Shepard Fairey: Exploring incarnations of power

Shepard Fairey is an internationally acclaimed artist. He initially gained notoriety with his “Andre the Giant has a Posse” sticker that transformed into the OBEY GIANT art campaign and changed the way people see art and the urban landscape. In 2008, he achieved worldwide recognition with the Hope poster he created of Barack Obama. Today, his stickers, guerrilla street art presence and public murals and recognized globally. Fairey’s works are in the permanent collections MoMA, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others. The artist has painted more than 105 large-scale murals across five continents worldwide, most recently in Dubai for his first solo show in the Middle East. Shepard Fairey has created his <a href="https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/obey-ideal-power-mural-22446" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">inaugural NFT work</a>, minted on March 29 in exclusive partnership with <a href="https://verisart.com/?utm_source=Medium&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=10xNFTDrop&utm_content=Fairey_artwork" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Verisart</a> and SuperRare as part of <a href="https://go.verisart.com/verisart-x-superrare/?utm_source=Medium&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=10xNFTDrop&utm_content=Fairey_artwork" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">10×10: 10 inaugural NFTs by 10 major contemporary artists over 10 weeks</a>. Bidding is open on SuperRare until 3:30pm EDT April 1. <a href="https://medium.com/verisart/shepard-fairey-exploring-incarnations-of-power-7d79fdcb30c">Read More</a>