Chuck Sperry

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Sperry Solo Show in Paris with l’Oeil Ouvert Gallery

L’Oeil Ouvert Gallery of Paris 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 Paris, Chuck will be showing his newest editions on oak panel, archive panels, his latest 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: December 6, 2023 – January 2024.

Vernissage: Wednesday, December 6, 18h – 22h

l’Oeil Ouvert Gallery Presents:
“My Mind’s Eye” a Chuck Sperry solo exhibition
1 rue Lucien Sampaix, 75010 Paris

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)

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Sperry’s “Elysia” Art Print 
Online Art Print Release Run Fair with EQL

Elysia, 2023
21.5 x 28.5
Edition of 300
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

I am very excited to announce my “Elysia” art print—featured at the 2023 Seattle Art Fair with Harman Projects last month—will be available via a launch on EQL.

This offering is a wonderful opportunity for those who missed the Harman Projects gallery release — your second chance; more importantly, this is my first poster or print to be released on EQL’s Run Fair launch platform.

Follow the link below, and you will be directed to The Chuck Sperry EQL Launches landing page. 

On Sunday, August 20, 2023, at 9 am to 3 pm PST I will open my online launches  for “Elysia” and its variants. The ballot will be open for 6 hours.  As long as you enter during this timeframe, time of entry does not impact your chances of purchase.  

There will be six live launches: 1 launch for each print edition (regular, silver, gold, black, sparkle, lava). 

You are free to register once for each launch. Multiple entries per launch will be penalized.

You may only win 1 print from all the live launches within this six hour period. One per household.

Visit the launch page for Sunday’s release:

JOIN EQL RELEASE

Elysia, 2023
21.5 x 28.5
Silver Edition of 25
7 colors on metallic silver paper
Signed and Numbered

Elysia, 2023
21.5 x 28.5
Gold Edition of 25
7 colors on metallic gold paper
Signed and Numbered

Elysia, 2023
21.5 x 28.5
Satin Black Edition of 20
7 colors on satin black paper
Signed and Numbered

Elysia, 2023
21.5 x 28.5
Sparkle Foil Edition of 25
7 colors on sparkle foil
Signed and Numbered

Elysia, 2023
21.5 x 28.5
Lava Foil Edition of 25
7 colors on lava foil
Signed and Numbered

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Sperry Solo Exhibition at Seattle Art Fair with Harman Projects

Sappho, 2023
20 x 30
Edition of 30
7 color screen print on wood panel
Signed and Numbered

Seattle Art Fair
July 27th – 30th
Lumen Field Event Center

Harman Projects will be returning to the Seattle Art Fair later this month where we’ll be presenting a solo exhibition by acclaimed contemporary artist and print maker, Chuck Sperry.

Join us at booth C15 where we are excited to release five wood panel editions: Sappho, Syrinx, Venus, with two brand new editions, Salome and Magdalena.

In honor of Seattle’s unique connection to the history of rock music the gallery will also be presenting a curated selection of 75+ gig poster prints pulled directly from the artist’s personal archives. As a bonus, we’ll also be offering over a dozen unique test prints.

The artist will be on hand to autograph copies of his various coffee table art books and we’ll also have copies of his forthcoming The Sperry Collectible Card Set • Series 2 available for in-person signing and purchase.

Lastly, attendees to the Seattle event will have the first opportunity to acquire a new limited edition screen print on paper (with variants) which will be revealed at the exhibition opening night!

Salome, 2023
16 x 32
Edition of 30
5 color screen print on wood panel
Signed and Numbered

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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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Chuck Sperry at Art Market San Francisco

I’m thrilled to announce I will be exhibiting with Harman Projects at Art Market San Francisco 2023 – April 20 to 23. Art Market San Francisco is the Bay Area’s longest running art fair. It returns to Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion in April 2023 with 85 top galleries from around the world. Join us!

Address:
Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion
2 Marina Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94123

Dates:
Select VIP Preview: Thursday April 20, 2023 | 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Opening: Thursday April 20, 2023 | 6:00pm – 9:00pm

General Admission:
Friday, April 21, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, April 22, 2023 |  11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, April 23, 2023 |  11:00am – 6:00pm

Please, all inquiries should be made to Harman Projects concerning all details including entry and available art work. 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

Archives

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

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