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January 9, 2025 By squirt

Thank You for Sharing an Incredible 2024 • Year In Review

Photo: Shaun Roberts

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I would like to give all my friends and supporters a heartfelt thank you for sharing an incredible 2024, full of amazing events and watershed achievements! 

2024 bore witness to San Francisco’s warm welcome of my work as I received a lifetime membership to the de Young and Legion of Honor Museums in appreciation for works which rest in their permanent collection. Additionally, the de Young and Legion of Honor Museum Stores now carry “Color x Color” – which is available at the link below. 

SIGNED Color x Color at Museum Stores

Artist Chuck Sperry at the Art of Noise exhibition at SFMOMA. May 2024. Photo: Shaun Roberts.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art brought my work into their permanent collection and showed these pieces in “The Art of Noise” exhibition through spring and summer. It’s thrilling to receive this institutional acknowledgement.

Opening reception. “Home Show” a Chuck Sperry retrospective at The Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco. On view from October 17th through November 24, 2024. Photo: Shaun Roberts.

Meanwhile, in my neighbourhood of the Haight-Ashbury I received three shows across the year: “My Minds Eye” at Psychedelic SF Art Gallery, “Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective” at the Haight Street Art Center, and The Rock Poster Society, Festival of Rock Posters which I never miss at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. All three shows were hearty reminders of my love of the city and a celebration of the living soul of San Francisco.

Packed house at Harman Projects for Chuck Sperry’s April opening of “Only Human” in New York City.

Feeling buoyed by hometown acceptance, Harman Projects launched my exhaustive solo show “Only Human” in art capital New York City, and followed with Art On Paper NYC. It was amazing to see everyone in New York City share in such an amazing celebration!

Europe called again with “Popland 4” at KochxBos Gallery, curated by amazing French artist Ciou in Amsterdam. “Only Human” solo travelled to L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery in Paris, where Beaux Arts Magazine dubbed my show one of the top five most captivating shows in the art capital of Europe. Both shows made waves on both sides of the Atlantic.

I finished the year with a solo at L’Oeil Ouvert, Paris – “Future In The Balance” which is on view until January 31 with work available through the gallery at the link below. I’m happy to report that my solo received major attention, listing on The City of Paris’ official event website, Sortir a Paris among other notices, and even took to the airwaves on OUI FM. See the link below for my available works.

AVAILABLE WORKS at L’Oeil Ouvert, Paris

I teamed up with Vote Equality, Spoke Art and The Roxie Theater to produce a benefit screening of RATIFIED, a film documenting the struggle for ERA. My poster was made the official movie poster while this spirited and important film moves into distribution and streaming next year.

I’m thrilled my work showed with Harman Projects at CONTEXT Art Miami during Art Basel, Miami Art Week – and in appreciation of San Francisco love, a very limited Artist Edition of 100 “Home Show” posters is available now by joining Harman Projects EQL launch below.

HOME SHOW EQL LAUNCH

Also there are a very limited number of my iconic “Joy” and “Pneuma” wood panels which were shown in Miami and are available through Harman Project’s CONTEXT Art Fair exhibition viewing room – see link below.

AVAILABLE WORKS HARMAN PROJECTS AT CONTEXT

I am so very grateful for an outstanding year and the support of the museum teams, gallery teams, volunteers, friends who showed up to help carry the day, and friends and supporters who came to share and revelled in the joy and love of creative energy. I’m heartened by our human family, and encouraged by your emotion, soul, light and laughter. Here’s to 2025! Please take care of each other and assert your human spirit!

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Art of Noise, Art On Paper NYC, Beaux Arts Magazine, Ciou, Color X Color, Context Art Fair, de Young Museum, Haight Street Art Center, Harman Projects, KochxBos, l'Oeil Ouvert, Legion of Honor, Psychedlic SF Gallery, Ratified, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, Spoke Art, TRPS, Vote Equality

November 15, 2024 By squirt

Sperry x Harman Projects x CONTEXT: Art Miami 2024

Joy, 2024
20 x 30
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Pneuma, 2024
30 x 20
Edition of 30
Screen print on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Home Show, A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, 2024
19 x 35
Artist Edition of 100
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

 

HARMAN PROJECTS • CONTEXT: Art Miami

Booth A16

Harman Projects is pleased to be returning to CONTEXT: Art Miami for Miami Art Week 2024. We will be located at booth A16 which will be familiar to those who visited us last year at the fair so if you’re in town we hope to see you there!

Featuring:
Esao Andrews | BEZT | DALeast | Mark Drew | Alison Friend | Frank Gonzales | Aaron Horkey | Sarah Joncas | Josh Keyes | Scott Listfield | Louis Michel | Chuck Sperry | Martin Whatson | Martin Wittfooth | Hama Woods

Address:
The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavillion
One Herald Plaza
NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay
Miami, FL 33132
(Google Maps)

Dates:
Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday December 3, 2024 | 11:00am – 1:00pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday December 3, 2024 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm

General Admission:
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | 4:00pm – 9:00pm
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Thursday, December 5, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Friday, December 6, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, December 7, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, December 8, 2023 |  11:00am – 6:00pm

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Harman Projects

November 16, 2023 By squirt

Chuck Sperry with Harman Projects at Context Art Fair During Art Basel Miami Week

Venus, 2023
21 x 34
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

DECEMBER 5 – 10, 2023

Harman Projects is pleased to announce we will be located at booth A15 at CONTEXT: Art Miami  2023!

Address:
The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavillion
One Herald Plaza
NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay
Miami, FL 33132

Dates:
Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday December 5, 2023 | 4:30pm – 6:30pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday December 5 2022 | 6:30pm – 10:00pm

General Admission:
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Thursday, December 7, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Friday, December 8, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, December 9, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, December 10, 2023 |  11:00am – 6:00pm

Featuring solo presentations by:
Cryptik | Mark Drew | Jeremy Fish | Alison Friend | Naoto Hattori | Travis Louie | Kip Omolade | Taylor Schultek | Chuck Sperry | Martin Whatson

With a group presentation featuring:
BEZT | ChrisRWK | Kelsey Beckett | LeCrue Eyebrows | Joey Feldman | David Fullarton | Alex Garant | Frank Gonzales | Sarah Jamison| Blake Jones | Hannah Knox | Michelle Avery Konczyk | Huntz Liu | Caitlin McCormack | Reuben Negron | Hallie Packard | Gary Taxali | Helice Wen | Johnt Wentz | Angela Fang Zirbes

An advance collector’s preview will be available online before the exhibition opens, if you would like to receive a price list please contact us here: If there is a particular artist you are interested in please note that in your email.

https://www.harmanprojects.com/contact

Sappho, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Syrinx, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Salome, 2023
16 x 32
Edition of 30
5 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Magdalena, 2023
18.5 x 32
Edition of 30
5 colors on oak panel
Signed and numbered

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Harman Projects, Muses

January 15, 2022 By squirt

Looking Forward in 2022, A Grateful Mahalo


Here are two of my top posters from last year. (Please take a visit to the definitive poster website www.Expressobeans.com and place your vote for Poster of the Year.)

2021 was a big year for me, full of strong rock posters and desirable art prints and panels and blockbusting shows (art and rock). I’m so very grateful for my supporters and friends who made this most difficult pandemic year into an inspiring journey of creation and new directions.

Hashimoto Contemporary featured my work at Context Art Miami / Art Basel, and swiftly sold out all. Thanks to the gallery, it’s amazing curators and staff – but more importantly – thank you for your support, traveling from all points to be there!

Back home from France to San Francisco. Happy to kick off 2022. I’m excited by the projects in planning! 

I’m eagerly awaiting – and preparing for – my sweeping retrospective exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Can’t wait to see everybody, and share new works, pay tribute to all the work that brought me to today, participate in discussions and workshops. I’ll be showing up in Indiana with some surprises!

Lastly, Color x Color will be presented in a third edition (two editions having sold out), each and every stunning page, still at 752 pages. I’m grateful for it’s success, and your reception of it! Thanks to the kind reviews and support of the San Francisco Chronicle, KQED Arts, Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, 7×7 — Having reached the #1 spot on Amazon in Individual Artist Monographs, #2 in Printmaking, and #4 in Rock Music, Color x Color matches the successes of the big publishers by every measure, and that is due to you my supporters!

All my books are again available for you to take home HERE on my website and HERE on Amazon worldwide.

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Art Basel Miami, Bill Kreutzmann, Billy & The Kids, Billy Strings, Chthoneon, Chthoneon The Art of Chuck Sperry, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, FWMOA, Hashimoto Contemporary, Helikon, Helikon The Muses of Chuck Sperry, Muses, Pythia

November 30, 2021 By squirt

Chuck Sperry with Hashimoto Contemporary at Context Art Fair During Art Basel Miami Week

Helena, 2021
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 color screen print on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

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I am very pleased to be showing my work with Hashimoto Contemporary at the Context Art Fair during Art Basel Miami Beach week. 

Visit Hashimoto Contemporary at booth A13 where they will be featuring several brand new works by artists Dan Lam, DALeast, Mark Drew, Miles Johnston, Chuck Sperry, Sandra Chevrier and Sean Newport. 

A selection of “minis” by Dan Lam will available  in-person  at our booth starting November 30th.

A very limited allocation of “Pythia” prints by Chuck Sperry will be available in-person at our booth starting  December 4th.

For inquiries as to price and availability please contact the gallery at [email protected]. 

Address:
The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavillion
One Herald Plaza
NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay
Miami, FL 33132

Dates:
Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday, November  30, 2021 4:30pm – 6:30pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 6:30pm – 10:00pm

Learn more HERE on Hashimoto Contemporary

Pythia, 2021
30 x 22.5
Edition of 250
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Primavera (Pampinea), 2021
20 x 30
Edition of 30
8 color screen print on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Empathy, 2020
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 color screen print on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Athena, 2019
20 x 25.5
Edition of 30
7 color screen print on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Erato, 2017
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 color screen print on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Demeter, 2017
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 color screen print on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Semele, 2016
20 x 30.75
Edition of 30
7 color screen print on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 1010, Alex Ziv, Andy DeCola, Angela Burson, Art Basel, Art Miami, Bianca Nemelc, Brooklyn Whelan, Christopher Martin, Chuck Sperry, Context Art Fair, Corey Lamb, DALeast, Dan Lam, Danym Kwon, David Heo, Emilio Villalba, Erik Jones, Gabe Langholtz, GATS, Hanna Lee Joshi, Hashimoto Contemporary, Jasjyot Singh Hans, Jessica Hess, Joel Daniel Phillips, Josh Stover, Laura Berger, Lizzie Gill, Madeleine Tonzi, Mark Drew, Matthew Craven, Miles Johnston, Muses, Nicholas Zirk, Peter Gronquist, Petites Luxures, Rachel Strum, Sandra Chevrier, Scott Albrecht, Sean Newport, Seonna Hong, Stacey Rozich, Taylor Schultek, Thomas Danthony, Vickie Vainionpää

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Chuck Sperry lives in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where he’s made his particular style of rock poster designs for over 20 years. He operates Hangar 18, a silkscreen print studio, located in Oakland. Learn More…

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