Artist Statement
“Here is a brief explanation of the POW(ER) print. I was asked by my longtime friends at PAPER magazine to guest edit their art issue. I gladly accepted, and the issue should be out later in Nov. In the issue my friend and PAPER editor Carlo McCormick, who wrote an essay for my book “Supply And Demand”, wrote a fantastic essay about the evolution of visual culture from Pop Art to street art, and the impact of the internet and media saturation. To illustrate Carlo’s essay I created the POW(ER) image. The image is an homage to influential Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein, who appropriated and re-pain
About This Print
POW(ER) is a 2010 Shepard Fairey screen print, 18 x 24 inches, in a signed and numbered first edition of 450, released November 4, 2010 at $45 with a limit of one per person or household. Fairey created the image to illustrate an essay by PAPER editor Carlo McCormick for the magazine's art issue, which Fairey guest-edited. The work is an homage to Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, who appropriated and repainted comic frames. Fairey describes street art as being about populism and 'emPOWERment,' fusing Pop Art, street art, and political art in a familiar comic-derived visual vocabulary.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 349.5. Observed range 128.51–949.0. Latest recorded sale: 2026-04-09. Value is the median of recorded public sales (>= $100); low-high shows the observed sale range.