This artwork titled "Windmill" 2009, is an original colors screen print on cream, Speckletone fine art paper. by noted American artist Shepard Fairey, b.1970. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 383/450 in pencil by the artist. Published by Obey Giant, Los Angeles. The artwork (image) size is 23 x 17 inches, sheet size is 24 x 18 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. It has never been framed.
About the artist:
Frank “Shepard Fairey” is a very famous graphic artist, muralist, and overall artist. He was born on February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina in the United States. In 1988, the artist graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in Palm Springs, California. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1992.
As a young adult, Shepard Fairey became very interested in art. He soon began to use his drawings in T-shirts and skateboards. He was a skateboard-obsessed art student. While in school, Shepard Fairey held a part-time job in a skateboarding shop. Soon after, he hit the skateboard community hard by pasting homemade stickers all over the place. It was then that he realized his desire and interest in the street art culture and graffiti movement. Another strong influence was his love for punk music, which he demonstrated stencils.
One of the first images he ever used was that of Andre the Giant. Shepard Fairey found this image in a newspaper ad and he chose to introduce it to the streets.
Shepard Fairey is one of the most influential street artists of our time. Shepard Fairey’s work has been used in screen-prints, stencils, stickers, masking film illustrations, wheat paste, collages, sculptures, posters, paintings, and murals. Shepard Fairey enjoys working with the colors black, white, and red. Fairey has constantly shifted between the realms of fine art, commercial art, street art, and even political art.
Famous artwork
His most famous art includes images of Andre the Giant, the Obey trademark, as well as the propaganda poster of Barack Obama. In 2008 Shepard Fairey used the Obama image to design Time Magazine’s Person of the Year cover. In 2011 Time Magazine commissioned the artist for a second Person of the Year cover. His latest cover designing was in April 2020 for Rolling Stone with a portrait of Greta Thunberg.
Shepard Fairey is also famous for his activist and humanitarian concerns and often creates and donates artwork in order to promote awareness and show support. After the 2015 Paris attacks, the artist paid a tribute to the victims with the creation of a poster depicting Marianne, the French national icon, surrounded by the French motto Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. In June 2016, Shepard Fairey reproduced the image as a mural in Paris. Fairey then offered the poster to French President Emmanuel Macron who hung it in his office. The artist also founded in 2007 the Obey Awareness Program, operated by Obey Clothing, so as so increase his humanitarian efforts. This program allows Fairey to support handpicked causes he believes in by selling specially designed merchandise and donating 100% of the profits raised. In the early 2000s, Fairey began donating to organizations like Chiapas Relief Fund or Feeding America.
Shepard Fairey’s work combines elements of graffiti, pop art, business art, and Marxist theory. His work has been seen in galleries around the world and even museums. Not only that, but is often recognized in graphic designing and signature apparel. One of his most famous works includes his portrait of Barack Obama. In fact, this portrait drew national attention to Fairey and his work quickly exploded after that recognition. This poster also received the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award in 2009.
Shepard Fairey has held numerous successful solo and group exhibitions across the world. The year 2019 was particularly marked by his solo show Facing the Giant : Three Decades of Dissent, a reflection on the last 30 years of the artist’s career, held in the cities of Grenoble, New York, Paris, Vancouver, London, Providence and Los Angeles. The selected works address recurring topics in the artist’s career such as self-empowerment, rebellion, abuse of power, environmental destruction, racism, gender inequality, xenophobia, campaign finance reform, the military-industrial complex, propaganda, war and peace, and economic imperialism.
Shepard Fairey currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California in the United States.
Shepard Fairey is considered by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston as the most influential street artist of our time. He has been collected by some of the most important museum collections such as Victoria and Albert Museum of London or the MOMA in New York.
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SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2019
Obey Giant: 30 Years of Resistance Grenoble Street Art Festival Grenoble, France
Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent Burrard Arts Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent Stolen Space London, United Kingdom Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent AS220 Providence, Rhode Island
Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent
New Works Over The Influence Los Angeles, California
Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent GGA Gallery Miami, Florida
Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent Samuel Owen Gallery Greenwich, Connecticut
2018
Salad Days Cranbrook Art Museum Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Golden Future Galerie Ernst Hilger Vienna
Force Majeure Moscow Museum of Modern Art Moscow, Russia
2017
DAMAGED Library Street Collective Los Angeles, California
Printed Matters Treason Gallery Seattle, Washington
Printed Matters Underdogs Gallery Lisbon, Portugal
Printed Matters aMBUSH Gallery Sydney, Australia
Peace
Justice Seoul Arts Center Seoul, South Korea
2016
Visual Disobedience HOCA Foundation Hong Kong
Earth Crisis Galerie Itinerrance Paris, France
2015
Earth Crisis Globe Installation, Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
Your Eyes Here, CAC Málaga Museum, Málaga, Spain
Printed Matters
Public Matter Show: Detroit, Library Street Collective, Detroit, Michigan, United States
2014
Power
Glory - The Insistent Image: Reccurent Motifs in the Art of Shepard Fairey and Jasper Johns, The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
2010
Supply
Demand: 20 Year Survey, Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
2009
Supply
Demand: 20 Year Survey, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Supply
Demand: 20 Year Survey, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Massachusetts, United States
2006
Shepard Fairey/OBEY, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
2004
Shepard Fairey, The Ad Shop, Brussels, Belgium
2003
Milk, San Francisco, California, United States
Think Tank, Denver, Colorado, United States
2002
Boston Museum, Massachusetts, United States
2001
OBEY
Slay, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Giant, Capsule, Birmingham, England
1999
Andre the Giant Has a Posse, Chamber of Pop Culture, London, England
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2014
Art Alliance: The Provocateurs, Chicago, Illinois, United States
2013
At Home I am a Tourist., Colección Selim Varol, CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain
2011
Art in the Streets, MOCA, Los Angeles, California, United States
2010
Viva La Revolución, MCASD, San Diego, California, United States
2009
Blueprint for Space, Art Basel, Primary Flight, Miami, Florida, United States
Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Factory Place Arts Complex, Los Angeles, California, United States
2008
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, United States
2007
Spank the Monkey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, England
Shepard Fairey vs WK Interact: The East West Propaganda Project, Tokyo Wonder Site Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Spothunters: The Fine Art of Real Estate, New Art Center, Newtonville, Massachusetts, United States
2005
Dyezu Experiment, Tokyo, Japan
Dalek and Shepard Fairey, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
Urban Edge Show, P4 Space, Milan, Italy
Beautiful Losers, Costa Mesa, California, United States
Tawkin? New Yawk City Walls, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, United States
2004
Beautiful Losers, Yerba Buena, San Francisco, California, United States
Ducky Waddles Emporium, Encinitas, California, United States
2003
Back Jumps Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
Design Is Kinky Conference, Sidney, Australia
Quiet Riot, Long Beach, California, United States
2002
Travis M. Millard and Shepard Fairey, Max Fish, New York, New York, United States
2000
Xhibition, Chicago, Illinois, United States
1993
Minimal Trix, The Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY and The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New York, New York, United States
Mural Projects
2016
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, Paris, France
Delicate Balance, Paris, France
Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), Los Angeles, California, United States
Darby Crash, Los Angeles, California, United States
2015
Mural Positive Propaganda, Munich, Germany
Mural Freedom, Urban Nation, Berlin, Germany
Rhythm and Diversity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The Jersey City Wave, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Natural Springs, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Amira Mohamed / The Stamp of Incarceration, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Mujer Fatal, Malaga, Spain
Lotus Diamond, Detroit, Minnesota, United States
Pattern of Destruction, Detroit, Minnesota, United States
2014
Mural Gladstone Hotel
Tattoo, Toronto, Canada
Mural Mandela (Purple Project), Johannesburg, South Africa
Mural Urban Nation, Berlin, Germany
LISA Project mural, New York, New York, United States
Mural Philadelphia Mural Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Mural Art Alliance, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Mural LINE Hotel, Los Angeles, California, United States
Mural Power
Glory, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
2013
Mural MAUS, SOI, Malaga, Spain
Mural Cash, Cans, Candy, Vienna, Austria
Mural 10 Years of Wooster, New York, New York, United States
2012
Mural Sound
Vision, London, England
Mural 13th District, Paris, France
Mural London Pleasure Gardens, London, England
City Mural Project/Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, United States
2011
Mural The District La Brea, Los Angeles, California, United States
Mural West Hollywood Library, Los Angeles, California, United States
2010
City Mural Project/MCASD, San Diego, California, United States
City Mural Project/Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
2009
Public Works Mural Project, Country Club Projects, Miami, Florida, United States
City Mural Project/Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
City Mural Project, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston, Massachusetts, United States