Shepard Fairey: time-lapse LIVESTRONG installation. This video combines a lot of things I like in one place.
Shepard Fairey has an exhibition opening at the ICA/Boston this week, and if you’ve looked around town recently it’s hard not to notice. Fairey, of course, is the artist famously behind the Obama “Hope” poster, as well as other highly recognizable images like the “Andre The Giant has a Posse” and “OBEY” stickers and posters. If you’ve spent any time in rock club bathrooms, the back of cabs, or noticing random street signs and light poles around New England over the past 20 or so years, you’re sure to recognize them.
If you’ve walked through Kenmore Square after a Sox game and seen dudes selling “Ortiz has a Posse” shirts, or noticed the same stickers—they’re a, ahh… reinterpretation of the original. David Ortiz’s mug on a bootleg sticker outside Fenway and lasting, iconic image from the presidential campaign may not seem connected, but they are.
You can’t help but notice new works popping up all over Boston in the past few weeks. I spotted a number of them, and decided to spend an afternoon taking some photos. As soon as I started, I began to realize that the stuff was everywhere. Some of it subtle, some of it hard to miss, but one thing was for sure—once you started to look for it, you saw it all over the city.
A slideshow of some of the sights from around Boston is below.
