"Spanning early underground interventions to celebrated cultural icons, OUT OF PRINT charts Fairey's evolution across three and a half decades: from guerrilla placements and hand‑pulled posters to studio editions whose graphic precision and political urgency have entered the global visual lexicon. The presentation highlights the artist's fluency in the language of advertising and propaganda, recoding those strategies to "arrest visually and provoke intellectually," and underscores how the reproducible image circulated on walls, in windows, and through wardrobes functions as both civic dialogue and cultural memory."
"Some of my biggest art influences were not paintings but printed things like posters, album covers, skateboard graphics, punk flyers, and t‑shirt designs. Printing is a cornerstone of my art practice and philosophy. The printing press began the democratization of art, and I have used printed posters to spread my artwork and messages in public spaces as well as keep my art affordable by printing multiples."
OUT OF PRINT assembles more than 400 original screen prints alongside new and re-mixed works that combine screen printing and stenciling, foregrounding a persistent engagement with printmaking. The presentation covers three and a half decades, from guerrilla placements and hand-pulled posters to studio editions marked by graphic precision and political urgency. Fairey adapts advertising and propaganda strategies to arrest visually and provoke intellectually, using reproducible images as civic dialogue and cultural memory. Hybrid works expand a print vocabulary through layered stencils, paper, and ink while archival materials and process ephemera illuminate methods and context.
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