Shepard Fairey Art

Here Fairey uses his art ability to convey a very important message. The pattern in the background emphasizes the fist in the center

This is one of my personal favorites of Fairey’s. He uses the face of Obama to attract the viewers eye to the center and he uses emphasis to show how the light hits his face. It’s very inspiring

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey is a very talented contemporary artist who actually created the “Obama Hope” poster for his campaign. In 19885 he attended a private college preparatory school, Porter Gaud, in Charleston, SC before switching to Wando High School. His senior year, he transferred across the country to an art school in California where he officially graduated in 1988. For college, he majored in Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design. There,, he created ‘Andre the Giant has a Posse’ and made his first poster with Andre, and he graduated in 1992 with his Bachelors in Arts in Illustration. Three years later, Fairey had a few full time employees and then he moved to California to work with Andy Howell for Giant Distribution. He worked with Dave Kinsey, Phillip De Wolff, and Andy Howell and soon after he met his future wife, Amanda Alaya, who he had been working with. Fairey and Kinsey split and Fairey renamed the company to Studio Number One. He put all his work into a book called Supply and Demand and it’s in its third edition. He is happily married to Amanda.

Assignment #1 Idiom

For this first assignment our objective was to take any idiom of our choice and turn it into a picture. This is my visual interpretation of the idiom, “Letting the cat out of the bag.”