As many of you know I’m “setting sail” for Europe for a month long tour with my posters. Here’s a final and complete listing of shows.
Massive Attack at The Warfield
Poster art by Chris Shaw and Chuck Sperry
Tuesday & Wednesday, 24 & 25 May 2010
Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 104
Edition of 150
3 colors on archival cream paper
23″ x 35″
Signed and Numbered
SOLD OUT
Additional stock of this poster will be available through Chris Shaw.
Details will be posted in Expressobean.com forum.
Sometimes you get an idea and just have to go for it. So it was with Cypress Hill at the Warfield on April 20, 2010.
I printed 125 burlap sacks – of varying “quality.” I’ll put it this way, burlap is an unforgiving print substrate. It’s not exactly smooth. A lot of the fine detail was lost. All the crucial information on the poster is legible, yes, and it does look like a kilo bag of weed, and it’s pretty much funny as hell.
Feel free to fill it up with whatever you like and put it on the kitchen spice rack. Guaranteed conversation piece.
Comes with a silkscreen printed handbill sized tag (see tag below)
Cypress Hill 4/20, 2010 at The Warfield
Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number “420”
Edition of 125
1 Color (Metallic Green) on Burlap Sack
18″ x 24″
Signed and Numbered tag on each bag
Burlap Sack and print quality vary
SOLD OUT
I love it when the band gets the poster! When you have a discussion with the band over a piece and they say stuff like, “by far the best poster we’ve ever gotten,” “gritty and classy at the same time,” “I never hang up my band posters in my house, but this one goes up.” It’s Total Print Victory.
Then we had a cool discussion about the graffiti and how it somehow looks like Japanese characters. Pointed out that I gave shout outs to all my friends – Dave Hunter’s TRPS logo, Zoltron, Political Gridlock, and Ribbity (one of my favorite SF Graf artists).
Hangar 18 represents on an SF bus while the central figure “tunes out” with ipod in an introspective mood. Somehow all this technology still leaves us listening to our inner voice – even when blasting music.
Just a reminder – the Firehouse-Goldenvoice Poster Series is getting veeeery close to number 100.
Passion Pit, Mayer Hawthorne and The Country, Bear Hands
Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 97
Thursday, April 15, 2010
The Warfield
Poster will be released April 16, 2010 at 12 noon PST.
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Passion Pit Red (numbers 26-125)
Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 97
Edition of 100
2 colors on canvas textured red paper
(heavy gold metallic and deep purple)
23″ x 35″
Signed and Numbered
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SOLD OUT
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Passion Pit Black (limited to numbers 1-25)
Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 97
Edition of 25
2 colors on canvas textured black paper
(heavy metallic blue and deep purple)
23″ x 35″
Signed and Numbered
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SOLD OUT
Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 87
Edition of 150
3 colors on archival cream paper
23″ x 35″
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
The Firehouse Goldenvoice Series is getting mighty close to 100 posters as the end of the year approaches.
I designed this one in a 1940’s Film Noir style (complete with venetian shade shadows in the background) – a nice companion to my Moby Poster from earlier this year.
Nice thing, I got to design this on my new computer. Of course the drawing was done in the old fashioned way – with good old fashioned brush and ink. The new computer helped to put this all together. It just means less time to wait while changing my mind about colors or shapes – and of course I can watch old movies while designing to get inspired – or video chat with Chris Shaw (which just makes me laugh). So just like Brian Setzer Orchestra this poster is a mix of new and old. I’ll be posting some photos of this when I get them back from the studio later tonight or tomorrow morning so stay tuned.
The metallic gold is very heavy and runs under all the colors to make very beautiful tints and shimmers.
Here’s the images:
Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 86
Edition of 150
5 colors on archival cream paper
23″ x 35″
Signed and Numbered
SOLD OUT
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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