Shepard Fairey

first, i still cant believe this is his real name....
my mama and i met in boston for the weekend to have "girltime" and amidst all of the wonderful food we ate, including a decadent swored fish- we took the train over to the ICA museum in Boston to check out the Shepard Fairy exhibit. The museum was nice inside, but as my mom put it, "it didnt have the best flow." the set up isnt as nice as other museums i have gone to, it isnt any fun to walk through a part of an exhibit and end up at a dead end only to have to turn around. regardless of this, people were flockin' like it was their job to check out Shepard Fairy's stuff. Now, i have never been a huge fan, ive always really liked his andre the giant stencils, and i like the fact that he got his start in new england with graffiti art. I was also pleasantly surprised at the amount of antiwar and pure political symbolism that he uses. i didnt really know what to expect,,,but one of the pieces surely blew me away. It was a large piece, covering an entire wall of the museum that displayed a Muslim woman's face with her mouth covered, an anti war logo, beautiful tapestry prints in the background and bombs witb flowers exploding out of them (i couldnt find a photo of it). now, if anyone knows me, the staunch anti war activist that i am....this one was right up my skinny alley. heres a video to look at, i dont feel like typing anymore :(