Shepard Fairey FIGHT Artist Proof AP Revolutionary Love 2021 Signed Print
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About the Work“Fight” is the most martial design in the Revolutionary Love series. Two crossed swords — rendered in Fairey’s clean, graphic line work — form an X over a circular target with concentric rings and radiating lines that pulse outward like a signal or a shockwave. Surrounding this central crest is a dense wreath of stylized leaves and palmette flowers, and the entire composition sits against the most expansive light blue field of any print in the series, giving the image an openness and clarity that contrasts with the aggressive central motif. The crossed swords are a deliberate provocation in a series built around love. In Fairey’s visual vocabulary, they evoke heraldic crests, revolutionary insignia, and the long tradition of resistance imagery — from the crossed tools of labor movements to the martial symbols of anti-colonial struggles. But placed within Kaur’s Revolutionary Love framework, “fight” doesn’t mean violence. It means the willingness to engage rather than retreat, to confront injustice directly rather than look away, to wage what Kaur calls “the labor of fighting for justice.” The tension between the aggressive iconography and the delicate floral wreath is the point. Fairey wraps weapons in flowers — a visual echo of the Vietnam War-era protestors who placed flowers in the barrels of National Guard rifles, an image Fairey has referenced explicitly in other works (including his iconic “Guns and Roses” and flower-in-rifle series). “FIGHT” inscribed in the banner doesn’t resolve the tension. It lets it stand, asking the viewer to decide what kind of fight they’re willing to wage. The Revolutionary Love SeriesThe Revolutionary Love series was a 2021 collaboration between Shepard Fairey, Amplifier (a Seattle-based nonprofit that uses art as a tool for social change), and The Revolutionary Love Project founded by Valarie Kaur — a Sikh-American civil rights leader, filmmaker, and lawyer whose TED Talk on revolutionary love has been viewed millions of times. The series comprises ten 12″ × 12″ screen prints, each featuring a different imperative word rendered in Fairey’s signature mandala-and-icon visual language. Each design draws from Fairey’s most recognized motifs — lotus flowers, stars, laurel wreaths, radiating lines, ornamental borders, ocean imagery — recombined into compositions that function as both standalone artworks and visual calls to action. The complete set of ten prints was released on December 21, 2021 at 10 AM PDT via store.obeygiant.com in a foil-embossed box with certificate of authentication, edition of 250 sets, at $300. All ten prints were individually signed and numbered by Fairey in pencil, with matching edition numbers across each set. About Amplifier: Founded in 2015 and based in Seattle, Amplifier is a nonprofit design lab that commissions artwork from leading artists and distributes it freely to communities, classrooms, and organizers. Their campaigns have placed over 1 million pieces of public art on walls, in newspapers, and in schools across the United States. Their highest-profile collaboration with Fairey was the “We The People” series (2017), which became one of the most visible artworks of the Women’s March era. Why This AP MattersARTIST’S PROOF • OUTSIDE NUMBERED EDITION
This print is designated AP (Artist’s Proof) — a designation reserved for impressions pulled outside the numbered edition, typically for the artist’s personal use, gallery placement, or sale through private channels. In fine art printmaking, APs are produced in much smaller quantities than the numbered run (industry standard is typically 10% of the edition or fewer). For a series with a numbered edition of 250, Artist’s Proofs are substantially rarer than standard numbered impressions. AP impressions are identical in quality and printing to the numbered edition — they come from the same screens, the same ink runs, the same paper stock. The difference is scarcity and provenance. In the secondary market, APs consistently command a premium over their numbered counterparts because of their limited availability and their closer association with the artist’s personal archive. About the ArtistShepard Fairey (b. 1970, Charleston, South Carolina) is one of the most influential artists of his generation. He emerged from the skateboarding and punk scenes of the late 1980s at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he created the “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign that evolved into the globally recognized OBEY GIANT phenomenon. His 2008 HOPE portrait of Barack Obama became one of the most iconic political images in American history and is held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Fairey’s work synthesizes influences from Russian Constructivism, propaganda art, skateboard graphics, and punk rock into a visual language that is instantly recognizable and deeply engaged with social and political issues. He has painted over 140 public murals worldwide, founded Studio Number One and OBEY Clothing, and maintains one of the most active print practices in contemporary art. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Smithsonian, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. What Is Included
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- Workbook top result: $46K for an Obama HOPE offset sale dated Aug 18, 2024
- 5Y window (2021–2026): median $247; p25 $150; p75 $466
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