Shepard Fairey's First Solo Museum Show Slated For Early 2009 @ ICA Boston.

"It's never too early to get excited about anything related to Shepard Fairey, and so we're pleased to bring you word that come February, the man who made the world obedient to his mesmerizing Andre the Giant stencil will get his first solo museum exhibition—and at no less a venue than Boston's shimmering new Institute of Contemporary Art, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The exhibition, "Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand," is slated to run from February 6 through April 19 of next year and will include everything from early stenciled stickers and screenprints to works on wood and metal and fresh-from-the-studio pieces on paper and canvas. This all bodes very well for sales at the ICA gift shop.

If you've yet to experience the artist behind the bold, propaganda-flavored creations, here's an excerpt from Fairey's presentation at last fall's QBN Sessions event in which he explained the origin of the Andre stencil and "the Rorschach test facet" of his entire project."

Information Courtesy Of: Mediabistro.Com


CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: As mentioned here in an earlier post, I have been a fan of Shepard Fairey's work long before I ever recognized his subversive symbolisms stuck on stickers as anything even remotely close to mainstream "art". Throughout New York City in the mid 1990's, whenever I spotted any of his stenciled stamps trumpeting Andre The Giant and his "Posse", all that I saw was graffiti; albeit in a very revolutionary way. I peeled his faded ass stickers off of filthy, industrial silver matte painted lamp posts and the back of crosswalk signs alike, all the while unaware that what I was collecting was indeed art.   

In retrospect, what I (and anybody else that paid attention to this sort of thing) was witnessing was the convergence of "graff" and graphic arts school. Shepard Fairey made his name the old fashioned way: branding via bombing.  Today, every record label's street team owes this man a "Thank You" card, signed "Sincerely Yours, The Marketing Department". True story. This should be a great exhibit. Y.O.U. already know.