Dreem Street is a street wear label run by Matthew Chambers (Los Angeles) and Eric Mast (Portland), concerned largely with putting drawings on T-shirts. Embracing the idea that the T-shirt is the “lowest for of self-expression,” their approach to creating shirt designs is informed by their own artistic practice and interest in self publishing. Designs are hand drawn directly onto screens and produced in very short runs as a spin on standard screening technique, but also to facilitate the largest number of ideas with given materials. Subject matter is often cagey, humorous, recycling of pop culture motifs, awkward bootleg fan shirts, post-modern digestifs, and rumination on mass media castoffs.
For this show Dreem Street will be setting up a pop-up shop inside of Floating World for the month of March, showing a selection of past and recent shirt designs, as well as printed works on paper and photographic prints by photographer Ben Goddard (Los Angeles).
WHO: Eric Mast
WHAT: Dreem Street art exhibit and pop up shop
WHEN: Thursday March 6th, 6-9pm (afterparty at Valentine’s)
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St
Dreem Street: We’re everything you love… and more! (some things you hate.)