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June 18, 2020 By squirt

“Our Future, Our Democracy” On Sale at Hashimoto Contemporary “Multiples” Show

“Our Future, Our Democracy” 2020
21 x 27
Edition of 200
8 color screen print on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

10% of proceeds will be donated to Black Lives Matter and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

“MULTIPLES”
HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY NYC
20 JUNE – 11 JULY 2020

A group exhibition of edition artworks will be available for purchase on Hashimoto Contemporary’s website on Thursday, June 18, 2020.

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Multiples, a group exhibition featuring limited-edition HPM (hand-painted multiples) and prints.

Participating Artists: 

Stephanie Brown | Jeffrey Cheung | Sandra Chevrier | GATS | Lizzie Gill | Lola Gil | Casey Gray | Seonna Hong | Mary Iverson | Katie Kimmel | Augustine Kofie | So Youn Lee | Aaron Li-Hill | Josie Morway | Hilda Palafox | Michael Reeder | Chuck Sperry | Lorien Stern | Madeleine Tonzi | Anna Valdez | Andrew Watch | Ally White | Chelsea Wong | Alex Ziv | Ravi Zupa

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Aaron Li-Hill, Alex Ziv, Ally White, Andrew Watch, Anna Valdez, Augustine Kofie, Casey Gray, Chelsea Wong, Chuck Sperry, GATS, Hashimoto Contemporary, Hilda Palafox, Jeffrey Cheung, Josie Morway, Katie Kimmel, Lizzie Gill, Lola Gil, Lorien Stern, Madeleine Tonzi, Mary Iverson, Michael Reeder, Ravi Zupa, Sandra Chevrier, Seonna Hong, So Youn Lee, Stephanie Brown

May 6, 2020 By squirt

Widespread Peace & Kindness Art Prints

Widespread Peace
11.5 x 12.75
Edition of 200
4 colors on paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Widespread Kindness
11.5 x 12.75
Edition of 200
4 colors on paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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I’ll be making a very limited online release of signed and numbered posters on Sunday, May 10, 2020 at a random time. 

I created two bright and colorful prints — Widespread Peace & Kindness mandala diptych — to lift our spirits and the focus our thoughts on our better angels in this difficult time. I feel it’s important especially these days to nourish the mind with positive food for meditation.

Widespread Panic conceived of the themes for these two prints, and I improvised on the band’s idea as the inspiration to create two mandalas “Widespread Peace” and “Widespread Kindness”. Excellent printer Leon Leathers of RubySue Graphics printed both pieces, bringing the Widespread family touch to my designs.

I am proudly partnering with Conscious Alliance to support their generous efforts through my sale of these prints!

Please join me in supporting Conscious Alliance’s COVID-19 Response Fund. With schools closed the number of kiddos and families needing food assistance is growing tremendously. In March of 2020 Conscious Alliance provided over 320,000 meals! Learn more Here

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Conscious Alliance, RubySue Graphics, Widespread Panic

January 24, 2020 By squirt

Edwardian Ball 2020 Poster

Edwardian Ball 2020
16.5 x 35
Edition of 150
3 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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This poster is officially available at the show in SF. I will be making a very limited online release of this poster on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at a random time.

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It’s Edwardian Ball time again, and as always, it’s a great pleasure to work with Justin Katz, the Edwardian Ball impresario, and once again I had a lot of fun making this poster!

My Edwardian Ball posters always have an edge of social critique in them. They are done with a wink and a nod, in keeping with the enjoyment of attending such an elaborate period pageant.

Most of the attendees also realize that the Edwardian era was one of unabashed and ostentatious oligarchy, unrivaled economic imperialism and a presumed European superiority complex. It’s all of these things that makes the period so bizarre to us today. I’ve always endeavored to reveal this outrageous and bizarre sense of imperial entitlement in my Edwardian Ball posters, and keep them wild and fun.

I try to channel the spirit of our age in a non-linear way with each year’s Edwardian Ball poster, making allegory, or touching a simple parallel between our 21st Century experience and the far-away world of Edwardian “Society.” 

2020 started with royals Harry and Meghan Windsor giving up their titles and station, causing all of us to ask, “Is royalty all it’s cracked up to be?”

My thoughts turned to poor, rich Consuelo Vanderbilt — inspirational Edwardian beauty. Crowds waited outside her Manhattan home to catch a glimpse of her striding between her door and carriage. Many would have her hand in marriage.

Her mother, Alva, shocked New York Society (aka “The Four Hundred”) by divorcing Consuelo’s father, a New York railroad millionaire, and schemed to regain her social standing by marrying daughter Consuelo to the greatest possible social advantage whether Consuelo was willing or not. Alva forced her daughter to wear a steel rod strapped to her back to improve her posture, whipped her with a riding crop, and awkwardly forced suitors of the highest possible rank upon her.

In rode Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, resident of a palace, related to royalty, titled, already romantically attached to another lady and deeply in debt — like a prince and frog all rolled into one. Consuelo defied the Duke and her mother. Alva locked her in her room until she gave in. 

For the tidy sum of $2.5 million (75 million today) Alva would marry Consuelo to the Duke. He could banish his debts and she would gain the title. 

Consuelo cried into her wedding veil on 6 November 1895. It was a faithless union, he cheated almost immediately, and Consuelo retaliated by cheating too. She kept a loaded revolver at her bedside to keep the Duke away, notwithstanding they had two sons, which Consuelo famously called, “the heir and the spare.”

Separated in 1906, divorced in 1921, with the acursed marriage finally annulled in 1926, she made her eventual total exit from the cad Duke and his suffocating royal society. Her second husband was French Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Balsan, daring balloon, airplane and hydroplane pilot, friend to the Wright Brothers, a dashing mustachioed Edwardian hero. Leaving all that royal balderdash on the ground below Consuelo soared off into the clouds with her French flyboy — and lived to the ripe old age of 87.   

 

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Edwardian Ball

December 1, 2019 By squirt

Sperry Featured with Spoke Art at Art Basel / Context Art Miami

Spoke Art is pleased to announce our return to Miami for the eighth year in a row exhibiting during Art Basel Miami! Join us this December at CONTEXT Art Miami where we will be exhibiting featured bodies of work by Chuck Sperry and Dan Lam as well as a group exhibition of over forty exciting contemporary artists!

Chuck Sperry – Digging into the archives we are able to offer sold out panel editions from the artist’s illustrious career, before releasing several brand new panels and prints on paper. Archive panels will go on sale Tuesday the 3rd. New panels and prints on paper will be made available on Saturday the 7th.

Hebe, 2019
20 x 29
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

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Harmonia, 2019
20 x 26.75
Edition of 30
6 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

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Chloris, 2019
33 x 20
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

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Dreamer, 2019
21 x 31
Edition of 150
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Variants on holographic sparkle foil, holographic lava foil and satin black

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Dan Lam – We will be exhibiting an assortment of recent drip and blob sculptures in the artist’s truly unique style. Always a favorite with audiences, Lam’s work pairs grotesque form with alluring color, creating a dichotomy that begs for closer inspection.

Group Exhibition – We are pleased to present a group exhibition featuring fifty exciting new contemporary artists working in a variety of media. Exhibiting artists include So Youn Lee, Aaron Nagel, Buff Monster, Nicomi Nix Turner, Eelus, Petites Luxures, Scott Scheidly, AJ Masthay, David Welker, Alex Garant and Scott Listfield.

Visit us at Booth C1 this December in Miami or if you can’t make it in person, check out the online preview here!

CONTEXT Art Miami
One Herald Plaza
NE 14th Street, Miami FL

December 3rd  – 8th, 2019

Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 3rd from 4:30 – 6:00pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 3rd from 6:00 – 10:00pm
General Admission: Wednesday – Saturday from 11am – 8pm, Sunday from 11am – 6pm

More info about the fair here. To inquire about available works or complimentary tickets, please email Spoke Art at nyc@spoke-art.com.

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Aaron Nagel, Aj Masthay, Alex Garan, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, Buff Monster, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Dan Lam, David Welker, Eelus, Nicomi Nix Turner, Petites Luxures, Scott Listfield, Scott Scheidly, So Youn Lee, Spoke Art

September 30, 2019 By squirt

Chuck Sperry x Spoke Art at NYCC • “Clio” Art Print Release

Clio, 2019
21 x 31
Edition of 100
6 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Variants: Sparkle Foil, Lava Foil and Satin Black
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“Clio” will be available at Spoke Art booth 675 starting Thursday, October 3, 2019.
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I’m very proud to announce my newest art piece, devoted to the muse “Clio” which I’ve made especially for release at Spoke Art Gallery’s appearance in New York City at the New York Comic Con.
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Clio is the Muse of history, daughter of memory. I suggest we remember where we came from, how we got here, who we are, and where we are going. History is not only a collection of objective facts; history is also a story. How we organize those objective facts says a lot about who we are, or who we want to be.
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When I realized I wanted more than anything to be a practicing artist, I realized I would devote my life to the muses. (That’s how I might organize my history, tell my story.)
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To The Muses – Orphic Hymn 75*
To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire much-form’d, the objects of supreme desire:
Sources of blameless virtue to mankind, who form to excellence the youthful mind;
Who nurse the soul, and give her to descry the paths of right with Reason’s steady eye.
Commanding queens who lead to sacred light the intellect refin’d from Error’s night;
And to mankind each holy rite disclose, for mystic knowledge from your nature flows.
Clio, and Erato, who charms the sight, with thee Euterpe minist’ring delight:
Thalia flourishing, Polymina fam’d, Melpomene from skill in music nam’d:
Terpischore, Urania heav’nly bright, with thee who gav’st me to behold the light.
Come, venerable, various, pow’rs divine, with fav’ring aspect on your mystics shine;
Bring glorious, ardent, lovely, fam’d desire, and warm my bosom with your sacred fire.
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The Orphic Hymns are at the foundation of the ancient Greek religion, as it was practiced during the Golden Age, at that civilization’s height, during its struggle to begin to define democracy, art, science, and reason. I feel we are at a place where human beings must define again democracy, art, science, and reason. What sort of Age awaits us?
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My history, I’ve been working on art devoted to the muses and Greek religion for many years, showing my work in gallery settings worldwide, art fairs and museums. That said, the New York Comic Convention has been a great forum to release new muses. I released “Demeter” at NYCC through Spoke Art in 2017, and “Justice” in 2014. My wood panel art print of “Justice” was acquired by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2017. My large-scale, hand-woven tapestry of “Demeter” was acquired by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2018. I love this electrical arc between popular art and fine art institution.
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Visit Spoke Art booth 675 starting Thursday, October 3, 2019.
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*You can find “To The Muses” in Sperry’s book “Helikon” (2016)

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Read more about Sperry’s  books “Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry” (2016) and “Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry” (2017)

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Helikon The Muses of Chuck Sperry, Muses, New York Comic Convention, Spoke Art

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