Posts Tagged 'HOPE'

Rise Above: Famous Street Artist Shepard Fairey Doin’ Dallas

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By: Allison Hibbs For the first time in 10 years, Shepard Fairey is in Dallas! Invited by the non-profit art forum, Dallas Contemporary, as part of their Citywide Street Project, he is leaving his signature mark on buildings around the city. A graphic artist and old-school skateboarder, Fairey is probably best known in the mainstream [...]

Shepard Fairey Wants to Paste his Next Exhibition to the Sides of New York Buildings

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Today, Shepard Fairey, the once co-founder of BLK/MRKT Inc. (1997-2003) – which worked with high-brow clients like Pepsi, Hasbro, and Netscape – is so popular from his HOPE portrait of Barack Obama that he’s walking door to door at Deitch Projects in New York, searching for building owners that will premiss him to use their [...]