Chuck Sperry

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Juxtapoz: “The Interweaving Worlds of Chuck Sperry” by Dasha Matsuura

Read Full Juxtapoz Interview here.

I am incredibly excited for my upcoming solo show “Heaven of Many a Tangled Hue” at Spoke Art opening Saturday April 7th at their San Francisco location! For my latest solo exhibition, I have created seven editions on oak panel, two of which will be brand new images (with accompanying editions on paper.) Additionally, I have carefully curated a selection of works on paper pulled directly from the my personal archives.

Sales will be on a first come, first served basis at the opening reception on Saturday, April 7th. Doors will open at 4pm and we hope to have all orders completed by 9pm. Please note, we are expecting a very long line for this show and encourage our collectors and fans to arrive early.

There will be a limit of one oak panel, two archive paper prints and two new paper editions per person. No pre-sales will be available, customers must be over the age of 18, and we are unable to provide shipping services for in-gallery purchases.

Check out our recent studio visit with Chuck here, and be sure to RSVP to the opening night party via our event page!

“Kalligeneia”

“Anodos”

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KQED Arts: One Year Later, How Are Artists Dealing With Trump? by Rachael Myrow

From KQED Arts: One Year Later, How Are Artists Dealing With Trump? by Rachael Myrow on January 19, 2018.

As KQED Arts reported last year, rock poster artist Chuck Sperry turned his attention in 2017 toward politics, designing posters for both the Women’s March and the March for Science.Women's March Poster by Chuck Sperry

When we caught up with him this year, he’d just delivered 4,500 posters to Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. for their respective Women’s Marches on Jan. 20. This year, he plans to be in Oakland and San Francisco distributing his posters by hand and protesting the current administration, which he calls “anti-democratic, autocratic even. We need to take back control of Congress. My efforts are aimed at preserving our democracy, which is a very basic American core issue.”

For his part, Sperry vows to continue to create art for marches and other resistance activities until the current administration is removed from power. And he knows he’s not alone.

“I have been encouraged by the commitment of people who have spoken out strongly and in no uncertain terms against the ignorance, corruption and bigotry of the government in power,” he says. “The party in power has so debased its own values that there will be a reckoning from the common-sense American voter. We need to keep on the offensive, be seen on the streets, and heard in the media.” — Rachael Myrow

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KQED Arts: One Year Later, How Are Artists Dealing With Trump? by Rachael Myrow

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Vice: Serigrafía Global: una exhibición sobre género y visión estética by Sergio Pérez Gavilán

Serigrafía Global: una exhibición sobre género y visión estéticaTranslated in English:

Bringing together talents from around the world, Spoke Art San Francisco returns with a new exhibition entitled SERIGRAPH. Through giving absolute freedom to each of the artists to generate new visual proposals, this exhibition seeks to revitalize and celebrate the medium of analog printing, totally outside of an advertising or commercial context, with various aesthetic proposals that highlight the gender lines , background and aesthetic vision.

The works visible to the public, from November 30 to December 22, 2017, seek to show without masks or apologies the breadth of the medium as a means of expression. Be it surrealist landscapes with pop tints, hyperrealist portraits or strange unions between animé aesthetics and art noveau, SERIGRAPH will converge on how things really do not depend on the medium, but on the intention and the artistic vision.

You can see more works below:
Demeter, 2017 by Chuck Sperry

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Juxtapoz: Spoke Art’s Latest Group Show Focuses on the Aesthetic and Medium of Print Making

From Juxtapoz: Spoke Art’s Latest Group Show Focuses on the Aesthetic and Medium of Print Making by Staff on November 20, 2017.

Spoke Art‘s latest show is titled SERIGRAPH, a dynamic group exhibition celebrating screenprinting and analog printmaking as both a medium and a process. This comprehensive survey includes artists from a wide variety of genres, backgrounds and styles.

Juxtapoz: Spoke Art's Latest Group Show Focuses on the Aesthetic and Medium of Print Making by Staff on November 20, 2017

Each artist brings their unique experience in screen printing from their broad ranging experience in the worlds of gig/rock posters, movie and film work, street art, fashion and beyond. Working with single and multicolor screen prints, each artist has created a new limited edition pushing and melding the boundary of the analog print process. Typically working with art directors and clients for commercial and licensed projects, SERIGRAPH allows this curated artist list a creative freedom not commonly found in their day to day work. This allows for an exploration of artistic practice in a completely restriction-free space has resulted in stunning array of works within the medium.

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