2022. Open edition
24” x 36” (61 x 91 cm)
Offset lithograph on cream paper
Signed in pencil by the artist
"Wave of Distress" channels ocean imagery into a sense of unease rather than calm, using Fairey's illustrative precision to give a natural motif an anxious, unsettled quality. The title's ambiguity - is the wave itself distressed, or is it a warning sign - leaves room for interpretation while still fitting his broader pattern of embedding social commentary into deceptively simple imagery.