
Civil Disobedience
2024
Civil Disobedience distils the political essence of Shepard Fairey's career into a single, charged object, employing his well-honed mixed media approach of stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper to produce a work that feels simultaneously like street agitation and fine art manifesto. The layered techniques are inseparable from the message: stenciling evokes urgency and reproducibility, the democratising tools of protest; silkscreen connects the work to Pop art's mass-production critique; and collage introduces fragments of found visual culture, implicating the viewer in a broader media landscape. Fairey's signature aesthetic — bold outlines, flat planes of colour, text-driven imagery, and the visual grammar of Soviet-era propaganda reappropriated for progressive ends — is fully deployed here, making the work instantly recognisable as part of his OBEY lineage. Created in 2024, Civil Disobedience arrives at a moment of acute global political tension, lending the title an immediacy that transcends art world discourse and speaks directly to movements for justice, autonomy, and resistance. Within Triple Trouble, the piece anchors the collection's political conscience, reminding viewers that art made in the tradition of the street carries an obligation to speak truth to power.
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