Chuck Sperry

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Pneuma Blotter Release • Sperry Signing at SF Art Book Fair with Paragon

“Pneuma” 2024
Edition of 350
9 x 11.25
Vegetable based inks
80# unbleached cotton paper
BC Blotter Co.
Signed and Numbered

Join me for an “in-person” book signing and blotter release of my newest blotter “Pneuma” at the SF Art Book Fair coming Sunday, July 21, 2024, noon to 2 pm PST. 

I’ll be making a very limited release of my Pneuma blotters online via launch on EQL later in July, sign up for my mailing list to get the latest news!

Chuck Sperry – Book Signing & “Pneuma” Blotter Launch
Sunday, July 21 from Noon – 2 pm
at Paragon Books (Booth E1)

The SF Art Book Fair 2024
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota St.
San Francisco, CA.
Booth E1 (Paragon Books)

Paragon Books is thrilled to be hosting an exclusive blotter release and book signing event with master screen printer and rock poster legend Chuck Sperry! 

Beginning on Sunday, July 21 from 12:00 noon —2:00 PM PST the artist will be present to sign copies of his books and release his newest blotter “Pneuma” at Booth E1 (Paragon Books) at The SF Art Book Fair (1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco, CA.)

Paragon Books will be offering these Sperry books and collectible card sets at the SF Art Book Fair (no posters or prints):

– Color x Color, The Sperry Poster Archive 1980-2020 (2020)
– Idyllion, The Art of Chuck Sperry (2022)
– Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry (2018)
– Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry (2017)
– The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 2 (2023) very limited offering!
– The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 1 (2022) very limited offering!

More Details • Books available online Now!

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Sperry Signing at SF Art Book Fair with Paragon • Card Set 2 Debut!

The SF Art Book Fair 2023
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota St. 
San Francisco, CA.
Booth E7 (Paragon Books)

Chuck Sperry Signing
Sunday, July 16th
11:30AM-12:30PM PST

Paragon Books is thrilled to be hosting an exclusive book signing event with master screen printer and rock poster legend Chuck Sperry! Beginning on Sunday, July 16th from 11:30AM-12:30PM PST the artist will be present to sign copies of his books and collectible card sets at Booth E7 (Paragon Books) at The SF Art Book Fair (1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco, CA.)

The San Francisco Art Book Fair will be the worldwide debut of The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 2, the second in a series of premium collectible cards featuring a curated selection of the most popular rock posters and prints from Sperry’s extensive archive.

The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 2 was artfully designed by renowned art photographer and premium book designer Shaun Roberts, and it was curated and published by Chuck Sperry. We are thrilled to present this newest collaboration!

More Details • Card Set: Poster Series 2 

Paragon Books will be offering these Sperry books and collectible card sets at the SF Art Book Fair (no posters or prints):

– Color x Color, The Sperry Poster Archive 1980-2020 (2020)
– Idyllion, The Art of Chuck Sperry (2022)
– Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry (2018)
– Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry (2017)
– The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 2 (2023)
– The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 1 (2022) very limited offering!

More Details • Books available online Now!

Paragon Books will offer amazing exclusive releases from artists:
Chuck Sperry, Felicia Chiao, Anna Valdez, Andrew Schoultz and Robert Bowen 
during the San Francisco Art Book Fair!

The SF Art Book Fair 2023
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota St. 
San Francisco, CA.

Fair Hours:
July 14 – 16, 2023
Preview: Thursday, July 13
Public Hours – Free admission
Thursday, July 13: 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 14: 11am – 6pm
Saturday, July 15: 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 16: 11am – 5pm 

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“Pythia” Blotter Art Release & Book Signing at Haight Street Art Center

Pythia, 2023
9 x 6.25
Edition of 200
Perforated blotter paper
Signed and Numbered

Join me for an “in-person” book signing and blotter release at the Haight Street Art Center this Sunday, April 23, 2023. 

I’ll be making a very limited release of my Pythia blotters in collaboration with Shakedown Gallery with the support of the Haight Street Art Center at this event. In addition, I’ll be signing my books: “Color x Color: The Sperry Poster Archive, 1980-2020”, my 750 page career spanning retrospective, and my muse books “Idyllion”, “Chthoneon” and “Helikon”.

Haight Street Art Center
215 Haight St (at Laguna)
San Francisco, CA 94102

Sunday April 23, 2023
12 noon to 1 pm: Haight Street Art Center Members Only.
1 pm to 4 pm: General Public

Become a member HERE

From the Haight Street Art Center concerning the show:

Kaleidoscope Eyes: Celebrating The 80th Anniversary of Bicycle Day Through Blotter Art

On April 19th, 1943, Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann intentionally ingested a small amount of LSD and then rode his bicycle home, experiencing history’s first intentional LSD trip. He later described the experience as “a remarkable and memorable day.”

In subsequent decades LSD moved from laboratories to the streets and was often circulated via perforated sheets of paper known as “blotter paper,” frequently adorned with colorful designs and unique symbols. The art served as both an ad hoc form of branding and created a playful connection between the distributor and the intended audience.

In the 1980s blotter art began to be collected and displayed as a form of underground folk art, particularly due to the zealous enthusiasm of collector and counterculture archivist Mark McCloud.

The Kaleidoscope Eyes exhibit brings together pieces of historical blotter art with pieces from modern screenprint masters and popular rock artists alongside pieces signed by internationally-renown psychedelic luminaries and even some pieces from the legendary Institute of Illegal Images amassed by McCloud.

We’re excited to be partnering with Shakedown Gallery in our retail space and will be offering limited edition signed and unsigned Blotter art through the run of this exhibit.

Also showing: 

• Olga Spiegel: Pioneer in Psychedelic Art 

• The Haight-Ashbury Experience and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Photography of Herb Greene

• Enough Is Enough: End Gun Violence

• Via Dolorosa, The 14 Stations of Tyre Nichols by John Mavroudis

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“Idyllion, The Art of Chuck Sperry” Book Release Events

Published by Hangar 18
Interview by Steven Heller
Essay by Josef Zimmerman, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Curator of Contemporary Art
Hardback Second Edition of 1500 / “Silver Edition”
Silver embossed cover (comes shrink-wrapped / not signed or numbered / only sign in-person at events)
9 x 12 inches / 136 pages
60+ color illustrations
Printed and bound in the United States
ISBN: 9780998140780

Published by Hangar 18
Interview by Steven Heller
Essay by Josef Zimmerman, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Curator of Contemporary Art
Hardback First Edition of 500 / “Gold Edition”
Gold embossed cover, signed and numbered
9 x 12 inches / 136 pages
60+ color illustrations
Printed and bound in the United States
ISBN: 9780998140766

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Hangar 18 is very pleased to announce the upcoming release schedule of Chuck Sperry’s newest book “Idyllion”, the prolific artist’s fourth book in five years.

“Idyllion, The Art of Chuck Sperry” continues the poetic journey started by Chuck’s previous companion books “Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry” and “Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry”. 

“Idyllion” collects 29 gorgeously photographed new Sperry screen printed art works paired with the prose or poem — from Hesiod to Maynard James Keenan — that inspired each. 

The reader is also offered insight into Chuck’s latest political poster in support of the Equal Rights Amendment campaign with an extensive interview of Sperry by graphic design legend Steven Heller. The interview — accompanied by beautiful photographs by Shaun Roberts — follows the artist at work from the production process to launching the poster.

“Idyllion” is overflowing with evocative and inspiring new work from one of America’s most popular, outspoken and important contemporary artists.

Book signing events:

Denver

Friday, September 30
Mirus Gallery / Harman Projects
1144 Broadway

San Francisco

Saturday, October 15
The Rock Poster Society
Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park

Geneva

Thursday, November 3
Legend Art Gallery
Place du Marché 23, Carouge, Switzerland

Paris

Friday, November 11
L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery
1 rue Lucien Sampaix, Paris, France

Online sale begins:

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Have a look inside:

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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.

 

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Sperry Books: “Color x Color” • “Helikon” • “Chthoneon” • “Idyllion”

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