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October 14, 2024 By squirt

Sperry Weekend Events: “Home Show” Retrospective, TRPS, and “Ratified” at The Roxie

Home Show, A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, 2024
19 x 35
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective is opening this week! The exhibition includes rock posters, art prints on paper and wood, deep cuts from the artist’s 40-year career, and the West Coast premiere of several hand-woven tapestries. Running from October 17-November 24, 2024, the exhibition is Sperry’s most comprehensive exhibition since his Color x Color retrospective at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2022 and his first local exhibition since the acquisition last spring of four of his pieces by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two of which were featured in Art of Noise this summer.

“Joy” 2024
Edition of 300
9 x 11.25
Vegetable based inks
80# unbleached cotton paper
BC Blotter Co.
Signed and Numbered

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

Check out all Chuck Sperry’s upcoming events below:

Friday, Oct. 18, 1 PM – 9 PM: Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective
Only a couple of tickets left to get a chance to purchase a piece of Chuck’s work yourself! Check out the ticket availability HERE! From 6-9 PM is a free opening reception for Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective. Join us in kicking off a poster-filled weekend!

Photo: Shaun Roberts

Saturday, Oct. 19, 10 AM-6 PM: TRPS Fes­ti­val of Rock Posters 2024
Chuck Sperry will concentrate on poster and print offerings at TRPS this year: he’ll have many surprises, rarities, variants, one-of-a-kind test prints, black & white tests, and blotters — from Pearl Jam to Panic — to offer exclusively at TRPS on Saturday, October 19, 2024! San Francisco’s annual Fall Clas­sic, the Rock Poster Society’s Fes­ti­val of Rock Posters 2024 is set to go for Sat­ur­day at the San Fran­cisco County Fair Build­ing (aka Hall of Flow­ers) in beau­ti­ful Golden Gate Park.

Ratified, 2024
21 x 31.5
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and numbered

Monday, Oct. 21, 6-8 PM: RATIFIED new screen print by Chuck Sperry
A Film Showing of RATIFIED co-presented by Roxie Theater and Spoke Art. Featuring a new limited edition screen print by Chuck Sperry, part of the ongoing Spoke Art curated Roxie Theater poster series. Posters are only available on Monday, October 21. 

RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality. It’s an inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. It’s also a story of how bureaucracy is used to stifle progress and takes a close look at the incredible perseverance of women – specifically, the Black women leaders who have taken their rightful place at the front of the movement for gender equality.

Tickets HERE

Deepak Puri & Forest Stearns in a post-screening discussion facilitated by RATIFIED subject, Kati Hornung.

Kati Hornung, Executive Director of VoteEquality
Kati advocates for an equality table so large every American can find a seat. Her gender equality advocacy work was memorialized in the movie RATIFIED, as the cameras followed the successful VAratifyERA campaign and later VoteEquality. Kati has a professional background in accounting and software consulting. Although initially involved in advocacy because of her oldest child’s interest, she rediscovered a passion for feminism that had been simmering on a back burner since childhood. Kati is very “task oriented” and the task she most wants to accomplish is the complete dismantling of systemic gender inequality. Step one: closing the equality gap in our Constitution.

Deepak Puri, Co-Founder of Democracy Labs
Deepak is the co-founder of Democracy Labs, a SF based non-profit that connects progressive groups with free and affordable solutions. DemLabs works closely with grassroots groups to identify their needs, finds the best solution to meet them, and then freely shares how to use those new tools through a free blog with over 1,900 case studies. Deepak is a Silicon Valley veteran with fifteen years of experience at Netscape, Oracle, and VMware.

Forest Stearns, Artist
Forest Stearns is the Principal Artist at DRAWEVERYWHERE LLC where he produces unique artwork and leads collaborations between artists and institutions. He has a passion for founding Artist in Residence programs that connect art, science, and technology. Currently he is the Creative Innovation Consultant and Artist in Residence co-founder at Google Quantum AI in Santa Barbara, CA. Stearns is an academically trained prolific illustrator, an arts educator, creative facilitator and community builder. Also an engaged father and supportive partner, he was one of twenty-eight artists who launched the national Artists4ERA collection in support of the VoteEquality campaign and the fully ratified Twenty-Eighth Amendment (Equal Rights).

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Art of Noise, Artists 4 ERA, Color X Color, Deepak Puri, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, Festival of Rock Posters, Forest Stearns, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Haight Street Art Center, Home Show, Kati Hornung, Muses, Ratified, Retrospective, Roxie Theater, SFMOMA, Spoke Art, The Rock Poster Society, TRPS, Vote Equality US

September 13, 2024 By squirt

Chuck Sperry Retrospective at Haight Street Art Center in October

Photo: Shaun Roberts

Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective
Haight Street Art Center
215 Haight St, San Francisco
Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm

October 17-November 24
Opening: Friday, October 18

Ticketing information to be announced soon.
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The Haight Street Art Center is delighted to present Home Show: A Chuck Sperry Retrospective, an exhibition of rock-posters, art prints on paper and wood, deep cuts from the artist’s 40-year career, and the San Francisco premiere of the several hand-woven tapestries. Running from October 17 through November 24, 2024, with an opening reception on Friday October 18, the exhibition is Sperry’s most comprehensive exhibition since his Color x Color retrospective at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2022, and his first local exhibition since the acquisition last spring of four of his pieces by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two of which were featured in Art of Noise exhibition this summer.

Inspired by our human impulse to create, Home Show underscores what it means to be a maker in the 21st century, designing and producing work that straddles fine art, entertainment, and craftsmanship. The exhibition spans Sperry’s long and influential career, featuring new silkscreen prints from the artist’s ongoing “Muse” series and rare works, including a number of original pieces, from his archive.

Photo: Shaun Roberts

At a moment when algorithms and computers are increasingly being used to do creative work, what is the role of the artist or craftsperson? This question is personal for Sperry: as the design and production of cultural ephemera is increasingly automated or outsourced, his dedication to the craft of screen printing and the art of gig posters has become somewhat anomalous. Still, Sperry is confident that the human spark of creativity will persist. “Art made by humans for humans in physical reality is imbued with the soul of our humanity,” he says. “Our uniquely mortal heart and immortal spirit, drawn from our human culture, collective unconscious, and experience will transcend the current imperative for non-human and virtual intervention in the art space.”

Photo: Shaun Roberts

Drawing influence from the playwrights and poets of Classical Antiquity to the artist-designers of Art Nouveau, Sperry’s vivid, colorful screen prints merge the worlds of art, entertainment, and politics seamlessly, just as his predecessors did. Patterns of brightly colored foliage emanate from behind a woman’s head, her hair falling across her body or taken up by a gust of wind. Often, she looks directly at the viewer, standing in her power and control. Sperry’s muses carry names from Greek mythology, tracing their knowledge and image to the goddesses of art, science, and religion. This ongoing interest in ancient knowledge and texts such as the Orphic Hymns places Sperry’s practice of image-making into a long—and very human—lineage.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Haight Street, Haight Street Art Center, Haight-Ashbury, Home Show, Muses, San Francisco

April 3, 2024 By squirt

“Only Human” Sperry Solo at Harman Projects in New York City

CHUCK SPERRY – ONLY HUMAN

APRIL 13 – MAY 4, 2024

Harman Projects is pleased to announce Only Human, a solo show by artist Chuck Sperry.

Opening  Recepetion:
Saturday, April 13th
VIP Hours : 1pm – 6pm
General Admission : 6 pm – 8 pm

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday / 10 am – 6 pm

Harman Projects on Rivington:
210 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002

NEW YORK CITY—Inspired by our human impulse to create, Chuck Sperry’s solo exhibition Only Human at Harman Projects underscores what it means to be a maker in the 21st century. The exhibition spans Sperry’s long and influential career, featuring new silkscreen prints from the artist’s ongoing “Muse” series and rare works from his archive. Straddling fine art, entertainment, and craftsmanship, Sperry believes being “only” human is something extraordinary.

When algorithms and computers do creative work, where do artists or craftsmen fit in? This question is personal for Sperry: as the design and production of cultural ephemera is increasingly automated or outsourced, his dedication to silk screen printing and the art of the gig poster has become somewhat anomalous. Still, he’s confident that the human spark of creativity will persist. “[A]rt made by humans for humans in physical reality is imbued with the soul of our humanity,” the artist reflects. “Our uniquely mortal heart and immortal spirit, drawn from our human culture, our human collective unconscious and experience, will transcend the current imperative for non-human and virtual intervention in the art space.” 

Drawing influence from the playwrights and artisans of Classical Antiquity to the hybrid artist-designers of the Art Nouveau movement, Sperry’s vivid, colorful screen prints merge the worlds of art, entertainment, and politics seamlessly just as his predecessors did. Patterns of brightly colored foliage emanate from behind a woman’s head, her hair falling across her body or taken up by a gust of wind. Often, she looks directly at the viewer, standing in her power and control. These muses carry names from Greek mythology, tracing their knowledge and image to the goddesses of art, science, and religion. Sperry’s ongoing interest in ancient knowledge and texts, like the Orphic Hymns, places his practice of image-making into a long—and very human—lineage. Reanimating ideas and icons that have persisted since ancient history, Sperry taps into enduring human ideals of art and storytelling to celebrate the complexities of being only human. 

Please join us on April 13th from 6 pm to 8 pm at 210 Rivington Street in New York City for the opening of Only Human. The artist will be in attendance.

Filed Under: Art Prints Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Harman Projects, Muses, New York City, Only Human

January 17, 2024 By squirt

Sperry Solo Show in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury with Psychedelic SF Gallery

Psychedelic SF Gallery is pleased to present Chuck Sperry in “My Mind’s Eye” — a solo art exposition by the world famous printmaking master. For his upcoming solo in San Francisco, Chuck will be showing new and archive blotter art, archive panels, a selection of editions on paper, rare test prints and surprises.

American artist Chuck Sperry is renown for his ethereal, psychedelically saturated screen prints that draw crowds of dedicated fans around the world. Iconic in both the concert music and art worlds — Sperry draws inspiration from the raw energy of live performances his art enhances — and stylistically from graffiti, pop art, and Art Nouveau. He currently imagines a verdant garden of new work tended by his signature shimmering muses, calling this work a “utopian provocation.”

On view: February 3, 2024 – April 2024.

Opening: Saturday, February 3, 4 pm to 8 pm.

Psychedelic SF Gallery Presents:
“My Mind’s Eye” a Chuck Sperry solo exhibition
1399 Haight Street • San Francisco

In my minds eye
Things are clearer than before
Showing me the way
Asking me to stay
I’ll never close the door
To all these things and more

— Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane (Small Faces)

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Chuck Sperry, Muses, Psychedelic SF, San Francisco, Solo Exposition

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

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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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