Hangar 18

includ­ing The Firehouse-Goldenvoice Poster Series

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.

Social Dis­tor­tion with Chuck Ragan, Lucero, & Aggro­lites at The Warfield poster by Frank Zio

Fire­house Gold­en­voice Poster Series No. 128

Con­tinue reading

Ghost­land Obser­va­tory at The Warfield poster by Frank Zio

Fire­house Gold­en­voice Poster Series No. 107

Artist Frank Zio cre­ated a 6 color silkscreen poster com­pletely hand illus­trated and printed on uncoated Cougar 100lb. stock for the Ghost­land Obe­se­va­tory con­cert at The Warfield in San Fran­cisco, CA on August 20, 2010. This poster mea­sures 14″ x 25″ and comes from an edi­tion of 160, signed and num­bered by the artist.

What we have here is a beau­ti­fully grotesque 6 color silkscreen, 3 col­ors of which are blends, mean­ing that the ink is mixed in the screen to cre­ate a (hope­fully) nice, smooth gra­di­ent. It is def­i­nitely my clean­est print work, with air-tight reg­is­tra­tion and sump­tu­ous color.  I went all out on this one, the art for the poster being com­pletely hand drawn with ink by pen and brush.  I also ordered some spe­cial nat­ural white uncoated paper stock, made with 10% post con­sumer waste, so feel good, O Patron of Posters! — Zio

$30 plus ship­ping