Shepard Fairey

Signed 2021 NØISE State Violence State Control LP

2021

Manufacturer Obey Giant Edition Details Year: 2021 Class: Art Print Status: Official Released: 03/30/21 Run: 387/400 Technique: Screen Print Paper: Cream Specketone Size: 18 X 18 Ma...

Punk rock ignited a lot of creative and philosophical things for me, and punk principles continuously remind me that speaking truth to power and questioning authority is paramount in life. The Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks are just a few of the groups that referenced injustices such as police brutality and abuse of power in their songs, inspiring me to speak out about the same subjects through my art. I have made a lot of lasting friendships through punk rock and its cultural offshoots. One of those friends is Sean Bonner, who began ordering my prints in the '90s while he was art director for punk label Victory Records. Sean designed the package for the Bad Brains...

Manufacturer Obey Giant Edition Details: Year: 2020 Class: Fine Art Print Status: Official Released: 02/12/20 Run: 314/550 Technique: Screen Print Paper: Thick Fine Art Cream Speckle...

I See Static, Red. 18 x 24 inches. Screen print on cream Speckle Tone paper. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Edition of 168/300. Contemporary street art print. Shepard Fairey is a major ...

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Shepard Fairey 2nd Amendment Solutions 2011 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 450 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This wo...

TECHNICAL INFORMATION Shepard Fairey Public Works Medal 2004 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed & numbered Condition: This work i...

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Shepard Fairey Sonic Firestorm HPM 2013 HPM (Hand-Painted Multiple), screenprint and mixed media collage on paper 41 1/2 x 41 1/2 in. Edition of 10 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This work is in excellent condition. Frame: Framed in a black shadowbox frame with UV protective plexiglass Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary graphic designer and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (OBEY) sticker campaign. Fairey created the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign in 1989, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). This later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign. As with most street artists, the Obey Giant was intended to inspire curiosity and cause the masses to question their relationship with their surroundings. The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for a meaning in the sticker. Those who are familiar with the sticker simply find humor and enjoyment from its presence. Those who actually try to look deeper into its meaning only burden themselves and often end up condemning the art as an act of vandalism from an evil, underground cult. In a manifesto he wrote in 1990, and since posted on his website, he links his work with Heidegger's concept of phenomenology. “When I started to see reactions and consider the sociological forces at work surrounding the use of public space and the insertion of a very eye-catching but ambiguous image, I began to think there was the potential to create a phenomenon”. His work became more widely known in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, specifically his Barack Obama "Hope" poster. The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl called the poster "the most efficacious American political illustration since 'Uncle Sam Wants You'". Fairey's first art museum exhibition, titled "Supply Demand" like his earlier book, was in Boston at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the summer of 2009. The exhibition featured over 250 works in a wide variety of media: screen prints, stencils, stickers, rubylith illustrations, collages, and works on wood, metal and canvas. As a complement to the ICA exhibition, Fairey created public art works around Boston. The artist explains his driving motivation: “The real message behind most of my work is 'question everything'”. On his way to the premiere of his show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Fairey was arrested on two outstanding warrants related to graffiti. He was charged with damage to property for having postered two Boston area locations with graffiti, a Boston Police Department spokesman said. His arrest was announced to party goers by longtime friend Z-Trip who had been performing at the ICA premiere at Shepard Fairey's request. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2011 Time Magazine commissioned Fairey to design its cover to honor "The Protester" as Person of the Year in the wake of the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and other social movements around the world. This was Fairey's second Person of the Year cover for Time, his first being of Barack Obama in 2008. ABOUT THE WORK: Sonic Firestorm is an HPM, or Hand Painted Multiple. Before the screenprinting process takes place, Fairey hand-crafts the paper by collaging his patterns, stencils, newspaper clippings, and advertising logos...

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Shepard Fairey Riot Cop 2009 Screenprint 41x 29 in. Edition 25 of 75 Pencil signed and numbered Condition: This piece is in perfect c...