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Here are some art collaborations between myself and other artists in Sao Paolo, Brazil. My “Uncle Sam: Big Brother is Watching You” artwork was mailed off for Eric Marechal’s “Street Art Without Borders” project. His urban photos can be found on his UrbanHearts site and on Flickr.
Posted by Sherrie Thai of Shaire Productions.
I mailed off some artwork for Eric Marechal’s Urban Hearts “Street Art Without Borders” urban project. His photos can be found on his site and on Flickr.
Posted by Sherrie Thai of Shaire Productions.
“Don’t Sweat the Technique: Ode to the Spraycan” street art show at 1:AM Gallery in San Francisco had a great array of pop art in a variety of mediums. My favorites were the custom vinyl toys. The show was an accompaniment to the “Graffiti Battle” event arranged by artist, Estria.
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Mysterious Creatures is another mixed media piece created in the tradition of old Chinese papercuts and Japanese woodcut designs. The style is a deeper exploration of combining detailed linework with constrained patterns. This was created with various pens and Photoshop coloring.
A signed fine art print has been sent off to Munich, where it will find a temporary home in a local gallery. I’ll update this when more details arrive–so much mystery…
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Doomsday is a handmade poster for the Stick Me Hard 2 International Street Art Exhibition at Musma Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. The topic is “The Worst Case”.
My rendering was created with pen and markers (about 9in. width x 17in. height) to be wheatpasted to the gallery wall. My vision was apocalyptic, where death and destruction reigns free. A nuclear explosion breaks from a skull, positioned above a burning city. The red pattern is a montage of abstract faces done in a Cubist-influenced style.
The MotionGrapher website posed an interesting poll about Shephard Fairey’s infamous Obama poster and Milton Glaser’s critical review. Another critique of Fairey’s work is on artist Mark Vallen’s blog. Earlier, the New York Times published an article, indicating that Fairey’s suing the Associated Press to combat copyright infringement. “The suit asks the judge to declare that Mr. Fairey’s work is protected under fair-use exceptions to copyright law, which allow limited use of copyrighted materials for purposes like criticism or comment.”
I think it depends upon the intention of the artist, whether or not the work is a commentary (falling under fine arts arena) or promotion/advertisement (commercial arts). Public figures are subject to scrutiny and critique–political cartoons and satire are evidence of this–but money always complicates matters. Andy Warhol displayed familiar faces and icons in his work–it was a social commentary on popular culture, but if you look at his commercial work, it was original. With Fairey’s work, he started out in graffiti/street art. Much like the tattoo realm, street arts sometimes take artwork from their original context and places it into a different medium, with or without the original artist’s consent. It’s the nature of the beast and hard to control. From one point of view, it is plagiarism, but in another view, it’s imitation and sometimes viewed as flattery. For fine arts, there shouldn’t be a limitation on creation/expression as it’s personal and an expression of one’s self, but with commercial arts, there should be greater sensitivity to copyrights.
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This was an experimentation in combining tribal tattoo styles with letterforms. This is a mixed media piece (pen & photoshop). I didn’t clean up the linework very much, as I like the rough quality of line. In case you’re wondering, it’s another homage to “Hip Hop”.
