Week 9- Art in the News

In this month's edition of Los Angeles Magazine an article ran about the artist behind the Obama "Hope" posters so commonly associated with his current campaign.  I was surprised to learn that the artists behind the "Hope" poster was the same one behind the infamous "Obey" posters of Andre the Giant that have appeared in an almost guerrilla graffiti style around Los Angeles in the last several years.  The artists by the name of Shepard Fairely is a Los Angeles based "street" artists.  What surprised me the post about this article is the fact that Mr.Fairely had been cited on a number of occasions for illegal tagging and was then able to capture the national spotlight with his amazing poster of who could be our future president.