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Chuck Sperry’s Danaïde Blotter EQL Release

“Danaïde” Blotter 2026 • Edition of 300 • 6.25 x 9 • Shakedown Gallery • (without border)
Perforated into 900 quarter-inch squares • Signed and Numbered

In celebration of Bicycle Day 2026, I released my newest blotter “Danaïde” through Shakedown Gallery – now I’m making it available to my friends and supporters through EQL!

I will make a limited online launch of “Danaïde” through EQL opening on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Friday, May 29, 2026 at 9 pm PST. The ballot will be open for 36 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.

You are free to register once for the launch. Multiple entries per launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 blotter from the live launch within this 36 hour period. One per household.

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“Danaïde” wears early spring flowers and carries her terracotta amphora decorated with the winged horse Pegasus. As Pegasus stamps the earth, so bursts a spring; as Hippocrene flows on Mt Helicon, so flows inspiration from the source of the muses.

The myth of the 50 Danaïdes, condemned for all eternity to toil, to endlessly carry water to fill a leaking vessel. Sisyphus fated to bear his heavy stone uphill, only to lose his burden near the hilltop, and to begin again. 

This is our struggle for equal rights, for our democracy. To paraphrase Albert Camus: the struggle itself — to continually work to fill the leaking jar — is enough to fill her heart. One must imagine the Danaïdes happy.

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AVAILABLE NOW: Sperry’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Poster

Midsummer Night’s Dream 2026
22 x 33
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

AVAILABLE NOW:  Sperry’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Poster

AVAILABLE NOW: “Midsummer Night’s Dream” original work by Chuck Sperry, created especially for Fort Wayne Ballet  — a very limited allotment from an edition of 300 posters.

This one-of-a-kind piece brings a bold, contemporary vision to Shakespeare’s enchanted world, and we’re so excited to share it with you. In tandem with this special collaboration, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art is exhibiting  “Chuck Sperry: Archetypes”, a stunning new exhibition by Sperry celebrating the Greek Muses—on view through August 9.

The poster launch opens on Friday, May 22, 2026 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Sunday, May 24, 2026 at 9 pm PST. The poster launch will be open for 60 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase. Multiple entries per launch will be penalized. You may only win 1 poster from the live launch within this 60 hour period. One per household.

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Opening Night: Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum NYC

Situated on the highest point of Fifth Avenue with expansive views of Central Park, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum is housed in philanthropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie’s former mansion on museum mile. The gravity of the setting created an exciting, wonderful and surreal setting for the opening night of “Art of Noise” and my psychedelic contribution to the exhibition. Please go see the exhibition open through August 2026; it’s a magnificent achievement curated by Joseph Becker of the SFMOMA (pictured at his opening night presentation with Gary Hustwit). 

Art of Noise

 

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Cooper Hewitt Opens “Art of Noise” February 13 • Sperry On View

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum • Opens Art of Noise February 13 • [UPDATED]

Art of Noise • Cooper Hewitt • February 13 – July 19, 2026
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street • New York, NY 10128

Art of Noise at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a multi-sensory love song to the designers who devote their artistic vision to music. 

Music is a part of our daily lives. By contemplating how music is amplified by art — the design of album covers and concert posters — Cooper Hewitt’s upcoming exhibition Art of Noise shows us how profoundly this art has shaped our experience of the rhythms and melodies we listened to for over 100 years.

A floor-to-ceiling “temple” of music design — including many hundreds of San Francisco’s psychedelic rock posters and  — will feature rock poster artists and legendary bands of every description. Mid-century modern album covers, as well as hip-hop, punk, and rave flyers complete this expansive display of incredible color and creativity. For Cooper Hewitt’s presentation, the exhibition also includes printed and graphic materials from New York’s folk, rock, disco, salsa, punk, new wave and hip-hop scenes that have become embedded in the collective memory of countless listeners.

Art of Noise is not to be missed by any fan of art and music! This massive exhibition celebrates the icons of concert posters including Victor Moscoso, Wes Wilson, Chuck Sperry, David Singer, Lee Conklin, Bonnie MacLean, Milton Glaser and many others.

Art of Noise is organized by SFMOMA and curated by Joseph Becker, associate curator of architecture and design, with Divya Saraf, former curatorial assistant in architecture and design. The New York presentation of “Art of Noise” is curated by Becker with assistance from Cynthia Trope, associate curator of product design and decorative arts, Cooper Hewitt.

The exhibition opens Friday, February 13 at the museum. You can learn more about this amazing exhibition by following the link below.

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Chuck Sperry’s Alabama Shakes Poster Release

Alabama Shakes, Hollywood Bowl 2025
21 x 33
Regular Edition of 775
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

Alabama Shakes, Hollywood Bowl 2025
21 x 33
Lava Foil Edition of 200
7 colors on lava foil
Signed and numbered

Available Now! The online launch of my Alabama Shakes poster and its lava foil variant through EQL is open now: Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Friday, August 15, 2024 at 6 pm PST. The launch will be open for 33 hours.

2 Live Launches – One for each edition: Regular and Lava.
One entry per launch – Multiple entries per launch will be penalized.
One print per household – You may only win 1 print across all launches.

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