NYC Love on the Highline

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Mary C

This large mural was painted along the Highline Park by Nina Chanel Abney in 2022. It is titled “NYC Love”

large mural painted on an exterior wall that faces the Highline, an elevated park in New York City. Pink background with stylized drawings of pizza slices, pigeons, hands, faces, the pizza slices have faces, blue waves, large N and Y letters, red hearts,

Sold Out Art Show in NYC

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Mary C

This is a post about collecting pictures of all the stickers and pasteups by the artist who goes by the name Sold Out Art Show. We found many as we walked around Brooklyn, the Lower East Side, and other parts of New York City. Sold Out’s characters all have multiple pairs of eyes, often six or seven eyes in total. They also all have a little red broken heart and the word OH! in a corner.

below: Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

Last year, canvases with paintings of these ‘portraits’ (and many others) were hung around the city and each was free to take. They are long gone now!

below: Multiple personalities in one place

sticker by Sold Out Art Show, picture of a man with 7 eyes

below: Very recognizable as Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Mona Lisa” even with the extra eyes and the pink hair.

pasteup graffiti of a version of the Mona Lisa painting, framed in purple and white

below: This fellow ended up with 14 eyes and bright green hair.

below: And this shocked fellow still has the green hair, but his mustache is half green and half white.

below: Collaboration with The Clay Universe aka Christopher G. Villano as well as Robots Will Kill – very blue and very hairy.

one more corner on Atlantic Ave

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Mary C

Re-visiting Rochester to see how some of their older murals have fared.

400 Atlantic Ave. is a brick building that parallels the railway tracks. It was built in 1920 as an Ice Block Factory to service rail cars but has since been converted to offices and storage space.

The view at street level and still looking good – Abstract shapes stretch out along Atlantic in a painting by Italian artist Peeta, aka Manuel Di Rita.

below: On the other side of the building, is Aaron Li-Hill’s “Together we Fall” from 2015 Wall Therapy event.

Across the driveway, at 410 Atlantic –

Perhaps these squares aren’t really considered “street art” as they are more in keeping with the building’s prior use as a children’s centre/school,

but they do help to brighten up an otherwise dull and ordinary section of the street.

photos taken in May 2023

a little parade

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Mary C

… at Atlantic & Crouch, Rochester

below: Brazilian artist Eder Muniz’s mural features vibrantly coloured animals and fantasy creatures dancing and swimming along the wall in their own little parade Blue of water; blue of air.

mural by Eder Muniz in Rochester, long mural with lots of animals such as snake, fish, humming bird, elephant, some real and some more from fantasy such as creature with bunch of leaves for a head

below: One of the most human-like character in the mural carries a long serpentine pennon in front of an elephant that is either eating a tree or that has tusks growing into trees.

Part of a mural by Eder Muniz, on blue background, small elf like character carrying a pole with a long banner on the wnd of it, an elephant following behind, with a bird sitting on the back of the elephant looking backwards

below: At the rear of the parade, a hummingbird (or similar small bird) rides on the back of the elephant.

purplish bird with long beak sitting on a decorated fabric on the back of an elephant

below: A host of creatures in the mural’s mid-section – walking, sitting, swimming, floating.

middle section of Eder Muniz mural, creatures sitting, walking, and swimming through watery blue, bubbles, fish, birds,

below: Humanoid body; leaf head, all smaller than the long skinny bird legs.

part of a mural, sitting person but with head made of green leaves floating and billowing in the blue water

below: Instead of leaves, this little guy has a head full of crystals.

below: Faces on creatures of fantasy. One with plumage like a bird and the other with squiggles and curls like nothing else. Eyes closed. Big lips.

below: Swimming together, a greenish fish and a striped snake.

part of a mural, a green fish swimming beside a snake striped in pastel colours

below: More fish swimming in the blue bubbles.

below: Taking the lead in this little parade is a large green beaked bird character. Following along with the fish and the snake is a snail and a pinkish purple frog. There even seems to be a scuba diver.

right hand side of a long mural on bright blue background, fish, snakes, birds, and other creatures

below: Here’s a closer look at that grinning frog as well as the spotted iguana beside it.

part of a mural with fantasy animals, a purple frog, a blue spotted iguana,

below: And last, the long finned fish gracefully makes it way through the watery blue.

Mural painted in 2015
Photos taken mid- May 2023

still staring on Crouch Street

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Mary C

On Crouch Street in Rochester NY, this large face stares out at passers-by. When it was painted by Vexta in 2015, there was a lot more vibrant pink and red in it. What is now pale yellow used to be closer to neon green and yellow.

large mural on corner of building, face in black and white, coloured splotches on both sides of face in blue and faded red and green and yellow, by Vexta in Rochester

Time passes and colours fade, but the eyes still stare relentlessly ahead.

part of mural by Vexta, close up picture of eyes and nose of face in mural

Photos taken May 2023

Breaking Walls in Montreal

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Mary C

Breaking Walls was an Urban Arts and Culture event in Montreal that was held back in June of this year. It was supported by Kolors Worldwide (“Let’s kolor the world”) and MOS Canada – Meeting of Styles Canada. The event was held in a space between rue Moreau and the railway tracks, close to rue Rouen, in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood. In hindsight, I realize that I missed a couple of the murals the day that I was there. Additionally, a couple of the smaller pieces that I have included may be graffiti that pre-dates the Breaking Walls event.

below: A Nick Sweetman and Mr. Tensoe2 collaboration

large street art mural with two blue owls

close up view of blue owl painted by nick sweetman, mural in Montreal, on brick wall

below: Vuducat aka Christina Mazzulla

mural by Christina Mazzulla, in reds and pinks mostly, woman's face

below: Jijón painted red and pink figure

mural by mexican artist jijon, pink character

below: I am going to call it a blue traffic circle because it’s blue and it has traffic related items in it such as an orange cone, the front of a car, street signs, and traffic lights yellow. It was painted by Sergio MB. Unfortunately, the red and white tag has already defaced the work.

blue circle shape with traffic related items like orange cone, traffic light,

To the left of this purple dog (by Hank) was a painting of a woman’s portrait in turquoise that unfortunately has already been tagged over. It was painted by Polographe and can be seen on his Instagram page.

below: Arlick Enigma ( Arlick PaXman Team), originally from Mexico, painted this wonderful portrait of a child wearing a parka with a fur lined hood.