“Don’t Panic Open House”
Hangar 18
1428  34th Street (at Hollis)
Oakland, CA 94608

I’m very happy to announce, my Second Annual Open House at Hangar 18 Studio Gallery on Saturday, March 21, 2015 from 12 noon to 6 pm.

We had so much fun last year! I’d love to welcome the Widespread Panic family to Oakland, California and give everyone a warm welcome to the my studio. This is a great opportunity to visit the print studio that gave birth to some of your favorite posters for your favorite band. I’ll be making a Widespread Panic art show, with some special prints and rarities available!

We will be giving people random numbers at the door at 11 am, so overnight camping is not encouraged.

I’d like to reveal the first piece of my newest set of posters to commemorate Widespread Panic’s three night engagement at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California.

Widespread Panic at the Fox Theater, Oakland
“Aglaea” (Splendor)
19 x 27
Edition of 320
6 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Widespread Panic at the Fox Theater, Oakland
“Euphrosyne” (Mirth)
19 x 27
Edition of 320
6 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Widespread Panic at the Fox Theater, Oakland
“Thalia” (Good Cheer)
19 x 27
Edition of 320
6 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

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I designed and printed three separate, but matching, posters (one for each night).

The thematic tryptich is based on the Three Graces: Splendor, Mirth, and Good Cheer.
These classic ideas perfectly describe a good Widespread Panic show!

All three of the posters have the three dates on them.
Each one will be offered exclusively for only one night.

The posters were not printed together, but each one at a time, created as three separate posters, on highest quality shimmering gold metallic paper.
I thought that in this way – everyone gets a cool poster with all the dates – but there is also that extra coolness that they are different each night.

I wanted to do something extra cool, and labor intensive, for this special Widespread Panic appearance!

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All three posters will be on view at my Open House but will only available through Widespread Panic at the Fox Theater (one poster per night). 

I will be making a very limited release of my Artist Editions of these posters on Sunday, March 29, 2015 at a random time on www.chucksperry.net 

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As a special event: I am also hosting a show of the influential French screenprinting project Le Dernier Cri. I have known this amazing creative team from Marseille for 15 years, visiting often, sharing work and stories these many years. Their work is challenging, underground, shocking and always thought provoking – and I wanted to take this opportunity to share their art with you. There will be amazing Le Dernier Cri art prints, posters and handprinted and hand-bound Le Dernier Cri silkscreened books for sale.

“There is no other publishing concern like that of Marseille based Le Dernier Cri whose stock in trade is extreme, unrepressed artistic expression. Founded in 1993, emerging from the ashes of the “underground zine” movement of Paris in the 1980s, Le Dernier Cri has published well over 150 books, the majority of which are still hand printed using the silkscreen press, making them small works of art, which they continue to sell for peanuts. The publishers work their derrieres off to gather and promote art which is too far outré in it’s emotional or psychological content, violent or vulgar to have a place in the commercial world of comix (except as influences), and many of these artists would probably remain unknown until they died and someone found their apartment full of shocking works. LDC have promoted the careers of so many artists that I can’t even begin to describe their place in the international underground world of graphic art.”

“The fact that Le Dernier Cri produce, publish and screen print their own books and posters, as well as create their animated films themselves, is so rare that it qualifies them as candidates for the bug house too, in my book. Nonetheless, shouldn’t they receive some kind of civil service award for this effort? Please buy as much of their product as you can!”

– Georganne Deen