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ABOUT SHEPARD
Shepard Fairey has a sizable and sustained public following making him arguably one of the most popular American artists at the beginning of this new century.
Fairey's signature picture, an offhand artwork made some 20 years ago, is a portrait of the popular wrestling superstar Andre the Giant. By now, this image, a fixture at many rural and metropolitan street corners, has become the full-fledged OBEY campaign, an incitement for the uninitiated masses to begin questioning and distrusting the images and slogans they face on a daily basis.
Similarly, Fairey's formidable visual vocabulary of international, historical and artistic references can be matched only by his stylistic fluidity and broad range of conceptual concoctions - from the first, quickly produced, silhouetted schemas, to today's ultra-slick, supra-pictures. Fairey's paintings and prints use thick, luscious black, red, and gold pigments which unfold while amber depths of varnish reflect the light off the pictures' painstakingly rendered, handmade paper surfaces.
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