Chuck Sperry

“Home Show, A Chuck Sperry Retrospective”
The Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco.
On view from October 17th through November 24, 2024.
Open: Thursday – Sunday, 12-6 pm.

Joy was the shared sentiment at “Home Show” at the Haight Street Art Center on Friday, October 18, 2024. Shaun Roberts captured the opening event in the following photos.

I would like to warmly thank all my friends and supporters who came from all over the country to the opening of my comprehensive San Francisco exhibition “Home Show, A Chuck Sperry Retrospective” hosted by HSAC. It was incredible to see so many friends, new and old, come together to share our outrageously successful & joyful event. Tickets sold out for the afternoon art releases, and even more supporters jammed into the Haight Street Art Center for the evening reception. The day and night at Haight Street Art Center was magic!

The Joy continued at TRPS Festival of Rock Posters at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park the following Saturday. Many thanks to The Rock Poster Society, friends, supporters and fellow artists for sharing a memorable day!

Monday we had a Joyful Ruckus at the “Ratified” screening at the Roxie with the support of Spoke Art. It was great to meet film director Deborah Riley Draper and meet again with ERA activist, ally and friend Kati Hornung. I would like to thank my friends and supporters for coming to support the ERA and this film documentation of the struggle for ERA.

A career retrospective takes a lot of people coming together to support one artist and his work. It’s mind-blowing the kind devotion I am privileged to have received to make this show happen. I am very grateful! 

Thanks to Curator Ben Marks for his vision and inspiration to make this retrospective, his tireless effort to bring my work together from many sources, focus its exhibition and its supporting texts, and organize all the moving parts in a year-long endeavor to share my work in its entirety to the world.

Thanks to Laurin & Steve Abramson for longtime support, friendship and lending countless gems for the exhibition. Many Thanks to Roger McNamee for lending many precious signature pieces to the exhibition. Thanks to Matthew Rick for lending art for the exhibition. Great Thanks to Fort Wayne Museum of Art Curator Josef Zimmerman for lending “Color x Color” documentary / art film to the exhibition.

Thanks to Executive Director Kelly Harris, Deputy Director Sarah Rosedale, Outreach Coordinator Emily Peterson, Brian Triffet Exhibition Designer, Rebecca Rippon of the Haight Street Center Printmaking Studio, and the kind, generous Haight Street Art Center Team!

Thanks to Brian Cox for the hard work helping me in the studio and in operations to make these beautiful ideas come to life as prints and in getting them to forever homes.

Thanks to Jon Greco, Robert Sommerfield, and Ron Epstein for their kind support, extra care of organized, flawless sales, and friendly-firm attendee management; your tireless efforts, kind support, and care is very appreciated!

Thanks to Meier Skis of Denver, CO for bringing together a fabulous Winter Lady ski and snowboard release, and a fine selection of my designs on craft skis and boards.

Thanks to Shaun Roberts for tirelessly documenting my prolific output and event schedule, always coming up with just the right images to tell the story.

Thanks to Linda Kelly for kind support and documenting the show in Haight Street Voice in the neighborhood and beyond.

In loving memory of my sister Tish, and in condolence to my brothers Jody and Rob. Tish’s creative spirit will live forever in our hearts.