Shepard Fairey/Obey + Alfredo Gonzalez/Dofre 'Make Art Not War' (Black) Print Release Details

Artist: Shepard Fairey/Obey + Alfredo Gonzalez
Title: Make Art Not War (Black)
Medium: Handpulled Multi Color Screen Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: 150
Prices: $120

 

*available at 1pm EST on Thursday November 6th, 2025

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Frank Shepard Fairey, born 15 February 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina, is the creative force behind the global OBEY movement. While studying illustration at Rhode Island School of Design he launched the 1989 sticker campaign André the Giant Has a Posse, transforming a grainy newspaper photo of the wrestler into a stark black-and-white icon accompanied only by the command “OBEY”. The project was never about the man; it was an experiment in viral psychology, testing how a meaningless image could propagate through skate parks, city walls and college dorms once it looked official and appeared everywhere. Fairey’s answer came quickly: the sticker multiplied, becoming one of the most ubiquitous street images of the 1990s and laying the groundwork for his clothing label OBEY Clothing (est. 2001) and design agency Studio Number One (2003).

Fairey’s style marries the visual punch of propaganda posters with the immediacy of DIY print culture. Hand-cut stencils, bold blocks of red, white and black, and crisp vector lines deliver messages that are easy to read from a moving bus yet rich in layered meaning. He cites Soviet constructivism, 1980s skateboard graphics and punk flyers as equal influences, and his philosophy is simple: “question everything”. That ethos turned political in 2008 when he created the HOPE portrait of then-senator Barack Obama, a screen-print that fused his signature palette with a forward-gazing gaze and the single word “HOPE”. The image became the unofficial emblem of Obama’s presidential campaign, praised by The New Yorker as the most efficacious American political illustration since Uncle Sam Wants You.

Since then Fairey has focused on issues rather than personalities, tackling climate change, campaign-finance reform, gun violence and human rights through posters, murals and limited-edition prints. His process remains hands-on: he cuts stencils by hand, pulls his own screens and pastes works on walls from Los Angeles to Lisbon, insisting that reproducibility keeps art democratic. Institutions including MoMA, the Smithsonian and London’s V&A have acquired his prints, yet he continues to paste illegally, proving that museum validation has not dulled his subversive edge.

Today Fairey lives and works in Los Angeles, producing monumental murals, album covers and clothing graphics that continue to blur the boundary between fine art, commerce and activism. Whether painting a five-storey portrait of a voting rights activist or releasing a run of anti-NRA stickers, he treats every surface as public space for civic dialogue, demonstrating that ink on paper can still shift consciousness and, occasionally, history itself.

Alfredo Gonzalez, who signs his work Dofre, is an Oxnard-based contemporary artist represented by Sugar Press Art. Born with graffiti roots, he merges traditional oil painting with bold, deconstructed portraiture to create what critics call “disrupted realism”. Using brushes, palette knives and aerosol, he builds fractured faces where eyes, mouths and hands float across raw linen, suggesting emotional dislocation rather than physical likeness.

His palette balances classical ochres with neon sprays, allowing thick impasto to collide with transparent glazes so the surface flickers between old master depth and street art immediacy. Recent series such as Aún Así layer metallic gold over asphalt black, then scratch away sections to reveal under-painting, a technique that mirrors the way memory erodes and reforms. Each limited edition is hand embellished, ensuring no two prints are identical.

Gonzalez exhibits widely, from Grand Bohemian Gallery group shows to online drops that sell out within hours. Through every ruptured portrait he offers a single message: identity is never fixed, but always in flux, painted and repainted by experience, culture and the city that raised him.

Shepard Fairey/Obey + Alfredo Gonzalez/Dofre 'Make Art Not War' (Cream) Print Release Details

Artist: Shepard Fairey/Obey + Alfredo Gonzalez
Title: Make Art Not War (Cream)
Medium: Handpulled Multi Color Screen Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: 150
Prices: $120

 

*available at 1pm EST on Thursday November 6th, 2025

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Frank Shepard Fairey, born 15 February 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina, is the creative force behind the global OBEY movement. While studying illustration at Rhode Island School of Design he launched the 1989 sticker campaign André the Giant Has a Posse, transforming a grainy newspaper photo of the wrestler into a stark black-and-white icon accompanied only by the command “OBEY”. The project was never about the man; it was an experiment in viral psychology, testing how a meaningless image could propagate through skate parks, city walls and college dorms once it looked official and appeared everywhere. Fairey’s answer came quickly: the sticker multiplied, becoming one of the most ubiquitous street images of the 1990s and laying the groundwork for his clothing label OBEY Clothing (est. 2001) and design agency Studio Number One (2003).

Fairey’s style marries the visual punch of propaganda posters with the immediacy of DIY print culture. Hand-cut stencils, bold blocks of red, white and black, and crisp vector lines deliver messages that are easy to read from a moving bus yet rich in layered meaning. He cites Soviet constructivism, 1980s skateboard graphics and punk flyers as equal influences, and his philosophy is simple: “question everything”. That ethos turned political in 2008 when he created the HOPE portrait of then-senator Barack Obama, a screen-print that fused his signature palette with a forward-gazing gaze and the single word “HOPE”. The image became the unofficial emblem of Obama’s presidential campaign, praised by The New Yorker as the most efficacious American political illustration since Uncle Sam Wants You.

Since then Fairey has focused on issues rather than personalities, tackling climate change, campaign-finance reform, gun violence and human rights through posters, murals and limited-edition prints. His process remains hands-on: he cuts stencils by hand, pulls his own screens and pastes works on walls from Los Angeles to Lisbon, insisting that reproducibility keeps art democratic. Institutions including MoMA, the Smithsonian and London’s V&A have acquired his prints, yet he continues to paste illegally, proving that museum validation has not dulled his subversive edge.

Today Fairey lives and works in Los Angeles, producing monumental murals, album covers and clothing graphics that continue to blur the boundary between fine art, commerce and activism. Whether painting a five-storey portrait of a voting rights activist or releasing a run of anti-NRA stickers, he treats every surface as public space for civic dialogue, demonstrating that ink on paper can still shift consciousness and, occasionally, history itself.

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Alfredo Gonzalez, who signs his work Dofre, is an Oxnard-based contemporary artist represented by Sugar Press Art. Born with graffiti roots, he merges traditional oil painting with bold, deconstructed portraiture to create what critics call “disrupted realism”. Using brushes, palette knives and aerosol, he builds fractured faces where eyes, mouths and hands float across raw linen, suggesting emotional dislocation rather than physical likeness.

His palette balances classical ochres with neon sprays, allowing thick impasto to collide with transparent glazes so the surface flickers between old master depth and street art immediacy. Recent series such as Aún Así layer metallic gold over asphalt black, then scratch away sections to reveal under-painting, a technique that mirrors the way memory erodes and reforms. Each limited edition is hand embellished, ensuring no two prints are identical.

Gonzalez exhibits widely, from Grand Bohemian Gallery group shows to online drops that sell out within hours. Through every ruptured portrait he offers a single message: identity is never fixed, but always in flux, painted and repainted by experience, culture and the city that raised him.

Kerry James Marshall 'Vignettes' Folio Available

Artist: Kerry James Marshall
Title: Vignettes
Medium: Giclee Prints
Size: (A3) 29.7 x 42 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Prices: £195

 

Kerry James Marshall is an American painter born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955, whose real name is Kerry James Marshall. He is celebrated for placing Black subjects at the center of Western art history, using deep, obsidian pigments to assert presence and challenge centuries of erasure. After moving to Los Angeles in 1963 and studying at Otis College of Art and Design, he developed a precise, layered technique that fuses Renaissance glazing with contemporary narrative, often working in egg tempera for unmatched chromatic depth.

His landmark pieces include A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self (1980), a near-black figure emerging from an equally black ground, and the monumental Many Mansions (1994), where three impeccably dressed men tend a flowerbed in front of crumbling public housing, ironically titled after a biblical promise of abundance. These works confront stereotypes while infusing scenes of everyday Black life with dignity, hope and biting satire.

Marshall’s practice extends to history painting, collage and public murals, all aimed at “wrestling with the sinewy, sneaky forces of colonization, privilege and erasure”. His 2012 canvas School of Beauty, School of Culture reimagines Velázquez’s Las Meninas inside a bustling African American hair salon, complete with a distorted Disney princess that critiques Western beauty standards.

Recipient of a 1997 MacArthur Fellowship and the 2014 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Marshall continues to live and work in Chicago, producing works that insist on the visibility, complexity and beauty of Black experience within the grand narrative of art.

Eelus 'Weight Of Choice' Print Available

Artist: Eelus
Title: Weight Of Choice
Medium: Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition: 35
Prices: £200

 

Eelus is the professional alias of Lee Pennington, a self taught British artist born in Wigan in 1979 who helped shape the early UK street art scene. He began selling hand drawn Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles posters to classmates at age nine, an enterprise that funded extra chocolate bars and foreshadowed a lifelong obsession with accessible art. After moving to London in the early 2000s he adopted the moniker Eelus, a shortening of “Eel Boy,” a nickname given by an ex girlfriend who thought his tall, goth like silhouette resembled the slippery creature.

Working exclusively with hand cut stencils and aerosol, he creates high impact images that merge stark monochrome figures with sudden eruptions of candy colour, suggesting the perpetual tension between light and dark while celebrating the resilience of the human spirit. His breakthrough piece, a young girl walking a Star Wars AT-AT on a leash, appeared on East End walls and sold out as a limited print through Banksy’s Pictures on Walls label, catapulting Eelus into the international spotlight and becoming an icon of the burgeoning movement.

Invitations followed to paint at Banksy’s Cans Festival and to exhibit alongside Shepard Fairey and D*Face, yet Pennington has remained grounded, relocating to Brighton where the sea breeze informs quieter, more introspective works. Recent murals feature spectral silhouettes dissolving into prismatic rainbows, and gallery canvases layer gold leaf over pitch black forms, proving that even after two decades his visual language continues to evolve while retaining its signature optimism. Whether printing on paper, painting on brick or installing translucent sculptures in abandoned chapels, Eelus offers the same promise: beauty can bloom anywhere darkness tries to take root.

Thierry Noir 'On The Road To Happiness And Success' Print Application Open

Artist: Thierry Noir
Title: On The Road To Happiness And Success
Medium: 8 Color Screen Print
Size: 131 x 60 cm
Edition: 50
Prices: £1,800

 

Thierry Noir, born Thierry Noir in 1958 in Lyon, France, is a pioneering French artist and muralist celebrated for his vibrant, simplified aesthetic and his historic role in transforming the Berlin Wall into a canvas of resistance. In January 1982, drawn by the creative energy of West Berlin and inspired by musicians like David Bowie and Iggy Pop, he moved to the city with little more than two suitcases and a one-way train ticket. Living in a squat overlooking the Wall, he was struck by the oppressive, monochrome atmosphere and began painting it illegally in April 1984, becoming the first artist to do so.

Working under constant threat of arrest by East German border guards, Noir developed his now-iconic “Fast Form Manifest” style: bold, continuous black outlines filled with bright, flat colours, often completing murals in minutes. His figures elongated profiles with big noses and bulging eyes were not meant to beautify the Wall but to demystify and ridicule it, turning a symbol of division into one of defiance and freedom. Over five years, he painted more than three kilometres of the Wall, influencing fellow artists like Keith Haring and contributing to a movement that ultimately helped erode the Wall’s authority.

Since the Wall’s fall in 1989, Noir has exhibited worldwide, from London to Los Angeles, and his work has appeared in films like Wings of Desire and on the cover of U2’s Achtung Baby. Today, he continues to create murals and limited-edition prints, maintaining that art should remain a playful, rebellious act that challenges authority and spreads colour in the face of oppression.

The Chemist's Daughter 'Achos' Print Available

Artist: Hannah Tometzki/The Chemist's Daughter
Title: Tough Guy
Medium: Gold Leaf Embossed Print
Size: 11.5 x 11.5 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Prices: £26

 

Hannah Tometzki works under the studio name The Chemist’s Daughter, a nod to her upbringing in a family-run pharmacy in rural Wales where shelves of coloured pills and glass beakers first sparked her fascination with hue and form. Today, based in a light-filled studio near Cardiff, she creates abstract paintings that fuse geological observation with emotional memory, producing canvases that feel like stratified sunsets compressed under glass.

Working primarily in acrylic and resin, Tometzki pours, drags and pools layers of translucent pigment, allowing each coat to semi-cure before adding the next. Titanium white is forced through wet ultramarine to create marble-like veins, while powdered copper and bronze settle into fissures that catch gallery spotlights like seams of precious ore. The final high-gloss resin seals the topography, giving the surface the depth and clarity of a polished gemstone viewed under a microscope.

Colour choices are instinctive yet grounded in place: ochres and rusts echo the iron-rich soil of Welsh quarries, acid greens recall copper runoff she saw while hiking abandoned mines, and sudden flashes of rose mirror the Himalayan salt lamps that lined her childhood dispensary. Each piece is titled after geological strata or pharmaceutical compounds, reinforcing the link between earth science and personal healing.

Recent exhibitions at Kooywood Gallery Cardiff and The Workers Gallery Ynyshir have sold out, while commissions have transformed hospital reception areas and private residences into calming portals of colour. Whether working on a metre-wide canvas or a small resin tile, Tometzki seeks the fragile moment when pigment, gravity and memory solidify into a lasting record of transformation, reminding viewers that beauty often emerges where chemistry and emotion collide.

Josh Criswell 'Tough Guy' Print Available

Artist: Josh Criswell/Crozz Draws
Title: Tough Guy
Medium: 2 Color Linocut Print
Size: 8 x 10 Inches
Edition: UNSURE
Prices: $30

 

Josh Criswell, who publishes under the studio name Crozz Draws, is an American painter, printmaker and art educator born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Working from a modest studio filled with hip-hop, hardcore and punk-rock playlists, he hand-carves linoleum blocks that explore the paradoxes of life: danger beside growth, violence beside pleasure, mortality beside vibrant colour. Skulls, tigers and anonymous figures recur in his prints, each rendered with obsessive symmetry and a crisp, high-contrast palette that echoes the urgency of gig posters and protest flyers.

His process begins with meticulous sketches that map every contour, ensuring that each knife-cut line will lock into a perfect mirrored balance. Ink is then rolled onto the block and pressed onto delicate 80 gsm paper, producing small editions where subtle variations in pressure become part of the final rhythm. Recent pieces such as Tiger Style and Woman on Phone layer hand-painted gold leaf or neon washes over the initial black pull, adding contemporary shimmer to the raw relief surface.

Criswell has exhibited at Point Five Gallery, Vestige Concept Gallery and Nevin Kelly Gallery in Washington D.C., while online drops through Crozz Draws sell out within minutes. When he is not carving, he teaches printmaking to high-school students, encouraging them to treat the block as a stage where personal fears and communal hopes can perform together. Through every symmetrical skull and blooming rose, he offers a simple reminder: imperfection is part of the dance, and beauty often begins where the blade slips.

Lara Bujanda 'Torch Bearer' Print Available

Artist: Lara Bujanda
Title: Torch Bearer
Medium: 3 Color Screen Print
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Edition: 25
Prices: €40

 

Lara Bujanda is a Spanish illustrator and screen-printer who operates from a Berlin studio under the imprint Subterranean Prints, a one-woman design workshop dedicated to striking gig-poster art. Born in Spain and now aged thirty-nine, she migrated to Germany seeking a fertile, affordable base where she could control every stage of production, from initial sketch to final squeegee pull. Working primarily with hand-cut stencils and layered acrylic ink, she builds dense, high-contrast imagery that fuses the raw immediacy of punk flyers with the refined alignment of Swiss poster tradition. Her palettes tend toward bruised purples, hazard oranges and metallic silvers, colours that leap off matte black paper and echo the thunder of the heavy bands she often represents.

Bujanda’s creative process is deliberately physical. She begins each commission by listening repeatedly to the client’s album, absorbing tempo changes and lyrical themes, then distils those sensations into a single emblematic scene. Sketches are translated into rubylith films, cut with a surgical knife and printed on recycled stock pulled through a manual carousel press. Editions rarely exceed one hundred copies, ensuring every sheet bears subtle variations in ink density and registration that collectors prize as proof of handmade authenticity.

Despite humble beginnings screen-printing demo sleeves for local punk collectives, her reputation has grown through word-of-mouth among metal, hardcore and electronic labels across Europe. Recent commissions include the atmospheric cover for Norwegian progressive outfit In Vain, praised for its “classy, doomy” elegance that mirrors the record’s sonic scope. Interviews reveal an artist comfortable with evolution: she jokes about once living “as punk as possible” but now embraces precision, proof that craft and rebellion can coexist when ink meets paper under the steady hand of Subterranean Prints.

Ima Pico 'Bouba 14' Original Available

Artist: Ima Pico
Title: Bouba 14
Medium: Acrylic Original
Size: 23 x 23 cm
Edition: UNIQUE
Prices: £50

 

Ima Pico is a Spanish born visual artist now based in Manchester, United Kingdom, where she creates vibrant geometric abstractions that pulse with Mediterranean warmth and urban edge. After earning a Fine Arts degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, she relocated to England and established Ima Pico Studio, a workspace that doubles as a laboratory for colour, form and digital experimentation. Her practice spans painting, screen print and installation, all united by a fascination with hard edged shapes and bold, saturated hues.

Pico begins each composition with hand cut stencils and vector sketches, translating angular silhouettes into layered arrangements of coral, turquoise, sunflower and emerald. These blocks of colour interlock like abstract architecture, suggesting city skylines, festival bunting or fragments of memory viewed through stained glass. She often works on a small scale first, producing mini canvases and paper editions that invite close inspection, then expands the same visual language into larger wall pieces and immersive environments.

Recent series explore media saturation and sensory overload, using repetition and gradient shifts to echo the endless scroll of digital feeds. Despite the crisp geometry, her process remains intuitive; she sands edges, adds gestural marks and allows under-painting to peek through, ensuring each piece retains a human pulse.

Exhibitions at Artelista and group shows across Valencia and Manchester have sold out, while commissions have brightened co-working spaces and private homes throughout the North West. Whether printing a limited edition or painting a full wall, Pico approaches every surface with the same goal: transform abstract form into pure joy and remind viewers that colour, when arranged with conviction, can feel as alive as any landscape.

Karoline Rerrie 'Pretty Pair' Print Available

Artist: Karoline Rerrie
Title: Pretty Pair
Medium: 3 Color Screen Print
Size: (A4) 21 x 29.7 cm
Edition: 17
Prices: £35

Karoline Rerrie is a Birmingham based illustrator and printmaker who has spent more than a decade transforming folk motifs into vivid screen printed celebrations. Born in the Midlands, she grew up surrounded by local craft fairs and community festivals, an upbringing that instilled a love of pattern, story and shared making. After studying illustration she dedicated herself to hand pulled print processes, building a practice that balances meticulous design with the happy accidents that occur when ink meets mesh.

Her visual language is built on three pillars: bold black outlines, bright flat colour and repeat pattern. She begins each piece with loose pencil sketches of flowers, birds or interlocking shapes, then refines the drawing into separations that can be cut from rubylith or painted directly onto screen. Layers of fluorescent pink, turquoise and sunflower yellow are printed onto recycled papers, creating final images that feel both contemporary and timeless. Recent editions depict ornate songbirds perched among geometric blossoms, their wings echoing the rhythm of traditional Eastern European textiles.

Rerrie sells original prints, greetings cards and zines through local markets and online shops, keeping prices accessible so that original art can travel beyond gallery walls. She also runs popular screen print workshops, guiding newcomers to mix colour, pull squeegees and discover the joy of imperfect registration. Exhibitions at Birmingham Open Studios, Art in the Park Leamington and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists have sold out, while commissions have brightened hospital corridors and independent cafés across the city.

Whether teaching, printing or sketching on the train, Rerrie approaches every surface with the same goal: spread colour, share pattern and remind viewers that beauty can be handmade, affordable and full of heart.