SHEPARD FAIREY: OUT of PRINT is an exhibition exploring the artist’s lifelong dialogue with printmaking. The 2008 Obama “Hope” poster made Fairey’s style famous, showing the power of shared art to move people and define a moment. This show, featuring more than 400 original screen prints, traces Fairey’s commitment to the power of mass communication.

OUT OF PRINT charts more than three decades of Fairey’s evolution—from guerrilla placements and hand-pulled posters to studio editions whose precision and urgency have entered the global visual language. The exhibition highlights his mastery of advertising and propaganda techniques, reworking them to “arrest visually and provoke intellectually,” and shows how reproducible images—on walls, in windows, and across wardrobes—become tools of civic dialogue and collective memory.

The exhibition runs November 15 to January 11 in Los Angeles.

“I’m a product of the era of mass production and the mass culture printing has created. I can’t imagine my art practice without it. Many of my biggest influences weren’t paintings but printed things—posters, album covers, skateboard graphics, punk flyers, and t-shirts. Printing is the cornerstone of my art and philosophy. The printing press began the democratization of art, and I’ve used posters to share my work publicly and keep it accessible through multiples.”

“Some people say digital media has ended print, but the provocative, tactile experience of a print on a wall or in the wild—can’t be replaced. Printing still matters.”

ARTICLE: Beyond The Streets Presents Shepard Fairey: Out Of Print

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