Home Show
A Chuck Sperry Retrospective
Haight Street Art Center
215 Haight St, San Francisco CA 94102
Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm
October 17-November 24
Opening: Friday, October 18
Tickets available: Buy Tickets HERE
Available at the opening: 25 Archive panels, two new panel editions, new Home Show poster, new blotter edition, books, card sets and surprises!
The Haight Street Art Center is delighted to present Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, an exhibition of rock-posters, art prints on paper and wood, deep cuts from the artist’s 40-year career, and the San Francisco premiere of a triptych of hand-woven tapestries.
Running from October 17 through November 24, 2024, with an opening reception on Friday October 18, the exhibition is Sperry’s most comprehensive exhibition since his Color x Color retrospective at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2022, and his first local exhibition since the acquisition last spring of four of his pieces by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two of which were featured in Art of Noise exhibition this summer.
Sperry has redefined the concert poster medium since 1994. Emphasizing printing excellence, Sperry continually expands his vision with a panoply of neoclassical themes in his art work. Centering on a the expressive power of compositional rhythm, color and pattern — which unifies all his work — he employs ancient themes (contrasting them against contemporary events) to express his reaction to the tumultuous start of 21st Century, the assault on democracy, the struggle for equal rights and the erosion of truth and veracity. Sperry’s engaging approach has influenced many in both the poster and art worlds and has impacted the contemporary art scene worldwide.
The Home Show retrospective exhibition spans Sperry’s long and influential career, featuring new silkscreen prints from the artist’s ongoing “Muse” series, including a number of original ink drawings; a triptych of large format, handwoven tapestries; paintings; posters and art prints from his archive; and rarely seen works that illuminate his place in the art history of San Francisco and beyond.
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