Shepard Fairey, a native of Charleston who now works in Los Angeles, is making headlines again, this time in the Los Angeles Times (where the above photo comes from). He’s featured in an article that explores that place where arts and politics intersect with the most vitality.
From the LA Times: This year, some of the most arresting images in the race for the White House are not the work of ad agencies, political consultants or photojournalists but of a subculture of artists who use the streets as their canvas. Their pro-Obama work — there is no similar phenomenon for John McCain — has been spotted everywhere, even Paris and Beijing.
It’s an odd twist in the world of street art, an arena where creative renegades question power and convention with their homemade posters and hand-painted murals — and don’t usually endorse major party politicians.
“It’s not cool with the sort of rebellious, punk, street-artist types to support something that is seen as a part of the system,” said Shepard Fairey, the Los Angeles-based street artist responsible for the “Hope” posters and stickers.
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