Artist Statement
“Screen Print 18 x 24 inches Edition of 100” — Shepard Fairey
About This Print
Cop 2 is a 1998 Shepard Fairey screen print published by Obey Giant in a first edition of 100, measuring 18 x 24 inches. The image presents an authoritarian police figure rendered in Fairey's high-contrast, propaganda-poster vocabulary, isolating a symbol of state power and surveillance as the subject. As one of Fairey's early Obey Giant editions, it uses bold graphic reduction and a limited palette to turn an everyday emblem of authority into a confrontational icon. The print belongs to a tight cluster of late-1990s editioned works that recast figures and symbols of control and ideology through the visual language of mass-produced propaganda.
Market Context
No recorded public sales >= $100 - pieces like this are typically held long-term by investors/collectors, were destroyed or consumed, or do not surface on the open market.