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.

By

Psychedelic Secession Tour Poster Sets

I’m releasing 5 sets of 10 tour posters from Firehouse’s latest tour of Europe, “Psychedelic Secession”. Each poster was printed on a unique color of paper chosen for each event. The information, event and venue is different on each.

The set costs $400 (with shipping included). Each set is ten tour posters – with a bonus MGMT poster – 11 TOTAL.

MGMT is only available through this deal – as it is sold out. You can look at my MGMT poster by clicking here.

Psychedelic Secession Set (10 Firehouse Tour Posters / Bonus MGMT poster)

Firehouse Tour Posters

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

__________________________
__________________________

In addition I will release 2 Singles of each tour poster below. Cost of each is $50 + shipping included.

Tour Mondo Bizzarro

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

__________________________

__________________________

Tour Italy

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

__________________________

__________________________

Tour Milano MIODI

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

__________________________
__________________________

Tour Bad Religion

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

__________________________

__________________________

Tour Ancona

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

__________________________
__________________________

Tour Suisse

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

__________________________
__________________________

Tour Glastonbury

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

__________________________

__________________________

Tour Nottinghill

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

__________________________
__________________________

Tour Sésame, Paris

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

__________________________
__________________________

Tour Europe

10 x 35

Edition of 30 each

4 color silkscreen

Printed on different colored paper for each.

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

By

Visit to Marseille & Danielle Jacqui’s studio

What a big day! With our visit to Item still firing our imaginations, Ron and I hopped a train to Marseille to visit our very dear friend Claire. Claire met us at Cafe Danaides with a group of old friends and we made a plan to see San Francisco band, Lords of Altamont, who were coincidentally playing that night at l’Embobineuse a cool punk rock watering-hole. Bonus, Pakito Bolino of Le Dernier Cri – the masterful silkscreen printer, film-maker and book publisher was showing new works at the club too! Now that is timing.

The festivities opened with anarchic rockers Daniel Burros:

Lords of Altamont. Keyboard went on the blink – so they rocked out while Ron and I supplied fresh beers…

Pakito Bolino, me and Ron

Next day Claire and Indra picked us up to go to Danielle Jacqui’s studio, then on to Danielle’s home for a delicious home-cooked dinner. Danielle has been incredibly prolific in the years we have missed visiting with her. She is in the process of making a monumental work of ceramic art in pieces which will be constructed into an enormous building in a park outside Marseille in the village of Auberge. The pieces are assembled on the floor and numbered, packed away to make room for the next huge outpouring of amazing art! Danielle is the most inspiring artist! The picture below represents a fraction of the total, monumental work of art, all created over a two year period. (Click image to see larger) Unbelievable!

Our little tradition – when visiting Danielle – is that we bring dessert…

Danielle’s beautiful works on paper

Danielle sews these most imaginative dolls and writes beautiful poems – there is no end to her creativity!

Thank you Danielle for such a delicious dinner and deeply inspiring visit! Your art is hanging on my wall in my studio to guide me!

—-

And after all this we went swimming from the rocky coast at Cassis, had a light meal and a walk home past some graffiti to Claire’s.

By

Au Petit Garage, Paris – July 3, 2010

Alexandre D’Huy and I broke away from The Original Sticker Story at rue Ternaux, for a beer in the afternoon at Les Nuns. I wanted to show him the string that was probably still hanging in Les Nuns, from 2004 the night we met. We arrived there and sure enough the string Ron and I put up at Les Nuns to hang posters from was still there. David, the bartender from Au Petit Garage, right down the street was stopping by Les Nuns to talk to a friend, and invited us over to Au Petit Garage for a drink. And wouldn’t you know it, there was the poster for The Art of Modern Rock opening that Ron and me and Lindsey Kuhn hung on the wall from five years ago.

David asked me and Alex if we would like to do a show the following night. And of course, the answer was YES! We had a great time! Lots of old friends showed for the fun. Was great to see Olivier Votelet and wife Marion and all the cool folks that inhabit the 11th of Paris. Thanks David! Hope to come back again real soon.

By

“Original Sticker Story” Editions Penibles at Mycroft, Paris, July 2, 2010

The day after making the show with Lena at Sesame, Ron and I met Alexanmdre D’Huy to set up a spontaneous show at a small storefront in the 11th arrondisement of Paris, called Mycroft, 13 rue Ternaux. Alex and his friend Silvio Magaglio set the show up. The idea was to completely sticker the store window, which drove a lot of the locals pretty insane. We hung posters along with sticker sheets inside. The show ran from July 2 until July 10. Here’s some pictures of setting up and throwing a great party for the opening.

By

Sesame, Paris Memories – July 1, 2010

After making our show for a week at the Glastonbury Music Festival, Ron and I took the long train ride to Paris from Bristol. We had been out of contact for a week or more and we were driven to show up right on time for our big Paris show at Sesame, the restaurant / gallery owned by our very dear friend Lena Balacco, at 51 quai de Valmy, Paris 75010. Good news, Lena has extended our very successful show at Sesame until September 6th, 2010.

We arrived by cab just in time. Lena gave me a running hug that just about knocked me over! The show looked beautiful! What a fantastic night! It was so great to catch up with all my old friends there. Lena and her husband Charles Mammarot and their daughter (my adorable God-daughter Elvis) have made such a beautiful life here at the edge of the canal St. Martin. We stayed here in Paris for a week, and really fell into a sweet life, hanging out with Lena and Charles and brother Jin Balacco, criss-crossing Paris on moped, playing petanque in the square nearby, having great dinners, visiting old friends, like my very good friend Alexandre D’Huy and his girlfriend Atsoupe. Here’s some pictures of the show, life with Charles and Lena and fun evenings at the edge of the canal.

Jin and Lena – Sesame and show (click image for larger view):

Lena enjoying drinks by the canal with Sesame in the background (Psychedelic Secession poster visible in window):

Family portrait at the flea market near Republique. I bought my girlfriend Nancy a cool jewel box here from the time of Napoleon III:

View of the canal in front of Sesame:

Alexandre D’Huy – we made a couple of spontaneous shows with Alex while we were staying in Paris (see the next posts):

Nothing compares to great conversation at the end of every night with Charles and a few glasses of pastis:

And nothing goes better with pastis than petanque in the park. Ron draws a picture in the sand with Elvis while Charles throws a ball into the trees:

Archives

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

Latest Blog Posts