Artists’ statements

Writing an artist statement can be a hard thing to do. This could be because artists are such visual people and that’s how they have a creative side. Its hard to know what’s going on in an artist head. For whatever reason, doing an artist statement helps the non-creative people understand what the artist had in mind while creating his style of art. In order to make sure you have the attention of the reader you have to make sure about starting off with a bang. You have to stand out from other artist statements. You also have to think about less is more with artist statement. You cant confuse the reader only because you never know what their knowledge is about art. An artist statement should only be about six well-put together sentences. This gets your point across and doesn’t bore the reader. But in the end always give a second opinion about the artist and their work. This helps the reader keep an open mind about the artwork. This also gives you more input back, it also helps make your artist statement well rounded and will reach more people.

Shepard Fairey has become one of the most well-known artists of the early 2000s. He is most noted for being the artist who, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1989, created the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, which has evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, that can now be seen all over the world. The campaign has become, in Fairey's words, an "experiment in Phenomenology."

According to Fairey, “The first aim of Phenomenology is to reawaken a sense of wonder about one's environment. The Obey campaign attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the campaign and their relationship with their surroundings.  Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with Obey propaganda provoke thought and possible frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the viewer's perception and attention to detail. The medium is the message.”Recently Fairey has come under criticism for appropriating others' artwork into his own while failing to provide attribution for the work used.

Fairey received a Bachelor of Arts from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. His work has been featured in The New York Times, TIME, Salon.com, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, INC., Juxtapoz, Swindle, and many others. Shepard’s most recent monograph, Supply and Demand, was published by Ginko Press in 2006.

This is what I would have put. 

Shepard Fairy is a well-known graffiti artist who had came about in the early 2000s. he started his art career in Rhode island School of Design and had made the campaigns for “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” and also Obey the Giant. You can now see these as large wheat paste murals or smaller stickers around inner city environments.  He has recently made famous again for designing Obama’s Hope campaign. Even though Shepard Fairy’s artwork is classified as graffiti if it still being saved by thousands today.