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Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

Davidson, NORTH CAROLINA

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  • Artist: Shepard Fairey (American, b. 1970)

Printmaker and street artist, Shepard Fairey rose to prominence in the early 1990s with his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” campaign, which distributed posters, stickers, and murals featuring the eponymous wrestler around Providence, Rhode Island. Fairey’s iconic 2008 “Hope” campaign poster for President Barack Obama encapsulates a number of the artist’s recurring concerns, including propaganda, portraiture, and political power. Fairey’s work, which has sold for six figures at auction, can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Power and Equality Angela by Shepard Fairey
  • Shepard Fairey
  • Power and Equality Angela, 1998
Screenprint on paper
24 x 18 in
(60.96 x 45.72 cm)
The Future is Unwritten x Robert Rauschenberg Foundation by Shepard Fairey
  • Shepard Fairey
  • The Future is Unwritten x Robert Rauschenberg F..., 2011
Screenprint on paper
24 x 18 in
(60.96 x 45.72 cm)
I am a man by Shepard Fairey
  • Shepard Fairey
  • I am a man, 2020
Silkscreen on paper
35.8 x 24 in
(90.93 x 60.96 cm)
Immigration Reform by Shepard Fairey
  • Shepard Fairey
  • Immigration Reform, 2009
Screenprint on paper
24 x 17.9 in
(60.96 x 45.47 cm)