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Widespread Panic Vegas “Venus” Poster Wins Award

My Widespread Panic Vegas “Venus” Poster has been voted Poster of the Week by Expressobeans members. Thanks to all my supporters, I super appreciate it! Many thanks to Expressobeans.com. Congratulations to all the winners of the lottery release!

As you may remember my last Widespread Panic poster featured Diana, goddess of the Moon, making an offering to Venus, the evening star, goddess of love. Many felt this was the one of the last posters released before the pandemic closed everything down. Now, after three years, it appears we’re back to a busy concert schedule. The Center for Disease Control will soon declare an official end to the pandemic. My Las Vegas poster shows Venus receiving Diana’s offering with gratitude.

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Widespread Panic Vegas “Venus” Lottery Release Announcement

I’m extremely happy to be back to making rock concert posters. Making my “Venus” poster for Widespread Panic’s Las Vegas weekend was the perfect way to get back into the concert schedule (with Venus’ gratitude for Diana’s offering). The 500 posters released to Widespread Panic fans at the shows were very well received. I heard from the band that I had a hit.

I would like to thank everyone for your patience and understanding during the unsuccessful release of my Widespread Panic poster. I was especially heart-warmed by the concern that so many of you expressed for my well-being. Your support was very much appreciated!

I am actively working on a detailed plan to address the bot issue and create a more enjoyable, secure and convenient online buying experience for my faithful supporters.

In the spirit of a fair release method, I will be making my release of Widespread Panic Vegas “Venus” by lottery.

Sign up to my mailing list (if you haven’t already). My email list subscribers will be the first to be alerted when the “Venus” prints and variants will be made available by lottery.

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Widespread Panic Vegas “Venus” Poster

Widespread Panic, The Theater At Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
20 x 34.5
Edition of 500
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

We broke the internet. Terribly sorry for the news. I was working with technical solutions that now will take time to implement. I will reschedule the drop to a future date TBA.

As you may remember my last Widespread Panic poster featured Diana, goddess of the Moon, making an offering to Venus, the evening star, goddess of love. Many felt this was the one of the last posters released before the pandemic closed everything down. Now, after three years, it appears we’re back to a busy concert schedule. The Center for Disease Control will soon declare an official end to the pandemic. My Las Vegas poster shows Venus receiving Diana’s offering with gratitude.

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Edwardian Ball 2023 Poster

Edwardian Ball 2023
21 x 35
Edition of 250
5 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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This poster is officially available at the show in SF. I will be making a very limited online release of this poster on Sunday, February 5, 2023 between 9-10 am PST.

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It’s Edwardian Ball time again, and as always, it’s a great pleasure to work with Justin Katz, the Edwardian Ball impresario, and once again I had a lot of fun making this poster!

My Edwardian Ball posters always have an edge of social critique in them. They are done with a wink and a nod, in keeping with the enjoyment of attending such an elaborate period pageant.

Most of the attendees also realize that the Edwardian era was one of unabashed and ostentatious oligarchy, unrivaled economic imperialism and a presumed European superiority complex. It’s all of these things that makes the period so bizarre to us today. I’ve always endeavored to reveal this outrageous and bizarre sense of imperial entitlement in my Edwardian Ball posters, and keep them wild and fun.

I try to channel the spirit of our age in a non-linear way with each year’s Edwardian Ball poster, making allegory, or touching a simple parallel between our 21st Century experience and the far-away world of Edwardian “Society.” 

This year’s poster is a portrait of the Edwardian Era’s namesake: King Edward VII. Edward was a cad’s cad. The moral of his story is one of the bilious poison of the privileged life of an ill-moralled emperor. The poison will get you in the end.

Known as “Dirty Bertie”, Edward spent every spare moment during the 20 years before ascending the throne in 1901 patronizing every bordello in Paris. His favorite establishment Le Cabanais had a reserved room for the future emperor-king complete with his coat-of-arms over his bed. Edward lodged there with his own elegant copper bathtub fashioned into an oddly shaped half-woman, half-swan (Salvador Dali later purchased Edward’s tub of ill-repute). He was keen to fill his tub with champagne. You heard that right, he bathed in champagne.

Edward was quite the inveterate blue-blooded, demi-monde and spent every night in a variety of Paris’ nightclubs in and around Montmartre, especially the legendary Moulin Rouge. If you made the scene in the Paris of the 1880’s and 90’s you would have eventually rubbed shoulders (or perhaps some body part) with the debauched future King of the British Empire. 

I shouldn’t say that Edward VII settled down after being burdened with the Crown. His appetites killed him in 9 short years on the throne. He continued his unabashedly toxic, imperial ways through an unabashedly toxic and imperial age, which shall ever bear his name: the Edwardian Era.

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Chuck Sperry Art To Help Register Voters Through Southern US

“Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy”
18 x 24 offset poster

Join us on Women’s Equality Day, August 26th at The Outrage in the nation’s capitol Washington DC from 2 pm to 6 pm. It’s a kick-off party where Vote Equality launches a massive Southern voter drive. In celebration, The Outrage is releasing my new offset, 18 x 24 version of “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” poster. It will be available at The Outrage, and throughout the Southern tour from Vote Equality.

The Vote Equality voter drive tour bus is designed by me (layout: Rachel Welsh de Iga). It features my poster design “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” at 7 feet tall, filling the back of the tour bus. My intricate flower patterns cover the bus, which is affectionately known as the Notorious RVG. See below:

Vote Equality will tour North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida on the first leg of their tour throughout the Southern US to activate and register voters. A second leg continuing through the South to be announced.

I am incredibly proud to give my art to the design of this legendary election bus on a historical mission in the midterm elections of 2022. It’s my aim to put my art into action: this is a giant tour with an important message of equality. 

The Outrage will be releasing my “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” 18 x 24 offset posters at the event on Friday, August 26, 2022, at 2 pm to 6 pm —  and after the party online through their online store. Money raised goes to Vote Equality.

The Outrage
1811 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
 Voter Drive Kick-off Party: Friday, August 26, 2022, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Vote Equality will be distributing my “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” 18 x 24 poster on the tour bus at every stop along the tour. Please join Vote Equality along the tour, and get a poster!

2022 SOUTHERN TOUR

September 14th: Greenville, SC and Spartanburg, SC
September 15th: Marietta, GA
September 16th – 18th: Augusta, GA (possibly also Aiken, GA)
September 19th – 20th: Atlanta, GA
September 22nd: Macon, GA and Warner Robins, GA
September 24th: Tallahassee, FL
September 26th – 28th: Savannah, GA
October 4th – 9th: South Carolina
October 10th – 12th: Fayetteville, NC
October 13th: Lumberton, NC
October 14th and 15th: Wilmington, NC
October 17th: Jacksonville, NC
October 18th – 20th: Raleigh, NC and Durham, NC
October 25th: Elon, NC
October 26th: Greensboro, N
October 27th – 28th: Winston Salem, NC

About the poster:

Equality is the flower of democracy. Passing the Equal Rights Amendment—at long last—will be the path to gender equality for our American democracy. I am grateful to be called upon to include my voice in the collective call to bring about gender equality by amending the Constitution with passage of the ERA, and I was quick to reach out to fellow artists to join the call to action. 

Clio is the Muse of history, daughter of memory. I suggest we remember where we came from, how we got here, who we are, and where we are going. History is not only a collection of objective facts; history is also a story. How we organize those objective facts says a lot about who we are, or who we want to be. 

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