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October 25, 2025 By squirt

“Chuck Sperry: Exposed!” Art Show in Torino Italy October 31

“Chuck Sperry: Exposed!”
Opens Friday, October 31, 2025 at Ridicola an urban art gallery located in the heart of Torino, Italy. Opening party featuring: DJ Giampo! Show on view through November 2025.

I’ll be releasing two brand new, large format art prints in limited edition — “Courage” & “Empathy” — printed in red-orange-yellow tones by Sericraft of Torino. These two prints will see their American release at Context, Miami Art Week during Art Basel Miami 2025 at Harman Projects’ booth.

Also: I’ve created a special edition “Ridicola” magazine of 60 pages, filled with two extensive photo stories by Shaun Roberts documenting the artist at work inside Hangar 18, my California studio. The cover parodies Italian news magazines of the 1960s.

Ridicola is located at the heart of Torino, a former newsstand transformed into a vibrant exhibition space: a new hub for meeting, sharing, and art exhibitions. The small kiosk, closed for years, is reborn in a new form: an urban art gallery accessible 24/7, with a never-closing window and a curated selection of independent magazines and fanzines.

Courage (oversized), 2025
67,75 cm x 100 cm (26.7″ x 39.4″)
Edition of 200
5 color screen print on fedrigoni paper.
Signed and Numbered
Empathy (oversized), 2025
70 cm x 100 cm (27.5″ x 39.4″)
Edition of 200
5 color screen print on fedrigoni paper.
Signed and Numbered

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, Context Art Fair, Courage, Empathy, Harman Projects, Miami, Muse, Ridicola, Sericraft, Torino, Turin

September 16, 2021 By squirt

“Empathy” Art Print Wins Award

My “Empathy” Art Print from 2020 has been voted Poster of the Week by Expressobeans members. Thanks to all my supporters, I super appreciate it! Many thanks to Expressobeans.com. 

“My current work has much more to do with symmetry and proportion, color and balance. It’s a utopian provocation; while the present era couldn’t be more off balance, more dystopian.  I want my work to provoke meditations and emotional responses to its clear colors, balance and symmetry – to give courage, light and beauty to all of us trapped in an ugly historical moment. I don’t want to fragment my work . . .  not just yet . . . or abstract or dissolve; I think of my work from the last few years as defiant in these dark times. I like to think I give people courage through it. It gives me courage to work on it.” – Juxtapoz Magazine, March 29, 2018

I am making a renewed release of all my books – which are on sale and available again through my site. (also available on Amazon / or by ordering through your local independent bookstore in the US and throughout the world) – Click the link below to purchase through my site:

Chuck Sperry’s books are available HERE

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Chthoneon The Art of Chuck Sperry, Chuck Sperry, Color x Color: The Sperry Poster Archive, Empathy, Expressobeans, Helikon The Muses of Chuck Sperry, Muses, Poster of the Week

January 27, 2021 By squirt

“Empathy” Blotter Art Release

“Empathy”
Edition of 300
9 x 11.25
Vegetable based inks 
80# unbleached cotton paper 
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Limited to one (1) per household. Subsequent orders will be cancelled.

I will be making a limited online release of my Empathy blotter art on Friday, January 29, 2021 at a random time.

I want to welcome a lot of newcomers to my site! I’ll quickly explain how my releases on my website are conducted. The Empathy blotter art prints will be available, right here, in this post on Friday, January 29, 2021 at a random time. A paypal “Buy Now” button will appear under the blotter art print (above) at a random time, and I will announce the price at the same time. Good luck to everyone, and as always, I am very appreciative of your support!

Chuck Sperry’s books are available HERE

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Empathy

September 2, 2020 By squirt

“Empathy” Art Print Online Release: Sunday, September 6

Empathy, 2020
21 x 30
Edition of 200
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Empathy, 2020
21 x 30
Silver Edition of 12
7 colors on silver metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Empathy, 2020
21 x 30
Gold Edition of 12
7 colors on gold metallic paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Empathy, 2020
21 x 30
Satin Black Edition of 12
7 colors on satin black paper
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Empathy, 2020
21 x 30
Sparkle Foil Edition of 20
7 colors on holographic sparkle foil
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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Empathy, 2020
21 x 30
Lava Foil Edition of 20
7 colors on holographic lava foil
Signed and Numbered

Sold Out – Thank You!

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“My current work has much more to do with symmetry and proportion, color and balance. It’s a utopian provocation; while the present era couldn’t be more off balance, more dystopian.  I want my work to provoke meditations and emotional responses to its clear colors, balance and symmetry – to give courage, light and beauty to all of us trapped in an ugly historical moment. I don’t want to fragment my work . . .  not just yet . . . or abstract or dissolve; I think of my work from the last few years as defiant in these dark times. I like to think I give people courage through it. It gives me courage to work on it.” – Juxtapoz Magazine, March 29, 2018

I will be making a limited online release of my art print and its variants, on Sunday, September 6, 2020 at a random time. 

I want to welcome a lot of newcomers to my site! I’ll quickly explain how my releases on my website are conducted. The Empathy art prints will be available, right here, in this post on Sunday, September 6, 2020 at a random time. A paypal “Buy Now” button will appear under each poster (above) at a random time, and I will announce the price of each poster at the same time. Good luck to everyone, and as always, I am very appreciative of your support!

Filed Under: Rock Posters Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Empathy, Muses

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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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