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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.

December 21, 2023 By squirt

The Young Gods, Fribourg Poster, Chuck Sperry

The Young Gods, Fribourg 2023
21 x 37.5
(53 x 95 cm)
Edition of 100
5 colors on Fedrigoni paper
Signed and numbered

When The Young Gods requested a poster from me for their upcoming show in Fribourg, Switzerland (their home town), I was immediately very excited and greatly honoured to accept the commission. This show is sure to be legendary. 

I sent the band a message to accept, but also warned that I may have to reinvent the wheel to make the poster happen. This is the first concert poster entirely designed in my new art studio in Grasse, France.

I do not have a printing studio here in Grasse at present, so I had to think fast, to find a way to produce an edition of these posters.

Luckily I have friends in Torino, Italy (just four hours away) with an excellent print studio, Sericraft. Giampo Copperoni made me an introduction to Sericraft some years ago, and again I asked him to reach out to Sericraft during the busiest month of the year, to request their top-notch printing expertise. The team at Sericraft was excited by the idea, accepted to print for me, and I am thankful, they have produced an amazing edition!

The Young Gods poster will be available through The Young Gods at the concert on Friday, December 22, 2023 at Fri-Son, Fribourg. 

I will make a very limited online launch through EQL starting on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 12 noon PST. The launch closes on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 12 noon PST.

Follow the link below, and you will be directed to The Chuck Sperry EQL Launches landing page – the site of my release when it goes “live”.

Visit the launch page for the release:

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Show announcement from the Fri-Son Auditorium in Fribourg:

The Young Gods are back home!

There are infinite superlatives to refer to the legendary Friborg group The Young Gods. The trio — which has played countless times on our big stage and each time to a full house — is back on December 22, 2023 for a concert as part of our 40th anniversary year.

Pioneering wizards of sound, The Young Gods have been pushing the horizon of possibilities for almost 40 years now. From the industrial punk of their beginnings through the techno-shamanic intoxications of the last decades, The Young Gods have forged a unique sound, acquiring the status of legends of the European scene.

Hailed by the British press since 1987, praised by David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails, The Young Gods have released more than 10 albums, once reinterpreting the legendary Woodstock concert live alongside Richie Havens at Fri-Son in 2009, and also collaborating  with the hip-hop group Dälek, and with Mike Patton (Faith No More, Fantomâs).

This traditional end-of-year event is also the last show in our “40 years” concert series: on this occasion The Young Gods will play their classics, from 1985 to today, and maybe even a few new ones. An evening which takes on a very special dimension for the group which cut its teeth here, and of which Franz Treichler is one of the founding members. 

Adding to the splendor of this evening which promises to be grandiose, we are delighted to welcome the Lucerne group of Schnellertollermeier as the opening act.

Fri-Son x The Young Gods: Both Loud & Proud since 1983-1985.

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Fri-Son, Fribourg, Sericraft, The Young Gods

November 18, 2023 By squirt

Chuck Sperry’s 50th Anniversary “Fantastic Planet” Poster

La Planète Sauvage, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 200
6 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

I am proud to unveil my very special 50th anniversary poster for Fantastic Planet! I created this to celebrate the 35mm film screening at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco and is limited to only 200 copies.

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.

Online sales begin next week through Spoke Art Gallery. Please make sure you’re on the Spoke Art Gallery email list to receive the latest news: https://spoke-art.com/pages/mailing-list

More info: https://spoke-art.com/…/chuck-sperry-x-fantastic-planet

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Fantastic Planet, La Planète Sauvage, René Laloux, Roland Topor, Roxie Theater, Spoke Art Gallery

November 16, 2023 By squirt

Chuck Sperry with Harman Projects at Context Art Fair During Art Basel Miami Week

Venus, 2023
21 x 34
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

DECEMBER 5 – 10, 2023

Harman Projects is pleased to announce we will be located at booth A15 at CONTEXT: Art Miami  2023!

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

Dates:
Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday December 5, 2023 | 4:30pm – 6:30pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday December 5 2022 | 6:30pm – 10:00pm

General Admission:
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Thursday, December 7, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Friday, December 8, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, December 9, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, December 10, 2023 |  11:00am – 6:00pm

Featuring solo presentations by:
Cryptik | Mark Drew | Jeremy Fish | Alison Friend | Naoto Hattori | Travis Louie | Kip Omolade | Taylor Schultek | Chuck Sperry | Martin Whatson

With a group presentation featuring:
BEZT | ChrisRWK | Kelsey Beckett | LeCrue Eyebrows | Joey Feldman | David Fullarton | Alex Garant | Frank Gonzales | Sarah Jamison| Blake Jones | Hannah Knox | Michelle Avery Konczyk | Huntz Liu | Caitlin McCormack | Reuben Negron | Hallie Packard | Gary Taxali | Helice Wen | Johnt Wentz | Angela Fang Zirbes

An advance collector’s preview will be available online before the exhibition opens, if you would like to receive a price list please contact us here: If there is a particular artist you are interested in please note that in your email.

https://www.harmanprojects.com/contact

Sappho, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Syrinx, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Salome, 2023
16 x 32
Edition of 30
5 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Magdalena, 2023
18.5 x 32
Edition of 30
5 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Harman Projects, Muses

November 6, 2023 By squirt

Sperry’s Grateful Dead “Bertha” Poster Wins Award

My Grateful Dead “Bertha” Poster has been voted Poster of the Week by Expressobeans members. Thanks to all my supporters, I super appreciate it! Many thanks to Expressobeans.com.

Commissioned with blessings from the Grateful Dead for The Capitol Theatre and Relix Marketplace, my Grateful Dead poster is a celebration of the Capitol Theatre’s early 1970s resurgence as a major psychedelic performance space. Sperry’s poster commemorates the first night of the Dead’s legendary residency at the Capitol Theatre on March 20, 1970.

“Bertha, I think, is probably some vaguer connotation of birth, death, and reincarnation. Cycle of existences, some kind of nonsense like that. I wouldn’t be surprised, but then again, it might not be. I don’t remember.” 

— Robert Hunter

Filed Under: Site Tagged With: Bertha, Capitol Theatre, Chuck Sperry, Expressobeans, Grateful Dead, Poster of the Week, Relix Marketplace

October 30, 2023 By squirt

Sperry Solo Show in Paris with l’Oeil Ouvert Gallery

L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery of Paris is pleased to present Chuck Sperry in “My Mind’s Eye” — a solo art exposition by the world famous printmaking master. For his upcoming solo in Paris, Chuck will be showing his newest editions on oak panel, archive panels, his latest editions on paper, rare test prints and surprises.

American artist Chuck Sperry is renown for his ethereal, psychedelically saturated screen prints that draw crowds of dedicated fans around the world. Iconic in both the concert music and art worlds — Sperry draws inspiration from the raw energy of live performances his art enhances — and stylistically from graffiti, pop art, and Art Nouveau. He currently imagines a verdant garden of new work tended by his signature shimmering muses, calling this work a “utopian provocation.”

On view: December 6, 2023 – January 2024.

Vernissage: Wednesday, December 6, 18h – 22h

l’Oeil Ouvert Gallery Presents:
“My Mind’s Eye” a Chuck Sperry solo exhibition
1 rue Lucien Sampaix, 75010 Paris

In my minds eye
Things are clearer than before
Showing me the way
Asking me to stay
I’ll never close the door
To all these things and more

— Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane (Small Faces)

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, l'Oeil Ouvert, Muses, Paris, Solo Exposition

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