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Shepard Fairey — Angela Davis
Shepard Fairey

Angela Davis

A bold and graphic portrait of activist and scholar Angela Davis rendered in Shepard Fairey's signature propagandist style, featuring his characteristic high-contrast color palette and layered geometric patterning. The silkscreen on plywood lends the work a raw, street-art quality that reinforces Fairey's roots in urban culture and dissent, while the artist's custom frame extends the composition's visual language. The piece pays homage to Davis as an enduring symbol of resistance and social justice, situating her legacy within Fairey's broader body of work celebrating revolutionary figures.

Medium
silkscreen on plywood, in artist's frame

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Under the Influence

December 10, 2014

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Shepard Fairey, Angela Davis

A bold and graphic portrait of activist and scholar Angela Davis rendered in Shepard Fairey's signature propagandist style, featuring his characteristic high-contrast color palette and layered geometric patterning. The silkscreen on plywood lends the work a raw, street-art quality that reinforces Fairey's roots in urban culture and dissent, while the artist's custom frame extends the composition's visual language. The piece pays homage to Davis as an enduring symbol of resistance and social justice, situating her legacy within Fairey's broader body of work celebrating revolutionary figures.

Medium
silkscreen on plywood, in artist's frame
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Activist Portrait, Street Art, American, Feminist Icon, Pop Art, Civil Rights Movement, Silkscreen Print, Contemporary

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery