“Summer Print-athalon 2011” culminates with my Soundgarden, San Francisco poster. There’s so much symbology in the details of this poster, that I think it’s more fun to let you figure it out. So I won’t say anything here. Overall theme is a soothsayer; I feel a lot of Soundgarden’s lyrics are broad and mystical – having a prophetic quality. The figure is one of my Evil Masonic Voodoo Zombies (perhaps a more serious, 33rd degree version).
God this show rocked! I love when the poster and the stage coincidentally (or synchronistically) match. During “Black Hole Sun” the eye in the forehead of the skull grew into a big black dot like the poster – and then turned into a film projection of the sun with an edge of coronal mass ejection – it was veeeeeery cool.
[…] The Soundgarden poster designed and printed by Chuck Sperry for their concert on July 21, 2011 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco CA has won the ExpressoBeans.com Art of the Week award. This is Chuck’s fourth consecutive win for this award. No other artist has won this award four times back-to-back. Great job Chuck! More information about this silkscreen poster is available at chucksperry.net […]