David Spiller has made a solid lifetime career from his “keen eye and ear for the lyrical phrases and comic book ephemera of popular culture.” His iconic paintings synthesize the best of Americana, he admits, “The words just come. And sometimes they’re pure Bob Dylan, and then a bit of me. But that’s just because I’ve got a bad memory, as I’ve already said. If you can think of a way of saying ‘I love you’ that hasn’t already been said in a song by Dylan or the Beatles… well, I’m not sure you can really improve on it – there’s very little left to say.”

Though I wouldn’t think twice but to call what Spiller does Pop Art, it seems that he is not fond of that label, “it’s not tough enough”, said the artist. I would strongly disagree with that, Pop Art is our art, more people I know have Pop Art on their walls than Rembrandt’s or Goya’s. And though you can argue that one is more accessible than the other, its the art that is all around us, in our homes and on the streets, that sets the tone for our lives, so no I don’t agree that Pop Art is ‘not tough enough‘. Pop Art is Tough!

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1948 is Nike’s creative playground-retail store neatly tucked away in the old brick railway arches between Shoreditch High Street and Curtain Road in East London. In addition to displaying and selling shoes, 1948 offers an entire art floor for events, installations and a social meeting point.

This installation in 1948 was created by Finland-born illustrator/artist/designer Kustaa Saksi who creates retro-futuristic kaleidoscopic imagery, daunting and irresistible. This installation is all about the historical fun journey of the Nike running shoe.  Saksi is a Finnsh illustrator and designer living and working in Amsterdam, via Paris for four years. Saksi sprawling scene creation has a pop-art, retro feel familiar to his other works, and it fits perfectly with Nike’s history as a brand. Saksi’s Volkswagen van and psychedelic colors illustrate the pre-swoosh era in an earnest and deliberately clunky way.
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Wow, how amazingly inspirational are the curvy Pin-ups of George Petty ! He was one of the top “cheesecake” illustrators of the 30s and 40s. He began his career with a series of cartoons featuring beautiful girls and their far from handsome beaus. His work coined the term “Petty Girls“ to describe the carefully airbrushed girls with brilliant smiles and sexy poses. SO kitsch and so beautiful, I always deeply loved Pin-ups !

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Mauro Peruccheti’s work is a mixture of Minimalism and Pop Art fused together with an elegance and ironic touch. These works are political statement but the idiom is resolutely Pop. I like it a lot…See more of his work on www.mauroperucchetti.com

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Seattle based artist Micheal Leavitt is making a statement with cardboard. He is using a material as frivolous as cardboard to create life size sculptures of objects that relate directly to sub-cultures of people. I was calling it Pop Art but I think Safe Art may be a better category for it. One could argue the use of the word Art in this equation at all. I mean we all know how large and fanatic the sneaker heads are so by creating cardboard sculptures of some of the most popular models in footwear he is essentially… Read the full story

American Pop Artist, Mel Ramos is famous for his 1960’s paintings of Pin-up calendars and magazines , I Love his series on the Pin-up, its just Amazing!! [little parentheses Pin-ups are arriving strong as a Trend in Fashion Inspiration boards]. His work is humorous as he often poses the women with large, out-of place objects and gives the paintings amusing titles ( AC Annie, Lola Cola ). His work can also be described as Superrealism.

See the Virtual Book about Mel Ramos here

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Paul Insect is a interesting English artist, I would say his art is between genius and weird, he definitely like to provoke and his favorite subjects are Sex & Death – His Dead Bunny sculptures are my favorites. See the really cool Online Exhibition at Lazinc / The Manor

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