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Shepard Fairey — Fractured Harmony
Shepard Fairey

Fractured Harmony

2025

Shepard Fairey's solo contribution to the Triple Trouble collection, 'Fractured Harmony,' deploys his full arsenal of mixed media techniques — stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper — to explore the tension between order and disruption that has defined his practice since the OBEY movement's origins. The title itself is a conceptual paradox: harmony implies resolution and consonance, while fracture suggests rupture and conflict, and Fairey's layered process embodies this contradiction physically, with each medium leaving its own visual trace atop the others. Collaged elements introduce found imagery and textural disruption beneath the precision of stencil and screen, creating a palimpsest of meaning that rewards close looking and reflects Fairey's belief in art as a site of accumulated cultural signification. Working on paper rather than canvas or board lends the piece an urgency and fragility associated with propaganda ephemera — posters, flyers, and street-pasted broadsheets — connecting 'Fractured Harmony' to the activist tradition Fairey has always inhabited. Within the broader Triple Trouble context, the work asserts that individual artistic voice need not dissolve in collaboration, and that harmony — fractured or otherwise — can coexist with strong singular vision.

Medium
Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen, and collage) on paper
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Shepard Fairey, Fractured Harmony, 2025

Shepard Fairey's solo contribution to the Triple Trouble collection, 'Fractured Harmony,' deploys his full arsenal of mixed media techniques — stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper — to explore the tension between order and disruption that has defined his practice since the OBEY movement's origins. The title itself is a conceptual paradox: harmony implies resolution and consonance, while fracture suggests rupture and conflict, and Fairey's layered process embodies this contradiction physically, with each medium leaving its own visual trace atop the others. Collaged elements introduce found imagery and textural disruption beneath the precision of stencil and screen, creating a palimpsest of meaning that rewards close looking and reflects Fairey's belief in art as a site of accumulated cultural signification. Working on paper rather than canvas or board lends the piece an urgency and fragility associated with propaganda ephemera — posters, flyers, and street-pasted broadsheets — connecting 'Fractured Harmony' to the activist tradition Fairey has always inhabited. Within the broader Triple Trouble context, the work asserts that individual artistic voice need not dissolve in collaboration, and that harmony — fractured or otherwise — can coexist with strong singular vision.

Medium
Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen, and collage) on paper
Dimensions
151.1 x 111.8 cm
Year
2025
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

Mixed Media Technique, American Street Art, Layered Textures, Printmaking, Contemporary collage, 2020s Era, Paper Based Work, Expressive Aesthetic, Conceptual Abstraction, Abstract Composition

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery