Chuck Sperry

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.

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Chuck Sperry’s Danaïde Blotter EQL Release

“Danaïde” Blotter 2026 • Edition of 300 • 6.25 x 9 • Shakedown Gallery • (without border)
Perforated into 900 quarter-inch squares • Signed and Numbered

In celebration of Bicycle Day 2026, I released my newest blotter “Danaïde” through Shakedown Gallery – now I’m making it available to my friends and supporters through EQL!

I will make a limited online launch of “Danaïde” through EQL opening on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Friday, May 29, 2026 at 9 pm PST. The ballot will be open for 36 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.

You are free to register once for the launch. Multiple entries per launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 blotter from the live launch within this 36 hour period. One per household.

Join the Launch, countdown, and Set a “Notify Me” Reminder:

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“Danaïde” wears early spring flowers and carries her terracotta amphora decorated with the winged horse Pegasus. As Pegasus stamps the earth, so bursts a spring; as Hippocrene flows on Mt Helicon, so flows inspiration from the source of the muses.

The myth of the 50 Danaïdes, condemned for all eternity to toil, to endlessly carry water to fill a leaking vessel. Sisyphus fated to bear his heavy stone uphill, only to lose his burden near the hilltop, and to begin again. 

This is our struggle for equal rights, for our democracy. To paraphrase Albert Camus: the struggle itself — to continually work to fill the leaking jar — is enough to fill her heart. One must imagine the Danaïdes happy.

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AVAILABLE NOW: Sperry’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Poster

Midsummer Night’s Dream 2026
22 x 33
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

AVAILABLE NOW:  Sperry’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Poster

AVAILABLE NOW: “Midsummer Night’s Dream” original work by Chuck Sperry, created especially for Fort Wayne Ballet  — a very limited allotment from an edition of 300 posters.

This one-of-a-kind piece brings a bold, contemporary vision to Shakespeare’s enchanted world, and we’re so excited to share it with you. In tandem with this special collaboration, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art is exhibiting  “Chuck Sperry: Archetypes”, a stunning new exhibition by Sperry celebrating the Greek Muses—on view through August 9.

The poster launch opens on Friday, May 22, 2026 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Sunday, May 24, 2026 at 9 pm PST. The poster launch will be open for 60 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase. Multiple entries per launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 poster from the live launch within this 60 hour period. One per household.

Visit the launch page for the release:

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“Chuck Sperry: Archetypes” Shows in Paris

“Chuck Sperry: Archetypes”
Art Génération • Paris
67 rue de la Verrerie 75004
June 13, 2026 – August 1, 2026
Opening: Saturday, June 13 – 6-10pm

“Chuck Sperry: Archetypes” shows in Paris!

ART GENERATION, PARIS is proud to present CHUCK SPERRY: ARCHETYPES, a watershed exhibition devoted to the artist’s decades long exploration of the archetypes of Greek mythology. The exhibit serves as a visual dialogue with the ideals that helped to shape the philosophical foundations of modern democracy.

Following Chuck Sperry’s exhibition this year at Fort Wayne Museum of Art & the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York — Paris will get a comprehensive gallery exhibition of dozens of Sperry’s world-renown original screen printed wood panels — and the international premier release of Sperry’s new 680 page art compendium Archetypes, The Sperry Art Print Archive 2009-2026.

With an eye to the democratizing influence of Sperry’s provocative printmaking on the art world, Sperry will be releasing:

New panels editions of 30: Juno, Courage, Pseudea, Iphigenia, Soeurs Jumelles, Danaïde, Love

A selection of archive wood panels
2 new Sperry Collectible Art Card sets

Paper prints:
Recent archive prints and posters!
Empathy (Oversize) 2025, edition of 200
Courage (Oversize) 2025, edition of 200
Midsummer Night’s Dream 2026, edition of 300 (variants: Sparkle foil, Lava foil) 

International Premier of Sperry’s new 680 page art book: Archetypes, The Sperry Art Print Archive 2009-2026

— and making them accessible and available to the public at ART GENERATION, PARIS — opening June 13, 2026.

Chuck Sperry, world famous rock concert poster maker for 30 years, renown for making posters for Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, U2, Pearl Jam, The Beastie Boys, and The Black Keys. His personal art practice is moving him beyond master poster designer and printmaker — to art world phenomenon — his art pieces moving into the “urban art” genre. Beginning in 2009, many of Sperry’s art prints began to feature images of muses from Greek mythology, and are well received whether on auction or in galleries.

Sperry adds, “My posters and prints circulate through music venues, festivals, protests, and community gatherings like ritual objects—seeds sown across a cultural landscape. They carry archetypal meaning into shared spaces, encouraging viewers to see themselves as participants in this ongoing democratic experiment.”

“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

“Through the years my work has become a multi-various host of archetypes which unfolded organically through a long series of art prints. Archetypes is the synthesis of this journey: the illuminating path connecting personal and social catharsis,” says Chuck Sperry. “I believe that the gods and goddesses are attributes of the mind. What may appear on the face of things like a variety of pagan reverence is really a celebration of the human spirit.”

Read some French Press about the show:

JDS • Art Essentiel • L’Officiel des spectacles

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“Archetypes” Chuck Sperry Store Release Open Now

We would like to thank everyone who acquired Chuck Sperry’s new book during the successful EQL Premier Release the weekend of May 1 — your book is presently shipping to you. The response is overwhelmingly great!

Chuck Sperry is releasing his gorgeous new art book Archetypes, The Sperry Art Print Archive 2009-2026 in the Chuck Sperry Store, where it is now available through convenient purchase and check-out. Visit Sperry’s website store for the start to the online store book release in the US! Buy Now!

Archetypes, The Sperry Art Print Archive 2009-2026 is a complete collection of decades of the influential artist’s print work; it follows his trajectory from master poster designer and printmaker to art world phenomenon.

Archetypes gathers together all of Sperry’s masterfully screen printed wood panels, art prints, paintings, and tapestries of contemporary-classical muses: work inspired by the humanist spirit of the Greek mythology, urban art, and the utopian ethos of 1960s psychedelia. 100+ artworks paired with the prose or poem — from Homer to George Orwell — that inspired each. Ten sensitively captured photo stories by Shaun Roberts give the reader an intimate portrait of the artist at work and on exhibition in museums, galleries, and art spaces worldwide. Parallel to Sperry’s achievement of mainstream recognition, his history of social engagement and mythic exploration is illuminated throughout the 680 page compendium. Finally, a comprehensive presentation of every classic Sperry art work in his quest to forge a hopeful and fresh artistic vision, with a wide variety of insight provided by art critic Steven Heller, NYT bestselling author Charles Bock, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, and contemporary art curator Josef Zimmerman of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

The impetus to create this exhaustively complete book originates with the creation of an extensive special permanent collection of Sperry’s art to enter the archives of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

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Chuck Sperry’s “Archetypes” EQL Premiere Release May 1, 2026

Chuck Sperry will release his gorgeous new art book Archetypes, The Sperry Art Print Archive 2009-2026 at his upcoming watershed retrospective museum solo at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. In case you can’t attend my museum opening, I’m offering Archetypes to my friends and supporters in the US, launching Friday, May 1, 2026 at 9 am PST!

The book launch opens on Friday, May 1, 2026 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Monday, May 4, 2026 at 9 pm PST. The book launch will be open for 72 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase. Multiple entries per launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 book from the live launch within this 72 hour period. One per household.

Visit the launch page for the release (Set a reminder – join the countdown and launch):

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US book sales will open on Chuck Sperry’s Store — after the Archetypes EQL Premiere Release concludes. 

International book release to be announced in mid-May!
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Archetypes, The Sperry Art Print Archive 2009-2026 is a complete collection of decades of the influential artist’s print work; it follows his trajectory from master poster designer and printmaker to art world phenomenon.

Archetypes gathers together all of Sperry’s masterfully screen printed wood panels, art prints, paintings, and tapestries of contemporary-classical muses: work inspired by the humanist spirit of the Greek mythology, urban art, and the utopian ethos of 1960s psychedelia. 100+ artworks paired with the prose or poem — from Homer to George Orwell — that inspired each. Ten sensitively captured photo stories by Shaun Roberts give the reader an intimate portrait of the artist at work and on exhibition in museums, galleries, and art spaces worldwide. Parallel to Sperry’s achievement of mainstream recognition, his history of social engagement and mythic exploration is illuminated throughout the 680 page compendium. Finally, a comprehensive presentation of every classic Sperry art work in his quest to forge a hopeful and fresh artistic vision, with a wide variety of insight provided by art critic Steven Heller, NYT bestselling author Charles Bock, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, and contemporary art curator Josef Zimmerman of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

The impetus to create this exhaustively complete book originates with the creation of an extensive special permanent collection of Sperry’s art to enter the archives of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

Archives

Sperry Books: “Color x Color” • “Helikon” • “Chthoneon” • “Idyllion”

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