Tuesday, March 24, 2009






  1. Frank Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists.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, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Fairey created the "AndrĂ© the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign in 1989 This later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, which has grown via an international network of collaborators replicating Fairey's original designs. In 2004, Fairey joined artists Robbie Conal and Mear One to create a series of "anti-war, anti-Bush" posters for a street art campaign called "Be the Revolution" for the art .In 2005 Fairey collaborated with DJ Shadow on a box set, with t-shirts, stickers, prints, and a mix CD by Shadow. In 2005 also, he was a resident artist at the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. In 2006, Fairey contributed eight vinyl etchings to a limited-edition series of 12" singles by alternative rock band Mission of Burma, and has also done work for the musical group Interpol. In 2004, Shepard Fairey co-founded Swindle Magazine along with Roger Gastman. In June 2007, Fairey opened his one man show entitled "E Pluribus Venom," at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. The show made the arts section front page in the The New York Times. Fairey was arrested on February 7, 2009, on his way to the premiere of his show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts, on two outstanding warrants related to graffiti. He was charged with damage to property for having painted two Boston area locations with http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Other_Sites http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Collaborations http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Obey_Art_Sightings http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Post_No_Bills:_Links_To_Obey_Related_Sites http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Links#Interviews_with_Shepard_Fairey

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