Chuck Sperry

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Spermbirds at Headhunters, SxSW, Austin Texas

When the German punk band, Spermbirds, asked me to do a poster for their upcoming SxSW showcase, I said, “Hells yeah!” I’d hung out with these cats in Berlin and had into all sorts of fun. The poster design is based on a German cigarette tax stamp from back in the day before the Euro came in. I’d been saving this thing for twelve years – looking at it and thinking, “Now, that’s a poster design waiting to happen.”

Spermbirds at Headhunters, SxSW, Austin, Texas – Saturday, March 19, 2011

Edition of 125

2 colors on archival cream paper

19″ x 35″

Signed and Numbered

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Steve Miller Band, live on “Austin City Limits”

Steve Miller Band

Austin City Limits

Season 37 – KLRU – The Moody Theater

Saturday, February 26, 2011

 

Edition of 100

8 colors on archival cream paper

22″ x 33″

Signed and Numbered

Poster will be made available by Austin City Limits at the live taping for Steve Miller Band on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at The Moody Theater.

Mark Pedini gave me the opportunity to make a poster for rock legend Steve Miller Band for his live appearance on the television program “Austin City Limits” on Saturday, February 26, 2011. What immediately comes to mind for Steve Miller is Stanley Mouse’s Pegasus logo, so with Stanley Mouse “the man who drew the face on rock music” inspiring me, I looked for another archetypical big rock image to chrome-up Steve Miller Band with, and landed on the scarab. The scarab rolls Ra the sun across the sky each day and transforms bodies and souls, meanwhile, Steve Miller rises every day like the sun from a 1,000,000 radios. I colored the Ra symbol with psychedelic EyeFry blue and magenta, and overprinted with two separate coats of very translucent interference blue which catches the light ever so delicately and refracts in prismatic rainbow sparks, ever so gently slanted toward blue. I’ve included two detail photos below.

 

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Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam

Band of Horses will play the Paradiso in Amsterdam on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Since this poster is Ideal Posters Series Number 69, I went with the Spirit of 1969, a year of change and generational revolt – like 2011. The figure in the poster stands transfixed in ecstasy and is washed in the light thrown on her in amoebic forms of liquid light. She stands mesmerized in the interval between microcosm and macrocosm. I made a regular edition of 125 on cream paper and three variant editions listed below.

Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 23, 2011

Ideal Posters Series No. 69

Edition of 125

20 x 32

6 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 23, 2011

Ideal Posters Series No. 69

Speckled Egg Edition of 19

20 x 32

6 colors on Speckled Egg Paper

Signed and Numbered

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Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 23, 2011

Ideal Posters Series No. 69

Marbled Parchment Edition of 10

20 x 32

6 colors on Marbled Parchment Paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Band of Horses, Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 23, 2011

Ideal Posters Series No. 69

Silk and Metal Flecked Edition of 10

20 x 32

6 colors on Marbled Parchment Paper

Signed and Numbered

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Stockholm Syndrome at The Independent, SF

Stockholm Syndrome plays two nights at The Independent, San Francisco on February 18 and 19, 2011. Dropped the posters off with the band during soundcheck yesterday, and rapped out with neighborhood genius and guitar legend Eric McFadden and the legendary Dave Schools of Widespread Panic fame. A couple people asked me if this image is Patty Hearst – nope – it’s Bratty Hearst – Patty’s sexier little sister. Can’t wait to see Stockholm Syndrome tonight!

(Above is a digital image / actual photo of the silver edition below)

Stockholm Syndrome at The Independent, SF

Silver Edition

16.5 x 35

Edition of 150

4 colors on archival cream paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

Stockholm Syndrome at The Independent, SF

Gold Edition

16.5 x 35

Edition of 25

4 colors on coated white paper

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT – Thank You!

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