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Shepard Fairey — Smoke Grenade (Large)
Shepard Fairey

Smoke Grenade (Large)

2024

Smoke Grenade (Large) is a characteristically charged work from Shepard Fairey, combining stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper to produce an image dense with layered meaning and visual tension. The smoke grenade as a motif sits at the intersection of protest, civil unrest, and spectacle — a tool of both military conflict and street demonstration — making it a natural subject for Fairey, whose OBEY movement has always drawn from the visual language of resistance and propaganda. The large format amplifies the work's confrontational presence, while the multi-technique approach allows Fairey to build richly textured surfaces that reward close inspection, with screen-printed patterns beneath hand-cut stencil layers and collaged elements that suggest the fragmented nature of media and political messaging. The work reflects Fairey's deep engagement with how images of power and rebellion are constructed and disseminated. Within the Triple Trouble context, it grounds the collaboration in the street-art tradition of public provocation and democratic image-making.

Medium
Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen and collage) on paper
Dimensions

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Shepard Fairey, Smoke Grenade (Large), 2024

Smoke Grenade (Large) is a characteristically charged work from Shepard Fairey, combining stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper to produce an image dense with layered meaning and visual tension. The smoke grenade as a motif sits at the intersection of protest, civil unrest, and spectacle — a tool of both military conflict and street demonstration — making it a natural subject for Fairey, whose OBEY movement has always drawn from the visual language of resistance and propaganda. The large format amplifies the work's confrontational presence, while the multi-technique approach allows Fairey to build richly textured surfaces that reward close inspection, with screen-printed patterns beneath hand-cut stencil layers and collaged elements that suggest the fragmented nature of media and political messaging. The work reflects Fairey's deep engagement with how images of power and rebellion are constructed and disseminated. Within the Triple Trouble context, it grounds the collaboration in the street-art tradition of public provocation and democratic image-making.

Medium
Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen and collage) on paper
Dimensions
112.3 x 85.1 cm
Year
2024
Seen at
HENI, London, United Kingdom

Related themes

American Street Art, Urban Scale, Protest Imagery, Mixed Media Collage, Monochromatic Tones, Intense Mood, Activist Message, 2020s Era, Stencil Silkscreen, Explosive Visual

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Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery