Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Mark Pernice



Mark Pernice is an artist living in Brooklyn who works in all different mediums. He's recently hit the spotlight with his series of masks based on Apple's Photobooth distorted pictures. They are fantastic and disturbing at the same time. Browsing through his site though, he's so much more that just a pop sensation for the masks. He thinks on a greater level than just humor. He's a designer, an artist, a writer and a craftsman.

Check out his work here.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Miss Bugs




Miss Bugs is an artist pair (girl and boy) living in London. They take visual cues from pop culture, cartoons and journalism. Then combine them into beautiful and graphic images that have an extraordinary dynamic. They cross seamlessly between the street and the gallery. Their new project 'Cut out and Fade out' takes these characters and puts blends them into scenes around London.

Check them out here.

Interview here.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Brett Amory



A painter from Oakland CA, Brett's newest series is about people waiting. That's it. Waiting. It's beautifully simple. He is a little more verbose on this statement, but for me I love the simplicity. It's a series of people from different places, in different places, all doing the same thing. Something we all spend an average of an hour doing everyday. That's 365 hours of waiting per year. That's a lot of waiting. It's about time someone gave waiting it's proper recognition.

Check it out here.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

A1ONE



A1ONE is an Iranian graffiti artist merging graf handstyle with Arabic script. Somewhat reminiscent of the work of Jose Parla, his layers of script create a cloud of text and shape that is at once calming and anxiety provoking. He works in many mediums, stencils, stickers, canvas and spray paint. He moves between the gallery and the street seamlessly.

Check it out here.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Ripo



Ripo is a graffiti artist from NYC. He has a good sense of humor and works in a bunch of different styles. I'm not sure what else to say about it other than check it out.

Check it out here.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Mike Shine



Mike is a painter influenced by vintage circus posters. He lives in the craziest surf tiki shack ever.


Check it out here.

Alexandre Orion



Orion is a Brazilian artist who is mostly known for his use of power washers to create his reverse graffiti in the tunnels of Sao Paolo. His newest project is dubbed Polugraphia. He builds a mount to hold a canvas and stencil behind a tailpipe of a truck and leaves it there for days as the truck drives about the city blasting sooty exhaust through the stencil onto the canvas.


Check it out here.