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Archives for November 2023

November 18, 2023 By squirt

Chuck Sperry’s 50th Anniversary “Fantastic Planet” Poster

La Planète Sauvage, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 200
6 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

I am proud to unveil my very special 50th anniversary poster for Fantastic Planet! I created this to celebrate the 35mm film screening at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco and is limited to only 200 copies.

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.

Online sales begin next week through Spoke Art Gallery. Please make sure you’re on the Spoke Art Gallery email list to receive the latest news: https://spoke-art.com/pages/mailing-list

More info: https://spoke-art.com/…/chuck-sperry-x-fantastic-planet

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Fantastic Planet, La Planète Sauvage, René Laloux, Roland Topor, Roxie Theater, Spoke Art Gallery

November 16, 2023 By squirt

Chuck Sperry with Harman Projects at Context Art Fair During Art Basel Miami Week

Venus, 2023
21 x 34
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

DECEMBER 5 – 10, 2023

Harman Projects is pleased to announce we will be located at booth A15 at CONTEXT: Art Miami  2023!

Address:
The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavillion
One Herald Plaza
NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay
Miami, FL 33132

Dates:
Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday December 5, 2023 | 4:30pm – 6:30pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday December 5 2022 | 6:30pm – 10:00pm

General Admission:
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Thursday, December 7, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Friday, December 8, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, December 9, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, December 10, 2023 |  11:00am – 6:00pm

Featuring solo presentations by:
Cryptik | Mark Drew | Jeremy Fish | Alison Friend | Naoto Hattori | Travis Louie | Kip Omolade | Taylor Schultek | Chuck Sperry | Martin Whatson

With a group presentation featuring:
BEZT | ChrisRWK | Kelsey Beckett | LeCrue Eyebrows | Joey Feldman | David Fullarton | Alex Garant | Frank Gonzales | Sarah Jamison| Blake Jones | Hannah Knox | Michelle Avery Konczyk | Huntz Liu | Caitlin McCormack | Reuben Negron | Hallie Packard | Gary Taxali | Helice Wen | Johnt Wentz | Angela Fang Zirbes

An advance collector’s preview will be available online before the exhibition opens, if you would like to receive a price list please contact us here: If there is a particular artist you are interested in please note that in your email.

https://www.harmanprojects.com/contact

Sappho, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Syrinx, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Salome, 2023
16 x 32
Edition of 30
5 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Magdalena, 2023
18.5 x 32
Edition of 30
5 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Harman Projects, Muses

November 6, 2023 By squirt

Sperry’s Grateful Dead “Bertha” Poster Wins Award

My Grateful Dead “Bertha” Poster has been voted Poster of the Week by Expressobeans members. Thanks to all my supporters, I super appreciate it! Many thanks to Expressobeans.com.

Commissioned with blessings from the Grateful Dead for The Capitol Theatre and Relix Marketplace, my Grateful Dead poster is a celebration of the Capitol Theatre’s early 1970s resurgence as a major psychedelic performance space. Sperry’s poster commemorates the first night of the Dead’s legendary residency at the Capitol Theatre on March 20, 1970.

“Bertha, I think, is probably some vaguer connotation of birth, death, and reincarnation. Cycle of existences, some kind of nonsense like that. I wouldn’t be surprised, but then again, it might not be. I don’t remember.” 

— Robert Hunter

Filed Under: Site Tagged With: Bertha, Capitol Theatre, Chuck Sperry, Expressobeans, Grateful Dead, Poster of the Week, Relix Marketplace

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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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Online Release with EQL
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