Chuck Sperry

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TRPS Rock Art By The Bay at The Cannery, August 18

TRPS presents:

Rock Art By The Bay at The Cannery

Sat­ur­day August 18, 2012 from 10:00am — 6:00pm

The Rock Poster Soci­ety (TRPS) is pleased to announce the rock poster art event of the sum­mer! TRPS presents Rock Art By the Bay on Sat­ur­day August 18, 2012 at the Can­nery near San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. The show will run from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Admis­sion: FREE

I’ll be attending TRPS Rock Art By The Bay at The Cannery. It’s going to be a busy weekend.

Tonight, Thursday, August 16, 2012 I’ll be making a rare showing of my art pieces on wood panel at Varnish Fine Art Gallery at 16 Jessie Street, San Francisco. Pieces sold at Varnish benefit Visual Aid, so it is definitely for a really great cause. Come tonight, it’ll make a great pre-TRPS social event, and you can have a look at “Alpha,” “Omega,” “Cosmos,” and “Mind Spring,” and bring one home for a good cause!

I’ve got some news to share regarding some exclusive releases for the Rock Art by the Bay.

I’ll be making some never released artist proofs and very limited variants available on a one per person basis only to participants of the exposition on Saturday, August 18, 2012. There are some surprises here:

This exclusive release is only available at TRPS Rock Art by the Bay, August 18, 2012.

70th Birthday Celebration, Jerry Garcia
Giants vs. Mets with special guest Moonalice
Art by Chris Shaw. Print­ing by Chuck Sperry & Chris Shaw at Hangar 18, Oak­land.
Impres­sion: 19″ x 28.5″
Paper: 21″ x 31.75″
5 Color Screen­print, Cougar 80lb
Edi­tion of 100
Signed & Numbered

Widespread Panic Wood Tour

Wood Panel Edition

Artist Edition of 25

22 x 31

6 colors on 1/8″ wood panel

Signed and Numbered

WP 25th Anniversary Tour Poster

Mirror Foil Variant Edition of 20

22 x 33

7 colors on Mirror Foil

Signed and Numbered

WP 25th Anniversary Tour Poster

Sparkled Foil Variant Edition of 20

22 x 33

7 colors on Sparkled Foil

Signed and Numbered

Widespread Panic 25th Anniversary Fall Tour 2011

16 x 29

Artist Proof Edition

7 color silkscreen (metallics, glazes and translucent tinting colors)

Printed on archival cream paper

Signed / Artist Proof

The Black Keys, Oracle Arena, Oakland

May 4, 2012

19 x 33

Gold Dust Edition of 20

6 colors on gold dust paper

Signed and Numbered

This exclusive release is only available at TRPS Rock Art by the Bay, August 18, 2012.

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Artists of Occupy Bay Area at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

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“Bafantu Slaves” • Tears Valley Rock’n’roll Festival 2012

On June 2 and 3, I was in Pisa for the Italian Poster Rock Art Festival; On Sunday, June 3, my friend Giampo Copparoni and I woke up early to meet Cesare Cantalupo and his motorcycle gang, the Tears Valley Motorcycle Club of Montecatini Terme, Toscana. I’ve know Giampo and Cesare for about a dozen years. These two guys rock, and the plans they put together never cease to amaze me.

Well, this beautiful, sunny Sunday morning, Giampo and Cesare were inviting me to hang out while they made a movie. Giampo, his girlfriend Betti, a cool friend of their’s who drove and I climbed up the beautiful Coline di Leonardo in a fast car. No matter that this hill was Leonardo da Vinci’s playground as a child, and probably supplied the background setting for painting such as the Mona Lisa. Forget all that, we were making a biker movie, “Bafantu Slaves.” What a frickin’ gas maaaaaan!

On the top of the hill was a medieval castle, and we were met by Italian film director Alessandro Mariani, his photographer friend, Ilaria Sancho Panogi, and my friend Cesare’s motorcycle gang. Giampo donned his biker, beatnik super-hero costume, becoming the mysterious “Bafantu” right before my very eyes! And my friends in Cesare’s gang slapped on their psychedelic, biker helmets, and we all had a million laughs making this trailer for a “crazed Roger Corman movie that sadly got lost in a drug raid,” according to Flicks That Never Happened by Hunter S. Thompson, “when Mario Bava came to the West Hollywood hills to party with Peter Fonda in 1971.”

Maybe the more clever rockers among you have figured out that this is an announcement for a rock and roll weekender in Montecatini. Man oh man, if I could go! Rock on Bafantu and rock on Bafantu Slaves!

TEARS ROCK’N’ROLL FESTIVAL

ROCCA NUOVA DI SERRAVALLE PISTOIESE

28 JULY 2012

(DALLE 17.00 ALL NIGHT LONG!)

WITH

LOS DRAGOS

KILLER PENIS

GOLDEN SHOWERS

THE HOMEBREAKERS

BONGLEY DEAD

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