Artist Statement
“Skateboarding saved my life! As both an activity and culture, skateboarding blew the doors open for me to see how creativity, fearlessness, independence, and style could let me paint my own story. To paraphrase Charles Bukowski, everything, worth saying or doing, dull or dangerous, is better with style. I learned the importance of style from skateboarding but I apply style to my art and pretty much anything else I can. My friend Blaize Blouin, the only pro skater from Charleston, S.C., where I grew up, used to say "trendy tricks come and go, but the need for style is constant". When I picked
About This Print
Styles Change - Style Endures (Black) is a 2020 letterpress print measuring 14.5 x 19 inches on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges, signed by both Shepard Fairey and photographer Hugh Holland, in a numbered edition of 115, priced at $85. It is the black colorway of a four-part CMYK set (Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow). Based on Holland's 1976 photograph of a skater doing a backside carve at Kenter Canyon School, the collaboration celebrates skateboarding culture and the timeless quality of style. Proceeds support Juice Magazine, a long-running skate, music, and art publication in financial distress during the pandemic.
Market Context
Estimated market value: 165.0. Observed range 105.0–525.0. Latest recorded sale: 2026-04-24. Value is the median of recorded public sales (>= $100); low-high shows the observed sale range.