Later as a young art student and street artist with few resources, he drew and designed bold and minimal imagery, which easily translated to the streets - his primary domain. This exhibition is filled with images, symbols, emblems, and portraits that I classify as iconic and make up a portion of the iconography I've created throughout my career.'īeginning in his formative years as a teenager, Fairey’s fascination with symbology is rooted in his intrinsic interest in skateboarding, and punk rock, whose branding and use of imagery made a statement by reducing images to their most potent essence. “Icons have the power to shape culture when they become widely recognized and resonant reference points that are easily understood shorthand for a concept.
The exhibition will debut a new series and method of hand-embellished “mono-engravings,” as well as screen prints on wood and metal, hand-painted multiples (HPMs), and modular works focused around Fairey’s career-long investigation into iconography and phenomenology. Subliminal Projects is pleased to present ICONS, an exhibition by gallery founder Shepard Fairey.
