Chuck Sperry

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Sperry Featured with Spoke Art at Art Basel / Context Art Miami

Spoke Art is pleased to announce our return to Miami for the eighth year in a row exhibiting during Art Basel Miami! Join us this December at CONTEXT Art Miami where we will be exhibiting featured bodies of work by Chuck Sperry and Dan Lam as well as a group exhibition of over forty exciting contemporary artists!

Chuck Sperry – Digging into the archives we are able to offer sold out panel editions from the artist’s illustrious career, before releasing several brand new panels and prints on paper. Archive panels will go on sale Tuesday the 3rd. New panels and prints on paper will be made available on Saturday the 7th.

Hebe, 2019
20 x 29
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

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Harmonia, 2019
20 x 26.75
Edition of 30
6 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

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Chloris, 2019
33 x 20
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

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Dreamer, 2019
21 x 31
Edition of 150
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered

Variants on holographic sparkle foil, holographic lava foil and satin black

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Dan Lam – We will be exhibiting an assortment of recent drip and blob sculptures in the artist’s truly unique style. Always a favorite with audiences, Lam’s work pairs grotesque form with alluring color, creating a dichotomy that begs for closer inspection.

Group Exhibition – We are pleased to present a group exhibition featuring fifty exciting new contemporary artists working in a variety of media. Exhibiting artists include So Youn Lee, Aaron Nagel, Buff Monster, Nicomi Nix Turner, Eelus, Petites Luxures, Scott Scheidly, AJ Masthay, David Welker, Alex Garant and Scott Listfield.

Visit us at Booth C1 this December in Miami or if you can’t make it in person, check out the online preview here!

CONTEXT Art Miami
One Herald Plaza
NE 14th Street, Miami FL

December 3rd  – 8th, 2019

Platinum VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 3rd from 4:30 – 6:00pm
VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 3rd from 6:00 – 10:00pm
General Admission: Wednesday – Saturday from 11am – 8pm, Sunday from 11am – 6pm

More info about the fair here. To inquire about available works or complimentary tickets, please email Spoke Art at nyc@spoke-art.com.

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Chuck Sperry x Spoke Art at Art Basel / Context Art Fair • Part 2

Hebe, 2019
20 x 29
Edition of 30
7 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Hebe is one of the many new muses I’ll be showing at Art Basel / Context Art Fair with Spoke Art Gallery – my fifth visit to Art Basel, the premier art fair in the Americas – and I anticipate – the most amazing yet! Hope to see you there!

The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavilion • One Herald Plaza at NE 14th Street, Downtown Miami.
On Biscayne Bay between the Venetian & MacArthur Causeways

Stay tuned to Spoke Art Gallery and its sister gallery Hashimoto Contemporary for various fair exclusives and the nitty gritty of the release!

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Chuck Sperry x Spoke Art at Art Basel / Context Art Fair

Harmonia, 2019
20 x 26.75
Edition of 30
6 colors on oak panel
Signed and Numbered

Harmonia is one of the many new pieces I’ll be showing at Art Basel / Context Art Fair with Spoke Art Gallery – my fifth visit to Art Basel, the premier art fair in the Americas – and I anticipate – the most amazing yet! Hope to see you there!

The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavilion • One Herald Plaza at NE 14th Street, Downtown Miami.
On Biscayne Bay between the Venetian & MacArthur Causeways

Stay tuned to Spoke Art Gallery and its sister gallery Hashimoto Contemporary for various fair exclusives and the nitty gritty of the release!

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Chuck Sperry x Spoke Art at NYCC • “Clio” Art Print Release

Clio, 2019
21 x 31
Edition of 100
6 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Variants: Sparkle Foil, Lava Foil and Satin Black
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“Clio” will be available at Spoke Art booth 675 starting Thursday, October 3, 2019.
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I’m very proud to announce my newest art piece, devoted to the muse “Clio” which I’ve made especially for release at Spoke Art Gallery’s appearance in New York City at the New York Comic Con.
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Clio is the Muse of history, daughter of memory. I suggest we remember where we came from, how we got here, who we are, and where we are going. History is not only a collection of objective facts; history is also a story. How we organize those objective facts says a lot about who we are, or who we want to be.
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When I realized I wanted more than anything to be a practicing artist, I realized I would devote my life to the muses. (That’s how I might organize my history, tell my story.)
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To The Muses – Orphic Hymn 75*
To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire much-form’d, the objects of supreme desire:
Sources of blameless virtue to mankind, who form to excellence the youthful mind;
Who nurse the soul, and give her to descry the paths of right with Reason’s steady eye.
Commanding queens who lead to sacred light the intellect refin’d from Error’s night;
And to mankind each holy rite disclose, for mystic knowledge from your nature flows.
Clio, and Erato, who charms the sight, with thee Euterpe minist’ring delight:
Thalia flourishing, Polymina fam’d, Melpomene from skill in music nam’d:
Terpischore, Urania heav’nly bright, with thee who gav’st me to behold the light.
Come, venerable, various, pow’rs divine, with fav’ring aspect on your mystics shine;
Bring glorious, ardent, lovely, fam’d desire, and warm my bosom with your sacred fire.
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The Orphic Hymns are at the foundation of the ancient Greek religion, as it was practiced during the Golden Age, at that civilization’s height, during its struggle to begin to define democracy, art, science, and reason. I feel we are at a place where human beings must define again democracy, art, science, and reason. What sort of Age awaits us?
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My history, I’ve been working on art devoted to the muses and Greek religion for many years, showing my work in gallery settings worldwide, art fairs and museums. That said, the New York Comic Convention has been a great forum to release new muses. I released “Demeter” at NYCC through Spoke Art in 2017, and “Justice” in 2014. My wood panel art print of “Justice” was acquired by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2017. My large-scale, hand-woven tapestry of “Demeter” was acquired by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in 2018. I love this electrical arc between popular art and fine art institution.
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Visit Spoke Art booth 675 starting Thursday, October 3, 2019.
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*You can find “To The Muses” in Sperry’s book “Helikon” (2016)

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Read more about Sperry’s  books “Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry” (2016) and “Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry” (2017)

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Opening Night: “You Touched The Distant Sands,” Los Angeles • Online Release Info

Photo credit: Birdman

Chuck Sperry: “You Touched The Distant Sands”
A solo show and retrospective

Online Release: Tuesday, June 11th at Spoke Art.

Thank you to all my supporters and friends for joining me for “You Touched the Distant Sands.” What an incredible solo show in Los Angeles! That was one of my most ambitious shows, and a dream come true! 

Online release info: Remaining works (limited numbers of panels, paper prints and archive) will be made available online Tuesday June 11th in the Spoke Art online store.

All photos by: Birdman

Coming Soon! Sperry’s “Invisible Reasons” Europe Tour:

Geneva, Switzerland – June 13

Next Door Gallery
16 rue de l’Arquebuse
Geneva, Switzerland
Opening Night Reception: June 13, 2019, 6pm
Exposition from June 13 to June 29, 2019

Paris, France – June 22

l’Oeil Ouvert
1 rue Lucien Sampaix
75010 Paris 
Opening Night Reception: June 22, 2019, 6:30 pm
Exposition from June 22 to July 14, 2019

Pisa, Italy – June 28

Argini e Margini di Arno
Scalo dei Renaioli, Lungarno Galilei
Pisa, Italia
Opening Night Reception: June 28, 2019, begins 6:30pm
with DJ Dome La Muerte

Archives

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

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