Barack Obama's campaign for president is certainly a study in PR and publicity at it's best.
The art world has been remarkably motivated to create and promote works in support of the campaign. Above and below are photos from yesterday's "Art the Change" shoot featuring Shepard Fairey (that's actress Persia White in front of the lens). Thanks to publicist Yosi Sergant, the work of Fairey has been everywhere throughout this campaign, rocketing the usual bland political paraphernalia into the realm of true art.
Artwork created by Cafepress for RocktheVote in conjunction with Fairey has flown into the American mainstream, and artists all over the country have offered works up for auction that will benefit Obama fund-raising.
Of his part in the Obama campaign Sergant recently told LA Weekly: “Barack Obama is a figurehead of a movement, I would call it the progressive movement. My goal is to get Obama elected. I use the mechanisms I know, which are basically artistic. Look how important the grass roots are. Look at the effect they can have. I drank the Kool-Aid. I am alive with it, I believe — an Obama saying — ‘we are the change we have been waiting for.’”
Below, Rosanna Arquette poses in front of an iconic Shepard Fairey painting.
