Shepard Fairey is leaving his OBEY mark on Louisville. The internationally-known artist, famous for the "Hope" portrait used in Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, painted an OBEY sticker ...
Thirty years ago, Charleston emerged as a canvas for a new form of street art, thanks to an early local adopter. Shepard Fairey, a skateboarder and rogue artist who attended the Porter-Gaud School, ...
The Big Issue: When did you start the Obey sticker campaign and how old were you? Shepard Fairey: I started it in 1989 at age 19, the summer after my freshman year of art college at Rhode Island ...