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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Fairey, Shepard
 - Manufacturer
- Obey Giant
- Edition Details
| Year: | 2019 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Official | | Released: | 05/09/19 | | Run: | 550 | | Technique: | Screen Print | | Paper: | Cream Specketone | | Size: | 18 X 24 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
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"I have been looking back through art and photos from my 30 year history as I work on the art for my 'Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent' show and I was inspired to make a painting and print inspired by a photo I took of a 'Hello My Name Is' paste-up I did in SOHO NYC back in early 1996. At that time I was still living in Providence R.I. running my screen printing studio, barely scraping by financially. I was desperately trying to survive but also kept putting my imagery up in the streets. I had recently fallen in love with Russian Constructivist design, which along with Barbara Kruger’s art, and much of American advertising, used primarily red, black, and white, so I began designing in those colors to keep my art cost-effective and visually cohesive. I was screen printing posters in red and black ink on white paper, but I was ecstatic when a friend and ‘zine maker Ben Woodward taught me how to rig the copiers at Kinko’s (now known as FedEx Office) with a paperclip to yield free copies. The Kinko’s near my apartment in Providence had copiers with a red toner cartridge AND a black toner cartridge… meaning that I could make 11×17 inch red and black mini-posters free if I was stealth about it. The 'Hello My Name Is' paste-up in this print is one of those 11×17 copies and was inspired by the pervasive use of 'Hello My Name Is' stickers with tags on them by graffiti writers. I loved all the graffiti and stickers in NYC, so this paste-up was a tribute to that world and one of my last images using the O.G. Giant face as I was transitioning to the Icon Face and Star as my main iconography. I threw a couple of other early images of mine in for extra texture and flavor." –Shepard
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