“All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry” a solo museum exhibition of my work is on view at The Fort Wayne Museum of Art until December 9. I urge you to go and have a look!

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is located at the intersection of Main Street and Lafayette, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday, 12 to 5 pm. 

Photos: Shaun Roberts

My exhibition features 3 large scale tapestries I designed, 31 screenprints on oak panel, 18 original ink and pencil drawings, and ephemeral color progressives which illuminate my unique printing process.  

“Chuck Sperry came to pre-eminence in the rock poster genre in the late-90’s, and has largely defined the genre in each decade since with his distinctive style and masterful printing technique.” — FWMoA 

Below are exhibition related links: an extensive interview in Juxtapoz, overview, and press notices of Sperry’s “All Access.” 

Exhibition Details from Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Insight from Fort Wayne Museum of Art

The Rock Poster Society Article by Ben Marks

Hi-Fructose Notice

Juxtapoz Interview

Opening Night Photos courtesy of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, photographed by Jason Swisher 

This September 14th, Chuck Sperry will be opening a special solo museum exhibition “All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry”. This exhibition will be hosted at The Fort Wayne Museum of Art from September thru December 9th.

Opening Party: September 14, 6-9pm

More info on the event and information on purchasing tickets can be found here.

Sperry has been preeminent in the rock poster genre since the late 1990s and has largely defined the genre in each decade since with his distinctive style and masterful printing technique.

Symbolism, Secession, ukiyo-e, and psychedelia blend in Sperry’s flattened, post-modern figurative art: all potent ingredients Sperry strives self-consciously to re-evaluate for the 21st Century.

Several new wood panels will be available at this event as well as new paper editions including variants.

The exhibit will also feature two large scale tapestries, original ink drawings, and ephemeral color progressives which illuminate Sperry’s unique printing process.

Sperry’s newest art book will be released “Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry” the 136 page follow up of his art book “Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry”.

Nymph, 2018
20 x 32 inches
Oak Panel Edition of 30
7 colors screen printed on oak panel
Signed and numbered

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Eirene, 2018
20 x 23 inches
Oak Panel Edition of 30
6 colors screen printed on oak panel
Signed and numbered

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Mnemosyne, 2018
20 x 26 inches
Oak Panel Edition of 30
6 colors screen printed on oak panel
Signed and numbered

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Gaia, 2018
20 x 26.25 inches
Oak Panel Edition of 30
7 colors screen printed on oak panel
Signed and numbered

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Siren, 2018
17.5 x 33 inches
Oak Panel Edition of 30
7 colors screen printed on oak panel
Signed and numbered

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Below, the contents page from my new art book “Chthoneon” – all these panels (and much more!) will be available to acquire at the exhibition:

I’m happy to reveal the fourth of 6 new panels for my museum solo exhibition in Fort Wayne, Indiana —

“Nymph” will be available at the Opening Party: September 14, 6-9pm!

Stay tuned to my website for more Sperry Museum Solo reveals over the next days!

Join our Chuck Sperry Opening Party Facebook Event here.

All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry
September 15 – December 9, 2018

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is pleased to celebrate Chuck Sperry’s first solo museum exhibition. Sperry has been preeminent in the rock poster genre since the late 1990s and has largely defined the genre in each decade since with his distinctive style and masterful printing technique.

There will be several new wood panel editions, and two new paper editions with variant editions available to acquire.

I will be releasing “Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry” the 136 page follow up of my art book “Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry”.

Nymph, 2018
20 x 32 inches
Oak Panel Edition of 30
7 colors screen printed on oak panel
Signed and numbered
______________

Sperry has drawn inspiration for this work from the classical Greco-Roman idea of the muses, and their metaphorical home on Mount Helikon — the source of inspiration for all things art and music. Naiads, nymphs and muses in their richly patterned floral settings make their way into Sperry’s work. Dripping with brightly colored flowers, decked in gold and silver textures, Sperry’s blue-silver muses sing a paean to the long tradition of humanism reactivated in the struggle for social progress, universal human rights, a more perfect democracy and the utopian ideals of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco where Sperry has made his home since 1989.

Symbolism, Secession, ukiyo-e, and psychedelia blend in Sperry’s flattened, post-modern figurative art: all potent ingredients Sperry strives self-consciously to re-evaluate for the 21st Century.

The exhibit will feature 2 large scale tapestries designed by Sperry, 25 screen prints on oak panel, original ink drawings, and ephemeral color progressives which illuminate Sperry’s unique printing process.

This exhibition is organized by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and its Curator of Contemporary Art Josef Zimmerman.