I won’t lie, I only first discovered Alex Pardee about 3 or 4 years ago as I was walking the mall. I walked past a store that had a shirt on display with a very weird cube head character and weird tentacle things throughout randomly…the text read “The Used.” Now I had no idea who or what “The Used” were or are at that point but thought it was a really cool shirt….for some reason I didn’t buy it though. A week passed and everyday I had that image of the cube head character haunting me but in a good way if that makes sense. Eventually my girlfriend got tired of me talking about it and made me buy it. Needless to say, one of the best purchases ever. I eventually did some research and came to learn of Alex Pardee, an artists who is probably crazier than the craziest person you know but can still function like a sane person. His colors are amazing, line work incredible, and characters are probably some of the most unique I’ve ever seen. He is now one of our favorite artists here at Redefine and with that said we want to spread the goodness coming from his Zero Friends Venture. Don’t kill us for not knowing who he was at the time…everyone in the art community should be aware by now though.
And here’s a really cool thing he’s doing with a fellow artist of his’ Dave Correia. They’re actually driving around the Country trading sketches with anyone who draws a sketch for them…good or bad.
Check him out at www.EyeSuckInk.com
P.S. His work is so good that I called my brother in New York to tell him about the Alex Pardee Zero Friends Pop Up Shop at the Upper Playground store and he said he already went. Said his first thought was “I want to go home, gather all my money and buy every single piece in there.” To top it off, it was his very first time seeing anything by Alex Pardee.
