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Shepard Fairey

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mercredi 05 avril 2006 [n° 1162]

Do you feel as though your art is best portrayed in a gallery or on the streets?

I feel within art, understanding your context is crucial to understanding how you will succeed with communication. On the street it is really important to keep things bold and simple because it has to cut through the visual clutter, it has to compete with advertising. I love street art because it is a pure form of freedom of speech and expression. I also like to make art that is more sophisticated and precious to show on gallery walls where there is a group of people there to examine the art in detail; however, I want to have continuity with everything I do. I try to have continuity with everything I am doing and I try to retain elements of what I am doing in the streets and in the gallery and I try to bring what I think are successes in experimentation on a fine art level back to the streets. The one thing about street art is that on a career level you can’t live off it so you have to figure out a way to translate what you are doing as a street artist into some other art form commodity that is consumable or else you have to take on a job that isn’t art related. The tradeoff of being able to sacrifice works to the street is that then you have to find some other way of recouping the time, effort and money you put into it. I feel that I am lucky because I’ve created a formula to which my career as an artist, designer and street artist are able to feed off each other. There are some people that are purists that probably still live with their parents who say if you do street art and commercial art, you’re a sellout, but that is just not a realistic perspective for me.


Post No Bills 2 April 2006
An interview with Shepard Fairey and photos from his recent visit to San Francisco.
Interview and photos by Derek Ihnat
www.juxtapoz.com

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