Powerfu l Images

An explorationOf the imageryThat surrounds us

Everyday,

Everywhere

We began with the work of Shepard Fairey,a street artist known for his “Obama Hope” posters and the “Obey” image

belowWith this image he urges the viewer to question the images around us.

-Andre Russimoff was a wrestler in the ‘80s

-Fairey’s famous image “Andre the Giant” is of this man

-He is the face in the “Obey” image

- IT IS ALL OVER BOSTON!

The first Shepard Fairey sightings were of 6 “Obama Hope” posters

We saw many Shepard Fairey Images

The Institute of Contemporary Art (The ICA)

We went to see Shepard Fairey’s exhibit “Supply and Demand”.

The pieces included political messages, portraits of musicians and social activists, and images of other social propaganda.

We surveyed people in the museum who were observing the art. One man who worked there said he has known Shepard for a long time and seen his art around Boston. He didn’t think his art should be in a museum and thought it was stronger in the street.

Our reaction was similar because we weren’t allowed to take pictures in the museum of

the artwork that was free all over the city, and the world.

A lot of us realized that we were actually familiar with Fairey’s work, without knowing it. Three of us even had clothing with his symbols on it.

Everyone’s reaction was “I want to do that!” or “how do you do that?”.

It truly inspired all of us.

The ICA!!!So we decided to interview people in the gallery as we did on the street, to see how the impact of the art changed depending upon the environment. But we also just wanted to see how it made us feel in different places.

THE WALL at The Kitchen, Central Square

We met a street artist.teSSo cool.

He gave us a personal tour of The Wall.

He told us about the artists, and gave us a social context for street art.

He was a business man in business dress!

Through the back kitchen doorup steep stairs

through a dark roomup a spiral staircase

to the roof!

Yikes.

We deconstructed advertisements.

We investigated censorship and bias in the media.

We compared the value of street art to the value of the same art on the walls of a museum.

We believe that street art is powerful.

If you can find it.

Colorful, meaningful, entertaining life altering experiences. overall hella cool that makes you think about things you normally don’t think about.

Suggested links

http://obeygiant.com/Shepard Fairey’s home page

http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/fairey/Shepard’s exhibit at the ICA

Join the Obey Facebook group!

The EndBrought to you by:

Jamie Kelly-Photographer/navigator/imovie Mallory Taylor-blogger/photographerCelia Dauber-blogger/photographer

Kacie Reitman-navigator/photographerJacob Noe-presentation/photographer

Nick Yi-blogger/photographer/navigatorJeff Holce-blogger/presentationJordan Elliott-King-senior leader

Miss Wilson

We all worked on the final presentation.