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Moonalice Artists Attending TRPS Festival of Rock Posters in San Francisco on Saturday October 20, 2018

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The Rock Poster Society Presents in San Francisco Festival of Rock Posters 2018The Rock Poster Society presents it’s annual event Festival of Rock Posters 2018 on Saturday, October 20, 2018 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Held at the San Francisco County Fair Building (also known as the Hall of Flowers), it’s the biggest rock poster event of its kind! This is a great opportunity to meet your favorite Moonalice artists and get your posters signed too.

This event runs from 10:00am to 6:00pm and admission will vary depending on the time you arrive, after 3:00pm the event is FREE. More information and full list of attendees at TRPS.org

Moonalice artists attending include:
Chris Shaw
Alexandra Fischer
Bill Ham
Carolyn Ferris
Chuck Sperry
David Singer
Gary Houston
Gregg Gordon of GIGART
John Seabury
Lee Conklin
Matt Leunig of Scraped Knee
Stanley Mouse

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Directions

County Fair Building 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco

All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry

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Chuck Sperry + Fort Wayne Museum of Art

All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry

September 15 – December 9, 2018

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is pleased to celebrate Chuck Sperry’s first museum solo exhibition. Sperry has been preeminent in the rock poster genre since the late 1990s and has largely defined the genre in each decade since with his distinctive style and masterful printing technique.

Sperry has drawn inspiration for this work from the classical Greco-Roman idea of the muses, and their metaphorical home on Mount Helikon — the source of inspiration for all things art and music. Naiads, nymphs and muses in their richly patterned floral settings make their way into Sperry’s work. Dripping with brightly colored flowers, decked in gold and silver textures, Sperry’s blue-silver muses sing a paean to the long tradition of humanism reactivated in the struggle for social progress, universal human rights, a more perfect democracy and the utopian ideals of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco where Sperry has made his home since 1989.

Symbolism, Secession, ukiyo-e, and psychedelia blend in Sperry’s flattened, post-modern figurative art: all potent ingredients Sperry strives self-consciously to re-evaluate for the 21st Century.

The exhibit will feature 2 large scale tapestries designed by Sperry, 25 screen prints on oak panel, original ink drawings, and ephemeral color progressives which illuminate Sperry’s unique printing process.

This exhibition is organized by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and its Curator of Contemporary Art Josef Zimmerman.

Exhibition Opening Party: September 14, 6-9pm

Celebrate opening weekend of this exhibit and Litmus Test: Works on Paper from the Psychedelic Era with live music, cash bar, appetizers, and face time with the one and only Chuck Sperry!

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All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry Upcoming Solo Exhibition at The Fort Wayne Museum of Art

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Chuck Sperry + Fort Wayne Museum of ArtAll Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry
September 15 – December 19, 2018

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is pleased to celebrate Chuck Sperry’s first museum solo exhibition. Sperry has been preeminent in the rock poster genre since the late 1990s and has largely defined the genre in each decade since with his distinctive style and masterful printing technique.

Sperry has drawn inspiration for this work from the classical Greco-Roman idea of the muses, and their metaphorical home on Mount Helikon — the source of inspiration for all things art and music. Naiads, nymphs and muses in their richly patterned floral settings make their way into Sperry’s work. Dripping with brightly colored flowers, decked in gold and silver textures, Sperry’s blue-silver muses sing a paean to the long tradition of humanism reactivated in the struggle for social progress, universal human rights, a more perfect democracy and the utopian ideals of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco where Sperry has made his home since 1989.

Symbolism, Secession, ukiyo-e, and psychedelia blend in Sperry’s flattened, post-modern figurative art: all potent ingredients Sperry strives self-consciously to re-evaluate for the 21st Century.

The exhibit will feature 2 large scale tapestries designed by Sperry, 25 screen prints on oak panel, original ink drawings, and ephemeral color progressives which illuminate Sperry’s unique printing process.

Chuck will be releasing “Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry” a 136 page follow up to his art book “Helikon, The Muses of Chuck Sperry”.
Chthoneon, The Art of Chuck Sperry

All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry
This exhibition is organized by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and its Curator of Contemporary Art Josef Zimmerman.

Exhibition Opening Party: September 14, 6-9pm
Celebrate opening weekend of this exhibit and Litmus Test: Works on Paper from the Psychedelic Era with live music, cash bar, appetizers, and face time with the one and only Chuck Sperry!

Printmaking Workshop 1 with Chuck Sperry: September 15, 1:30pm SOLD OUT
Learn from the singular figure of psychedelic poster printmaking Chuck Sperry with a hand-on workshop. Pre-registration with fee of $30 is required. Fee includes all supplies and your take-home creation.

Printmaking Workshop 2 with Chuck Sperry: September 15, 3:30pm SOLD OUT
Learn from the singular figure of psychedelic poster printmaking Chuck Sperry with a hand-on workshop. Pre-registration with fee of $30 is required. Fee includes all supplies and your take-home creation.

Curator’s Tour: November 1, 12:15-1pm
Curator of Contemporary Art Josef Zimmerman will lead you on an engaging tour of this exhibit. From specialized and personal points of view, curators offer unique perspectives on all FWMoA exhibits. Tours are free with gallery admission.

Chuck Sperry, Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse in upcoming Litmus Test: Works on Paper from the Psychedelic Era at Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana

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Litmus Test: Works on Paper from the Psychedelic EraLitmus Test: Works on Paper from the Psychedelic Era
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
September 8 – November 11, 2018

Artists Chuck Sperry, Wes Wilson, and Stanley Mouse, all with posters in the Moonalice series, have art in the upcoming exhibition Litmus Test: Works on Paper from the Psychedelic Era curated by independent curator and critic Carlo McCormick and FWMoA Curator of Contemporary Art Josef Zimmerman.

The Psychedelic Era was, among many things, a cultural frontier for colors and imagery. Music, politics, and drugs ignited an unprecedented expansion of art revolving around these elements. College campuses around the country, now seen as the birthing grounds for much of the psychedelic era’s ideals, were hotbeds for bright young minds to organize politically and artistically. From Berkeley College to the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, young idealists organized and the art of the era came to fruition. This exhibition will be our bridge to that time, showcasing a variety of psychedelic era works on paper.

Highlighting this experience is the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan. The poster work and ephemera of Gary Grimshaw and the photography of Leni Sinclair will showcase the art that poured out of that time and place. Blotter sheets from Mark Mothersbaugh, H.R. Giger, S. Clay Wilson, Chuck Sperry, and more will represent the creative fuel for many of the artists of the time. Also featured will be the work of the poster artists of the time: Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Stanely Mouse, Rick Griffin, and Alton Kelley. Lastly works by artists Alex and Allyson Grey and Isaac Abrams will display the fine art guided and influenced by the era and movement.

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Litmus Test: Works on Paper from the Psychedelic Era
Exhibition Opening Party: September 14, 6-9pm
Celebrate opening weekend of this exhibit and All Access: Exploring Humanism in the Art of Chuck Sperry with live music, cash bar, appetizers, with many of the artists in attendance!

Orange Sunshine Blotter by Chuck Sperry

Orange Sunshine Blotter art print by Chuck Sperry

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Fort Wayne Museum of Art 311 E Main St, Indiana