Artist Statement
“SHEPARD FAIREY X RED DOG X GLEN E FRIEDMAN X COLLAB SKATE DECKS HANDMADE , SHAPED, and SCREEN PRINTED by Jim Muir. Signed and Numbered by Shepard Fairey, Glen E. Friedman, and Jim “Red Dog” Muir. Limited Release of 75 (edition of 90). $250 each Release Date: November 21, 2013 at 10am PST in Collectibles Almost 30 years ago I started skateboarding and listening to punk rock. I’m not sure when I first heard or read the name Jim Muir, but I knew the name of Dogtown, the skateboard company he founded, from shortly after I began skateboarding. Dogtown had pioneered the wide skateboard and was high
About This Print
This 2013 collaboration is a run of skate decks made with Jim 'Red Dog' Muir and photographer Glen E. Friedman. Each deck was handmade, shaped, airbrushed, hand screen printed, and lacquered by Muir, founder of the Dogtown skateboard company, using the actual 1977 hand-made board he rode in Friedman's Endless Wave shot as a template. Fairey's illustration is based on that Friedman photograph of Muir. Measuring 20 x 80 (inches per the record), the Custom Airbrushed decks were a limited release of 75 within an edition of 90, signed and numbered by Fairey, Friedman, and Muir, priced at $250 each. Released November 21, 2013.
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.