Obey
Shepard Fairey makes a very public body of art using stickers, posters and stencils and puts his work on the street in order to send some static interference out into the world’s sea of images and messages. With Street Art there’s no committee deciding whether work can go up, there’s no censorship and there is total freedom of expression. Here’s a collection of pictures depicting the use of Obey Giant imagery in the street, mostly by Shepard himself (the guy’s a non stop pasting machine!) but also by the dedicated followers of the Obey Giant and Obey Clothing Campaigns.
Shepard Fairey makes a very public body of art using stickers, posters and stencils and puts his work on the street in order to send some static interference out into the world’s sea of images and messages. With Street Art there’s no committee deciding whether work can go up, there’s no censorship and there is total freedom of expression. Here’s a collection of pictures depicting the use of Obey Giant imagery in the street, mostly by Shepard himself (the guy’s a non stop pasting machine!) but also by the dedicated followers of the Obey Giant and Obey Clothing Campaigns.
Whether it’s Stella McCartney having a chinwag with Ed Ruscha on the tellybox or Louis Vuitton working with Yayoi Kusama on a polka-dot collection, the art-fashion union has become an all-too-familiar occurrence. The high street, plodding as it does in the wake of designer fashion, has also been working with artists on intriguing partnerships.
A Street Artist's Fashion Week Debut
A few years ago, RETNA was a street artist painting murals on a warehouse in Skid Row. Now he’s invading New York with a major show debuting during Fashion Week, is a favorite of art world heavyweight Jeffrey Deitch, nd will soon take his talents up in the air by designing the tail of an airplane. But those are the sort of improbable things that can happen when you’re a talented guy in the right place at the right time.
A few years ago, RETNA was a street artist painting murals on a warehouse in Skid Row. Now he’s invading New York with a major show debuting during Fashion Week, is a favorite of art world heavyweight Jeffrey Deitch, nd will soon take his talents up in the air by designing the tail of an airplane. But those are the sort of improbable things that can happen when you’re a talented guy in the right place at the right time.