Chuck Sperry

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Official SXSW 2017 Poster by Sperry

SXSW, 2017
Edition of 300
21 x 34
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

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SXSW 2017 by Chuck Sperry

SXSW, 2017
Mirror Foil Edition of 40
21 x 34
7 colors on mirror foil
Signed and Numbered

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I’m very proud to announce I created the official poster for the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. I love the long drive through the Southwest from San Francisco to Austin. Leaving SF in early March and returning after a meandering journey to Texas and back, it’s always a great pleasure to experience the beginning of Spring while catching one of the best music festival’s in the world. My SXSW poster communicates the spirit of hope and spring and music.

Sadly I will not be attending SXSW this year due to a packed schedule, but I will be there in spirit!

My poster will be available officially through SXSW on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 12 noon – at the main merchandising booth outside EH5 / Registration in the Austin Convention Center.

I’ll be making a very limited release of my SXSW poster and it’s variant on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at a random time.

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Edwardian Ball 2017 Poster

Edwardian Ball 2017
15 x 35
Edition of 125
3 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

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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.

This year my poster depicts Cupid & Psyche, the belle of the ball and her accomplice, looking for her next intended target.

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Ben Harper, Paradiso, Amsterdam Poster

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Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Paradiso, Amsterdam
19 x 33
Edition of 150
5 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

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Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Paradiso, Amsterdam
19 x 33
Blue Opal Edition of 14
5 colors on metallic blue opal paper
Signed and Numbered

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Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Paradiso, Amsterdam
19 x 33
Wave Foil Edition of 15
5 colors on metallic blue opal paper
Signed and Numbered

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Jerry Garcia Art Print

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Jerry Garcia (Spring), 2016
21 x 32
Edition of 500
8 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

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This poster was officially available through the Jerry Garcia Estate in celebration of Jerry Garcia’s Birthday 2016.

I will be making my artist copies available only through my art shows and live appearances through the end of 2016.

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My aim is to capture the young Jerry Garcia in the springtime of his life and in the full bloom of his youthful idealism gazing into his own future replete with possibilities. I wove a psychedelic paisley pattern throughout the design rendered in eight colors, including bright hues, hand-blended metallics and translucent glazes. My hope is to portray the young Jerry, who while participating in the Haight-Ashbury’s utopian experiment, helped to transform the world through optimism and good humor, light and music.

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Widespread Panic, Oakland 2016 Poster Release

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Widespread Panic, Oakland 2016
20.75 x 35
Artist Edition of 100
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

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I will be making a very limited release of the Artist Edition of my Widespread Panic, Oakland poster on Sunday, July 24, 2016 at a random time.

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I’d like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one who came to share the fun at my “Don’t Panic” Open House on July 15, 2016. Thanks to all my friends who came, and especially all my friends who pitched in to help! Huge thanks to the band – it was awesome getting time to hang out a little together! Appreciate your time and generosity – and crew – everyone was so generous and hospitable – special thanks to Ben Draper for rolling out the red carpet, and Paul Hoffman for the amazing light show! Ben, Derrick, Jon, JC, Kenny, Brian – you guys ruled! Special thanks to Matt and Sunny for a great blotter art show! Thanks to Alan Kaufman and Ron Turner at Last Gasp, for a successful “Outlaw Bible of American Art” book release! What a fantastic afternoon and night of rock music!

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photo: Mark Mason Mortensun

Here’s an excerpt from Joshua Huver’s article announcing my show in “The Bay Bridged”:

“Widespread Panic, a sextet that consists of John “JB” Bell and Jimmy Herring on guitar, John “JoJo” Hermann on keys, Domingo S. Ortiz on percussion, Dave Schools on bass and Duane Trucks reprising his role as drummer, have a strong “home” advantage in the Bay. Though they’re not from here, one of the most direct reasons for the deep connection between Widespread Panic and the Bay Area is in large thanks to the Haight-Ashbury artist Chuck Sperry, whose 15+ years of illustrating fine art silk screens for concert posters has had some of his most memorable work featured for Panic prints. So much so that on Friday July 15, from noon-6pm, Sperry will be hosting the 3rd Annual Open House at Hangar 18, the Oakland studio where Sperry’s works are born. This will be a farewell any fan of soulfully southern jam-rock will not want to miss.”

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