#SHEPARD FAIREY IMPERIAL GLORY MOVIE#

This Trojan horse effect of drawing the viewer in to the image through the use of design and colour to then spit back questions of allegiance and ownership are key to Fairey’s work, much like Jamie Reid inserting a safety-pin into the lip of the Queen. Fairey hijacks the solitary star inserting the Obey motif, itself an international logo that questions authority. Much like advertising the incessant flying of the flag outside homes, stores, and businesses has turned it into a corporate brand identity that Fairey subverts both stylistically and conceptually.Īs the design of the US flag, over time, has developed to incorporate more States, so Fairey has graphically dissected the ‘Stars and Stripes’, and re-configured them into a completely new design, where the single star is the dominant central motif surrounded by seven stripes. Its popularity and consequently its Pop Art qualities have not been lost on Fairey who understands but also questions its ubiquitous presence.

Serving initially as the ‘marking of American territory’, Adam Goodheart, Prologue of ‘1861: The Civil War Awakening’, it has now also become the calling card of the biggest consumer society in the world. Celebrated, revered, abused, and even burnt the US flag constantly invokes passion on a grand scale. The genesis for each print is the American Flag, an iconic and potent image that artists such as Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’ (1954) and Peter Blake’s ‘Old Glory’ (2011) have explored as has Joe Rosenthal’s ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima’ (1945) in photography. The prints will be exhibited at the LA Art Show15 - 19 January 2014 (Booth 622). Entitled ‘Power and Glory’ this is the third project the gallery has worked on with Fairey, The set of four new works continue the artist's investigation into contemporary America. Fairey founded the fashion label “OBEY clothing” in 2001.The Paul Stolper gallery is proud to announce the launch of a group of four new screen prints with foil-block by internationally renowned LA based artist Shepard Fairey. This agency works on projects for clients such as Virgin, Adidas and Nike. Fairey left BLK/MRKT in 2003 and founded his own agency “Studio Number One”.

Clients included Pepsi, Hasbro and Netscape. They were specialized in guerrilla marketing and the development of powerful marketing campaigns in particular. Shepard Fairey, Dave Kinsey and Phillip DeWolff founded the design agency BLK/MRKT in 1997. It was also shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997 and at over 70 other film festivals and museums worldwide.

The film premiered in 1995 at the New York Underground Film Festival. In spring 1995 Stickler completed a short film about Fairey and his art. While in Providence, Fairey met American filmmaker Helen Stickler in 1994, who also attended RISD, where she graduated in film. He then founded a small print shop called “Alternate Graphics” in Providence (Rhode Island), specializing in screen printing, T-shirts and stickers. Other influences on the Obey campaign include feminist conceptual artist Barbara Kruger, as well as the artist Robbie Conal Fairey, who graduated from RISD in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration.

#SHEPARD FAIREY IMPERIAL GLORY MOVIE#

His Obey campaign uses various quotes from the John Carpenter movie “They Live!”, including the “Obey” quote and the “This is Your God” quote. This developed into the “Obey Giant” campaign, which then developed into a worldwide campaign through the collaboration and reproduction of the stickers. 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 City, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.įairey invented the “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign in 1989 while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today’s best known and most influential street artists. presidential election for his Barack Obama “Hope” poster. He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. He usually uses only his second name and surname. First known for his “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign. Frank Shepard Fairey (born Februin Charleston, South Carolina) is a contemporary street-art artist, graphics artist and illustrator from the skateboard scene.

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