Artist Statement
“O.G. Rips. Serigraph on Coventry Rag, 100% Cotton Custom Archival Paper with hand-deckled edges. 30 x 41 inches. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 89. Comes with a certificate of authenticity. $900. The immediate success and proliferation of the Andre sticker compelled Fairey to develop strategies to expand the reach of his campaign and call attention to the original sticker in public space. However, he did want to alter the design, as a means to diversify the Andre sticker from the original black and white image. He began to print stickers with the same illustration and text but
About This Print
O.G. Rips is a 2019 Shepard Fairey serigraph on Coventry Rag 100% cotton archival paper with hand-deckled edges, 30 x 41 inches, in a signed, numbered edition of 89 with a certificate of authenticity. The work crops Fairey's iconic Andre the Giant face and overlays it with colored lines, rips, and psychedelic-inflected patterns. Marking three decades of the Andre image, the disorienting design ages the face to evoke the artist's years of public-space work and the ephemeral, weathered fate of street art exposed to removal, the elements, and competing imagery.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 6939.16. Observed range 5551.33–8326.99. Latest recorded sale: 2020-08-27. Very limited recorded sales (1-2). Hypothetical estimate at ~15% flat annual growth (80-120% band) is INDICATIVE ONLY.