Occupy Protester Print Release

"Occupy Protester" [produced for the cover of Time Magazine's "Person of the Year"] has been one of Shepard Fairey's better received editions of late and will be released as a limited edition print.

Occupy Protester-18" x 24"

$60 [proceeds go to Occupy Wall Street]

Signed by both Shepard & Sarah Mason [pictured]

This print will be an edition of 450 & released at a random [Jan 12th]

More Info: OBEY

BANDS COME AND GO, BUT GREAT COLLAGES ARE ALWAYS GREAT

Parisian post-hardcore "Second Class Citizen" have a marvelous bunch of album covers.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER CINCINNATI X SHEPARD FAIREY

Supply and Demand: 20 Year Retrospective
Feb 20-Aug 22

Opening Reception: Feb 19th
Artist Talk with Shepard Fairey, 7pm-8pm
Opening Reception Party, 8pm – 11pm featuring a DJ Set by Shepard Fairey

If you missed the 20 Retrospective at the Boston ICA or at the Warhol Museum, you can catch the exhibition at its third installment at the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati. Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand is organized by The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and features over 20 years of the artist's work, including illustrations, screen prints, collages, works of wood, metal, and canvas.

To commemorate the opening the CAC will be releasing an exclusive screen print edition.
An edition is 450, Signed & Numbered...only available at the CAC.

OBEY GIANT X RELIEF FOR HAITI

This print was made for www.artistsforpeaceandjustice.com. This is a collaboration with Studio Number One’s Cleon Peterson, Casey Ryder and Shepard Fairey aka OBEY. Photography by Tao Ruspoli. All proceeds of the sale of this print go to Haiti.

-18 x 24" Screen Print
-Signed & Numbered
-Edition of 450
-$50

NEW BROW: CONTEMPORARY UNDERGROUND ART LOS ANGELES SCREENING DATE ADDED

New Brow: Contemporary Under Ground Art, the word is that this Indie Doc is an amazing-must see film. This flick has been doing a whole lot of globetrotting since its release...Miami, Amsterdam, Seattle and is currently set to be seen in London. A screening for Los Angeles (you lucky bastards!) has recently been announced. More details and a confirmed date to follow.

"...Pop Surrealism and Low Brow is a wide spread populist art movement with origins in Low Brow art, underground comix, punk music, hotrod street culture, Kustum culture, Street Art, Graffiti, Graphic Design, Tattoo, Surf Culture, Tiki Culture and other California sub-cultures..."

OBEY POSTER RELEASE 'YOUR EYES HERE'

OBEY releases another print this week (Jan 14th) titled 'Your Eyes Here'.
An edition of 450. 45 bucks measuring 18″ x 24″.
These babies will be released at random.

SHEPARD 'OBEY' FAIREY X ANTONINO D'AMBROSIO: AN EVENING OF ART & MUSIC

Shepard Fairey and Antonino D'Ambrosio Present:

A FURIOUS HEARTBEAT- AN EVENING OF ART & MUSIC
Dec 19th / 8-11pm

Live Performance by Wayne Kramer (MC5), Antonino D'Ambrosio + special guests

Selected works on Display
Dec 19th - Jan 9th, 2010

SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS GALLERY
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213.213.0078

OBEY VS JASPER JOHNS: PRINT RELEASE 12.10

OBEY drops his newest print of world famous artist Jasper Johns on the 10th of December.
2 versions. 1 red & 1 cream. Each sold separately. Each sold at random times. 55 bucks.

LEVIS X OBEY COLLAB: 10.29.09

Shepard Fairey aka OBEY and Levis have teamed up to drop their newest collab, a limited edition capsule collection of apparel and some bitchin' posters, too.

OBEY will be creating a mural during a live installation at the Levi’s Store in Times Square, NYC, where he will unveil a series of 4 new poster designs at a live art install outside of the Levi’s Store. After Shepard completes the install, he will autograph his new posters. The 4-poster series will be 'gift with purchase' while supplies last.

The front-side of each of the 4 double-sided posters features a unique image. The flip-side of each poster also includes one piece of an over-sized mural image specially designed by Shepard. This 5th “bonus image” can only be created by collecting all 4 poster designs and combining them together.

KICKSTARTER PROJECT: DESIGNING OBAMA ART BOOK

From the Kickstarter Project: Designing Obama Art Book.

The Obama Presidential campaign was innovative. For the first time in American politics, a candidate used art and design to bring together the American people—capturing their voices in a visual way. The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art and design from the historic campaign. Get the inside story on how design was used by the campaign, and scope out the pieces, created unofficially, by grassroots supporters.

Designing Obama from mas / menos on Vimeo.

DESIGNING OBAMA: THE BOOK

Designing Obama 'The Book' chronicles the art of the Obama campaign. Pre-order yours now.

Participating Artists:

Justin Hampton, Aaron Allen, Aaron Axelrod, Aaron Nagel, Eddie, Adam Culbert, AG Ford, Armando Lerma, Carlos Ramirez, Michelle Page, Amanda Martin, Annie Weatherwax, Ben Speckmann, Billi Kid, Delicious Design League, Brett Yasko, Brian Flynn, Christopher Smith, Caleb Kozlowski, Chad Mize, Chuck Anderson, Cody Hudson, Christopher Beaumont, Derek Gores, Deroy Peraza, Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto, Erika Iris Simmons, EMEK Studios, Emily Gallardo, Evan Bench, Felix Jackson. Jr, Frank Chimero, Graye Smith, Paula Scher, Greg Beauchamp, Gui Borchert, George Vlosich III, Greg Vlosich, Lance Wille, Aaron Meshon, Herb Williams, Christopher Cox, Jonathan Hoefler, Michael Murphy, Alex Fuller, Antar Dayal, Derek Hess, Martin Schoeller, Armando Lerma, and Carlos Ramirez, Leon Bedore, Reuben Raffael, Billy Baumann & Jason Teegarden-Downs, Jason Munn, Jeff Domke, Jimm Lasser, John Locke, John Steins, John Sokol, Judy North, Ales Bask Hostomsky, Josh Wisdumb, Jessica Witkin, Kishore Nallan C, Ratha Sok, Lance Wyman, Larry Roibal, Michael Leavitt, Mr Brainwash, Margaret Coble, Adam S Doyle, Michael Forbes, Manick Sorcar, Marc Scheff, Marco Pece, Mason Fetzer, Max Estes, James O’Brien, Melvin Heng, Michael Jacob, Don Garcia, Christina Alexandra, Oliver Barrett, Gugger Petter, Phillip Clark, Frank Plant, Rafael Lopez, Ray Noland, Renan Molin, René Garcia, Jr., Robert Haining, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, Ron English, Russell Young, Steve Deer, Rick Sealock, Shana Barry, Shawn Hazen, Shannon Moore, James Widener, Sofia Fridman, Melinda Beck, Scott Hansen, Thomas Brodahl, Todd Hirsch, Todd and Cain Benson, Tristan Eaton, Charis Tsevis, Ralph Ueltzhoeffer, Van Monroe, Wade Hampton, Wes Winship, Zara Gonzalez, Zilly Rosen, Zina Saunders

Follow Designing Obama on Twitter: http://twitter.com/designingobama

Designing Obama from mas / menos on Vimeo.

WORLDS YOUNGEST GRAFFITI ARTIST: BROOKLYN

Dig the video that Brooklynite Gallery posted. Lil' Ruby shows y'all how graf artists roll in Brooklyn!



Brooklynite Gallery, 334 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11233, 347.405.5976

DASH SNOW: NYC ARISTIST, 27 AND DEAD

Dash Snow, NYC rock-star photographer & artist, dead of a heroine overdose at 27. He was also a graffiti writer (aka SACER) who ran with the infamous NYC IRAK CREW.

"His death has shocked anyone who had any contact with him or knew his work. The drugs were all there in the artwork (and the rumours), but so was a sense of real beauty and honesty. It wasn't necessarily the aesthetic of his work, but its independence that made it so influential. He simply didn't give a shit." * guardian.co.uk

I AM DAIN: THE VIDEO

A behind the scenes look at DAIN. Thanks goes to the Brooklynite Gallery for putting this video together.

DAIN: OLD SCHOOL GRAFFITI

A few images from NYCs OG graffiti artist DAIN. Brooklyn's DAIN has been doing graffiti since the 50's and has recently shown at the Brooklynite Gallery.

THE GREAT DAIN: ABOUT AS OLD SCHOOL GRAFFITI AS YOU CAN GET

Dain, mad props to the OG Brooklyn Graffiti artist.

RUN, BLAGO, RUN by CRO aka RAY NOLAND

OK, OK, so I lifted the attached story from the Chicago Tribune online. The original author writes like both he and his readers hail from Mars or some other planet or suburb, far, far away. He suggests that the Blago stencil-graffiti has gotten to an almost viral stage...just because it's up in at least 6 reported spots in Chicago...EWWWW, scarey! The image I've included is from the corner of Hubbard and May Streets, Chicago.
The 'alleged' artist that has sprayed and pasted the 'Run, Blago, Run' is Chicago's very own CRO aka Ray Noland. He currently has a group show that ends later this month titled Officially Unofficial at the Chicago Tourism Center on Randolph Street. This show is a collection of Obama related artworks and prints that supported Obama, pre-election. Works by The Date Farmers, Ron English, Obey, Bask, Cody Hudson and many, many more artists can be seen. I highly recommend checking this gig out, while it lasts.
You can source more info direct from Ray's sites: GoTellMama.org and CRO.BigCartel.com.

A mysterious mural has turned up on a half-dozen concrete walls around the city in recent weeks. The black graffiti stencil shows former Gov. Rod Blagojevich wearing his familiar tracksuit, running through the street and glancing over his shoulder, as if he is being pursued. The image leaves it to the viewer to speculate about who is trailing Blago -- U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald, perhaps?

Reminiscent of the work of Banksy, the London street artist, and Shepard Fairey aka Obey, the creator of the Barack Obama Hope poster, the Blago stencil began appearing in early April. It has been spotted in a downtown alley behind the Macy's on State Street and on a viaduct at the corner of West 16th Street and South Union Avenue.

Like most street art, the creator leaves no signature. (The practice is illegal, after all.) But Pilsen artist Ray Noland aka CRO, 36, is currently selling a first-edition poster of the image titled "Run, Blago, Run!" for $75 on his Web site, cro.bigcartel.com. Noland -- who ran an unofficial Obama street art campaign last year -- declined to comment on how his Blago design ended up on the street and suggested that anyone could have appropriated his image. "I just make the graphics," he said.

However, Noland did hint that urbanities should keep their eyes open for more images, which he predicted "will probably continue to pop up around the city."

*original story lifted off the internet written by: cmastony@tribune.com