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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst — Beautiful Overwhelming Icon Star 3 Spin Target Painting

Beautiful Overwhelming Icon Star 3 Spin Target Painting

2025

Beautiful Overwhelming Icon Star 3 Spin Target Painting represents the most direct and exhilarating collision of two major artistic identities in the Triple Trouble collection — Shepard Fairey and Damien Hirst — produced on canvas using household gloss and spray paint, materials that honor both the street and the studio. Hirst's iconic target and spin painting traditions are unmistakably present in the radiating, centrifugal energy of the composition, while Fairey's bold graphic sensibility and star iconography punctuate the surface with assertive cultural symbolism. The use of household gloss paint — a material Hirst has employed to democratize and destabilize the preciousness of fine art — combined with spray paint's street-art associations creates a material dialogue that mirrors the conceptual one between the two artists. The work's title is itself a cascade of loaded terms: 'beautiful,' 'overwhelming,' 'icon,' 'spin,' 'target' — each word a reference to a distinct corner of contemporary art history, assembled here as a single, declarative visual object. As a 2025 canvas, it stands as a landmark artifact of the collaboration, evidence that two singular artistic voices can merge without either being subsumed.

Medium
Household gloss and spray paint on canvas

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Shepard Fairey & Damien Hirst, Beautiful Overwhelming Icon Star 3 Spin Target Painting, 2025

Beautiful Overwhelming Icon Star 3 Spin Target Painting represents the most direct and exhilarating collision of two major artistic identities in the Triple Trouble collection — Shepard Fairey and Damien Hirst — produced on canvas using household gloss and spray paint, materials that honor both the street and the studio. Hirst's iconic target and spin painting traditions are unmistakably present in the radiating, centrifugal energy of the composition, while Fairey's bold graphic sensibility and star iconography punctuate the surface with assertive cultural symbolism. The use of household gloss paint — a material Hirst has employed to democratize and destabilize the preciousness of fine art — combined with spray paint's street-art associations creates a material dialogue that mirrors the conceptual one between the two artists. The work's title is itself a cascade of loaded terms: 'beautiful,' 'overwhelming,' 'icon,' 'spin,' 'target' — each word a reference to a distinct corner of contemporary art history, assembled here as a single, declarative visual object. As a 2025 canvas, it stands as a landmark artifact of the collaboration, evidence that two singular artistic voices can merge without either being subsumed.

Medium
Household gloss and spray paint on canvas
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Collaborative Work, Street Art, Icon Imagery, American, Explosive Energy, Spray Paint, Geometric Form, Fine Art, Contemporary, Canvas-based

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Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery