About Me

All work for sale is in print form as seen or black and white original drawings. Visit www.pepedyne.com to see more. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York City with a degree in Fine Arts Painting, Pepé sees his current work as a culmination of a long journeys struggle to mesh his unrelenting interest in both the modernist conceptual and illustrative commercial artforms — essentially embracing both high and low art. He has achieved the goal of combining these two aesthetics into one harmonious and entertaining visual experience in this recent work. Blending pin-up art with a compositional and gestural tactility generally associated with abstract painting, the finished pieces present themselves as psychological portraits veering on storytelling or parts of an enigmatic narrative that offers the viewer a window into a variety of contextual associations. This website has been broken down into four categories; Illustration, Portraits, Photo-Illustration and Comic art, to further elucidate the variety of applications and mediums at the artists disposal. "Its all one to me," Mr. Amsterdam explains in regard to his output. "I see myself as primarily a picturemaker and raconteur in images and words." Among the influences on Mr. Amsterdams work are most of the fine art and design artists of the modernist-era, notably; painters Christian Schad, Gustave Klimt and Pablo Picasso, the classic pin-up art of Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas and George Petty, the 1950–60s paperback book cover masters, Robert McGinnis, Robert Bonfils and Richard Powers, the comic art of Will Elder, Charles Addams, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Bill Ward, 20th century design as exemplified by Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Aarnio and Arne Jacobson, the cinematic visual flair of  Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell, the architectural dynamism of Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Sarrinen and Oscar Niemeyer. On a narrative level, influences range from the erotically charged novels of John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov and Henry Miller, to the imaginative otherworldly realms and alternative realities of Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood, to the multimedia visual/narrative fusion of contemporary graphic novels by Jean "Moebius" Giraud , Milo Manara and The Hernandez Brothers, to the lurid 1960s Italian Giallo genre of film and literature, contemporary Japanese Otaku culture, Post World War II American hot rod and custom car culture, everything Space Age and the social satire of Mad Magazine in its 1950–70s heyday.