February 2, 2019 • The London Times • by Ben Hoyle
Chuck Sperry x Pangea Seed: “The Diver” Art Print
The Diver 2019
16 x 35
Edition of 125
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
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The Diver 2019
16 x 35
Silver Edition of 25
7 colors on silver metallic paper
Signed and Numbered
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The Diver 2019
16 x 35
Gold Edition of 25
7 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered
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PangeaSeed Foundation and artist Chuck Sperry are pleased to announce – a fine art print to help save our seas. This limited edition will be released Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 12pm PST via shop.PangeaSeed.org – limit one print per household.
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My print for PangeaSeed Foundation, “The Diver”, is a celebration of the beauty of the ocean environment and our inter-connected place in it.We are oxygen breathing animals, and we live on land. “The Diver” is leaving her natural habitat to enter a watery world, where she can not survive long for lack of air; there she is surrounded by the beauty and danger of the seas. She is also surrounded by the essence of her life on land.
“The Diver” plunges into the beautiful ocean surrounded by myriad air bubbles. Our ocean environment plays a crucial role in the generation of the majority of Earth’s life-sustaining air. We could not live on land and breathe fresh air without the world’s oceans. 70% of Earth’s oxygen comes from marine plants in our ocean environments. Heat driven loss of ocean oxygen is one of the leading threats to the delicate world biome posed by Climate Change.
It’s clearly time to act. Please be mindful and give your care to the environment. It’s time to do what you can to become a good steward of the environment. I am always happy to contribute my time and energy to PangeaSeed Foundation! Their efforts in helping to save the oceans, thru art and activism, deserve our support and good energies!
I noted in the credit line of my poster: “After Alfred Roller.” The figure of the diver in my print is influenced by a figure in the work of Vienna Secessionist artist Alfred Roller, the brilliant early 20th Century graphic stylist and inventor of the free, flowing typographical fonts that inspired artist Wes Wilson to create psychedelic lettering in the 1960’s.
Read more about the role oceans play in creating the air we breathe:
When a Killer Climate Catastrophe Struck the World’s Oceans
And visit PangeaSeed.org to learn how you can help save our oceans.
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Edwardian Ball 2019 Poster
Edwardian Ball 2019
19 x 35
Edition of 125
3 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
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This poster is officially available at the show in SF and LA. I will be making a very limited online release of this poster on Sunday, January 27, 2019 at a random time.
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It’s Edwardian Ball time again, and as always, it’s a great pleasure to work with Justin Katz, the Edwardian Ball impresario, and once again I had a lot of fun making this poster!
My Edwardian Ball posters always have an edge of social critique in them. They are done with a wink and a nod, in keeping with the enjoyment of attending such an elaborate period pageant.
Most of the attendees also realize that the Edwardian era was one of unabashed and ostentatious oligarchy, unrivaled economic imperialism and a presumed European superiority complex. It’s all of these things that makes the period so bizarre to us today. I’ve always endeavored to reveal this outrageous and bizarre sense of imperial entitlement in my Edwardian Ball posters, and keep them wild and fun.
I try to channel the spirit of our age in a non-linear way with each year’s Edwardian Ball poster, making allegory, or touching a simple parallel between our 21st Century experience and the far-away world of Edwardian “Society.”
2019 was the year we entered “The Post-Truth World.” I’m not buying the ticket to that ride, really-but-really, but it made me think of the eminently Edwardian and irrational — Rasputin — spiritualist, con-man and emotional vampire to the Czar Romanov family.
Spiritualists were fashionable to the ultra-wealthy oligarchs of the period. Rasputin boasted the mirror-image of a perfect pedigree: a peasant and holy man. His ferrel lack of charm and grace was thrilling to the elite circles he traversed in imperial Russia. Rasputin’s folksy and disarming gnosticism was — I’ll use a word we hear a lot today — “unprecedented.”
Clever and conniving, Rasputin snaked away the patronage of Czarina Alexandra Romanov, empress of Russia, with its ability to bestow wealth and prestige. By degrees, he would hold a nation’s leader mesmerized, and participate in bringing about the self-destruction of Russia’s imperial order.
Soon the fabulously wealthy dynastic Romanov family would abdicate their empire, be brought down by the Bolsheviks, become prisoners of the revolution, and be bound for bleak incarceration and execution. I guess the moral is: Don’t be a sucker to a con-man.
“Our Future, Our Democracy” Poster for Women’s March 2019
“Our Future, Our Democracy” 2019
18 x 24
Offset Poster
Signed and Numbered Edition of 200
Sold Out – Thank You!
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Unsigned / un-numbered posters will be distributed in Washington, DC at:
The Outrage
1722 14th Street NW
Washington, DC
Last year’s Women’s March 2018 poster is available HERE • The Outrage donates 100% of all sales of my poster to Planned Parenthood
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I am very proud to contribute my talents and many thousands of posters to the Women’s March January 19, 2019 across the country and in Washington, DC.
My poster will be available through the official Women’s March merchandise and info point in Washington.
It is gratifying to continue in the committed efforts of the women’s movement by working closely with the The Outrage in Washington, DC. The Outrage donates 100% of all sales of my posters to worthy causes, and is working closely with Women’s March and others to leverage the 2019 blue wave take over of the House of Representatives in the United States Congress, and to fight back for our future.
Twiddle New Year’s Eve Poster
Twiddle, Boston, NYE
20.5 x 35
Edition of 400
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
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I will be making a very limited online release of this poster on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at a random time.
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My New Year poster for Twiddle depicts Astraea, the innocent goddess of justice, purity and precision. We’ve lived through enough cruelty and inhumanity in this iron era, and I feel compelled to emphasize the spirit of renewel this new year. Astraea is associated with the constellation Virgo, and in the renaissance – indeed, throughout history – embodies the ethos of spiritual and moral renewal. She appears to humanity in the guise of kindness and care, gentleness and reasonable consideration. You all know me, yes, the eternal optimist; let’s carry the bright torch of humanity, and light the way to a better 2019!
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I would like to welcome a lot of newcomers to my site! I’ll quickly explain how my releases on my website are conducted. The Twiddle poster will be available, right here, in this post on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at a random time. A paypal “Buy Now” button will appear under the poster (above) at a random time, and I will announce the price of the poster at the same time. Good luck to everyone, and as always, I am very appreciative of your support!
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