Shepard Fairey Warning Addictive New Deal Signed Numbered OBEY Art Print /250
About the work
About This Piece
Gauntlet Gallery · Authenticated Street & Pop Art
Shepard Fairey — “Warning Addictive (New Deal)”
Signed & numbered, edition of 250
The Work
Warning Addictive is quintessential Shepard Fairey satire, wrapping a critique of consumer culture inside the polished aesthetics of advertising and mid-century political branding. The piece borrows the reassuring visual cues of a public information notice, then subverts them, using the OBEY brand as a stand-in for every product, ideology and image we are conditioned to consume without question. The result is a design that looks authoritative and inviting even as it warns you against exactly that impulse.
The work sits squarely within Fairey's ongoing experiment in phenomenology, his idea that repeated exposure to an image can make it feel meaningful regardless of its content. By dressing the message in the ornate framing and confident typography of an official seal, he demonstrates how easily style masquerades as substance. It is a knowing wink at both the propagandist and the willing audience.
Hand-signed and numbered in pencil by Shepard Fairey, from an edition of 250.
Details at a Glance
| Artist | Shepard Fairey |
|---|---|
| Title | Warning Addictive (New Deal) |
| Year | — |
| Medium | Screen print on cream Speckletone paper |
| Edition | Signed & numbered, edition of 250 |
| Size | — |
| Subject | Consumerism / propaganda critique |
| Signature | Hand-signed and numbered in pencil by Shepard Fairey; edition of 250 |
| Condition | Very Good |
Condition
Graded Very Good. Please review every photo closely — the images are part of the description and show the actual piece you will receive.
Authenticity & Provenance
Hand-signed and numbered in pencil by Shepard Fairey; edition of 250. This is an authentic Shepard Fairey / OBEY Giant limited-edition print.
This release is documented in the Gauntlet Gallery Shepard Fairey reference archive at fairey.gauntlet.gallery.
Sold by Gauntlet Gallery, a specialist dealer in authenticated street art and pop art. Questions are welcome before purchase.
Shipping & Handling
- Ships flat-rolled in a heavy-duty tube, protected in an archival sleeve, fully insured.
- Packed and shipped from a smoke-free studio in Concord, CA.
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