Shepard Fairey

SHEPARD FAIREY (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.,1970).
"Peace Fingers (Gold)," 2024.
Relief engraved epoxy resin sculpture.
In original box.
Edition of 250 copies.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 30,48 cm (height).

The sculpture "Peace Fingers" by the artist Shepard Fairey, also known as Obey is inspired by his iconic graphic of 2006 and seeks to convey a message of peace and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution.

Frank Shepard Fairey, OBEY, is an American urban artist and graphic designer, famous for the iconic "Hope" poster used by Barack Obama during his presidential campaign. His designs take elements from mid-20th century political propaganda poster art. Including slogans such as "Think and create, print and destroy", which mix the subversive with entertainment, his subject matter and aesthetics often come to be a mix between caricature and revival of political propaganda, Situationist ideas and the aesthetic-philosophical revolutions of the 1960s, thematic backgrounds very common in the art of the late 1990s and the beginning of the present century. His situation as an artist is controversial, maintaining works of graphic design and advertising with major brands on the one hand, and facing arrests in several countries for urban vandalism with his interventions, thus being a marked representative of the discussion on the role of the artist and his ideology in the present moment of the history of capitalist societies. He claims the public space as the main space for artistic and cultural life, proposing a critique of the aesthetic and presential hegemony of advertising, led by large financial corporations.