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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San Francisco Rock Project Poster

 

San Francisco Rock Project / Victims Family with Jello Biafra / MC Adam Savage

December 18, 2011

22 x 33

Edition of 100

5 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Detail of the poster background shows my custom “Rock Project” wallpaper design:

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I made this poster as a holiday fundraiser for the San Francisco Rock Project, a great San Francisco institution that teaches music to children. The show is going to be great, teaming up Jello Biafra with Victims Family, all hosted by Adam Savage from Mythbusters.

San Francisco Rock Project (SFRP) is located in the legendary Maritime Hall and began offering music educational programs in June 2010 as a nonprofit 501(c) foundation dedicated to providing musical education to children ages 7-18 through the performance of live rock music. Our programs run the gamut of all forms of rock, from pop to punk to classic rock to progressive fusion.

Please help keep our music school open in 2012! San Francisco Rock Project is holding our 1st Annual Winter Holiday Rock Prom & Auction. Adam Savage of the popular Discovery Channel program MythBusters will be our esteemed MC for the evening and there will be some seriously rocking performances by the SFRP Students, Victims Family with Jello Biafra, a solo performance by Ty Segall, Ricky Berger, and an awesome live auction!

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Iggy and the Stooges at The Warfield

 

Iggy and the Stooges came to San Francisco to kick ass. They rocked Raw Power – and nothing says Raw Power more powerfully than a supernova. This poster was done as a special request from the band. I had planned to sit this one out, because I saw Gregg Gordon’s tour poster (shout out link to Gregg’s poster). The band asked me as a special request to make this poster to celebrate their show in San Francisco. There is a very limited edition of 85 prints, because I was asked on such short notice.

Iggy and the Stooges at The Warfield

December 4 & 6, 2011

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series No. 147

22 x 33

Edition of 85

5 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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SCOPE Miami 2011, Varnish Fine Art Exhibits “Mind Spring” Wood Panel Series

In over thirty five fairs spanning the past ten years, SCOPE has solidified its position as the premier show-case for international emerging contemporary art.

LOCATION: Wynwood Gallery Arts District | NE 1st Ave (Midtown Blvd) @ NE 30th St | Miami, Florida 33127

ADMISSION:
General Admission $20 and Students $15
Free for VIP cardholders

FirstView, for VIP’s and Press

Tuesday, November 29, 4 – 9pm
Free for VIPs or $100 donation to benefit The SCOPE Foundation

HOURS: Wednesday, Nov 30, 11 – 7pm
Thursday, Dec 1, 11 – 7pm
Friday, Dec 2, 11 – 7pm
Saturday, Dec 3, 11 -7pm
Sunday, Dec 4, 11 – 6pm

ARTIST STATEMENT: Chuck Sperry uses silkscreen to forge intricate textures and energetic color to create iconographic images that transform ephemeral events and experiences by creating a lexicon of shared cultural visual memory. In his piece Mind Spring, Sperry creates an icon of the Worldwide Occupy Movement and it’s antecedent in the Arab Spring. The figure wreathed in blooming spring flowers is a representation of the surprising enlightened humanism, the opening mind, the broadened socio-political possibilities which have swept the world in 2011.

Mind Spring (Blue)

2011

Hand-Pulled Screen Print on Panel

Edition of 4

36 x 44 ”

Six colors screen printed on birch panel.

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

Mind Spring (Green)

2011

Hand-Pulled Screen Print on Panel

Edition of 4

36 x 44 ”

Six colors screen printed on birch panel.

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

Mind Spring (Purple)

2011

Hand-Pulled Screen Print on Panel

Edition of 4

36 x 44 ”

Six colors screen printed on birch panel.

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

Mind Spring (Silver)

2011

Hand-Pulled Screen Print on Panel

Edition of 3

36 x 44 ”

Six colors screen printed on birch panel.

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

 

Archives

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

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