Interviews, videos, slideshows, and more of America's favorite street artist
By PHOENIX STAFF | February 11, 2009
Hope, by Shepard Fairey |
The Massachusetts-bred street artist Shepard Fairey returned to his home-turf this month to "bomb" the Phoenix offices, conduct interviews, and unveil his latest work at the ICA. Many may not jump at the name, but Fairey has been plastering walls and stickering newspaper boxes across the country for the last 20 years. His most recognizable image of late is the famous blue, red, and cream Barack Obama portrait that has been feveriously plastered on T-shirts, articles, and commercials for the last year. The Phoenix has more Shepard Fairey than we know what to do with! Check out our slideshows, videos, blog posts, reviews, and more from the bomber's latest trip home:
• Vandal-in-Chief
Shepard Fairey bombs the ICA, by Greg Cook
• Slideshow: Shepard Fairey, "Supply and Demand"
Images provided by Shepard Fairey's Obey Giant Art
• Arresting Shepard Fairey
It's about small minds, revenge, and embarrassing the mayor, Editorial
• Recap: Shepard Fairey at the ICA
A live account of the event, by Chris Faraone
• Understanding Shepard Fairey's arrest
By Chris Faraone
• Interview: Shepard Fairey
Poster Boy, by Evan Garza. For video of the interview, click here.
• Slideshow: Shepard Fairey slaps a mural on Phoenix offices
Photos by Caitlin Curran
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Slideshow: Shepard Fairey, ''Supply and Demand'', Vandal-in-chief, Inside the box, More 
- Slideshow: Shepard Fairey, ''Supply and Demand''
Obey Giant Art
- Vandal-in-chief
Shepard Fairey and his show "Supply and Demand" arrive at the Institute of Contemporary Art like a guerrilla general emerging from the jungle after his forces have taken the capital.
- Inside the box
"Young people, and artists especially, respond to authenticity. And whether he's just very good at seeming authentic or whether he's really authentic, I think he has a lot of us convinced."
- Radical chic
“The gallery system relies on supply and demand, and I created a demand for my work by doing street art.”
- Arresting Shepard Fairey
A cynic might argue that anything that publicizes art is a good thing. Art, after all, challenges how you think — provokes thoughts, insights, emotions that otherwise might not be stirred. It also can amuse and entertain.
- Interview: Shepard Fairey
"Denver wasn't great because I literally had a gun pointed at my head for putting posters up at the DNC."
- Review: Shepard Fairey + Z-Trip + Chuck D
So Shepard Fairey actually made it this time. No insane, last-minute sting operations by Boston cops lurking just off the ICA’s property line. But also: no grand dramatics, either. (Like, he totally could have parachuted through a shattered skylight. In slow motion.) Fairey just showed up and did his thing.
- Photos: Shepard Fairey in Harvard Square
- Slideshow: Shepard Fairey slaps a mural on the Phoenix offices
January 22, 2009
- Artists and beholders
I found it rather stupefying that the Phoenix proudly toted an interview with Shepard Fairey on the same front page it used to complain about artists getting the shaft by money-grubbing businesses.
- Photos: Shepard Fairey, Z-Trip, Chuck D at the ICA
Shepard Fairey spins at Obey Experiment REDUX at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston
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