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Ron Donovan Memorial in San Francisco
I have been busy printing posters for my old friend and partner Ron Donovan. All of Ron’s friends and family will be gathering to have a big blow out for our dear departed Hawaiian International Silkscreen Superstar! Here’s a tease of three of the six posters which will be released at the Parkside in San Francisco on Sunday, January 21 at 6 pm.
Posters below are by me, Chris Shaw and Winston Smith. Posters by Jon-Paul Bail, Scott Johnson and Jorge Gamboa will be available at the show!
I will be making a very limited online release of my poster on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at a random time!
Ron Donovan Memorial by Chuck Sperry
18 x 24
Edition of 100
5 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
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Other posters will be sold by their respective creators:
Ron Donovan Memorial by Chris Shaw
18 x 24
Edition of 100
3 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Ron Donovan Memorial by Winston Smith
18 x 24
Edition of 100
5 Colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Ron Donovan Memorial bash – this Sunday!
Memorial For Ron Donovan
SUNDAY JANUARY 21, 2018 – 4:00 PM
Live music by:
MCM & The Monster, Ted Zeppelin, The Jackson Saints, Eddy Jennings
MORE INFO:
http://www.theeparkside.com/event/303637
Contributions for the RON DONOVAN LEGACY FUND to:
https://www.gofundme.com/ron-donovan-legacy-fund
THEE PARKSIDE
1600 17TH Street
SF – CA
“Women Rising” Poster for Women’s March 2018
“Women Rising” 2018
18 x 24
Offset Poster
Two-sided / two images
Signed and Numbered Edition of 200
Sold Out – Thank you!
Posters will be distributed in Las Vegas at:
Sam Boyd Stadium
Women’s March Merchandise
7000 East Russell Road
Las Vegas, NV
Posters will be distributed in Washington, DC at:
The Outrage
2439 18th Street NW
Washington, DC
I’ll be making a very limited online release of 200 signed and numbered offset Women’s March 2018 posters on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at a random time.
Last year’s Women’s March 2017 poster is available HERE • The Outrage donates 100% of all sales of my poster to Planned Parenthood
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“We’re exactly one week away from the anniversary of the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. On Sunday, January 21st, we’re gathering in Las Vegas for the official Women’s March Anniversary: Power to the Polls event kicking off our year-long campaign to win in 2018!” – Women’s March 2018
I am very proud to contribute my talents and many thousands of posters to the Women’s March January 21, 2018 in Las Vegas and Washington, DC.
My poster will be available through the official Women’s March merchandise and info point in Las Vegas and in Washington.
It is gratifying to continue in the committed efforts of the women’s movement by working closely with the The Outrage in Washington, DC. The Outrage donates 100% of all sales of my posters to worthy causes, and is working closely with Women’s March, NOW, She Should Run and others to leverage the November 2018 mid-term election and fight back for our future.
Twiddle New Year’s Eve Poster by Sperry
Twiddle New Year’s Eve
18 x 35
Regular Edition of 375
7 colors on cream paper
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
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Twiddle New Year’s Eve
18 x 35
Blue Opal Edition of 12
7 colors on blue opal paper
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
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Twiddle New Year’s Eve
18 x 35
Wave Foil Edition of 19
7 colors on wave foil
Signed and Numbered
Sold Out – Thank You!
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This poster will be available through Twiddle’s official merchandise at the Palace Theatre on December 30 & 31, 2017.
I will make a very limited online release of my poster and it’s variants on Monday, January 1, 2018 at a random time.
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I’m happy to announce my final rock poster for 2017. I’ve had an incredible year, full of wonderful achievements and experiences! So I’m especially glad to end on a solid, bold note. After all we’ve been through this year, my friends, stay beautiful! Life is a gift!
Twiddle will perform a pair of very special concerts to celebrate New Year’s Eve. The band will perform two shows at the Palace Theatre in Albany, New York.
Twiddle will be joined by openers The Marcus King Band on December 30. On New Year’s Eve Twiddle will perform three sets and be joined onstage by special guests The Giant Country Horns.
I want to welcome a lot of newcomers to my site! I’ll quickly explain how my releases on my website are conducted. My Twiddle posters will be available, right here, in this post on Monday, January 1, 2018 at a random time. A paypal “Buy Now” button will appear under the poster (above) at a random time, and I will announce the price of the poster at the same time. (There may be additional offers or surprises – revealed at that random time.) Good luck to everyone, and as always, I am very appreciative of your support!
Read more about Chuck Sperry & his newest art book here
Sperry’s New Art Print at Art Basel Miami / Context Art Fair with Spoke Art Gallery
I will be making a very limited release of “The Ostracon” and it’s variants, my fourth and final Jerry Garcia portrait, with a very special book signing of “Helikon” – Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 2 pm – through Spoke Art Gallery at Context Art Fair during Art Basel Miami.
Please visit us at Spoke Art Booth C133!
Read More: Sperry’s beautiful new art book, “Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry” (2017)
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Notes on “The Ostracon”
Ostrakon. (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
“At any time, by a majority of votes written secretly upon potsherds (ostraka), the Assembly, in a quorum of six thousand members, might send into exile for ten years any man who in its judgement had become a danger to the state. In this way ambitious leaders would be stimulated to conduct themselves with circumspection and moderation, and men suspected of conspiracy could be disposed of without the law’s delay.”
— Will Durant, The Life of Greece, The Story of Civilization, Part II
While working on my book “Helikon” my work has been driven and inspired by the spirit of the ancient Greek muses and Greek mythology; Greek myths fill my art and my printmaking with theme and motif.
My creative roots are in the San Francisco poster movement which began in the utopian spirit of social experimentation in the Haight-Ashbury, where I live today. I look sometimes at my early rock poster work through be-mused glass; music was viewed as “therapy” by the Greeks. Confirmation that the ancients were well-attuned. Anyone who knows the rock concert experience as I do, knows rock fans feel this way still today.
Art for music concerts is a popular business, something with which the fine art world may be uncomfortable. In a democracy full of popular businesses, Art recently realizes it is also one. I hope my art serves as a democratizing influence in the sphere of fine art and in the culture at large.
Since the election of November 2016, I’ve refocussed on my political motivations, and I’ve aimed to make a social impact with my work. Following the popularity of my 2011 Occupy poster “This Is Our City, And We Can Shut It Down” I created a related typographic propaganda poster for the Women’s March of January 2017, “Resist Sexism, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Ignorance, Corruption and Hate.”
I made another poster which became emblematic of the March for Science of April 22, 2017.
I was pleased to see that my March for Science posters reached the lectern of the demonstration where keynote speaker Bill Nye posed with NASA astronaut Leland Melvin alongside my poster image. My Women’s March poster and my Occupy poster were recognized by inclusion in the United States Library of Congress and in exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It’s sincerely gratifying to receive institutional recognition, but the pressing point is to open minds and to inspire participation in our democratic society.
Long ago as a teen I was packed off to college with Will and Ariel Durant’s eleven volume “Story of Civilization” by my enlightened parents who felt these books a necessary provision for well-rounded citizenship. I am always most drawn to volume 2, “The Life of Greece.” I re-read this book constantly.
The Will Durant passage above — which describes the ancient Greek institution of democratic ostracism — was part of my inspiration for my newest art print “The Ostracon.” His words describing ancient greek polity spark thoughts of a vibrant, if messy and flawed, democracy. Today’s news is filled with a similar vibrance and messiness: impeachment, investigations, and a series of scandalous banishments. American democracy has been going through unimaginable upheavals in the last year; ostracism is in the air.
In researching more deeply into ostracism, I encountered the words of august archeologist Professor John McK Camp II, Director of the Agora Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and professor of classics at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. I contacted him to ask permission to attach his words to my art; he generously agreed. Prof. John Camp offers — in a spirit of openness and possibility — the concept of democratic ostracism as an interesting solution in this peculiar era of American democracy:
“The United States has borrowed lots from the ancient Greeks, including such bedrock items as architecture, the Olympics, coinage, theater, and, most important, the concept of democracy. Visitors to Athens can still view the official drinking cups and tableware used in the 5th century BC, when legislators were wined and dined at state expense. Not much, in fact, has changed since antiquity except the technology.
“One aspect of ancient political life has not been adopted, however, and perhaps it’s time to bring it back: ostracism. Once a year the Athenians would meet and vote on a simple question: Is anyone aiming at a tyranny, is anyone becoming a threat to the democracy? If a simple majority voted yes, then they dispersed and reassembled two months later. They brought with them their ostracon (a fragment of pottery), on which they had scratched the name of the person they thought represented a threat. The man with the most votes lost. He was exiled for 10 years, and this was thought to calm any anti-democratic leanings he might have.”
— John McK Camp II,
(From “Ostracized in Athens,” The New York Times, July 24, 2003 by permission of the author)
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