Since we’re creeping into October, it would be good to mention to anybody living in DC that Shepard will be participating in a group show at Irvine Contemporary on the 18th.  Regime Change Starts At Home features the work of Shepard Fairey, Al Farrow, and Paul D. Miller otherwise known as DJ Spooky.  For the collector, a special print will be created for the show and those in attendance will be able to see the last Obama Portrait from the edition of 3 .  Press release after the jump.

Regime Change Starts at Home
Shepard Fairey, Al Farrow, and Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)
October 18 – December 6, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 18, 6-8PM

Irvine Contemporary announces a politically-themed three-person exhibition, Regime Change Starts at Home, with new works by Shepard Fairey, Al Farrow, and Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky). Opening reception with the artists, Saturday, October 18, 6-8PM.

Shepard Fairey, internationally known for his iconic street art and graphics, will present new politically charged paintings and collage works on canvas and paper, including the last of three unique hand-painted and collaged portraits of Barack Obama. A new limited-edition print created specifically for the exhibition will accompany the artist’s unique hand-finished works.

In his first exhibition in Washington, DC, Al Farrow will present welded metal sculptures of religious structures, which are composed entirely of gun parts, bullets, artillery shells, and human bone. The works form striking commentaries on the militarism embedded in the histories of the three major religions. Farrow’s Christian reliquaries (in a series ironically titled “The Trigger Finger of Santo Guerro”) and exact-scale replicas of a Jewish synagogue and a Moslem mosque are based on historical models for which Farrow assembles appropriated gun parts symbolically related to the three religions.

The exhibition will premier Paul D. Miller’s (DJ Spooky) new multimedia project, Manifesto for the People’s Republic of Antarctica, which is based on his current work on the political and environmental issues surrounding Antarctica. Miller’s installation will combine a new video work with a series of posters and graphics that comment on Antarctica as a contested continent with a long and often suppressed political history.