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URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/shepard-fairey-in-conversation/
SUMMARY:Shepard Fairey in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\n\nThe lecture will be live streamed on our YouTube ch
 annel.\n\nOn Saturday\, June 16 at 1pm\, Shepard Fairey will return to Cra
 nbrook Art Museum to discuss the influence of punk on his practice.\n\nInf
 luential street artist Shepard Fairey has been a consistent presence in na
 tional and international art scenes since the 1990s. The LA-based artist i
 s perhaps best known locally through his downtown Detroit mural at One Cam
 pus Martius\, his ubiquitous Hope image created originally as a grassroots
  activism tool to support Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign\, an
 d the pervasive We the People poster series for the 2017 Women’s March a
 nd beyond.\n\nFrom 1989 to 1999\, the artist adopted many of punk’s biti
 ng and playful graphic strategies\, as well as its low-tech methods of pro
 duction and distribution. Fairey created his first Andre the Giant has a P
 osse sticker in a spontaneous DIY manner\, appropriating an image of profe
 ssional wrestler André René Roussimoff (aka André the Giant) from a new
 spaper. The image would gain iconic status when it spread via friends and 
 fans to city streets across the United States and eventually around the wo
 rld. The Andre the Giant campaign and image would transform in the mid-199
 0s into the Obey Giant series\, which was inspired by John Carpenter’s s
 ci-fi horror film\, They Live (1988) and its plot about subliminal message
 s implanted in a society in order to control its inhabitants. Taking inspi
 ration from early Russian Constructivist poster designs in particular and 
 from revolutionary propaganda posters in general\, Obey Giant prints were 
 posted unsolicited on billboards\, buildings\, and other parts of the city
 .\n\nShepard Fairey: Salad Days\, 1989-1999 showcases the artist’s forma
 tive years through a variety of posters\, stickers\, and archival document
 s showing his engagement with punk. It will also feature a new installatio
 n in Cranbrook Art Museum’s galleries created by the artist.
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CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures + Talks,Member Events,Shepard Fairey: Salad
 Days
LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bl
 oomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States
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