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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.

January 9, 2025 By squirt

Thank You for Sharing an Incredible 2024 • Year In Review

Photo: Shaun Roberts

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I would like to give all my friends and supporters a heartfelt thank you for sharing an incredible 2024, full of amazing events and watershed achievements! 

2024 bore witness to San Francisco’s warm welcome of my work as I received a lifetime membership to the de Young and Legion of Honor Museums in appreciation for works which rest in their permanent collection. Additionally, the de Young and Legion of Honor Museum Stores now carry “Color x Color” – which is available at the link below. 

SIGNED Color x Color at Museum Stores

Artist Chuck Sperry at the Art of Noise exhibition at SFMOMA. May 2024. Photo: Shaun Roberts.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art brought my work into their permanent collection and showed these pieces in “The Art of Noise” exhibition through spring and summer. It’s thrilling to receive this institutional acknowledgement.

Opening reception. “Home Show” a Chuck Sperry retrospective at The Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco. On view from October 17th through November 24, 2024. Photo: Shaun Roberts.

Meanwhile, in my neighbourhood of the Haight-Ashbury I received three shows across the year: “My Minds Eye” at Psychedelic SF Art Gallery, “Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective” at the Haight Street Art Center, and The Rock Poster Society, Festival of Rock Posters which I never miss at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. All three shows were hearty reminders of my love of the city and a celebration of the living soul of San Francisco.

Packed house at Harman Projects for Chuck Sperry’s April opening of “Only Human” in New York City.

Feeling buoyed by hometown acceptance, Harman Projects launched my exhaustive solo show “Only Human” in art capital New York City, and followed with Art On Paper NYC. It was amazing to see everyone in New York City share in such an amazing celebration!

Europe called again with “Popland 4” at KochxBos Gallery, curated by amazing French artist Ciou in Amsterdam. “Only Human” solo travelled to L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery in Paris, where Beaux Arts Magazine dubbed my show one of the top five most captivating shows in the art capital of Europe. Both shows made waves on both sides of the Atlantic.

I finished the year with a solo at L’Oeil Ouvert, Paris – “Future In The Balance” which is on view until January 31 with work available through the gallery at the link below. I’m happy to report that my solo received major attention, listing on The City of Paris’ official event website, Sortir a Paris among other notices, and even took to the airwaves on OUI FM. See the link below for my available works.

AVAILABLE WORKS at L’Oeil Ouvert, Paris

I teamed up with Vote Equality, Spoke Art and The Roxie Theater to produce a benefit screening of RATIFIED, a film documenting the struggle for ERA. My poster was made the official movie poster while this spirited and important film moves into distribution and streaming next year.

I’m thrilled my work showed with Harman Projects at CONTEXT Art Miami during Art Basel, Miami Art Week – and in appreciation of San Francisco love, a very limited Artist Edition of 100 “Home Show” posters is available now by joining Harman Projects EQL launch below.

HOME SHOW EQL LAUNCH

Also there are a very limited number of my iconic “Joy” and “Pneuma” wood panels which were shown in Miami and are available through Harman Project’s CONTEXT Art Fair exhibition viewing room – see link below.

AVAILABLE WORKS HARMAN PROJECTS AT CONTEXT

I am so very grateful for an outstanding year and the support of the museum teams, gallery teams, volunteers, friends who showed up to help carry the day, and friends and supporters who came to share and revelled in the joy and love of creative energy. I’m heartened by our human family, and encouraged by your emotion, soul, light and laughter. Here’s to 2025! Please take care of each other and assert your human spirit!

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Art of Noise, Art On Paper NYC, Beaux Arts Magazine, Ciou, Color X Color, Context Art Fair, de Young Museum, Haight Street Art Center, Harman Projects, KochxBos, l'Oeil Ouvert, Legion of Honor, Psychedlic SF Gallery, Ratified, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, Spoke Art, TRPS, Vote Equality

November 19, 2024 By squirt

Sperry Opens Show in Paris at L’Oeil Ouvert December 14

FUTURE IN THE BALANCE
The Art of Chuck Sperry

14 December 2024 to 31 January 2025
Opening: Saturday, December 14

L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery
1 rue Lucien Sampaix
75010 Paris (metro: République)

PARIS, FRANCE: My solo exhibition “Future In The Balance” opens Saturday, December 14 and will be on view through January 31, 2025 at L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery, Paris where I will be showing new works, archive rarities, test prints and wood panels. 

“The artworks featured in the “Future In The Balance” exhibition reach for a personal politics, a deeper connection to change and evolution, by connecting with the archetypes at the foundation of our humanist experiment in democracy. I have always maintained that beauty strengthens my message. My current work has much more to do with symmetry and proportion, color and balance. It’s a utopian provocation; while the present era couldn’t be more off balance, more dystopian. I want my work to provoke meditation and emotional responses to its clear colors, balance and symmetry — to give courage, light and beauty to all of us trapped in an ugly historical moment. I think of my work from the last few years as defiant in these dark times. I like to think I give people courage through it. It gives me courage to work on it.” – Chuck Sperry

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Joy, 2024
20 x 30
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Informed by art historical figures such as Gustave Moreau and William Morris, combined with poetry and Greek Mythology, Chuck Sperry has cultivated a distinct style brimming with exuberance and energy. Refining his vision through his masterful printing expertise, Sperry creates ethereal and psychedelically saturated screen prints that draw crowds of dedicated fans around the world.

Creating work for musicians such as Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Patti Smith and The Black Keys in addition to his fine art screen prints on wood panel and paper, Chuck Sperry has also used his artwork for social activism and change. The artist describes his political participation – “Freedom of Speech is our most powerful weapon, and it’s a driving force in my art.”

Chuck Sperry splits his time between his home in Grasse, France and his home in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco where he is inspired by the natural settings and flower power of both.

Pneuma, 2024
30 x 20
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Arts Spectacles Paris, Future In The Balance, l'Oeil Ouvert, Muses, Paris, Sortir a Paris

November 15, 2024 By squirt

Sperry x Harman Projects x CONTEXT: Art Miami 2024

Joy, 2024
20 x 30
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Pneuma, 2024
30 x 20
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Home Show, A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, 2024
19 x 35
Artist Edition of 100
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

 

HARMAN PROJECTS • CONTEXT: Art Miami

Booth A16

Harman Projects is pleased to be returning to CONTEXT: Art Miami for Miami Art Week 2024. We will be located at booth A16 which will be familiar to those who visited us last year at the fair so if you’re in town we hope to see you there!

Featuring:
Esao Andrews | BEZT | DALeast | Mark Drew | Alison Friend | Frank Gonzales | Aaron Horkey | Sarah Joncas | Josh Keyes | Scott Listfield | Louis Michel | Chuck Sperry | Martin Whatson | Martin Wittfooth | Hama Woods

Address:
The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavillion
One Herald Plaza
NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay
Miami, FL 33132
(Google Maps)

Dates:
Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday December 3, 2024 | 11:00am – 1:00pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday December 3, 2024 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm

General Admission:
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | 4:00pm – 9:00pm
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Thursday, December 5, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Friday, December 6, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, December 7, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, December 8, 2023 |  11:00am – 6:00pm

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Harman Projects

November 12, 2024 By squirt

Sperry’s “RATIFIED” Poster • Online Launch with EQL

Ratified, 2024
21 x 31.5
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

I am honored to have been asked to create a poster for RATIFIED, a documentary film directed by Deborah Riley Draper and Sabaah Folayan currently premiering across the United States, and soon to be shown nationally on PBS. My poster was available at the San Francisco screening I organized, hosted by Spoke Art at the Roxie Theater. My limited edition, screen printed RATIFIED poster is now available online to my friends and supporters by EQL launch.

RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality, an inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.  It’s also a story of how bureaucracy is used to stifle progress, and it takes a close look at the incredible perseverance of women – specifically, the Black women leaders who have taken their rightful place at the front of the movement for gender equality. Our impact campaign will activate 15,000,000 Americans on the issue of gender equality. 

A portion of money raised from the sale of my RATIFIED poster goes to Vote Equality to support the urgent effort to publish the ERA.

I will make a limited online launch of my RATIFIED poster through EQL opening on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 9 pm PST. The ballot will be open for 60 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 “RATIFIED” poster. You are free to register once for the launch. Multiple entries for the launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 poster from the live launch within this 60 hour period. One per household.

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

JOIN EQL LAUNCH

VOTE EQUALITY’S ERA ACTION IN DC

We have less than 70 days to demand publication of the 28th Amendment (Equal Rights). The Equal Rights Amendment, now our 28th Amendment, has met all constitutional requirements, according to the American Bar Association. President Biden has one last chance to stand for the equity and equality this amendment would provide all Americans, especially women and the LGBTQIA+ community. President Biden simply has to tell the Archivist to PUBLISH EQUALITY in the Constitution. Join us and activate.

ACTION TO SUPPORT ERA

DONATE DIRECTLY

 

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Artists 4 ERA, ERA, Ratified, Vote Equality US

October 30, 2024 By squirt

Release of Joy • Sperry Blotter Release on EQL

“Joy” 2024
Edition of 300
9 x 11.25
Vegetable based inks
80# unbleached cotton paper
BC Blotter Co.
Signed and Numbered

The Release of Joy • Online Release with EQL

The “Joy” blotter release for my retrospective “Home Show” was a big success at the opening. Now this blotter will be made available to my friends and supporters online through EQL!

I will make a limited online launch of my Joy blotter through EQL opening on Friday, November 1, 2024 at 9 am PST. The launch closes (the next day) on Saturday, November 2, 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 “Joy” 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

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, EQL, EQL Run Fair™, Haight Street Art Center, Home Show, Joy, Joy Blotter, Sperry x EQL

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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. Learn More…

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