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Archives for November 2024

November 19, 2024 By squirt

Sperry Opens Show in Paris at L’Oeil Ouvert December 14

FUTURE IN THE BALANCE
The Art of Chuck Sperry

14 December 2024 to 31 January 2025
Opening: Saturday, December 14

L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery
1 rue Lucien Sampaix
75010 Paris (metro: République)

PARIS, FRANCE: My solo exhibition “Future In The Balance” opens Saturday, December 14 and will be on view through January 31, 2025 at L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery, Paris where I will be showing new works, archive rarities, test prints and wood panels. 

“The artworks featured in the “Future In The Balance” exhibition reach for a personal politics, a deeper connection to change and evolution, by connecting with the archetypes at the foundation of our humanist experiment in democracy. I have always maintained that beauty strengthens my message. My current work has much more to do with symmetry and proportion, color and balance. It’s a utopian provocation; while the present era couldn’t be more off balance, more dystopian. I want my work to provoke meditation and emotional responses to its clear colors, balance and symmetry — to give courage, light and beauty to all of us trapped in an ugly historical moment. I think of my work from the last few years as defiant in these dark times. I like to think I give people courage through it. It gives me courage to work on it.” – Chuck Sperry

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Joy, 2024
20 x 30
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Informed by art historical figures such as Gustave Moreau and William Morris, combined with poetry and Greek Mythology, Chuck Sperry has cultivated a distinct style brimming with exuberance and energy. Refining his vision through his masterful printing expertise, Sperry creates ethereal and psychedelically saturated screen prints that draw crowds of dedicated fans around the world.

Creating work for musicians such as Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Patti Smith and The Black Keys in addition to his fine art screen prints on wood panel and paper, Chuck Sperry has also used his artwork for social activism and change. The artist describes his political participation – “Freedom of Speech is our most powerful weapon, and it’s a driving force in my art.”

Chuck Sperry splits his time between his home in Grasse, France and his home in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco where he is inspired by the natural settings and flower power of both.

Pneuma, 2024
30 x 20
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Arts Spectacles Paris, Future In The Balance, l'Oeil Ouvert, Muses, Paris, Sortir a Paris

November 15, 2024 By squirt

Sperry x Harman Projects x CONTEXT: Art Miami 2024

Joy, 2024
20 x 30
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Pneuma, 2024
30 x 20
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Home Show, A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, 2024
19 x 35
Artist Edition of 100
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

 

HARMAN PROJECTS • CONTEXT: Art Miami

Booth A16

Harman Projects is pleased to be returning to CONTEXT: Art Miami for Miami Art Week 2024. We will be located at booth A16 which will be familiar to those who visited us last year at the fair so if you’re in town we hope to see you there!

Featuring:
Esao Andrews | BEZT | DALeast | Mark Drew | Alison Friend | Frank Gonzales | Aaron Horkey | Sarah Joncas | Josh Keyes | Scott Listfield | Louis Michel | Chuck Sperry | Martin Whatson | Martin Wittfooth | Hama Woods

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

Dates:
Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday December 3, 2024 | 11:00am – 1:00pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday December 3, 2024 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm

General Admission:
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | 4:00pm – 9:00pm
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Thursday, December 5, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Friday, December 6, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, December 7, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, December 8, 2023 |  11:00am – 6:00pm

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Harman Projects

November 12, 2024 By squirt

Sperry’s “RATIFIED” Poster • Online Launch with EQL

Ratified, 2024
21 x 31.5
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

I am honored to have been asked to create a poster for RATIFIED, a documentary film directed by Deborah Riley Draper and Sabaah Folayan currently premiering across the United States, and soon to be shown nationally on PBS. My poster was available at the San Francisco screening I organized, hosted by Spoke Art at the Roxie Theater. My limited edition, screen printed RATIFIED poster is now available online to my friends and supporters by EQL launch.

RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality, an inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.  It’s also a story of how bureaucracy is used to stifle progress, and it takes a close look at the incredible perseverance of women – specifically, the Black women leaders who have taken their rightful place at the front of the movement for gender equality. Our impact campaign will activate 15,000,000 Americans on the issue of gender equality. 

A portion of money raised from the sale of my RATIFIED poster goes to Vote Equality to support the urgent effort to publish the ERA.

I will make a limited online launch of my RATIFIED poster through EQL opening on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 9 pm PST. The ballot will be open for 60 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase. There will be one live launch for the “RATIFIED” poster. You are free to register once for the launch. Multiple entries for the launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 poster from the live launch within this 60 hour period. One per household.

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We have less than 70 days to demand publication of the 28th Amendment (Equal Rights). The Equal Rights Amendment, now our 28th Amendment, has met all constitutional requirements, according to the American Bar Association. President Biden has one last chance to stand for the equity and equality this amendment would provide all Americans, especially women and the LGBTQIA+ community. President Biden simply has to tell the Archivist to PUBLISH EQUALITY in the Constitution. Join us and activate.

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Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Artists 4 ERA, ERA, Ratified, Vote Equality US

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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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