Year2023
MediumScreen Print
Dimensions36 x 24 in
EditionBlue · Offset Lithograph · Orange · Paris Colourway
PublisherObey Giant
Original release price$35
SeriesMusic Series
EraMusic Era
Collector5/10
Visual7/10
Historical5/10
ScarcityOpen
Artist Statement
“This Shadowplay print is inspired by punk, post-punk, and new wave music graphics that combined original art and found imagery in subversive and enigmatic ways. I love that a lot of those graphics are technically crude yet visually sophisticated. That kind of art inspired my earliest high school experiments with a copy machine, x-acto knife, and stencils. Shadowplay is a reference to the shadows of the face in my pop-noir image, but also to Joy Division and their graphic designer, Peter Saville, who crafted their beautiful and haunting covers from found and manipulated imagery. Coincidentally
About This Print
Obey Shadowplay (Offset Lithograph) is a 2023 Obey Giant print, 24 x 36 inches on thick cream Speckletone paper, signed by Shepard Fairey. The source lists the Blue colorway among several (Blue, Offset Lithograph, Orange, Paris Colourway). The image is a pop-noir face built from shadow, inspired by punk, post-punk, and new wave music graphics that combined original and found imagery. Shadowplay references both the shadows in the face and Joy Division and their designer Peter Saville, noting the band's debut television performance of Shadowplay 45 years earlier. It was offered at $35; edition is unnumbered in the source.
Market Context
Recently released - limited secondary-market history to date.