Jerry Niemi

I like the fact that Jerry Niemi's scenes are so small that you feel you would be unlikely to notice them if you were to walk past one. It is in stark contrast to the tradition of street art being bold, brash and "in yo face." Instead the fairly quaint scenes seem to be more about looking closer at your surroundings, playing with scale to create some good visual gags. One could argue that the small scale and fairly in-permanent nature of the works means they are merely set up photographs as apposed to "real street art," however the concept of street art seems to me very broad and I'm sure no ones going to take him to the cleaners about it.
having only seen the photographs its hard to say what the impression would be if seen in the real world, however they provide a cheap laugh, and at the end of the day maybe that's all art can hope to do.