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Mind Spring at Varnish Fine Art – Paper and Variant Editions

Mind Spring
Chuck Sperry, Chris Shaw, Ron Donovan
New paintings, installations, and limited silkscreen editions

Varnish Fine Art, 16 Jesse Street, #c120, San Francisco, California 94105 – phone: 415-433-4400

Artist Reception: January 14, 2012, 4pm to 7pm

JANUARY 14 – FEBRUARY 18, 2012

In Mind Spring, Sperry creates an icon of the Worldwide Occupy Movement and it’s antecedent in the Arab Spring. The figure wreathed in blooming spring flowers is a representation of the surprising enlightened humanism, the opening mind, the broadened socio-political possibilities which has swept the world in 2011.

Paper and Variant Editions will be released at Varnish Fine Art at the opening on Saturday, January 14, at 4pm to 7pm.

We will be making a very limited online release of these editions and their variants on Sunday, January 15, 2012 at a random time – right here in this post – on my site.

Mind Spring

Edition of 50

22 x 28

6 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Mind Spring

Silver Edition of 10

22 x 28

6 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Mind Spring

Bronze Edition of 10

22 x 28

6 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Mind Spring

Gold Edition of 10

22 x 28

6 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Chaos

Edition of 50

22 x 33

8 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Chaos

Silver Edition of 10

22 x 33

8 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Chaos

Bronze Edition of 10

22 x 33

8 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Chaos

Gold Edition of 10

22 x 33

8 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Cosmos

Edition of 50

22 x 33

8 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Cosmos

Silver Edition of 10

22 x 33

8 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Cosmos

Bronze Edition of 10

22 x 33

7 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

Cosmos

Gold Edition of 10

22 x 33

7 color silkscreen

Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Mind Spring at Varnish Fine Art – Wood Panel Editions

Mind Spring

Chuck Sperry, Chris Shaw, Ron Donovan
New paintings, installations, and limited silkscreen editions

Varnish Fine Art, 16 Jesse Street, #c120, San Francisco, California 94105 – phone: 415-433-4400

Artist Reception: January 14, 2012, 4pm to 7pm

JANUARY 14 – FEBRUARY 18, 2012

In Mind Spring, Sperry creates an icon of the Worldwide Occupy Movement and it’s antecedent in the Arab Spring. The figure wreathed in blooming spring flowers is a representation of the surprising enlightened humanism, the opening mind, the broadened socio-political possibilities which has swept the world in 2011.

Wood panel editions will be released at the opening on Saturday, January 14, at 4pm to 7pm. The wood panel editions are available on request from Varnish Fine Art. There is a link below each edition.

Mind Spring (Blue)

Edition of 4

36 x 44

6 color silkscreen on birch panel

Signed and Numbered

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

Mind Spring (Green)

Edition of 4

36 x 44

6 color silkscreen on birch panel

Signed and Numbered

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

Mind Spring (Purple)

Edition of 4

36 x 44

6 color silkscreen on birch panel

Signed and Numbered

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

Mind Spring (Silver)

Edition of 3

36 x 44

6 color silkscreen on birch panel

Signed and Numbered

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

Chaos

Edition of 5

40 x 60

7 color silkscreen on birch panel

Signed and Numbered

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

Cosmos

Edition of 4

40 x 60

7 color silkscreen on birch panel

Signed and Numbered

(Inquire to Varnish Fine Art for price and availability)

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Humanity – Art Print Release – LA vs. War

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.

 

 

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