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This massive wheat-paste street-art piece by Shepard Fairey (of Obey / “Giant Has a Posse” fame) features a gang of kids posing with weapons-like sticks on the side of an old building in SoHo, at the corner of Wooster and Grand streets in New York City.
Local New York City classical music radio station WQXR has taken a cue from and cleverly appropriated street-art superstar artist Shepard Fairey’s Obey / Giant Has a Posse imagery for an ad campaign promoting Beethoven Awareness Month.
Fresh stencil art work in gold by artist Shepard Fairey near the corner of Prince and Mott streets in Nolita, in downtown New York City. The gold paint and retro-modern East Asian graphic imagery is powerful and looks like a design one would find on the label of an expensive Japanese sake bottle.
Shepard Fairey has been on a New York City blitz the past couple of weeks, putting up lots of fresh artwork throughout the city ahead of a major exhibition of his work at influential downtown gallery Deitch Projects.
Earlier in the week Fairey put up a massive outdoor mural on the wall space curated by Deitch at the corner of Bowery and Houston streets. Ad man and photographer Darren Jeffries was there as Fairey worked to piece together the huge wheat-paste mural and took the awesome pictures below.
The “Fairey exhibition at Deitch is called May Day” and runs from May 1 (May Day) through the 29th. The show is also significant as it will be the last art exhibition at the gallery ever. Art impressario and gallery founder-owner Jeffrey Deitch closing the exhibition space and moving to Los Angeles to become curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA).
All photos courtesy of Darren Jeffries. (Copyright 2010 Darren Jeffries. All rights reserved.)
Artist Shepard Fairey appeared on local New York City news station NY1 for an in-studio live interview segment. Among several topics discussed were the iconic Obama “Hope” poster, graffiti, copyright and fair-use issues, and his new work, which will show at the Deitch Projects gallery, in New York, in May.
A massive and ripped-up Obey-Andre (“Giant has a Posse”) wheat-paste poster in SoHo, in downtown New York City. Looks kinda cool this way, actually, like abstract artwork.
Getting word from World Famous Design Junkies about a new street-art poster series called American Pioneers from Shepard Fairey and the OBEY team. Fairey is collaborating with legendary RnB singer Smokey Robinson on a dope new poster.
A big, meaty, classic “Obey” / “Giant Has a Posse” wheat-paste street-art poster by artist-designer and all-around bona fide visual superstar Shepard Fairey. This one is on Grand Street between Ludlow and Orchard streets on Lower East Side of New York City. As ubiquitous and played-out as the iconic Obey image is, this one is unique insofar it’s a half-crop of the original image, as the paste-up is cropped at the corner-edge of the wood-board hoarding fence.
Super-fresh work from Shepard Fairey (of Obama poster, Obey / Giant Has a Posse, and Swindle Magazine fame) on Ludlow Street, practically across the street from Global Graphica HQ in the heart of the old Lower East Side of Manhattan.
We haven’t seen anything from Fairey for a long time in the “Bel-Del” area (below Delancey St.) — which is a relatively quiet stretch of the LES. It’s nice to see that it’s an original piece of first-rate artwork instead of just the usual “Andre” poster.
We might be wrong, but the object in this image looks like an old-style printing press or factory machine from the Industrial Revolution.
Street art Tokyo, Japan: One of American artist Shepard Fairey’s Obey Giant stickers in Harajuku area near Omotesando. This neighborhood is a popular place for young people to shop for clothes and discover new fashion. Many small creative-type companies are in this part of Tokyo.
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Miami Street Art: Epic Shepard Fairey wheat-paste street art work at Dorissa in Miami’s Design District.
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Street artist Shepard Fairey was arrested at a museum exhibition of his work in Boston last Friday. According to the
Boston Globe, Fairey was arrested at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) as he arrived for a sold-out event, part of the Supply and Demand show of his work, where he was scheduled to DJ. He spent the night in a Boston jail.
The artist will appear in court Monday.The police nabbed Fairey for wheat-paste posters the artist allegedly put up in two public Boston locations discovered in January. Fairey has become practically a household name in recent months as the creator of the iconic, blue-and-red Barack Obama “Hope” posters that were ubiquitous in major cities across America during the later stages of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.
More coverage below:
LA Times: Obama ‘Hope’ poster artist Shepard Fairey arrested
Sydney Morning Herald: Artist behind presidential image arrested
Newsday: Nation briefs: Obama poster artist arrested
New York Street Art: Recent street art by artist Shepard Fairey on Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey street on the LES, NYC.
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New York Street Art: Detail from fresh street art work by Shepard Fairey on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
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New York Street Art: Detail from recent street art by Shepard Fairey on Chrystie Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
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New York Street Art: Fresh street art by seminal DIY/guerilla-marketing figure Shepard Fairey on Chrystie Street. Awesome wheat-paste design and image of Asian girl by Fairey in the Lower East Side, NYC.
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New York Street Art: Close-up of large wheat-paste street art image of Asian girl by Shepard Fairey on Chrystie Street. Awesome.
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New York Street Art: More images of fresh street art by Shepard Fairey on Chrystie Street. Instant classic.
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New York Street Art: Fresh street art by Shepard Fairey on Chrystie Street. Love this large wheat-paste design with image of Asian girl as hero by Fairey in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Love it.
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New York City street art: Here’s a slightly wider shot (some building signage is in frame) of the Shepard Fairey wheat-paste work in the Miami.
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