All Star Press is an all-in-one Chicago art gallery, retail space, and print studio based out of the Logan Square neighborhood. We focus on creating limited edition artist prints from all over the world, with an emphasis on sports, Chicago culture, film, and concert posters. We value the relationship that we share with our local and international artists along with our surrounding community, believing that creativity and the expansion of art is something everyone should have the opportunity to experience.

Our mission is to broaden the relationship and conversation that we share with sports fans and artists extensively throughout Chicago, allowing our space to not only be culturally significant, but influential in the Chicago art scene.

In addition to our cultural presence, through our curated work, we are a three in-one gallery, screen print studio, and design company. Over the past 10 years we have been curating shows in Chicago, bringing together illustrators, artists, street art, sports fans, and designers to create a unique all-inclusive atmosphere like no other in the city. As we continue to grow as a cultural hub in Logan Square, we are always looking to further collaborate with others to continue to share our love and desire for printed material throughout the city and beyond.

Credit due to Kevin Coval

About Our Owner

Artist, printmaker, curator, gallerist, impresario, and owner of All Star Press, Zissou Tasseff-Elenkoff was born in San Francisco and raised internationally in Paris and London. The son of artists, his mother's deep curiosity and love of painting, cinema, conceptual art, collecting zines and underground comic books primarily shaped his childhood visual landscape; and his father, an entrepreneur and independent jewelry designer, who created bespoke pieces for clients such as Louis Vuitton, Sonic Youth, and Madonna, piqued his enterprising spirit.

Zissou grew up in a cultural milieu of punk rock, pop art, video games, New Wave French cinema, and cosmopolitan aesthetics. At sixteen years old, he sold his first painting to a woman on The Tube and gained confidence in his nascent art making practice and began selling work to his dad's friends and clients.

In 2002, at twenty years old, he returned to the states to visit colleges and while taking the Blue line, saw the city's skyline and fell in love with the vast possibility of Chicago's crooked smile.  He went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and explored a myriad of new ways to create, utilizing resources afforded to Art Institute students. He studied screen printing, photography and film and began forging connections with other students in an emerging DIY community of makers, outside of the university system.

He opened Fugscreens Studios in 2007 (FUG, a Ramon's reference, a 70s psychedelic band, and the initials his stepdad Rob would enter into video game high scores), a print making shop in a still bohemian section of a changing Wicker Park. For over a decade he created visuals for Iggy Pop, Elton John, Chance the Rapper, Phish, Patti Smith and dozens of other acts. In 2016 Zissou began his latest incarnation, All Star Press.

All Star Press, which opened in Logan Square in 2017, went viral for a series of Chicago-centric jerseys Zissou created as prints, merging the disparate genres of fine art, music, and athletics in a way the city had not yet witnessed. All Star Press continued the egalitarian and equitable spirit of the spaces he created before, but now introduced studio, public art and art collecting practices to an even boarder audience: the Chicago sports fans, while continuing to erode boundaries.

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