Supply & Demand at the ICA Boston

We wanted to share some photos from Shepard Fairey’s Museum exhibition at the Boston ICA with you…

The show, entitled SUPPLY & DEMAND opened last week. It is a 20-year (mid-career) survey of Shepard Fairey’s work, and the artist’s first museum exhibition.

The work was divided into categories, and the space displayed it accordingly.

The sections were labeled thematically.

Vintage "Andre" images along with more contemporary stylized versions greeted visitors arriving in the first room of the exhibition.

This enormous wall mural was created especially for the museum exhibition.

A wall of framed smaller works stretch out across the wall facing the large mural.

Jim Houser and Jonathan LeVine were in the house!

As was our dear friend, Caleb Neelon.

In other words… "Fight the power!"

This piece was part of Fairey’s 2007 exhibition E Pluribus Venom with us, here in New York.

The Portraiture section included many iconic faces.

This one hardly needs an introduction, Shepard’s ubiquitous Hope image for Barack Obama.

The infamous OBEY manifesto.

A display case full of vintage stencils, stickers, and other ephemera from the early days.

Shepard’s come a long way since that original Andre the Giant stencil!

Stylized works show the evolution of Shepard’s process over the years.

A wall of decks…

Some of Shepard’s finest "Album Cover" pieces…

A wall of rubyliths…

Of course, in recent years, Shepard’s political imagery made strong statements on the Iraq war.

Commanda.

A couple of large works complement eachother this room, powerful in their dramatic scale.

As well as these smaller works, framing the entrance way.

At the press preview, reporters had plenty of questions for the artist.

Which he answered, graciously, one by one.

Pedro Alonzo, curator of the show, assisted Shepard with his Q&A and presentation of the work.

The media was in full attendance for the event.

Meanwhile, museum members and collectors who loaned their works for the exhibition were invited to a special dinner reception in honor of the occasion. On our way to the dinner, we passed one of the many street pieces Shepard and his crew put up while in Boston during the weeks prior to the exhibition.

There was a friendly game of pool while we waited to eat.

Marc and Sara Schiller, of the Wooster Collective, with Dan Flores of Obey.

Nic Bowers, head assistant at Obey, and Spencer Elden (once the baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover, now 17-years old and Shepard Fairey’s intern)!

Adam Wallacavage, Phil Frost, and Shepard Fairey.

Shepard Fairey with his proud parents.

Shepard and Amanda Fairey.