
Star Fist (Blue/Red)
2024
Star Fist (Blue/Red) distils some of Shepard Fairey's most iconic visual vocabulary — the raised fist as a symbol of resistance, the star as an emblem of revolutionary aspiration — into a vivid dual-toned composition that pulses with political urgency. The blue and red colour scheme simultaneously references the American flag and the iconography of global leftist movements, creating a productive ambiguity that invites viewers to project their own political readings onto the work. Built through stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper, the piece exemplifies Fairey's mastery of layered mark-making, where each medium contributes a distinct visual texture that rewards close inspection while maintaining graphic clarity from a distance. Within the Triple Trouble collaboration, this work represents Fairey's most direct invocation of the OBEY movement's street-protest roots, anchoring the collection in the tradition of art as a tool of social mobilisation. The fist and star together form a timeless iconographic pairing that transcends any single movement, speaking to a universal human impulse toward collective action and defiance.
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- Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen and collage) on paper
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