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Sperry’s Outside Lands Poster Release with EQL

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Edition of 550
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

My Outside Lands 2024 poster for San Francisco’s premier outdoor music festival in Golden Gate Park was a big success with concert goers. Now this poster and its variants will be made available to my friends and supporters through EQL!

I will make a limited online launch of my Outside Lands poster and its variants through EQL opening on Friday, August 16, 2024 at 9 am PST. The launch closes (the next day) on Saturday, August 17, 2024 at 9 am PST. The ballot will be open for 24 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.

There will be five live launches: 1 launch for each print edition (regular, silver, gold, satin black, rainbow foil). 

You are free to register once for each launch. Multiple entries per launch will be penalized. 

You may only win 1 poster from all the live launches within this 24 hour period. One per household. 

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Come, and trip it, as you go,
On the light fantastic toe;
And in thy right hand lead with thee
The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty;
And, if I give thee honour due,
Mirth, admit me of thy crew,
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreproved pleasures free

— L’Allegro by John Milton

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Silver Edition of 14
7 colors on silver metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Gold Edition of 20
7 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Satin Black Edition of 20
7 colors on satin black paper
Signed and Numbered

Outside Lands, 2024
19 x 35
Rainbow Foil Edition of 14
7 colors on rainbow foil
Signed and Numbered

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Sperry in Popland 4 to Open in Amsterdam

POPLAND IV
GRAND OPENING
SATURDAY MAY 25th • 17:00 to 20:00

I’m very pleased to announce that I will be appearing in Amsterdam on Saturday, May 25 for the opening of Popland 4, a spectacular group show curated by Ciou at KochxBos Gallery.

Popland is a remarkable group exhibition featuring new, emerging, and established talent from around the world, curated by artist Ciou.

There are several artists present at the opening. Meet Briana Hertzog, Chuck Sperry, Jana Brike, Malojo, Mono, Peca and curator Ciou!

Ciou: “I am also one of the artists, and as a curator, I find it fascinating to see how the same influences manifest in different cultures. For example, we can observe that artists within Pop Surrealism are inspired by anime, pop culture, and folk art.

It is interesting to see how artists from Asia interpret American influences, and how artists from Europe approach art from Japan. It is a continuous cycle of inspiration, a perfect circle.”

AHOY Angela Ho , Malojo , Briana Hertzog , Alexandra Lukaschewitz, Yu Maeda, Travis Louie, Mono Cieza, Peca, Pamela Tait, Erlend Tait , Travis Lampe, El Gato Chimey, Mizna Wada, Creature Creature : Chanel Tang and Ambrose Rehorek, Jana Brike, Dilka , Chuck Sperry, Junko Mizuno, Naoto Hattori and Ciou

KOCHXBOS   CONTEMPORARY   ART GALLERY  AMSTERDAM
1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 36, 1015 NR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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SFMOMA Opens “Art of Noise” May 4 • Sperry On View

SFMOMA Art of Noise
“The Black Keys” SFMOMA selection of Sperry concert poster for its permanent collection

SFMOMA Opens Art of Noise May 4

Art of Noise • SFMOMA • May 4 – August 18, 2024
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street • San Francisco, CA 94103

Art of Noise at SFMOMA 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 — SFMOMA’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.

SFMOMA Art of Noise
“Bob Dylan” SFMOMA selection of Sperry concert poster for its permanent collection

A floor-to-ceiling “temple” of music design — including many hundreds of San Francisco’s psychedelic rock posters — 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.

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. 

SFMOMA Art of Noise
“Edward Sharpe” SFMOMA selection of Sperry concert poster for its permanent collection

Art of Noise is organized by SFMOMA and curated by Joseph Becker, associate curator of architecture and design, with Divya Saraf, curatorial assistant in architecture and design.

The exhibition opens Saturday, May 4 at the museum. You can learn more about this amazing exhibition by following the link below.

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SFMOMA Art of Noise
“Power to the Peaceful” SFMOMA selection of Sperry concert poster for its permanent collection

 

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Sperry Enters Permanent Collection of SFMOMA

Clockwise from top left: Bob Dylan, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros,
The Black Keys and Power to the Peaceful by Chuck Sperry

I’m very proud to announce that San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired a selection of my concert posters for its permanent collection. The museum will include my work in its upcoming exhibition Art of Noise opening May 4, 2024. This exhibit should not be missed! It is a must-visit for every poster fan, all my friends, and supporters!

Here, briefly what the museum says about the exhibition:

Music is amplified by great design, from the concert posters that paper bedroom walls to the Sony Walkmans and Apple iPods once carried in our pockets. Through over 800 works, Art of Noise explores this essential relationship and the ground-breaking designs that enrich our collective memory, touching all our lives and giving form and color to sound. Heavily drawn from SFMOMA’s collection, the works on view include over 500 concert posters and flyers, 150 record album covers, 100 design objects, and three sound installations that chart the evolution of music-centered design over the past 100 years. Enter the exhibition’s “temple” to music graphics where hundreds of psychedelic rock posters extend from floor to ceiling, highlighting San Francisco’s integral role in the 1960s and ‘70s scene and the artwork that turned it up.

You can learn more about this amazing exhibition by following the link below.

Art of Noise is organized by SFMOMA and curated by Joseph Becker, associate curator of architecture and design, with Divya Saraf, curatorial assistant in architecture and design.

Art of Noise • May 4 – August 18, 2024
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 
151 Third Street • San Francisco, CA 94103

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Steel Pole Bath Tub, San Francisco Poster, Chuck Sperry

Steel Pole Bath Tub, 2024
21 x 33
Edition of 300
3 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

“Reunited San Francisco noise-rock legends Steel Pole Bath Tub play their first hometown show in over 20 years when they headline the Great American Music Hall Friday night. The group was founded in Bozeman, Montana, in 1986 when Morasky and bassist Dale Flattum began experimenting with an aggressive, overdriven style of punk noise. The pair relocated to Seattle, where they brought on drummer […] Dorothy Kent and started to incorporate recordings from vintage television shows and films using cassette players operated with foot switches, adding to the chaos of their sound.” — Dave Pehling, CBS News, Bay Area

Among many pop culture samples incorporated by the band, “The Brady Bunch” is a favorite Steel Pole Bath Tub source of sound bites to weave into their mind-blowing noise performances. The band’s fantastic debut album “Butterfly Love” is named after the slogan on the psychedelic poster in the Brady girls’ room above Marcia’s bed. Taking a deep dive into the band’s mind-fucking aesthetic, and throwing a backward glance at a television program that imprinted a generation’s psyche, I’ve recreated Marcia Brady’s dayglo 70’s poster for the sure-to-be extraordinary reunion of SF’s beloved noise-rock heavyweights.

My dayglo Steel Pole Bath Tub poster will be available through Steel Pole Bath Tub at the concert on Friday, February 16, 2024 at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco. 

I will make a limited online launch of my Steel Pole Bath Tub poster through EQL opening on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 9 am PST. The launch closes (same day) on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 9 pm PST.

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