Shepard Fairey OBEY Bliss at the Cliff's Edge Screen Print S/N ed /550 2024
Edition of /550|18" x 24"
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Shepard Fairey (OBEY)
Bliss at the Cliff's Edge
2024 Screen Print · Edition of 550 · Hand-Signed, Numbered & Dated · Verisart COA · Earth Day Release 🌿 A portion of original proceeds donated to Greenpeace USA — Fairey's Earth Day 2024 environmental statement print. What You Are Getting
This is Shepard Fairey's Bliss at the Cliff's Edge — a multi-color screen print released on Earth Day 2024 (April 25th) as both an environmental statement and a tour de force of Fairey's romantic landscape technique. The image reads at first as idyllic: two figures resting on a dark coastal hillside, a woman in a wide-brimmed sun hat languidly watching the ocean, her companion sheltering under a red-and-white striped beach umbrella. The sky sweeps in dramatic waves of pale blue, periwinkle, and red — gorgeous, cinematic, very nearly a WPA-era travel poster. Then you notice the offshore oil rig, silhouetted on the horizon. The bliss is explicitly at the cliff's edge — not metaphorical.
The technical execution is exceptional even by Fairey's standards. The sky alone deploys at least five distinct color separations — cream paper, pale gold, sky blue, periwinkle, and red — layered to create a pointillist haze that reads as atmospheric from a distance and reveals its screen-printed structure only on close inspection. The dark foreground cliff is printed in deep navy with a barely-visible damask pattern printed beneath, adding textural depth and a suggestion of ornate order being consumed by darkness. The umbrella's candy-stripe red is the single saturated pop in an otherwise tonal composition, drawing the eye to the oblivious sunbathers as the world's atmosphere burns behind them.
The print is hand-signed, hand-numbered, and hand-dated by Shepard Fairey in pencil, with a Verisart Digital Certificate of Authenticity from Obey Giant. Original retail was $60 at release, with a portion of proceeds going to Greenpeace USA — it sold out rapidly, as all Fairey Earth Day releases do. Deckled/hand-torn edges are visible on this example, which is a notable feature — please see photos.
Fairey's Statement on the Work "Happy Earth Day everyone! But then again, every day should be Earth Day since we live here every day! This 'Bliss at the Cliff's Edge' image is my modern take on the 19th-century romantic landscape featuring sunbathers enjoying the dramatic oceanside setting. The Industrial Revolution and the discovery of oil as a fuel source created convenient advances that left more leisure time for the public to enjoy. At the time, these advances seemed to have no downside but we now have an overwhelming scientific consensus that the pollution and carbon emissions from oil and gas are dramatically harming and heating the planet and contributing to more extreme weather. We are at the cliff's edge when it comes to preventing the most catastrophic damage to the planet. The technology exists, the only thing missing is the will of people to put the future of the planet and the lives of our children before convenience and profit. Happiness on the edge of the cliff." — Shepard Fairey, Earth Day 2024
Print Details Artist Shepard Fairey (OBEY) Title Bliss at the Cliff's Edge Year 2024 Medium Screen print on thick cream Speckletone paper Colors Cream, pale gold, sky blue, periwinkle, red, deep navy — multi-separation atmospheric sky Size 18" × 24" Edition Hand-numbered edition of 550 Signature Hand-signed, hand-numbered, and hand-dated in pencil by Shepard Fairey Publisher Obey Giant / Studio Number One Release April 25, 2024 (Earth Day release) — sold out at source at $60 Charity Portion of original proceeds donated to Greenpeace USA COA Verisart Digital Certificate of Authenticity (transferable to buyer) Paper Edges Hand-deckled/torn edges visible on this example — see photographs Edition Number Specific number ()
About the Work
Bliss at the Cliff's Edge belongs to the tradition of the Caspar David Friedrich romantic landscape — where nature dwarfs humanity and the sublime operates as both awe and warning — filtered through Fairey's street art sensibility and explicitly contemporary environmental politics. Friedrich's 19th-century figures gazed into fog-shrouded mountains; Fairey's gaze toward an oil rig. The visual language of leisure (beach umbrella, wide-brimmed hat, unhurried postures) is borrowed directly from Art Nouveau and WPA-era travel posters — a golden-age optimism that Fairey's composition allows you to inhabit for a moment before the industrial intrusion makes itself known. The cognitive dissonance is the point.
The sky is compositionally remarkable. Fairey builds it in layered, swirling color separations — a technique that echoes both ukiyo-e woodblock wave patterns and Maxfield Parrish's luminous atmospheric painting — where red and blue screens overlap to produce the lavender-purple haze that bleeds across the upper register. The result is simultaneously beautiful and threatening: a sunset sky that could be read as pollution, a horizon that glows too warmly. The cliff itself, printed in deep textured navy with a hidden floral damask pattern, creates a visual metaphor for the cultural ornament that obscures ecological reality — decoration over disaster.
Earth Day releases from Fairey carry consistent secondary market demand. Environmental subject matter with a dated activist context — especially tied to a specific charity release — tends to appreciate as the historical moment recedes and the political stakes of the imagery become clearer in retrospect. Bliss at the Cliff's Edge is already that kind of document: a gorgeous, technically accomplished print that will read very differently in 20 years than it does today.
About the Artist — Shepard Fairey (OBEY)
Born 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina, Shepard Fairey studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and launched the global street art movement through his Andre the Giant Has a Posse campaign in 1989. His work — held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, MoMA New York, LACMA, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London — operates at the intersection of graphic design, political activism, and fine art. His 2008 Obama HOPE poster is among the most recognized political images of the 21st century. Environmental prints constitute an increasingly significant portion of his activist output, with releases benefiting Greenpeace USA, the Sierra Club, and other organizations.
What Is Included
- Original Shepard Fairey Bliss at the Cliff's Edge screen print, 2024 Earth Day release
- Hand-signed, hand-numbered, and hand-dated in pencil by the artist
- Numbered limited edition of 550 — specific number (
- Thick cream Speckletone paper with hand-deckled edges — unframed
- Verisart Digital Certificate of Authenticity (transferable to buyer upon sale)
- Gauntlet Gallery digital provenance documentation
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