Shepard Fairey, Uplift Justice (2023)

Uplift Justice (2023)

• Artists: Shepard Fairey (American, born 1970)
• Medium:  Screenprint on cream Speckletone paper
• Dimensions : 60.96 × 91.44 cm
• Edition: 500 
• Signature: Hand-signed by  Shepard Fairey and hand-numbered
• Emboss: OBEY stamp blind emboss lower right

Uplift Justice (2023) is among the most compositionally ambitious works Shepard Fairey has produced in recent years — a large-format vertical offset lithograph that synthesises portraiture, symbolism, and decorative pattern into a single unified statement about aspiration, equity, and resistance. A woman gazes upward, her hands raised on either side of her face in a gesture simultaneously devotional and defiant. Above her, a figure holds the scales of justice aloft, crowned by a blazing red peony — Fairey's recurring emblem of beauty persisting in the face of power. The OBEY seal marks the figure's forehead like a third eye. Surrounding the central axis, torn layers of collaged pattern — geometric, floral, global — frame the composition in the layered, poster-within-a-poster structure that defines Fairey's most complex graphic work.

The palette is characteristically masterful: deep teal, warm amber, cream, and a single accent of red that draws the eye directly to the lotus and the scales — the two symbols of natural beauty and human justice at the work's thematic core. The composition reads simultaneously as political poster, spiritual icon, and fine art print — the three registers Fairey has always occupied with equal conviction.

Printed as an offset lithograph on thick cream Speckletone paper and signed by the artist, Uplift Justice is a strong and timely addition to Fairey's body of socially engaged work, and a compelling companion piece to Ominous Ripple for collectors building a focused Fairey holdings.

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Is this an original Shepard Fairey print? Yes — an original offset lithograph on thick cream Speckletone paper, signed by the artist.

What is the difference between an offset lithograph and a screenprint? An offset lithograph is printed using a plate-based photomechanical process, allowing for finer detail and larger editions than screenprint. Fairey uses both techniques across his publishing programme depending on the complexity of the composition.

What is the edition size? 500 impressions.

What is the symbolic meaning of the work? The composition combines the scales of justice, a peony symbolising beauty and resilience, and a female figure gazing upward — a visual argument for the inseparability of social justice and human dignity, rendered in Fairey's signature activist graphic language.

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Do you ship internationally? Yes — worldwide, with museum-grade flat packaging suited to large-format works, full insurance, and shipment tracking.