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“Spirit of California,” l’Oeil Ouvert Gallery, Paris, September 18 to October 12

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“Spirit of California”

September 18 to October 12
Vernissage: Thursday, September 18 at 7:00 pm

l’Oeil Ouvert
74 rue François Miron
75004 Paris (metro St-Paul)

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L’Oeil Ouvert kicks off Indian Summer with “Spirit of California.”

This is the season when Parisiens re-enter The City. Though most Parisiens have returned to anchor at home port,“Spirit of California” will fill your sails with freedom and space!

From September 18, photographers, printmakers, lino-engravers will exhibit together in the Gallery, sharing their most beautiful California drenched visions of light, heat and beautiful energy. Discover the work of each artist as he envisions California, immersed in this innovative, dynamic and creative region, and of other artists, who have traveled the great spaces of California and were inspired by it’s wonders.

FICO, Robin Santus, Ingrid Sissung, Chuck Sperry, will accompany new artists Eric Rewitzer and Annie Galvin of 3 Fish Studios with Thierry Lewenberg-Sturm. Together they exhibit new works available in limited editions prints.

On the occasion of this exhibition, l’Oeil Ouvert offers a workshop with Californian artist Eric Rewitzer.

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Sperry’s “Pop Époque” Tour in Paris

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Screen print virtuoso, Chuck Sperry, is returning to Paris in person from California for a massive new exposition (300+ poster titles will be available) at l’Oeil Ouvert Gallery! Paris art lovers discovered Sperry at l’Oeil Ouvert at the end of 2013 and were seduced by his works and his muses.

Inspired and constantly exploring motifs as various as classical mythology, Art Nouveau, early 20th Century and early 1970’s typography, exploring the stars of the Rock universe, and the psychedelic 1960s, Chuck Sperry is able to impose his style upon all these various sources and inspirations. Share an evening with Sperry who crosses the Atlantic to share his world with an audience now enchanted by his talent.

Extolling femininity and the delicacy of floral motifs, the artist plays with the layering of materials, in a sensual intricacy that the eye can never completely resolve.

Whether the subjects of Sperry’s prints are queens of the first word (Alpha and Omega), or revolutionary warriors (Gogol Bordello), or indecisive Persephones (Widepsread Panic), or icons of Rock (Patti Smith), Chuck Sperry’s depiction of women truthfully represent figures deeply independent and sensual.

We admire the correctness of his representation of womanhood, the mastery of his technique, the beauty of this silkscreen work where each piece is limited in edition, signed and numbered, and Sperry’s labor is carried out manually by the artist himself in his studio in Oakland.

Read more in English a recent article in Boing-Boing.

Read more in French in a recent article in Indiepoprock.

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The Gallery is pleased to launch Pop Époque, Sperry’s summer tour in France which will be presented during three weeks in Paris in two galleries. Pop Époque will start on Thursday, June 19 at 6 pm with a colorful, cheerful, musical opening in the presence of Chuck Sperry at the l’Oeil Ouvert Gallery!

Entrance free, come!

Pop Époque is two exhibitions:

• Silkscreen on paper at l’Oeil Ouvert (74 rue François Miron Paris 4ème) from June 19 to July 13.

• Silkscreen on wood at Gallery Oberkampf (103 rue Saint Maur, Paris 11th) from June 21 to July 4.

Many of Sperry’s sold out, rare and hard to acquire posters will be offered online in a very limited release by l’Oeil Ouvert with new titles added beginning the week after the opening – check l’Oeil Ouvert’s store HERE for availability – or contact l’Oeil Ouvert HERE.

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Chuck Sperry to exhibit with Hashimoto Contemporary at Art Market San Francisco, May 16-18

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Sister (blue)
23 x 35
Oak Panel Edition of 15
7 colors om oak panel
Signed and Numbered

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Sister (green)
23 x 35
Oak Panel Edition of 15
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Available through Spoke Art / Hashimoto Contemporary at Art Market in San Francisco.

We are honored to announce that our sister gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary (located just three doors down from Spoke Art) will be exhibiting this weekend at Art Market San Francisco, the Bay Area’s most established contemporary and modern fine art fair.

Please join us this weekend where we will be exhibiting new and recent works from Brett Amory, Joel Daniel Phillips, Crystal Wagner, Jessica Hess, Scott Scheidly, Erik Jones, Scott Hove, Mario Wagner, Jason Seife, Shawn Huckins and Chuck Sperry.

Please note: we will not be taking pre-orders on the Chuck Sperry regular paper prints, those will be released online at a later date.

To learn more about this event, please visit the Art Market website here.

For a insightfully written overview of Sperry’s art and journey read Ben Marks’ article which appeared in Boing Boing on May 14, 2014 HERE

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Pop Époque – The Art of Chuck Sperry – May 1 – SF

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I am very much looking forward to seeing everyone at “Pop Époque – The Art of Chuck Sperry” at Firehouse 8 on Thursday, May 1 at 6 pm!

Firehouse 8, 1648 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, California • May 1 to May 31, 2014
Opening: Thursday, May 1, 2014 – 6 pm to 10 pm

Chuck Sperry will be making a special month long installation in San Francisco of his very newest, large-scale, screen printed wood panel works of art – as a preview for his American supporters – of the show he is making in Paris at Galerie Oberkampf. The setting for the show is Sperry’s original Firehouse studio located on Pacific Avenue between Polk Street and Van Ness in San Francisco. There will be food, beverages and music; rock posters to be acquired; and Sperry’s newest screen printed works on wood panel. This will definitely be a fun evening!

Opening: Thursday, May 1, 2014, Firehouse 8 of San Francisco will debut a special month long solo exposition of Chuck Sperry’s very newest large-scale works of art. The opening night reception and party that is free and open to the public. The show will be on view to the general public until May 31.

Facebook Event Listing HERE

Here’s a preview of some of Chuck Sperry’s newest screen prints on wood panel:

EQUITY COLOR WEB

Equity, 2014
18 x 24
Oak Panel Edition of 25
7 colors screen printed on oak panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
PERSEPHONE-WEB
Persephone, 2014
23 x 35
Oak Panel Edition of 6
5 colors screen printed on oak panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
THE-MASK-OF-ANARCHY
The Mask of Anarchy, 2014
23 x 35
Oak Panel Edition of 6
5 colors screen printed on oak panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
AMPHITRITE
Amphitrite, 2014
30 x 17.625
Oak Panel Edition of 11
6 colors screen printed on oak panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
AEON-SPERRY-WEB
Aeon, 2014
16 x 20
Oak Panel Edition of 10
7 colors screen printed on oak panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
LYNCH-WOOD-PANEL
In Dreams, David Lynch, 2014
18 x 35
Birch Panel Edition of 5
Acrylic & heavy metallic silver and three tints on birch panel (framed)
Signed and numbered
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There is also a review of Chuck Sperry’s archive of screen prints on wood panel:
THALIA-WEB
Thalia, 2013
40 x 66
Birch Panel Edition of 12
7 colors screen printed on birch panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
WORLDS WITHIN
Worlds Within, 2013
48 x 40
Birch Panel Edition of 11
8 colors screen printed on birch panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
MIND SPRING
Mind Spring, 2012
36 x 44
Birch Panel Edition of 4 (Blue)
6 colors screen printed on birch panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
ARGENTINA
Argentina, 2013
21 x 24
Birch Panel Edition of 15
7 colors screen printed on birch panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
VICTORY
Victory, 2013
21 x 24
Oak Panel Edition of 10
7 colors screen printed on oak panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
Chaos Web
Chaos, 2012
40 x 60
Birch Panel Edition of 4
7 colors screen printed on birch panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
Cosmos Web
Cosmos, 2012
40 x 60
Birch Panel Edition of 4
7 colors screen printed on birch panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
Alpha
Alpha, 2012
23 x 35
Birch Panel Edition of 15
6 colors screen printed on birch panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered
Omega
Omega, 2012
23 x 35
Birch Panel Edition of 15
6 colors screen printed on birch panel (framed)
Signed and Numbered

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Spoke Art x Chuck Sperry at C2E2 Chicago

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EQUITY COLOR WEB

“Equity”
18 x 24
Edition of 50
7 colors on archival cream paper
Signed and Numbered
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This print and it’s variants (which Spoke Art will be revealing) will be available at C2E2 Chicago April 25 through April 27, 2014 through Spoke Art’s booth #756.
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TO EQUITY.

O Blessed Equity, mankind’s delight,
Th’ eternal friend of conduct just and right:
Abundant, venerable, honor’d maid,
To judgments pure, dispensing constant aid,

A stable conscience, and an upright mind;
For men unjust, by thee are undermin’d,
Whose souls perverse thy bondage ne’er desire,
But more untam’d decline thy scourges dire:
Harmonious, friendly power, averse to strife,
In peace rejoicing, and a stable life;
Lovely, loquacious, of a gentle mind,
Hating excess, to equal deeds inclin’d:
Wisdom, and virtue of whate’er degree,
Receive their proper bound alone in thee.
Hear, Goddess Equity, the deeds destroy
Of evil men, which human life annoy;
That all may yield to thee of mortal birth,
Whether supported by the fruits of earth,
Or in her kindly fertile bosom found,
or in the depths of Marine Jove profound.

— Hymns of Orpheus

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Sperry Books: “Color x Color” • “Helikon” • “Chthoneon” • “Idyllion”

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