Chuck Sperry

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Widespread Panic “Winter” Variant Editions

Widespread Panic “Winter”

Speckled Frost Edition

22 x 33

Edition of 25

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and rich hand-mixed colors)

Printed on Speckled Frost Paper

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Widespread Panic “Winter”

White Marble Parchment Edition

22 x 33

Edition of 23

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and rich hand-mixed colors)

Printed on White Marble Parchment

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Widespread Panic “Winter”

Snowflake Edition

22 x 33

Edition of 9

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and rich hand-mixed colors)

Printed on Snowflake Patterned Paper

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Widespread Panic “Winter”

Mirror Foil Edition

22 x 33

Edition of 12

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and rich hand-mixed colors)

Printed on Mirror Foil

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

I’ll be making a very limited release of the variant editions on Sunday, January 9, 2011 at a random time.

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A portion of the sale of the Widespread Panic variant editions will go to help my dear friend Charles Bock and family.

You may remember, I designed the cover of his novel “Beautiful Children.” Check out the book cover design and the poster here.

I’ll quote Charles McGrath about Charles and his situation from the New York Times: “The writer Charles Bock made a great many literary friendships during the years while he struggled to complete his first novel, “Beautiful Children.” When Mr. Bock’s wife, Diana Colbert, was discovered to have leukemia and underwent a bone marrow transplant in the fall of 2009, many of those friends pitched in to offer household help. In October, Ms. Colbert’s leukemia returned (she is scheduled for another transplant next month), and three of the Bocks’ friends, the novelists Fiona Maazel and Mary-Beth Hughes and the writer Leigh Newman, decided they needed to help even more. “We said everything that can be done, should be done,” Ms. Maazel recalled. So on Feb. 6th, at P.S. 122 in the East Village, the Bock friends are throwing what they’re calling “the most literary rent party ever.” Full article

Article in The New Yorker

Here’s a link to donate to Charles Bock and his family.


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Moonalice at Slim’s SF Poster – January 3,4,5 – Moonalice TV Live

Moonalice is starting 2011 with a live three night Moonalice TV engagement at Slim’s in San Francisco. I made this silkscreened poster for the event at the request of the band, art directed by Chris Shaw.

The subject in my poster is hanging a poem or prayer in a tree. This is an ancient human ritual. People have been doing this in every quarter of the world forever. I was in England with Chris Hopewell from Jacknife posters and he took me to the Avesbury Stones (the little Stonehenge), and the oak trees around the site were streaming with prayer ribbons. My girlfriend Nancy hangs ribbons in the tree across the street. The ancient ritual again. It’s 2011, so we hang posters on telephone poles. And Moonalice, they livestream their rock show – and since we live in a technological new millennium – their poems are hung electronically on the air.

Moonalice at Slim’s San Francisco (M333)

January 3, 4, 5, 2011

Silkscreen Poster

16.25 x 33

Edition of 125

5 Color Silkscreen on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

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Moonalice 333 Speckled Variant

Silkscreen Poster

16.25 x 33

Edition of 13

5 Color Silkscreen on speckled paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

I’ll be making a very limited release of this poster on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at noon PST.



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A Few Words About Printing and Art

As someone who has actually been “in the trenches” printing all of my own posters, I have a right to a few words here on the subject.

To this day, 16 years and still going strong, I design and print all of my own posters and prints.

I don’t like it when artists who don’t print their own work act like they do. That’s elitist, untruthful and wrong. I think it’s part of the class system that we have grown to culturally accept having to do with working with your hands. As if manual dexterity is of a lower order of importance in the making of art, than to make something with your mind and to direct the labor to produce it. I feel this relationship of the artist as boss who directs labor to produce art, further emphasizes the elitism of a class stratified society.

In fact, working with your hands while using your mind is the very essence of artistic activity. This activity unifies the physical and cerebral into one activity. When I make my own art – when I actually print it – it is the fullest expression of my command of my mental artistic aims and my physical material conditions. It is pretentious to lead people to believe you produce your own prints, when you pay someone else to produce them.

If it is so glorious to produce the print, as many claim to do, when they do not, then why not get into the print studio and do the actual work. By working with the actual printing you will learn something about color, composition, design, screen printing itself (which is a physical activity), paper, ink, texture, luminosity, and the relationship between color and form. It will make you a better artist. If you do not print your own editions, don’t pretend like you do; It’s untruthful, and therefore can not be art. Truth is Beauty and Beauty is Truth. There I said it.

Full interview at Inside The Rock Poster Frame

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