The Moonalice Poster Show next weekend will be featuring art by nearly 2 dozen artists — including Chuck Sperry & Ron Donovan.

This is a FREE event with Refreshments! The Poster show ends up at 19 Broad­way on Sat­ur­day for a per­for­mance by Moon­al­ice.

An auburn-haired songstress holds a fawn. Shocking magenta hair falls to the shoulders of a blue nude strapped with artillery. A 1950s-model cop car rests peacefully at the bottom of the sea, washed in blues and purples revealing a silent white angel. Each outstanding print on display represents a prominent rock band. Each was created by Chuck Sperry.

In early 2011, Chuck Sperry, San Francisco artist and co-owner of Firehouse Kustom Rockart Company, made an unprecedented donation to the Library’s Art, Music and Recreation Department of over one hundred limited edition, hand-printed rock art posters. Officially entitled, The Chuck Sperry Archive, this collection comprehensively documents the Goldenvoice Music Series (at the Regency and Warfield Theaters) from 2008 to present, as well as selected Firehouse productivity related to the cultural-life of San Francisco.

This collection is exciting in both use of color and variety of content. Each silkscreen print is comprised of up to sixteen colors, applied as individual layers. The pieces reference styles ranging from Japanese nishiki-e, Austrian Expressionism, 1960s psychedelia, to the provocative punk poster tradition of Sperry’s youth.  Musicians such as Neko Case, Danzig, Bad Religion, Nick Cave, Soundgarden and The Black Keys are represented, as are a talented group of Bay Area graphic artists (Ron Donovan, Alex Fischer, Gregg Gordon, John Howard, Dave Hunter, Alan Hynes, Scott Johnson, Dennis Loren, Chris Shaw, Frank Zio, & Zoltron) who contributed to the Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster series under the art direction of Chuck Sperry.

High Volume Opening Reception

Thursday, October 20th from 6–7 pm
Latino/Hispanic Room A & B

High Volume will be on display at the San Francisco Public Library
October 7^th, 2011 – January 6^th, 2012 on the 4th floor.

Number 59 in the Firehouse Goldenvoice poster series is designed by Dennis Loren for the Al Green concert with opening act Orgone on September 2, 2009 at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, CA. This silkscreen gig poster measures 23″ x 31″ and comes signed and numbered by the artist, from an edition of 150. Let’s stay together.

The Firehouse Goldenvoice series accentuates the positive with Dennis Loren’s tour de force in metallic glory for Yes and Asia at the Warfield July 2, 2009. Number 48 in the series, this poster is a beautiful shimmering homage to Roger Dean, master designer for Prog Rockers Yes since the early 1970’s. Mr. Dean, who was at the show, offered his hearty affirmation, summoning Dennis Loren and printer Chuck Sperry to the backstage for a meeting of minds. He was flattered by the homage, laughing and saying, “It so good, you should be shot!” Then taking up Sperry’s ink covered hands, remarked, “The English painter Turner said, you have only to look at the hands to determine who is the real artist.” Don’t surround yourself with yourself — surround yourself with awesome art from the Firehouse!

Artist Dennis Loren has designed his first Moonalice gig poster for their concert on April 30, 2009 at the Sullivan Hall in New York City, NY. The concert will also be Twittercast tonight!