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.

April 15, 2017 By squirt

Chuck Sperry x Spoke Art at Art Market San Francisco 2017

Eleutheria (Freedom)

20 x 30

Oak Panel Edition of 30

7 colors on oak panel

Signed and Numbered

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Spoke Art gallery is proud to return to Art Market San Francisco in 2017, featuring new and recent works by Chuck Sperry, Serge Gay Jr., Abigail Goldman, Kelly Tunstall, Ferris Plock, and Dan Lam.

Spoke Art @ Art Market San Francisco 2017
April 28 – April 30, 2017
Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion
2 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94123

Please join us at Art Market San Francisco, where Sperry and Spoke Art will join over 70 international galleries for California’s premier contemporary art fair.

Chuck’s new image, “Eleutheria” will be available as a fine art print on wood panel in a very limited edition of 30.

There will be a very limited offering of rarities from the archive — including a “Semele.”

Attendees at the fair will get first chance at acquiring a very limited number of Sperry’s panels made available.

Learn more about the event here: http://artmarketsf.com/

April 5, 2017 By squirt

Sperry’s “Helikon” in Hi-Fructose vol. 43

Hi-Fructose art magazine just hit the stands with vol. 43. I’m very proud to announce that I have an 4 page, richly illustrated review of my new book “Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry” in the new issue. Many thanks Hi-Fructose!

Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print art magazine, founded by artists, Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005. Hi-Fructose focuses squarely on the art which transcends genre and trend, assuring readers thorough coverage and content that is informative and original. Hi-Fructose showcases an amalgamation of new contemporary, emerging as well distinguished artists, with a spotlight on awe inspiring spectacles from round the world.

Hi-Fructose is available at magazine stands, book stores, college shops, Blick stores, Chapters, every Barnes and Noble, Books A Million, comic shops, and better gallery and museum stores everywhere and shipping direct from their store.

To buy Hi-Fructose magazine online click HERE.

My new book is available below. Here’s an overview of what’s inside.

Chuck Sperry’s new book “Helikon” gathers together his masterfully screen printed wood panel series of contemporary-classical muses: work inspired by the spirit of the modern rock poster, graffiti, and the utopian ethos of 1960’s psychedelia.

“Helikon” presents 36 sumptuously photographed Sperrys paired with the prose or poem — from Homer to Nick Cave — that inspired each. Over a dozen photos by Shaun Roberts give the reader an intimate portrait of the artist at work.

“Helikon” is Sperry’s beautifully designed, hand-bound coda to 5 years of artwork devoted to the perennial theme of Orphic Dionysian mysteries.

Foreward by New York Times’ bestselling author, Charles Bock, Beautiful Children, Alice & Oliver (Random House), and Best of NYC Culture 2016, Village Voice.

Published by Hangar 18
Foreward by Charles Bock
Hardback Second Edition of 2000 / “Silver Edition”
Silver embossed cover
9 x 12 inches / 136 pages
54 color illustrations
Printed and bound in the United States
ISBN: 978-0-9981407-1-1

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Second Edition books are shrink-wrapped, and unsigned.
(I will only sign second edition books at events – in person – no exceptions).

April 3, 2017 By squirt

“Summer of Love Sunday, Open House” Chuck Sperry’s Hangar 18 Studio

Summer of Love Sunday

Sunday, June 4, 2017

11 am to 4 pm

Hangar 18

1428 34th Street (at Hollis)

Oakland, CA

I’m very happy to announce, my Fourth Annual Open House at Hangar 18 Studio Gallery on Sunday, June 4 from 11 am to 4 pm.

Let’s get together for a celebration! This is a great opportunity to visit the print studio that gave birth to some of your favorite posters for your favorite bands.

I’ll be making a Jerry Garcia art show of my art prints made especially for the Jerry Garcia Estate. Also an exclusive showing of my art prints on oak panel, with some special prints, rarities, and surprises available!

Dead & Company will be playing Shoreline in The Bay Area the same weekend. Come celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love with a cool poster art show.

We will be giving people random numbers at the door at 10:00 am, so overnight camping is not encouraged!