Sheapard Fairey is now looking at more charges after appearing in Brighton District Court, Boston. He is being accused of ‘hitting’ 29 locations in the Boston area, with posters, stickers, and other ish. From ‘Obey’ to ‘Change’, the man is getting some serious publicity, and how long will it be before the price tag on his work will go through the ceiling?! Probably not too long, being that it looks like the BPD is going to give him serious ‘head’… Headaches!
Shepard Fairey has been doing his thing for quite sometime, and has been very successful in business, and it isn’t unusual to have this sort of mishap in the ‘Graff’ game. Going public, and getting attention from the media can be the kiss of death, but let’s just say, that when ‘your cherry is popped’, the outcome is usually a good one. For instance; he can now move sales on his clothing line, he is now going to have to pay for advertising, and this is going to help all with gallery sales as well.
It’s my belief that from his actions, he has been successful, and there are going to be many that are going follow this mans actions. And if this is the attention that one gets from the media for putting up ones art…. then it’s the equivenlent being an American Idol!
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You may not recognize the name Poster Boy but if you have been in a New York City subway this year, you know his work.
Poster Boy, who likes to stay anonymous since the nature of his work is technically illegal, has been creating street art mash-ups by taking existing ads and using a cut and paste technique to create completely new, and usually much more provocative, images. Poster Boy has been known to get people’s attention by taking iconic pictures, like a portrait of Heath Ledger, and turning it into something haunting, like a piece of anti-drug propaganda.
The city’s MTA is quick to take down Paper Boy’s work so it is hard to pinpoint an exact piece, but if you see one you will know it. His unique style is a reflection of his unique artistic outlook. Paper Boy believes that art should be “a social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.”
Over the course of a career that has variously infuriated anti-graffiti task force officers and enthralled Japanese street couture collectors — meaning winning props from hip-hop superstars Kanye West and Pharrell Williams — the pop artist KAWS has carved a unique niche for himself. The soft-spoken 34-year-old Jersey City native, born Brian Donnelly, created a new business model that bridges the high-low culture divide in ways that would have made steam come out of Andy Warhol’s ears.
By parlaying vandalism into a brand identity as a purveyor of mass-produced collectible toys, KAWS became a bona fide subculture celebrity with a recognizable presence in street fashion.
But now, KAWS is at a career turning point. In spite of his renown in subcultural circles (which galleristas and museum directors have historically snobbed), he is now being mentioned in the same breath as pop art luminaries, such as Takashi Murakami, Keith Haring and Jeff Koons. And while KAWS has proven himself perfectly capable of trafficking his own pop offerings — on skateboard decks, stickers, T-shirts and sneakers — KAWS has infiltrated the rarefied world of institutional art after being held at arm’s distance from it for much of his career. Pretty fly for a graf guy.
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