Artist Statement
“Race To The Bottom. 10 x 13 inches. Letterpress on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 450. $65. Obey publishing chop in lower left corner. When I was creating my Damaged art show, the largest show of my career so far, I decided to turn a 2-dimensional illustration I had made for an image called "No Future" into a sculpture. While developing the different views to create the sculpture, I made an illustration from a front-facing angle of the figure that was seen from behind in the original illustration. This gave me an opportunity to introd
About This Print
Race To The Bottom is a 2018 Shepard Fairey letterpress print, 10 x 13 inches, on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges, published by Obey Giant. It is signed and numbered in an edition of 450, carries the Obey publishing chop in the lower left corner, and was released at $65. The image grew out of Fairey's Damaged show, where he turned his 'No Future' illustration into a sculpture; this front-facing view adds text reading 'Race to the Bottom… Marathon Turns Out to be a Sprint' on a newspaper. The work critiques political tactics Fairey associates with fear, division, and the deterioration of public service.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 150.0. Observed range 100.0–342.0. Latest recorded sale: Nov 10, 20. Value is the median of recorded public sales (>= $100); low-high shows the observed sale range.