreen print studio, located in Oakland. Learn More…

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  • Chuck Sperry’s Alice Donut Poster
  • Chuck Sperry’s “The Mystic” & “Iphigenia” Blotters • 
Online Release with EQL
  • Available Now: Chuck Sperry’s Newest Protest Art Poster
  • Sperry Joins “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” Exhibition
  • Chuck Sperry’s “Danaide” • New Art Print Launch

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