Philadelphia City Paper

March 11, 1999 “Critic Pick: Shepard Fairey” By: Neil Gladstone Could the late obey giant ever have imagined himself a symbol for underground art? Shepard Fairey’s stickers and posters have made the professional wrestler an anti-advertising symbol that can be found on street corners and back alleys across the nation. Fairey, who also appears at the ICA’s Sticker [...]

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The Post and Courier

Sunda,y, January 14, 1996 Charleston, SC “Artist captures attention with sticker based on Andre” by Nicholas Drake Special to The Post and Courier The most difficult task any artist faces is capturing the public’s attention. With so many vying for even a fractional moment of attention, few ever get Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame. Charleston-born Shepard Fairey [...]

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TRM Techno Renegade magazine

Australia, November 2000 “POST NO BILLS” by Timmy Everist ‘Pot’O’Gold’ is a new exhibition showcasing three of the biggest movers and shakers in the simultaneously subliminal, iconic and attractive world of street art. San Diego’s Shepard Fairey is ‘the man’who made putting stickers and gluing posters in public places a credible art form. His parody of commercial [...]

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WAD Magazine

#5 Summer 2000 France (french) By: Michaël Dupouy Groups of taggers, dangerous sect, new playstation game, new electronic album& we ll have heard just about anything about Giant. Yet this phenomenom still remains a mystery& Until now. The whole thing started about ten years ago, when Shepard Fairey, a skateboard addict and student at the Rhode Island school [...]

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Allt Om Stockholm

By: Christer Andersen Den amerikanske konstnÅ“ren Shepard Fairey har Å“gnat de senaste tio Ã¥ren Ã¥t att sprida bilden av den döde wrestlingstjÅ“rnan André the Giant som ett slags propagandaikon. I USA har över en miljon klistermÅ“rken och 12000 affischer med jÅ“ttens storebrorsliknande ansikte och budskapet “Obey” - lyd! - spridits i vad som kallats för en [...]

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Los Angeles Times magazine

January 23 , 2000 “SO SOCAL: The Beautyful, the Best, And the Bizzarre Social Style / Restaurants; My Billboard with Andre” Stephen Lemons Like some melancholy deity desperately seeking worshipers, the woeful, homely mug of the late French wrestling champ Andre Roussimoff, a.k.a. obey giant, has for the last two years quietly observed Los Angeles from utility boxes, [...]

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Letra Magazine

Sobre el Gigante Monterrey, Mexico 1998. Por Duranguillo Shepard Fairey comenzó todo cuando un amigo de él quería hacer stenciles de papel para pintar con aerosol y empezaron a buscar imágenes en el periódico y se encontraron con la de obey giant, Shepard decidió que la imagen era tan absurda que tenían que hacer algo con ella, [...]

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The Guardian

November 25 , 1999 “Stick ‘em up” London is being flooded with posters of a dead American wrestler. Iain Aitch meets the man behind it In the past couple of weeks London has been subjected to a whirlwind guerrilla marketing campaign. The image of a face that brings Orwell’s Big Brother to mind has been stuck, spray-painted and [...]

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Phazer Magazine

December 15 , 1997 “A GIANT Phenomenon” By Melissa Sankary Obey Giant has hit San Francisco again. Roaming the streets, one can’t help but notice the face of late heavy-weight wrestler plastered on billboards, slapped onto stop signs, or in some other inconspicuous place. But the image is not new to many of us who have been enjoying [...]

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Savannah Morning News

March 31 1999 by Allison Hersh Shepard Fairey’s absurdist propaganda coming to Savannah You may not know who Shepard Fairey is, but chances are you’ve seen his work around Savannah … or somewhere else in America. Fairey’s designs, featuring a black-and-white illustration of the face of obey giant emblazoned with the word “obey,” have been plastered on [...]

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Baltimore city Paper

March 31 1999 Urban Legend Shepard Fairey Has a Posse by Patrick Kennedy Iconography and repetition are tools of both the authoritarian state and the consumer world. Propelled by a campaign that duplicates a central image, the point—whether it is selling Nikes or the Ayatollah—is hammered home endlessly. Overkill is the name of the game. The strange [...]

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The Improper Bostonian

Preview October 4-17 2000 Giant Art By Ezra Dyer For the past 10 years, Shepard Fairey, an art school grad, skater and punk rock aficionado, has been watching as his own kitschy iconic stickers and posters have taken on a life of their own. When he stopped in Boston and distributed his drawing of a dead professional [...]

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Creative Review Magazine July 1997

Land of the giant. Author: Burgoyne, Patrick. He’s a 520 pound, seven feet four inch Russian wrestler and his face is on streets all over America. His image has graced over 650,000 stickers and 2,500 posters. He has been spotted in New York, in San Francisco and even at Jim Morrison’s Parisian graveside. obey giant first [...]

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Sticker shock: Artists’ Stickers.

Author: Moleski, Charles. Source: Art Papers v. 23 no3 May/June ‘99 Long a staple of popular culture, the “sticker” has steadily gained prominence as an art form and Sticker Shock: Artists’ Stickers, at the Institute for Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, January 16 - March 7), provides a thorough survey of this developing field. Participating artists employed a [...]

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Weird N.J.

Issue 14 Mystery Face Appears All Over New Jersey “I am a firefighter in Clifton, and over the years of driving through the city on numerous calls, I have noticed this strange face painted on various objects throughout the city. Does anyone else know about it? I have also seen this face on the Whitestone bridge [...]

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Views

Rhode Island School of Design/Fall 2000 Publishing Director: Liz O’ Neil Fairey Still has a Posse A decade after it all began at RISD, the Andre the Giant campaign is still going strong thanks to a posse of international rebels led by Shepard Fairey 92 IL, the mastermind behind this global experiment in phenomenology. Fairey has [...]

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Freeload magazine

August 2000 Spindoctors Media BV txt: Joris van Drooge obey giant FROM WRESTLING HERO TO INTERNATIONAL STREET ICON De Amerikaanse kunstenaar Shepard Fairey dicht eigenhandig het gat tussen musea en graffiti. Zijn posters en stickers met tekeningen van de worstelaar obey giant plakken hij en zijn netwerk - illegaal - in vrijwel alle grote Amerikaanse steden. en daarbuiten: [...]

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BNI Magazine

September 2000 “Watchtower” by Jenny Reid “Dear watchtower, what’s with all the obeygiant stickers in Dublin? my friend says it’s a cult, any ideas?” Some call him an artist, some claim he’s a cult leader. A lot of people think art is for the viewer, this does not describe Shepard Fairey, the person most commonly credited with [...]

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