Shepard Fairey’s Harmony & Discord opens today, Saturday May 5th, at Pace Prints in Chelsea. The exhibition features Fairey’s first works in handmade paper as well as his largest screen-prints to date. Harmony & Discord is a reference to the global dichotomy of politics and the forces it creates.
Fairey, who lives and works in L.A., created these technically complex prints at the Pace Edition studios in New York. Working at Pace Editions allowed Fairey to create work on a larger scale than would have been possible in his L.A. studio. The exhibition features silkscreens done with collage and spray-paint, as well as handmade paper, embossing and relief prints, and large metal plates with screen-print.
Pace Prints
The hand painted works in this series have backgrounds of stenciled pulp, collage and screen-print, allowing the image to pop off of the layered surface. This exhibition also marks the first time Fairey presents metal relief plates as art pieces, layered with silkscreen. From Obey.
Pace Prints
Pace Prints is a dealer and publisher of contemporary prints and is affiliated with the Pace Gallery.
Harmony & Discord
May 5 – June 16 2012
Opening Saturday May 5, 12-8pm
Pace Prints
521 West 26th Street (btwn. 10th & 11thth Ave.)
3rd & 4th Floors
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