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Imminent Disaster

November 6, 2008 at 4:30 PM | 0 Comments

Our latest street art blast comes from the awesomely named Imminent Disaster. Keeping with tradition, not much is known about this young artist, except she's a girl who's based in New York.

Most of Imminent Disaster's work echos styles of the past, and stark, mysterious wood cut styled portraits and ancient handbills give her work a distinct look. She started out doing culture jamming, altering store signage with subversive messages. Disaster explains to NY Art Beat:

I started about two years ago doing culture jamming--like altering store signs and that sort of thing--and also doing small wheat pastes and stickers. I have gradually been scaling up in the past year or so. My first piece was on the Express Store on 5th Avenue and 18th street. I added a sentence onto one of their displays.

Since I had access to a laser cutter at that time, I was able to cut my own stickers and matched their font. The advertisement was a raunchy photo of a woman with her butt up in the air on top a guy. It was about these pants that make you look slimmer. It said “Something Express Jeans” and I put under “to make your ass look hot.”

Related Stories:
· Imminent Disaster’s Street Art from the Past(e) [NY Art Beat]
· Imminent Disaster Gallery [Streetsy]
· Disaster Strikes [Flickr]
· Street Art Coverage [Jaunted]