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Chuck Sperry’s “The Mystic” & “Iphigenia” Blotters • 
Online Release with EQL

“The Mystic” • Edition of 300 • 6.25 x 9 • Shakedown Gallery • (without border)

Perforated into 900 quarter-inch squares • Signed and Numbered

In celebration of Bicycle Day 2025, my two newest blotters “The Mystic” and “Iphigenia” will be made available to my friends and supporters through EQL!

I will make a limited online launch of “The Mystic” and “Iphigenia” through EQL launch opening on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 9 pm PST. The ballot will be open for 36 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.

There will be two live launches: 1 launch for each blotter edition (“The Mystic” and “Iphigenia”).

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

You may only win 1 blotter from each of the live launches within this 36 hour period. One per household. I will not match numbers.

Visit the launch page for the release (countdown and launch)

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“Iphigenia” • Edition of 300 • 9 x 11.25 • BC Blotter Co • (with border)

Vegetable based inks • 80# unbleached cotton paper • Signed and Numbered

 

BICYCLE DAY CELEBRATIONS:

LIVE RELEASE: Join Shakedown Gallery on Shakedown Street behind The Tuscany in Las Vegas during the Dead and Company Sphere run on Bicycle Day weekend, April 17-19th – where “The Mystic” will be available.

LIVE RELEASE: Join BC Blotter Co. and celebrate Bicycle Day Saturday, 4/19 and 4/20 at Psychedelic SF Gallery at 1399 Haight Street, San Francisco – where “Iphigenia” will be available.

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Available Now: Chuck Sperry’s Newest Protest Art Poster

“Our Future, Our Democracy” (No Autocracy!) 2025 • 18 x 24 • offset poster

Now available exclusively online at the Harman Projects online store.⁠

Harman Projects and Chuck Sperry are pleased to announce “Our Future, Our Democracy” (No Autocracy!) 2025.

This limited edition offset lithograph is a continuation of the artist’s deeply entrenched activism, a key element to his artistic and social practice.

Available online starting Friday, April 4th at 10am Pacific exclusively online at the Harman Projects online store.

I am encouraged by the coming nationwide, mass mobilization on April 5, 2025 — organized in part by political action group Indivisible. 

It’s important to exercise one’s first amendment right to free speech, and so inspired, I created a 2025 offset variant of my “Our Future, Our Democracy” poster. My refreshed design calls for “No Autocracy! No Oligarchy! No Dictatorship!” 

Join our day of national mobilization on April 5, and stay tuned for many American demonstrations to follow. 

The time to defend our democracy is now. 

— Chuck Sperry

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Sperry Joins “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” Exhibition

My “Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy” print has widely traveled since I created it in 2021. First, it raised funds for the fight for the ERA in exhibits with Artists 4 ERA nationwide culminating in a show at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Then, it took to the road on a voter drive in the Southern USA during midterms in 2022. Finally, it appeared at The Capitol in Washington, D.C. as a gift from US Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger to US Congresswoman Ayana Pressley, lead sponsor for the ERA in Congress.

 

Recently, I was deeply honored to have been invited to include my work in “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”, an impactful traveling poster exhibition curated and organized by Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita of Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

The exhibition opens soon in Pennsylvania:

The Gallery at Penn College
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
March 17–April 17, 2026

Curator’s Statement: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights is a very fitting title for an exhibition of Women’s rights and advocacy posters, as it is a term used in the women’s rights movement and was the title of an important speech given by Hillary Rodham Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. In her speech, Hillary Clinton suggests that “If the term women’s rights were to be interchangeable with the term human rights the world community would be a better place because human rights affect the women who raise the world’s children, care for the elderly, run companies, work in hospitals, fight for better education and better health care.” 

Yet gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched in every society. Women lack access to decent work and face occupational segregation and gender wage disparities. Women are often denied access to basic education and health care, suffer from violence and discrimination, and are under-represented in political and economic decision-making processes.

This exhibition features posters created by both men and women to celebrate and acknowledge the vital role that all citizens should play in protecting and promoting human rights while actively challenging gender inequality and stereotypes, advancing sexual and reproductive rights, and protecting women and girls against brutality. In their collective visual voice, these posters promote women’s empowerment and participation in society while challenging religious and cultural norms and patriarchal attitudes that subordinate, stigmatize or restrict women from achieving their fullest potential. 

Organized and curated by:
Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita, Graphic Design
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

Equal Rights, Flower of Democracy
18 x 24
Offset Print
Open Edition

Would you like one? It’s available here:

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Chuck Sperry’s “Danaide” • New Art Print Launch

Danaïde, 2025
18 x 35
Edition of 400
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

On Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 9 am PST, I will open my online launches for my Danaïde art print and its variants. The launches close at Sunday, March 2 at 9 pm PST. The ballot will be open for 36 hours. As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.

There will be six live launches: 1 launch for each print edition (regular, silver, gold, black, sparkle, lava).

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

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

Follow the link below, and you will be directed to The Chuck Sperry EQL Launches landing page – the site of my release when it goes “live”.

Visit the launch page for this weekend’s release:

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“Danaïde” wears early spring flowers and carries her terracotta amphora decorated with the winged horse Pegasus. As Pegasus stamps the earth, so bursts a spring; as Hippocrene flows on Mt Helicon, so flows inspiration from the source of the muses.

The myth of the 50 Danaïdes, condemned for all eternity to toil, to endlessly carry water to fill a leaking vessel. Sisyphus fated to bear his heavy stone uphill, only to lose his burden near the hilltop, and to begin again. 

This is our struggle for equal rights, for our democracy. To paraphrase Albert Camus: the struggle itself — to continually work to fill the leaking jar — is enough to fill her heart. One must imagine the Danaïdes happy.

Danaïde, 2025
18 x 35
Silver Edition of 25
7 colors on metallic silver paper
Signed and Numbered

Danaïde, 2025
18 x 35
Gold Edition of 25
7 colors on metallic gold paper
Signed and Numbered

Danaïde, 2025
18 x 35
Satin Black Edition of 25
7 colors on satin black paper
Signed and Numbered

Danaïde, 2025
18 x 35
Sparkle Foil Edition of 25
7 colors on sparkle foil
Signed and Numbered

Danaïde, 2025
18 x 35
Lava Foil Edition of 25
7 colors on lava foil
Signed and Numbered

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Edwardian Ball 2025 Poster

Edwardian Ball 2025
22 x 28
Edition of 250
3 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

This poster is officially available at the show in SF. I will make a limited online launch of my Edwardian Ball 2025 poster through EQL opening on Monday, February 3, 2025 at 9 am PST. The launch closes on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 9 am PST.

Visit the launch page for the release (countdown and launch):

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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.

I try to channel the spirit of our age in a non-linear way with each year’s Edwardian Ball poster, making allegory, or touching a simple parallel between our 21st Century experience and the far-away world of Edwardian “Society.” 

This year’s poster has more than an edge of social critique.

“Ladies and gentlemen, politics is not the most important thing, it’s the only thing!” – Eugène Ionesco

The far-away oligarchy of the Edwardian period is being outdone by the sinister multi-centi-billionaire, hormone-jacked, space-racing, data-driven, artificially-intelligent, techno-oligarchs of the present day. The oligarchic musings of my entire series of posters for the Edwardian Ball come into focus as a prescient warning started many, many years ago.

This year’s poster emerges from my darkest imaginings of the near future: a deadly, skeletal, imperial monarch who rules by whim and decree, conquering Greenland, and establishing his dictatorship from the Gulf of America to the Arctic Circle. 

Our potentate’s power-madness is symbolized by a scepter emblazoned with the Facebook logo. In an absurd touch, our techno-oligarch is accompanied by his royal rhinoceros draped in his ermine cloak. 

The rhino is a thematic flourish first used in my 2013 Edwardian Ball poster, and is used here as a symbolic warning based on French absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco’s play “The Rhinoceros.” 

In Ionesco’s play citizens one-by-one inexplicably turn into brute, belligerent rhinoceroses. Written in 1959 the play is largely considered to be an allegory of social degradation and slow descent into fascist politics. It’s themes mirror our present-day social degradation and growing obsession with far-right ideology. 

Today’s grandiose multi-centi-billionaire oligarchs are guided toward world domination by artificial intelligence, or as Ionesco said in his play: “Being a machine is a great way to avoid thinking.”

My 2025 poster for the Edwardian Ball was foreshadowed on January 15 by outgoing President Joe Biden’s unusually dire remarks delivered during his farewell address:

“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms.”

During incoming President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Ball on the evening of January 20, five days after Biden’s warning, Trump’s multi-centi-billionaire oligarchic sidekick Elon Musk thrust a pair of nazi salutes over the crowd attending his inaugural ball. 

There, you’ve been warned.

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