Shepard Fairey has another print being released, it goes on sale this Thursday 5/7. This new print will be 24″ x 36″, and the cool thing is that it is open edition. So no worries that this one will sell out. The print will be $35 so if you have been waiting to get a print by Fairey, and like this image, make sure you stop by the site whenever you get the chance.
Shepard Fairey has three new prints that will be available this Wednesday 4/29. This new “Flower Vine” print will be 18″ x 24″ signed and numbered in an edition of 100 for $45. The is a limit of 1 print per customer, and I believe the print will be chosen at random. There is a red, black & black/red version. I’m sure these will go quick, so watch the store area.
Saw this on Huffington Post, then Juxtapoz and now it’s spreading all over. Associated Press has accused Shepard Fairey of copyright infringement for using a photo taken by AP photographer Mannie Garcia. So they now want compensation.
Shepard has not hid the fact that he used the photograph for the poster of Obama, but what I find silly is that AP has waited so long for this accusation. The poster has made it’s way around the world, has different versions, spin-offs, shirts, stickers and the original is in the Smithsonian. And now they come around? I don’t agree with going after him anyway, artists have been using appropriated images for years. Degas, Van Gogh and others worked from photographs that I am sure they did not take. So why wait so long? Make sure they is enough money to go for? Who knows, but I am interested to see how this works out. So many artists use images to make works from so this could be devastating and a new way for people to make money by suing others. Great.
Opening tonight, January 23rd at The Alternative Cafe in Seaside is a show curated by Outeredgestudio.com. The show is all signed and limited, rare and sold out editions. So any prints that you have may have missed by such artists as Banksy, Shawn Barber, David Choe, Shepard Fairey and more.
All the prints are framed and ready to go, and if you look at them on the site you will see the frame each piece is in.
Thealternativecafe.com
This past weekend I headed over to San Francisco to check out the latest solo show of Van Arno at Shooting Gallery, as well as the “Family First” group show right next door at White Walls. I rented car this time as to avoid the two hour bus ride for once, and be able to move around the city easier. It wasn’t as cold as I thought it would be there, it must just be where I live that gets unbearably cold.
The Van Arno show was excellent, securing me as a fan from here on out. The Family First show which featured works by Shepard Fairey, Ian Francis, Mike Giant, Sylvia Ji, Adam Flores and more, was also a blast. It was great to finally see paintings by Ian Francis and Shawn Barber in person, both of which are even more amazing in person. I took so many pictures of the works just to be able to look back at all the small details in painting held.
You can see all the pics here: Creep on Flickr
Read the writeup I did for both shows: SFWeekly.com
The photos I have taken of this show have also ended up on Dailydujour.com and ArrestedMotion.com Thanks!
Here is the rundown of shows that will be opening this weekend.
Saturday:
Roq La Rue has relaunched their website and has an opening tonight with art by Victor Castillo and Brian Despain. Both artists are outstanding, this is a killer show. The show is online to view and it looks like a majority of the work has sold out. Roqlarue.com
Wayne Martin Belger has a show opening up at the Device Gallery in L.A. Check it out here: DeviceGallery.com
“Murky Menagerie” a new show featuring works by Angie Mason opens up at the Rabbit Hole Gallery in Atlanta. The reception is from 7-11pm. Rabbitholegallery.com
“Duality of Humanity” is a new solo show at the White Walls Gallery in SF with new works by Shepard Fairey. There is a huge amount of work at the show and it is all online to view. Whitewallssf.com
Finally, the show that I am very excited to see (online that is) is “Figures and Grounds”. A group show at the Gallery Nucleus featuring work by Sean Cheetham, Kevin Chen, Mari Inukai, Chi-Kit Kwong, Patrick Leger, Christian Rex Van Minnen, Andrew Robinson, Edwin Ushiro & John Watkiss. The show looks like it will be amazing, this is one impressive list of artists. Wait for it to pop up here: Gallerynucleus.com