Shepard Fairey
Art Merchandise Clothes Apparel Artwork Posters Silkscreen Prints LithographsPolitical Street Artist to the New President of the USA
designed the now-classic, iconic campaign posters featuring Barack Obama
Hope Change Progress : Obey Giant : Andre the Giant : Subliminal Projects : Love Unites : Rock the Vote : Yes We Did
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Iconic Obey Giant and Obama Poster artist Shepard Fairey, while firmly campaigning for and supporting presidential candidate Obama, has come out strongly against President-elect Obama's choice of the divisive, intolerant anti-gay, anti-choice evangelical conservative fundamentalist pastor, Rick Warren, who has been named as the invocation speaker/prayer during the inauguration January 20, 2009. Fairey created the "Defend Equality: Love Unites" Poster in support of Gay and Lesbian civil and marriage rights, against California's Proposition 8, also known as Prop H8.
Shep Fairey has recently announced: "...I will be donating a chunk of the proceeds from an inauguration poster of Obama I was asked to create to the movement to overturn Prop 8. At first I was considering pulling my inauguration poster, but I think re-directing funds from it to put into a cause I care about is actually more constructive. Plus, I wouldn’t want withdrawing the image to come across as a blanket boycott of Obama. I’m sure I will ultimately disagree with Obama about many things, but I think I will agree with him on more. I think it is important to speak one’s mind, but also to not let the narcissism of petty differences sabotage our unity and progress."
