Artwork Description
Shepard Fairey – No Future (Black Ripped)
Dimensions: 46.5 x 33.75″ framed / 42 x 29″ unframed
Year: 2017
Medium: stencil, silkscreen and collage on paper
Shepard Fairey says, “My art is usually social and political regardless of who is in the White House, but my concerns and frustrations are amplified by the election of Donald Trump. I joked while Trump was campaigning that his slogan should be “Manifest Density,” a parody of “Manifest Destiny,” which was an embarrassingly egotistical pronouncement by rich white men that it was God’s desire for them to conquer ocean to ocean in the territory that would become the United States. Trump appealed to an uninformed electorate who looked for scapegoats and were driven by most likely one or more of the dark impulses listed in the print.I’m pushing for a future where those impulses have no place and definitely no traction. Let’s move forward, not backward.”
Shepard Fairey is one of the world’s most well-known humanitarian and social justice artists, and the creator of the iconic Obama HOPE poster. Fairey not only encourages viewers to question authority and the status quo but also inspires them to find their voice for justice.