Shepard Fairey, from the Street to the Museum

You recognize his famous HOPE posters for Obama campaign. He is a cult graphic artist. He designs the spirit of rebel and asking "can a rebel stay a rebel without craws?" You will be seeing a lot more art by Shepard Fairey on the streets of New York this spring. But it won’t be in the form of the illegal guerrilla strikes he has been committing since his days as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design 20 years ago, nor anything like his famous Obama Hope poster. For starters, it is in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, for whom he has also designed swanky red, white and black Russian Constructivist-style limited-edition shopping bags.

“Guns and Roses” (2007), like much of Shepard Fairey’s art, gives a nod to poster imagery, in this case Chinese.

“Arab Woman” (2006) and other works evoke the third world.




Before the Saks campaign makes it painful even to think about this artist, who did more than any other to get our current president elected, you might consider a trip to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston to see his first museum retrospective.
via:NYtimes
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