{"title":"Shepard Fairey | OBEY","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eShepard Fairey (b. 1970) is one of the most significant figures at the intersection of graphic design, street art, and political activism working in America today. Emerging from the skateboarding and punk scenes of the late 1980s, he launched the OBEY Giant campaign in 1989 with a simple sticker bearing the face of wrestler André the Giant and the instruction to OBEY — a project in phenomenology that asked why people comply with images of authority, and what happens when you make the mechanism visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe campaign grew into a global visual movement that has covered walls in over 100 countries. His graphic language — high-contrast portraiture, constructivist composition, the visual vocabulary of propaganda turned back on itself — is among the most immediately recognisable in contemporary art. The Barack Obama Hope poster, produced for the 2008 presidential campaign and described by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the most iconic images in American political history, brought his visual intelligence to an audience of hundreds of millions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eFairey's practice extends across street interventions, fine art prints, large-scale murals, and mixed media works that engage directly with environmentalism, human rights, music culture, and the mechanics of persuasion. He founded Studio Number One and has collaborated with artists including Banksy and Damien Hirst. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Smithsonian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAvailable through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"shepard-fairey-pen-nib-collage","title":"Pen Nib Collage (Andre the Giant) | Shepard Fairey (OBEY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOBEY (Shepard Fairey, b. 1970)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePen Nib Collage (Andre the Giant)\u003cbr\u003eSigned limited edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShepard Fairey — the American artist and graphic designer whose OBEY Giant campaign began in 1989 and whose Barack Obama \"Hope\" poster became the defining image of the 2008 presidential campaign — is one of the most significant figures in the history of street art and political art. His Andre the Giant imagery — derived from the wrestler's face, deployed in the \"OBEY\" campaign that has covered walls worldwide — is among the most recognisable visual motifs in contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePen Nib Collage presents the Andre the Giant imagery within a collage framework that connects Fairey's street art origins to the art historical tradition of collage running from Dada through Pop Art. The pen nib — symbol of writing, of the graphic arts, of the act of marking a surface — is a self-referential element in the work of an artist who began his career as a graphic designer. Signed. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSigned limited edition\u003cbr\u003e\nCertificate of Authenticity\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OBEY (Shepard Fairey)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54086196330836,"sku":null,"price":995.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0418\/6196\/files\/shepard-fairey-obey-pen-nib-collage-andre-the-giant-print.jpg?v=1775207670"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0418\/6196\/collections\/Creed_Gallery_-_Artist_-_OBEY_Shepard_Fairey.png?v=1775134411","url":"https:\/\/creedgallery.com\/fr\/collections\/obey-shepard-fairey.oembed","provider":"Creed Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}