Pam et Jenny

Pam et Jenny is French for Pam and Jenny. That's all the French I know. They list themselves as designers, but one of their series caught my eye as a real work of art. Their Scam* project looks so freakin' cool. I remember playing with this technique in school, but they've taken it to a whole new level. Dragging copies over a scanner as it scans deconstructs the images and causes an RGB noise that plays really well off the grainy black and white images. Most of their source material are images from text books of old paintings, but they also toss in some 60s looking images of people dressed like Warhol and what looks like Lou Reed, though they are somewhat abstracted. The format is cool too, long and narrow so they hang to the floor and roll out into the path of the viewer.

Check them out here.

Christopher Gideon

Christopher Gideon was born in middle America and his work takes influences of his surroundings. Crosses, billboards and baseball are all themes that show up in his art. His most recent series "America's Pastime" is created entirely out of vintage baseball cards. Not the amazing ones from cigarette packs from the 30s, but mid 70s and 80s afros and burnt sienna uniforms. He butchers the cards and then pastes them back together in patterns or weaves them together to reform the original image. They are harmonious and disjointed at the same time. They actually communicate a great deal of action in many of them. If nothing else, they are a super original medium to work in and he's done a great job with them.

Check them out here.

SiT

With street style being focused so much on intense color it takes a lot for someone who uses only black to get noticed, but that's exactly what SiT has been doing this year with his series NOIR. His bold use of black and wild line style give his work an energy usually reserved for brightly colored burners.

Via SiT: Artist SIT has been part of the Amsterdam creative scene for many years. Doing action painting, graphic design, advertising and more until he got fed up. He went back to square one to find his true essence. Back to head and handcraft.


Check his work out here.

Dana Tanamachi

Dana Tanamachi is a Brooklyn designer that works in a challenging medium: chalk. Usually reserved for hopscotch courts or sidewalks, Dana has taken the craft of chalk drawing in an artful new direction. Until this, the best chalkboard type I'd seen was at the grocery store, and that was nothing to brag about. This however is something to brag about if it was done on a computer, let alone in chalk. She has been getting a lot of buzz for her Nagging Doubt wine label designs, but her work stretches far beyond that.

Check it out here.

Been a minute.

Being a new father has been nuts and cutting in on my posting time. I just noticed it's been nearly a month, sorry bout' that.

Aske

Russian graffiti artist Aske has been as busy inside as he has outside. He's created amazingly intricate mosaics from plywood that defy belief. They are so detailed and colorful and kind of remind me of the original Tron.

Check them out here.

Sydney Cash

I know this isn't the normal aesthetic for this blog, but I just thought the work was so cool. Sydney is a sculptor and light painter. He creates graphic images on glass and then projects light through it to create light and shadow "paintings" on the walls the glass strips occupy. There's gotta be a rad outdoor application for this.

Check it out here.

becca

Becca is so different from most street work out there. She's soft, even dainty and has a flair of 50s fashion to her work. Her subjects are idealized females painted in an urgent way that shows both their energy and sensuality. She also focuses on female toddlers as well with their innocence, but usually tweaks them by adding firecrackers or the such.

Check our her work here.

Ludo

It seems like this is I.I.B Parisian edition. Ludo is from Paris as well, but has a whole different style. Using only black, white and day-glo green to make his surreal images. He pirates brand images, logos and messages like Blackberry or Del Monte and mocks them with his smart takes on their markets. One of my personal faves is his Del Monte pineapple skull.

Check it out here.

C215

C215 is a stencil artist who takes details to a whole new level. He's originally from Paris but has become almost a full time traveller spreading his sickly detailed stencils over seas. His subjects are more serene than most street artists consisting of everything from cats to babies.

Check it out here.