Death Spray Customs

Normally known for some gorgeous motorcycle paint jobs, this collective have gone outside their box and created a series of graphically painted car hoods called Delight & Destroy. Using brave colors and skilled typography each is a real work of art.

Check them out here.

Peter Stults

In a world (preview guy voice) where the actors of days gone past, return to have their revenge on recent movies. What would the posters look like? After seeing a series designed by Sean Hartter, Peter Stults knows and blesses us with his fantastically detailed designs of these modern meet classic marvels.


Peter Stults


Sean Hartter

Check out Peter's designs here.


Check out Sean's designs here.

mentalgassi

Mentalgassi's been around for a little while inserting his humor on everyday objects. Whether they're giant floating heads in a marina or a face on a ticket dispenser, he seems to really find gems wherever he bombs. He also did a really nice piece for Amnesty International a couple years back that I only now saw was his work.

Check it out here.

Stanley Borack

I have a new favorite artist of the moment. Stanley Borack. He passed away in 1993, so he's obviously not a new artist, but his work is fantastic. He served in the Navy during WW2 and when he got back went to art school to study painting. Out of school he started painting book and magazine covers, which is what he ended up doing for the remainder of his career. In my opinion, the strongest work came out of his pulp phase in the late 50s where he was doing covers for mystery novels about Nazis, cowboys and Amazon women. I love his use of negative space since he always new the title and author information would have to be laid into the composition.






Check it out here.

And here.

Susan Kare

This is a little off the norm, but it's total worth a gander. Susan Kare was the artist charged with creating the icons for Apple early on. Her sketchbook was recently scanned and publicized for all to gaze upon. It gives you a new appreciation for graph paper.

Check it out here.

Richard Sargent

Richard Sargent shoots billboards. Not in the redneck with a rifle and a pickup sense, but with a camera sense. He stalks decaying billboards in the East Bay area and frames them up square so they take on a really abstract quality. To take something from ugly to gorgeous in 1/250th of a second is a real talent.

Check them out here.

Max De Esteban

Max takes technique to the max on this project. He meticulously deconstructs the technology of yesteryear and photographs it layer by layer. He then reassembles the objects in Photoshop. I'm still trying to figure out how he got the color he did. It's amazing stuff.
He's currently showing the work at Klompching Gallery in NYC. So get up there before it comes down at the end of December.

Check it out here.

And here.

John Paul Thurlow

John is a master of graphite. His pencil drawings are the most insanely detailed works I've seen in a while. One of his series caught my eye recently. It's not his newest work, but its subject is certainly unique. Magazine covers. He does precisely detailed reproductions of magazine and record covers in pencil.

Check them out here.

Alexandra Bellissimo

I don't often feature photographers on here even though I have my degree in it. Chalk it up to over saturation, but there are exceptions. Alex is one of those. Her photo collages caught my eye because they're so extraordinarily simple. She combines things that you wouldn't normally see together, but in a really amazing way. She calls her work 'making pictures' instead of 'taking pictures'.

Check them out here.

Brian Hart

Brian is a painter from Massachusetts and a graduate of RISD. His work has a great textural quality to it and uses imagery from skeletons to Alice in Wonderland. One of his series caught my eye recently, his Alphabet Series. Each of the 26 paintings uses his standard catalog of images, but he hides an individual letter in each one. They're pretty rad.

Check them out here.

He's also got a really cool series of light paintings here.