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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Phoenix Poster Wins Award

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I was working late last night finishing two posters for the Friday and Saturday concerts at the Warfield featuring Gov’t Mule; Dave Hunter and I each designed a poster and printed them together as a two-up (more news on that poster soon!). That’s when I got the news that my Phoenix Poster had won Expresso Beans Poster of the Week.

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Dave was taking photos of the Gov’t Mule two-up poster with his iphone to send a progress report to Ron Donovan who is out in Hawaii on a family visit. Dave suddenly got a text message from George Gamboa and said, “Dude! Phoenix just got Poster of the Week.”

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Thanks everyone! That’s awesome news – your continued support keeps the presses happily running over at Hangar 18.

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Here’s a link to my original post for my Phoenix poster with ordering information

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Printing Zoltron’s Psychedelic Furs • Happy Mondays at the Regency

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This photo sums it up nicely: “Wiley, the kid on the poster; Zoltron, the man behind the kid on the poster; Sperry, the man behind the man behind the kid on the poster.”

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Printed Zoltron’s Psychedelic Furs / Happy Mondays poster on Wednesday. What a blast!

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Zoltron went off on the typography. He told me it took a few days just to place all the characters, highlights and blends on the fonts.

This thing is a symphony of yellow, really an eye grabber.

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We had really the best day of printing, and had a lot of cool visitors. George Gamboa, Dave Hunter and Dennis Loren made the scene – here’s the TMZ photo of the crew – George is behind the camera. Oh, yeah, while printing the doorbell rang and a mysterious crate from Italy arrived – the Malleus art got locked into the vault.

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Well, the funny part is we got finished at 8:30 pm Wednesday – so Zoltron and George dropped me off at my crib – and I started working on Phoenix. That drawing session went on to dawn. Caught about an hour of fitful sleep (too much coffee), woke up at 7:00 am and put the poster together for films. The whole idea just kind of dropped whole-piece out of the brain and onto the paper, definitely energized by the fun day before. Mr. Z picked me up at about 10:30 and off to get films on the way to the studio. I’m telling myself, things just happen in the way they should.

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Number 62 in the Firehouse Goldenvoice poster series is designed by Zoltron for The Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays concert with special guests Amusement Parks on Fire on September 17, 2009 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA. This silkscreen gig poster measures 20″ x 27″ comes signed and numbered by the artist from an edition of 200. Love my way? There is a special red and white colorway, with an edition of 10. Both for sale now at Zoltron.com

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Phoenix Warfield Poster

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Just returned from the sold out Phoenix concert at The Warfield on Thursday, September 17, 2009. The (French) band loved it and said it had a very French style. We rapped about Paris and it seems we have some friends in common. Funny, overheard the band manager asking for VIP passes for Sofia Coppola, the film director. The crowd was fun and the room got moving! This poster rounds brings the Firehouse Goldenvoice Series to number 63.

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I made 150 on Via Scarlet Red paper, and a very limited edition of 10 on Metallic Deep Bronze paper.

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Phoenix – The Soft Pack

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 63

Edition of 150

Gold and Eggplant on archival red paper

19″ x 26″

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT


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Phoenix – The Soft Pack

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 63

Edition of 10

Gold and Eggplant on metallic deep bronze paper

19″ x 26″

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

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Malleus, Alan Forbes and Firehouse at Artrock Gallery

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MALLEUS, the artist collective of Urlo, Poia and Lu, the remarkable poster design team from Italy, will be unveiling their new works and limited art prints on Saturday, October 10 (the evening right after the Hall of Flowers Show) at ARTROCK GALLERY in San Francisco.

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Alan Forbes and Chuck Sperry / Ron Donovan of the Firehouse will exhibit with MALLEUS – each presenting art prints specifically designed for the event. In addition there will be a live print demonstration, so you will have an opportunity to acquire an exclusive art print made for you right before your very eyes.

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The event is a celebration of “DARK NOUVEAU,” a return to the roots of poster creation. DARK NOUVEAU evokes equally the fin de siécle style of Toulouse-Lautrec and 1960’s San Francisco Psychedelia – and operates here as a manifesto of reinvention and revision – aimed at connecting to the poster movement of the Decadent Period to the Belle Epoque and folding it into the Psychedelic Period to the present modern global silkscreen movement.

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DARK NOUVEAU opens at 7pm – Saturday, October 10 at ARTROCK GALLERY – 893 Folsom Street in San Francisco.

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