The Rock Poster Society, Festival of Rock Posters, 2011
18 x 33
Edition of 100
2 colors on dark green linen paper
Signed and Numbered
SOLD OUT – Thank You!
By squirt
By squirt
Humanity
Edition of 50
6 colors on archival cream paper
22 x 33
Signed and Numbered
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My favorite revolutionary political posters are from the Cuban Golden Age of political graphics from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. There is a colorful fusion of psychedelia and political message. I did this poster in the spirit of clear, bold, direct communication.
I wanted to communicate the “visible” world and the “hidden” world that everything in objective reality depends on. Like the world of “ideas” and the world of “objects.” Or the world of spirit and the world of life. The individual struggle and the human struggle.
It’s a sort of yin yang idea….
There’s this greater submerged “underground” reality – it is larger – breaks over the bounds of the poster. It could represent spirit or humanity. The above ground living flower is represented as transitory (it is losing petals in the wind) – but it’s roots go down from the heart to the heart of the submerged reality – where it is fed – and eternal.
The hard part was to show something this complicated in a simple and pleasing graphic.
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I will be making a very limited release of this poster online through the Varnish Fine Art Emporium on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at a random time.
By squirt
This has been in my poster archive since February. Here is my very limited offering in celebration of my upcoming SFMOMA installation. Soon I will be posting documentation, process photos and films of my 11 foot by 9 foot acrylic painting on canvas done especially for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Window Gallery which will be on display from June 2011 to January 2012. More details about my SFMOMA installation in subsequent posts …
Steve Miller Band
Austin City Limits
Season 37 – KLRU – The Moody Theater
Saturday, February 26, 2011
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Black Variant Edition of 9
8 colors on linen textured black paper
22″ x 33″
Signed and Numbered
By squirt
Pnina Sissman, book designer for Bar-Ilan University Press, Tel-Aviv, Israel asked for permission to use my Tower of Babel Paradiso print design for the cover of “From Language to Philosophy, Noam Chomsky in a New Light.” Great to see my work going far and wide, and I’m a big fan of Noam Chomsky, so that’s very cool. The art print of this design is available through Station 4 and Varnish Fine Art. Here’s the art print image, details with a link to Station 4 and Varnish.
Tower of Babel Paradiso
22 x 33
Silkscreen on paper
Edition of 20
9 colors on white coated cover
Available at Varnish Fine Art Gallery
Tower of Babel Paradiso
24 x 36
Silkscreen on steel
Edition of 5
9 colors on steel
By squirt
I’m pleased to show my anodized aluminum editions from Röckaholics II, curated by Guenther Dobrauz in Zurich, Switzerland. Guenther introduced me to Heinrich Mantel AG, producer of the finest anodized aluminum editions in Europe today.
American Artifact
Anodized Aluminum
48 cm x 64 cm (18.9″ x 25.2″)
Edition of 5
Signed and Numbered
SOLD OUT
Brian Setzer
Anodized Aluminum
41.5 cm x 64 cm (16.3″ x 25.2″)
Edition of 5
Signed and Numbered
SOLD OUT
English Beat
Anodized Aluminum
45 cm x 64 cm (17.7″ x 25.2″)
Edition of 5
Signed and Numbered
SOLD OUT
Neko Case
Anodized Aluminum
48 cm x 61.5 cm (18.9″ x 24.2″)
Edition of 5
Signed and Numbered
SOLD OUT
Phoenix
Anodized Aluminum
48 cm x 64 cm (18.9″ x 25.2″)
Edition of 5
Signed and Numbered
SOLD OUT
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Photos taken while signing these with an engraver’s scribe. Note: There’s a clear blue plastic protective layer on these (see above for actual anodized aluminum print).
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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