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.

August 14, 2024 By squirt

Sperry’s Outside Lands Poster Release with EQL

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Edition of 550
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

My Outside Lands 2024 poster for San Francisco’s premier outdoor music festival in Golden Gate Park was a big success with concert goers. Now this poster and its variants will be made available to my friends and supporters through EQL!

I will make a limited online launch of my Outside Lands poster and its variants through EQL opening on Friday, August 16, 2024 at 9 am PST. The launch closes (the next day) on Saturday, August 17, 2024 at 9 am PST. The ballot will be open for 24 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.

There will be five live launches: 1 launch for each print edition (regular, silver, gold, satin black, rainbow foil).

You are free to register once for each launch. Multiple entries per launch will be penalized.

You may only win 1 poster from all the live launches within this 24 hour period. One per household.

Visit the launch page for the release (countdown and launch):

JOIN EQL RELEASE

Come, and trip it, as you go,
On the light fantastic toe;
And in thy right hand lead with thee
The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty;
And, if I give thee honour due,
Mirth, admit me of thy crew,
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreproved pleasures free

— L’Allegro by John Milton

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Silver Edition of 14
7 colors on silver metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Gold Edition of 20
7 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Satin Black Edition of 20
7 colors on satin black paper
Signed and Numbered

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Rainbow Foil Edition of 14
7 colors on rainbow foil
Signed and Numbered

July 24, 2024 By squirt

Sperry’s Pneuma Blotter • Online release with EQL

“Pneuma” 2024
Edition of 350
9 x 11.25
Vegetable based inks
80# unbleached cotton paper
BC Blotter Co.
Signed and Numbered

Sperry’s Pneuma Blotter • Online Release with EQL

Signature print “Pneuma” from my world tour “Only Human” is now a blotter and will be made available to my friends and supporters through EQL!

I will make a limited online launch of “Pneuma” through EQL launch opening on Friday, July 26, 2024 at 9 am PST. The launch closes (the next day) on Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 9 am PST. The ballot will be open for 24 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.

There will be one live launch for the “Pneuma” blotter. You are free to register once for the launch. Multiple entries for the launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 blotter from the live launch within this 24 hour period. One per household.

Visit the launch page for the release (countdown and launch):

JOIN EQL RELEASE

July 4, 2024 By squirt

Pneuma Blotter Release • Sperry Signing at SF Art Book Fair with Paragon

“Pneuma” 2024
Edition of 350
9 x 11.25
Vegetable based inks
80# unbleached cotton paper
BC Blotter Co.
Signed and Numbered

Join me for an “in-person” book signing and blotter release of my newest blotter “Pneuma” at the SF Art Book Fair coming Sunday, July 21, 2024, noon to 2 pm PST.

I’ll be making a very limited release of my Pneuma blotters online via launch on EQL later in July, sign up for my mailing list to get the latest news!

Chuck Sperry – Book Signing & “Pneuma” Blotter Launch
Sunday, July 21 from Noon – 2 pm
at Paragon Books (Booth E1)

The SF Art Book Fair 2024
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota St.
San Francisco, CA.
Booth E1 (Paragon Books)

Paragon Books is thrilled to be hosting an exclusive blotter release and book signing event with master screen printer and rock poster legend Chuck Sperry!

Beginning on Sunday, July 21 from 12:00 noon —2:00 PM PST the artist will be present to sign copies of his books and release his newest blotter “Pneuma” at Booth E1 (Paragon Books) at The SF Art Book Fair (1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco, CA.)

Paragon Books will be offering these Sperry books and collectible card sets at the SF Art Book Fair (no posters or prints):

– Color x Color, The Sperry Poster Archive 1980-2020 (2020)
– Idyllion, The Art of Chuck Sperry (2022)
– Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry (2018)
– Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry (2017)
– The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 2 (2023) very limited offering!
– The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 1 (2022) very limited offering!

More Details • Books available online Now!

June 26, 2024 By squirt

France’s Beaux Arts Magazine: Sperry “Top 5 Most Captivating Exhibitions in Paris”

Only Human
A solo exhibition by Chuck Sperry
Online Release

I would like to thank my friends and supporters who attended my Paris opening on June 1. What a memorable evening! The prestigious Beaux Arts magazine described the show as one of the “top five most captivating exhibitions in Paris.”

In celebration of my legendary expo in Paris, we are making a very special, limited online release of archive prints, rare test prints, canvases, and panels.

ONLINE RELEASE

5 most captivating exhibitions to see in the galleries in Paris in June
By Malika Bauwens

Summer has already started in our Parisian galleries with a great harvest of exhibitions. Since entry is free, why deprive yourself of it? We have selected some exhibitions for you to discover with eyes wide open this month of June.

Spotlight on the artistic and cultural events not to be missed in the galleries in Paris in June 2024. In this program that we have put together for you: classic painting but also installations, photography and sculpture, created by current art talents.

It is also an opportunity to make some discoveries such as admiring rare Italian masters or the works of an American star of screen printing… Some galleries will close their doors for the summer break in a few weeks: remember the dates carefully, so as not to miss these exhibitions!

4. Chuck Sperry, master of American screen printing at the L’Oeil Ouvert gallery:

In the United States, he is a king of screen printing. An iconic American artist, living between San Francisco and here in Grasse, Chuck Sperry (born in 1962) has caught the eye of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) which houses in their collection his ultra-colorful and psychedelic art. A defining figure in the concert poster field (he’s made posters for The Who, The Black Keys, Nick Cave, Joan Jett, PJ Harvey, Bob Dylan…), the master fuses rock energy and traditional printing methods.

Presented for the first time in France by the L’Oeil Ouvert gallery, Sperry is indeed an eye-grabber!

May 15, 2024 By squirt

Chuck Sperry Art of Noise at SFMOMA

Congratulations to Chuck Sperry for being included in the SFMOMA exhibition “Art of Noise” which runs from May 4 to August 18. The exhibition features over 400 San Francisco psychedelic rock posters and celebrates the vital connection between music and design. Chuck Sperry has two art works in the show as well as four pieces which have been acquired as part of the permanent collection of the museum.

The exhibition runs from May 4th – August 18th and is not one to miss for lovers of music, art and design!

Photos: Shaun Roberts