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October 25, 2025 By squirt

“Chuck Sperry: Exposed!” Art Show in Torino Italy October 31

“Chuck Sperry: Exposed!”
Opens Friday, October 31, 2025 at Ridicola an urban art gallery located in the heart of Torino, Italy. Opening party featuring: DJ Giampo! Show on view through November 2025.

I’ll be releasing two brand new, large format art prints in limited edition — “Courage” & “Empathy” — printed in red-orange-yellow tones by Sericraft of Torino. These two prints will see their American release at Context, Miami Art Week during Art Basel Miami 2025 at Harman Projects’ booth.

Also: I’ve created a special edition “Ridicola” magazine of 60 pages, filled with two extensive photo stories by Shaun Roberts documenting the artist at work inside Hangar 18, my California studio. The cover parodies Italian news magazines of the 1960s.

Ridicola is located at the heart of Torino, a former newsstand transformed into a vibrant exhibition space: a new hub for meeting, sharing, and art exhibitions. The small kiosk, closed for years, is reborn in a new form: an urban art gallery accessible 24/7, with a never-closing window and a curated selection of independent magazines and fanzines.

Courage (oversized), 2025
67,75 cm x 100 cm (26.7″ x 39.4″)
Edition of 400
5 color screen print on fedrigoni paper.
Signed and Numbered
Empathy (oversized), 2025
70 cm x 100 cm (27.5″ x 39.4″)
Edition of 400
5 color screen print on fedrigoni paper.
Signed and Numbered

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, Context Art Fair, Courage, Empathy, Harman Projects, Miami, Muse, Ridicola, Sericraft, Torino, Turin

August 29, 2025 By squirt

Chuck Sperry’s Dave Matthews Band Poster Release

Dave Matthews Band, Shoreline Amphitheatre 2025  
21 x 33.5
Artist Edition of 350
5 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Dave Matthews Band, Shoreline Amphitheatre 2025
21 x 33.5
Lava Foil Artist Edition of 100
5 colors on lava foil
Signed and Numbered

Dave Matthews Band, Shoreline Amphitheatre 2025
21 x 33.5
Sparkle Foil Artist Edition of 30
5 colors on sparkle foil
Signed and Numbered

Wishing everyone a great Labor Day weekend, especially everyone at the Gorge! Take in some sweet music, enjoy your beautiful natural surroundings, and fill your heart with courage.

Available starting Monday, September 1:

The online launch of my newest Dave Matthews Band poster and its variants will open: Monday, September 1, 2025 at 7 am PST. The launch closes on Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 7 pm PST. The launch will be open for 36 hours.

3 Live Launches – One for each edition: Regular, Lava and Sparkle.
One entry per launch – Multiple entries per launch will be penalized.
One print per household – You may only win 1 print across all launches.

Visit the launch page for the release (countdown and launch + you can set a launch reminder):

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“My new poster muse for Dave Matthews Band is named “Courage”. I want my work to provoke meditation and emotional responses to its bold 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

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Dave Matthews Band, Mountain View, Muse, Shoreline Amphitheatre

May 14, 2025 By squirt

Sperry in Popland 2025 at KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam

POPLAND 2025 • GRAND OPENING
Saturday, June 7, 2025 • 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
The Popland exhibition will remain on view until July 5, 2025.

KOCHXBOS GALLERY AMSTERDAM
1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 36, 1015 NR Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Chuck Sperry will be appearing in Amsterdam on Saturday, June 7 for the opening of Popland 2025, a spectacular group show curated by Ciou at KochxBos Gallery. We hope to see you there! 

Popland is a remarkable group exhibition featuring new, emerging, and established talent from around the world, curated by artist Ciou. Says Ciou: “I am also one of the artists, and as a curator, I find it fascinating to see how the same influences manifest in different cultures. For example, we can observe that artists within Pop Surrealism are inspired by anime, pop culture, and folk art. It is interesting to see how artists from Asia interpret American influences, and how artists from Europe approach art from Japan. It is a continuous cycle of inspiration, a perfect circle.”

Alexandra Lukaschewitz • Aya Kakeda • Caia Coopman • Chris Buzelli • Chuck Sperry • Ciou • Creature Creature • Hazel Ang • Malojo • Mina Wada • Nicomi Nix Turner • Oki Chu • Peter Ter Mors • Robert Steven Connett • Roberto Rodriguez Redondo • Sean Mahan • Sonya Fu • WC Johnny • Yu Maeda

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Filed Under: Art Prints

April 15, 2025 By squirt

Chuck Sperry’s “The Mystic” & “Iphigenia” Blotters • 
Online Release with EQL

“The Mystic” • Edition of 300 • 6.25 x 9 • Shakedown Gallery • (without border)

Perforated into 900 quarter-inch squares • Signed and Numbered

In celebration of Bicycle Day 2025, my two newest blotters “The Mystic” and “Iphigenia” will be made available to my friends and supporters through EQL!

I will make a limited online launch of “The Mystic” and “Iphigenia” through EQL launch opening on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 9 pm PST. The ballot will be open for 36 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.

There will be two live launches: 1 launch for each blotter edition (“The Mystic” and “Iphigenia”).

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

You may only win 1 blotter from each of the live launches within this 36 hour period. One per household. I will not match numbers.

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

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“Iphigenia” • Edition of 300 • 9 x 11.25 • BC Blotter Co • (with border)

Vegetable based inks • 80# unbleached cotton paper • Signed and Numbered

 

BICYCLE DAY CELEBRATIONS:

LIVE RELEASE: Join Shakedown Gallery on Shakedown Street behind The Tuscany in Las Vegas during the Dead and Company Sphere run on Bicycle Day weekend, April 17-19th – where “The Mystic” will be available.

LIVE RELEASE: Join BC Blotter Co. and celebrate Bicycle Day Saturday, 4/19 and 4/20 at Psychedelic SF Gallery at 1399 Haight Street, San Francisco – where “Iphigenia” will be available.

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: BC Blotter Co, Bicycle Day, Chuck Sperry, Dead & Company, Iphigenia Blotter, Psychedelic SF, Shakedown Street, Sphere, The Mystic Blotter

April 4, 2025 By squirt

Available Now: Chuck Sperry’s Newest Protest Art Poster

“Our Future, Our Democracy” (No Autocracy!) 2025 • 18 x 24 • offset poster

Now available exclusively online at the Harman Projects online store.⁠

Harman Projects and Chuck Sperry are pleased to announce “Our Future, Our Democracy” (No Autocracy!) 2025.

This limited edition offset lithograph is a continuation of the artist’s deeply entrenched activism, a key element to his artistic and social practice.

Available online starting Friday, April 4th at 10am Pacific exclusively online at the Harman Projects online store.

I am encouraged by the coming nationwide, mass mobilization on April 5, 2025 — organized in part by political action group Indivisible. 

It’s important to exercise one’s first amendment right to free speech, and so inspired, I created a 2025 offset variant of my “Our Future, Our Democracy” poster. My refreshed design calls for “No Autocracy! No Oligarchy! No Dictatorship!” 

Join our day of national mobilization on April 5, and stay tuned for many American demonstrations to follow. 

The time to defend our democracy is now. 

— Chuck Sperry

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Harman Projects, Our Democracy, Our Future

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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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