“Heaven of Many a Tangled Hue” a solo exhibition of my latest work is now on view until the end of April. I urge you to go and have a look!

My exhibition will be on view at Spoke Art Gallery’s San Francisco location until Saturday, April 28th. Spoke Art is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 6pm and can be found at 816 Sutter Street near the corner of Jones Street.

If you can’t join us in person, be sure to view all the works from this exhibition HERE on Spoke Art’s online store.

I would like to thank each and everyone who came to celebrate the opening of my solo exhibition, “Heaven of Many a Tangled Hue” at Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco. I put my full mind, heart and soul into this show, and feel that the resulting event was an achievement I will never forget.

The lead up to opening night brought surprises, as participants started to camp out the Wednesday morning before my Saturday afternoon opening. I want to especially thank those dozens who braved the rainy weather to hold a place in line at the door. Fortunately opening day brought sun and mild weather! So many friends and supporters from here at home and across the country, I thank you all!

Photos: Shaun Roberts

Below are exhibition related links: an extensive interview in Juxtapoz, press notices of Sperry’s “Heaven of Many a Tangled Hue,” two extended photo stories by Shaun Roberts, and at the bottom of the list – an announcement of Sperry’s upcoming museum solo exhibition at Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

Juxtapoz Interview

Create Magazine Story

Wall Street International Magazine Story

Arsty Overview of Show

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More Opening Night Photos by Shaun Roberts

More Studio Visit Photos by Shaun Roberts

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Fort Wayne Museum of Art – “ALL ACCESS” – Sperry Solo Exhibition in September 2018

It was great to have Spoke Art Gallery over to my studio while I was preparing for my solo exhibition “Heaven of Many a Tangled Hue” at their San Francisco gallery. More info on opening night – including line up and limit information – can be found here. RSVP for the opening night reception on our event page here.

Chuck Sperry
“Heaven of Many a Tangled Hue”
Spoke Art San Francisco
816 Sutter Street
April 7 – 28, 2018

Chuck Sperry’s screen printed panels burst with energy and color, executed with a refinement of technique gained from 25 years producing his own prints. Dripping with brightly colored flowers, decked in gold and silver textures, Sperry’s blue-silver muses sing a paean to the long tradition of humanism reactivated in the struggle for social progress, universal human rights, a more perfect democracy and the utopian ideals of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood where Sperry has made his home since 1989.

The show title and work included draw inspiration from P. B. Shelley’s poem “The Sensitive Plant” — a meditation on the permanence of beauty and the impermanence of life. Shelley’s poem is set in a verdant garden of flowers representing pagan spirits tended by a maiden Venus:

I dare not guess; but in this life
Of error, ignorance, and strife,
Where nothing is, but all things seem,
And we the shadows of the dream,

It is a modest creed, and yet
Pleasant if one considers it,
To own that death itself must be,
Like all the rest, a mockery.

That garden sweet, that lady fair,
And all sweet shapes and odours there,
In truth have never passed away:
’Tis we, ’tis ours, are changed; not they.

For love, and beauty, and delight,
There is no death nor change: their might
Exceeds our organs, which endure
No light, being themselves obscure.

Chuck Sperry came to pre-eminence in the rock poster genre in the late-90’s, and has largely defined the genre in each decade since with his distinctive style and masterful printing technique.

Photos by Shaun Roberts

Preview: Agape, 2018 by Chuck Sperry, edition of 30, screenprint on oak panel.