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L.A.-based artist Shepard Fairey created the now-ubiquitous graphic of Obama, who wrote to him, ?Your images have a profound effect on people.?
Associated Press
10:42 AM PST, February 7, 2009

BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue “Hope” posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said today.

Shepard Fairey, 38, was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called “Supply and Demand.”

‘Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey’
Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he’d tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career, police Officer James Kenneally said Saturday.

Fairey, 38, of Los Angeles, is scheduled to be arraigned on the misdemeanor charges Monday in Brighton District Court, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney. Wark said Fairey would also be arraigned on a default warrant related to a separate graffiti case in the Roxbury section of Boston.

Fairey has spent the last two weeks in the Boston area installing the ICA exhibit and creating outdoor art, including a 20-by-50 foot banner on the side of City Hall, according to a statement issued Saturday by the museum.

The museum said Fairey was released a few hours after his arrest, but authorities did not immediately confirm that.

Fairey’s Obama image has been sold on hundreds of thousands of stickers and posters, and was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington before Obama’s inauguration.

The image is the subject of a copyright dispute with The Associated Press. Fairey argues his use of the AP photo is protected by “fair use,” which allows exceptions to copyright laws based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.

A California lawyer who has represented Fairey in the copyright case didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on the arrest.

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LOS ANGELES – Evol One

found at juxtapoz

As momentous an occasion in the world of underground art – albeit on a much smaller scale – as Barack Obama?s victory on the national stage was the induction of presidential propagandist Shepard Fairey?s portrait of our new leader into the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum on Saturday. The first official portrait of the president-to-be recognized in an American cultural institution, Shepard?s image shatters the barriers of acceptability of the so-called worlds of ?underground? and ?street? art to catapult one of its foremost talents to the hallowed halls of history, and forever brightening the school field trips of young museum goers in the process. It?s a brave new world out there people, art world 2.0 begins now.

Found this shit on some birds-eye view site was actually looking for a different roof top when I came across it. Here is a different shot of it too.