Shepard Fairey at MOCA “Art in the Streets”
April 16, 2011 ⋅ Arts ⋅ by Steven Reyes ⋅ 251 Views

Shepard Fairey wants you to OBEY. The street artist has become synonymous with his many works including the ubiquitous Andre the Giant stencil and the now legendary Obama campaign “Hope” print. Fairey’s gallery of work at the MOCA allows exhibitors access to the distressed and red-tinted aesthetics seen in his work.

Photography: Brandon Shigeta

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  • http://www.facebook.com/arvin.tabula Arvin Tabula

    ur in idiot man… you don’t know real art if you think that these two are sell outs and “shit box” what hve you done with ur life?

  • http://www.facebook.com/arvin.tabula Arvin Tabula

    ur in idiot man… you don’t know real art if you think that these two are sell outs and “shit box” what hve you done with ur life?

  • Anonymous

    I STAMP SHEPARD SHIT U SEE ME!!

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  • Anonymous

    the only thing flowing from you is mental diarrhea. judging from your rhetoric, it is obvious that you don’t even understand what art means. go take a shit and eat it.

  • http://profiles.google.com/dextercarp dexter carpenter

    people still buy his shit, so whose calling him out? he’s more successful than most hype beasts will ever be. respect your elders.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-Sanders/605258827 Jack Sanders

    YEAHH shep is coming to my school haha

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-Sanders/605258827 Jack Sanders

    YEAHH shep is coming to my school haha

  • Anonymous

    I am Dickrider, I eat puusy too

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Takashi-Hasegawa/100001828279370 Takashi Hasegawa

    it doesn’t matter, they have the same principles. the difference between the 2 is that with street art its quality over quantity.
    that doesn’t mean that you don’t want to be seen by as many as possible. I’m FAR from a shephard fairy dick rider, in fact I’m probably one of his biggest critics, but at the same time I have to respect the fact that hes turned some bullshit wheat pastes and stickers into something that makes money.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AQGNCG4OMG22CH6FFGXI3YAJSA sopearb

    does he wear that same t shirt everyday?

  • Anonymous

    it’s not the artwork you should feel, an artwork is a work that should have the ability to refer to art. if you feel art in a work, you’re feeling it THROUGH an artwork. art isn’t, it’s outside of “being”, higher than life. artworks aren’t mediums of self-expression, works are. i don’t want to hear a voice of an “artist” (everyone is an artist, it’s the art-market that tells you otherwise), i want to feel art through a so called “artwork”.
    in fact, as a cultural interested person, i am forced to listen through such media as blogs, artshows, museums, streetart, advertising. i’m interested in everything, the world around me, and this is what i get from my culture. i’m neither a highly educated social-elitist, nor will i ever be.
    these dudes don’t have to go through a struggle anymore. it’s maybe just the marketing, that builts your knowledge, makes YOU call them artists, artworks, … everyone has gotta eat, but what is it that makes food equal money?

  • Anonymous

    you do realize that graffiti and streetart aren’t the same thing?

  • http://twitter.com/WhtsBttrwrth Mark Butterworth

    Struggling to understand what you’re trying to achieve here.

    You define ‘artworks’ as something you should feel, and are arguing against the artists who have found their voice to do that through?

    Consider that this is their medium of self-expression, but in this form, you have the option of whether you would like to interact or not. Being that you are a highly educated social-elitist, their voice may not be what you that want to hear, but neither are they forcing you to listen.

    This investment may be as wasted as yours, but as a ‘dickrider’, I support their voice, their struggle to support it, and the well-deserved fame they have found. Everyone has gotta eat.

  • Anonymous

    those are works – each person has to decide on their own if those are ARTworks… so it’s more fatuous and biased if you would just define those as artworks, what shepard fairey and banksy are doing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KCMKBOPD5VSHAZRI4B5PV66JMI PANDAmonium

    a lot of dumb fcuks on hype beast… of course youve seen some of his work before, its a god damn art exhibit. they are gonna show his famous pieces. and people considering this not art, to each their own. and wtf have you done for the art community?

  • http://twitter.com/icecoldchrissy cjs

    By nature, its almost 100% impossible for a graffiti or “street artist” to “sell out.” The idea of graffiti is to come up… from a nobody. Get your name everywhere and anywhere you can. Not get your name everywhere, come up, then hide and erase your name everywhere and stay underground so you can keep it real and not sell out or pay your bills to make the internet clowns like you happy.

  • http://twitter.com/willkay_oddking Will Kay

    LIVING LEGEND!!!

  • http://twitter.com/okcody cody ellis

    No wonder his exhibit looked so empty, everyone has already seen those same “designs” on Obey shirts for the last 5 years. Surprised Erik Brunetti didn’t beat his ass.

  • Anonymous

    this guy should try blue

  • Anonymous

    this guy should try blue

  • Anonymous

    this guy should try blue

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  • Anonymous

    That is a fatuous, and moreover biased, perception of art.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ianpaulford Ian Ford

    Super!!!

  • Anonymous

    cause fairey and banksy are just producing easy understandable shit. they are like some late pubescent teens, thinking they know anything better and want to let the community (the street) know it.
    these two dudes are just making designs/illustration – they’re transforming easy phrases into pictures. there’s just experience and knowledge in it – i would never call those some artworks and i hate to see people do it just to sell.
    people are dickriding (i’m guessing mostly teens and designers) cause they love to understand stuff, and these two dudes are making “art” so understandable. those people never took the time to think about what artworks are – artworks should let you feel something incomprehensible what no sience can explain, art.

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  • http://twitter.com/Resun Roderick Rothschild.

    Sell outs because they do what they love for money? And they’re in their 30′s-40′s (I’m guessing with Banksy), sometimes you have to mature and take shit to the next level.

    The fact that they still bomb shit and can do a gallery show should be revered.

  • http://twitter.com/Resun Roderick Rothschild.

    Sell outs because they do what they love for money? And they’re in their 30′s-40′s (I’m guessing with Banksy), sometimes you have to mature and take shit to the next level.

    The fact that they still bomb shit and can do a gallery show should be revered.

  • http://thevilln.tumblr.com THEVILL’N

    amazing the ignorance that comes about on here. “what art”? if you don’t have the capacity to even come up with anything substantial, don’t bother. your breath, means nothing really.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=522751793 Jimbie James Pardy

    This dude is a shit box, wheres the real artists? Your plugging ‘banksy’ and Shepard Fairey the two biggest sell outs in street art? Why?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=522751793 Jimbie James Pardy

    This dude is a shit box, wheres the real artists? Your plugging ‘banksy’ and Shepard Fairey the two biggest sell outs in street art? Why?

  • Anonymous

    Man Shepard’s getting old… his work is looking great though

  • Anonymous

    Man Shepard’s getting old… his work is looking great though

  • Anonymous

    Man Shepard’s getting old… his work is looking great though

  • Anonymous

    what art?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/skullbusters Michael Duarte

    Love this mans art