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

downtown Rochester

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Mary C

Murals in the central part of the city. Some old and some new.

below: Conor Harrington headless duellng men, or one man against himself?

large mural by Conor Harrington in Rochester, a man and his reflection, or possibly two men,

part of a mural, large leg and foot look like it's standing on a car

below: It looks like a small blue whale inside a larger transparent whale. It’s called “Detecting Machine” and it was painted by Nevercrew, a pair of artists, Pablo Togni and Christian Rebecchi.

whale mural, close up of faces of two whales, eyes, mouth

below: Be stronger than your excuses, under the bridge

text mural that says be stronger than your excuses

below: Be yourself, everyone else is already taken

text mural that says be yourself, everyone else is taken

below: ‘The Giant Storybook Project’ by Herakut, painted Oct. 2012, on St. Paul Street

All pictures taken May 2023 except the bottom photo which is from 2015. The mural is still there but I didn’t take another picture of it when I was in Rochester a couple of months ago.

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Greenleaf Street., Rochester NY

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Mary C

This is another post about some of the murals seen around Rochester. As you may have noticed, there are many!

below: A small tree grows in front of a mural of stripes, rectangles, and other shapes

a small tree on the grassy area in front of a mural with stripes, shapes, and different colours, abstract

below: What big feet you have!

close up of top of a door that is within a mural, it looks like large foot is resting on the door

below: That foot, and the skin tight boot, belongs to this man, the creation of Swedish artist Andreas Englund who likes to paint people in grey superhero outfits with scanty red pants. This was part of Wall/Therapy 2015.

below: The abstract painting in greens and blues is the work of Nova.

two murals, one is man removing his boots and other is abstract lines in greens

below: Skull surrounded by moths, butterflies and flowers that seem to be growing out of it in a work titled “Cosmos” by Nico Cathcart as part of Wall/Therapy. Painted in Sept 2021.

mural, large skull, many butterflies around it

below: Letters and symbols

street art mural featuring letters of the alphabet

below: Pink face but with only one visible eye, by Sam Rodriguez, 2014.

below: Omen (from Montreal) painted this woman lying on her side with her eyes closed.

mural by Omen in Rochester, pale skinned woman lying on her side with her eyes closed, large

below: The World is Yours by Queen Andrea (as in Letter Queen!), 2014.

below: Super Fresh

mural with cursive writing, calligraphy, says Super Fresh

below: Mural by Pixel Pancho, a boy embracing a robot that has seen better days.

large mural by Pixel Pancho of a robot and a boy

close up of the boy in Pixel Pancho mural

below: “Mother” by Maxxer242 aka Max Gramajo, painted in Sept 2021

mural, black background, woman portrait in blues

below: Another mural featuring text.. A Word is an Image, by Shoe aka Niels Shoe Meulman. Image is written in very large letters spread out across the black wall.

Part of a larger mural, black background, white lettering, A word is

below: Four quadrants of an eye and cheekbone is all that remain of a once larger mural by Daze aka Chris Ellis.

a mural divided into four equal sized rectangles, two top and two bottom

Photos taken May 2023

Some of these murals appeared in an earlier blog post titled, “murals, Rochester NY” from Dec 2015.

by the El Camino Trail, Rochester NY

Posted on July 9, 2023 by Mary C

Most of these are old murals. In fact they were painted in 2013 as part of a Wall Therapy event. Just beyond the wall is a newer painting (that replaces one from 2013).

wall of murals along a trail in Rochester NY

Big Fish and Friends, by Binho

below: An untitled piece by Maxx Moses

below: “When reading was a crime I taught myself… When slavery was inflicted, I bought myself… when the internet arrived I lost myself… Finally I’ve acknowledged my ancestors and reclaimed the Earth AS MINE!”

part of a mural, with text about freedom

below: Flex your power, by Change

below: La Lucha Siempre by Range, aka Victor Zarate

mural of a mexican wrestler

mural with Mexican fighters and the words La Lucha Siempre, also playing cards with el corazon (heart) and la mano (hand). One fighter has mask in green, white, and red stripes, the same colours as the Mexican flag

wall of murals that ends behind the garage of a mechanic, old cars parked outside

below: Nearby is a mural that covers two sides of an old building. It was painted in 2022 by Faring Purth and Daniel Jesse Lewis.

large mural by Faring Purth and Daniel Jesse Lewis, blue bubble figures surrounding a woman painted in black

near Alexander & Clinton, Rochester

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Mary C

below: The courtyard behind Boulder Coffee Co. at the corner of Alexander and South Clinton is decorated with street art murals.

large brick building with a courtyard patio in the back, tables for coffee shop, walls of building with a couple of murals on them

below: A closer look at the masked horse and its rider.

below: “Andy and the Big Dead Waltz” by Caitlin Yarsky, 2014

below: A cow of many colours,

below: This black and white mural was painted by Ian Kuali’i, a Hawaiian artist, as part of Wall Therapy 2022 (Wall Therapy is the Rochester Mural Festival). It is on the same building as the cow in the above photo.

below: The next three images feature the campground on the wall of the Rochester Beer Park. RV’s, trailers, and campers of all vintages.

a van is parked in front of Rochester Beer Park with its's campground mural on the wall, WInnebago, vintage campers and trailers are parked there, motorcycles, old station wagon, camp chairs set up by a table

two chairs and a table outside a vintage camper with its door open to show yellow interior

old yellow station wagon with wood grain side trim is parked in front of a grey RV and an old Volkswagen camper with the top popped up

below: This large mural with a very large spider was painted by Nani Chacon and is titled “Visions”. It is painted on the wall of Strangebird Brewery.

Large mural on the side of Strangebird Brewery of a woman with red lipstick and long dark hair, wearing a blue drop ear ring, holding her hand out for a large blue spider

Close up of blue spider on woman's hand, very long fingernails. Spider is blue with striped legs and small red and white dots on its back

below: Change taught me graffiti along with the Black Tabby party “The revolution will not be televised”

below: A small portrait in faded blacks

white sticker with black and grey young man portrait

below: A red, white, and blue butterfly on a pole. A single tear shape falls from the eye on her central wing. A red heart and red lips add colour to her other wings.

below: This rather grotesque character seems to have a life ring around his middle but he’s disintegrating just the same. Food supplied by Snack Shack.

below: Stickers on a yellow sign. Careful! That chicken’s got its eye on you.

below: He or she is a floating, encased in an uncomfortable metal scuba outfit. Humpty Dumpty got tired of sitting on his wall and went for a swim? Tweedledee sank and Tweedledum is looking for him? Or, going back in time, one of those chubby round little people from Fisher Price escaped from the playroom many years ago and has been bobbing around in the ocean ever since. Or?

below: A certain arrangement of paint and stickers

below: No room for Fascism. The Nazi-headed snake has been caught.

below: Approaching Gold, along with a horned animal and an advert for the Abilene bar and lounge.

Photos taken in May 2023.

South Avenue scenes

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Mary C

Murals and graffiti seen along South Ave in Rochester.

South Avenue in Rochester New York, older brick buildings

below: Conor Harrington Untitled (Fight Club Series)

black and white mural by Conor Harrington of two men fighting, a bit of red blood

below: Floating in a pink sky over a sea of imaginary snakes and fish

mural of a person reclining in a cloud in a pink sky hovering over a sea of snakes and fishes

below: “You’re a Shining Star no matter who you are”. A jar full of shiny positivity by local artist Shawn Dunwoody.

street art mural, on yellow brick wall, a large mason jar with words shining star on it, text on mural says you're a shining star no matter who you are

below: A group of flowers with faces as their centers.

mural on wall, flowers with many petals and each flower has a face in the center

below: Maladjusted Mike is stuck on a pole. Apparently he’s from Seriously Disgusting Comics.

below: No room for Fascism

below: A pink Neptune-like sea creature ruling over his underwater worlds, by Bile, 2013

below: Part of Nova’s shapes and colours.

below: “LIFE in abundance comes only through great LOVE”

below: Whirls and swirls of colour in an abstract painting by Mike Ming, 2013

below: A fox and bunny by Mr. PVRT aka Justin Suarez

below: Adam Francey’s fantastic detailed mural with birds and faces and a couple of words – seek, understand.

below: “Big brother is watching you and he’s bored”.

below: Avocado face, by Stefan Fella

below: Walking white teddy bear

below: The old and the new – root beer and birds.

below: A large egret? (or shorebird of one kind or another) and frog. Do egrets eat frogs?

on the side of a store, a large mural of a stork and a green frog

sculptures on te sidewalk on south ave in rochester

Photos taken May 2023

murals, Rochester New York

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Mary C

Wall/Therapy

Wall Therapy is now an annual event in Rochester New York. It started in 2012 with 11 street artists painting 16 different walls in the city. From their website, Wall Therapy is “a public community-level intervention using mural art as a vehicle to address our collective need for inspiration.” The Wall Therapy website also has a map of the locations of the murals. They are spread around the city. It is possible that some of these murals are not actually a part of the Wall Therapy project.

photos taken in June and September of 2015

below: ‘Anabel’ by Faring Purth, on 4th Street.

below: ‘Rhapsody’ by Faith47 with a close up of the skull below it. Pleasant Street.

below: Jimi Hendrix, by Ernest Shaw Jr., 2014, on King Street

below: ‘Untitled (Eagle and Wave), by DALeast, on West Main Street.

below: ‘Etty’ by Faring Purth, under the railway bridge at Brown and Silver Streets.
The bridge is in a dark spot and the mural is long. (4 photos)

below: `From the Ruins` by Mr. Prvt and Msshaftway on the side of Cook Iron Store, Andrews Street

below: I Got You, by Elicser, West Main and Canal

below: ‘Avery’ by Jarus, 2014, on Palmer Street (Fedder Industrial Park)

below: ‘The Red Dress’ by Jarus, Seward Street.

below: ‘Love is Sacrifice’ by Jeff Soto and Maxx242, at Rochester Public Market

below: `Martin Luther King’ by Case, on Park Avenue.

below: by Troy Lovegates, 2014, Fedder Industrial

below: by Conor Harrington, on the wall of Historic Houseparts, on South Ave.
On a photo of the original mural there was no red colour.

below: by Cern, 2012, Pennsylvania Ave.,

below: by David Walker, 2014, on Goodman St.

below: Untitled (Fish Market) by Alexis Diaz, West Main Street

below: Fox and Rabbit by Mr. Pvrt, 2013, on Comfort St.

below: Armand from House of Guitars, by John Perry, 2014, on Pennsylvania Ave.

below: Pixel Pancho, 2013

below: Sea Creature, by Bile, on the wall of Stanley Steemer, South Ave.

below: Mermaid, by Case, 2012, on Pennsylvania Ave.

below: by Liqen, 2012, on Pennsylvania Ave., by Public Market

below: by Mike Ming, South Ave. on the north side of Personal FX Hair Studio

below: by Sam Rodriguez, 2014, on Greenleaf St.

below: by Omen, on Greenleaf St.

below: by HowNosm, on Pitkin St. by Harts Local Grocers.

below: Understand, by Adam Francey, South Ave. on the south side of Personal FX Hair Studio

below: Discount Evolution by DALeast, 2012

below: by Omen, July 2014, on East Main St.

below: The World is Yours, by Queen Andrea, 2014, on Greenleaf St.

below: by Thievin’ Stephen, 2012, on Pennsylvania Ave.

below: `The Giant Storybook Project` by Herakut, Oct. 2012, on St. Paul Street

below: It rained the day that I was there and I didn’t realize that my pictures of this building were taken with raindrops on my camera lens.

below: A bear by Mr. Pvrt at Rochester Public Market

below: ‘Sleeping Bears’ by ROA, on St. Pauls Street,

below: Luong Mural by Addison Karl, 2014, on Palmer Street (Fedder Industrial Park)

below: Untitled (REXY) by St. Monci and Justyn Iannucci, behind 700 South Avenue.

below: ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ behind South Ave near Gregory (and next to the one pictured above).

below: The next four murals were on the side of the same building. I am fairly sure that it was at the end of Flint Street. It is definitely on the west side of the Genessee River by a street that dead ends at the Genessee Riverway Trail.

by LaShonda Davis

by Myron Hall

A mural on the side of a building. Blue background. A young man with an Afro hair style is wearing red boxing gloves. The words on the mural say " To be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top" It is a quote attributed to Marcus Garvey. The mural is signed by Lujar.

by LuJar

below: The next three photos are at 400 Atlantic Avenue.

below: ‘Together We Fall’ by Aaron Li-Hill

below: At 430 Atlantic Avenue – this building was painted on three sides by four different artists, Daze, Nate Hodge, Eder Muniz and Vexta. Daze’s contribution is on the east side:

below: Vexta painted this face on the northeast corner 430 Atlantic

below: The southeast corner of 430 Atlantic Avenue.

below: ‘Untitled (Boy on Heart)’ by Icy and Sot, South Avenue.

I haven’t found any information on the remaining murals.

below: I haven’t been able to find any information yet about the next two murals either. They were both on South Ave. Liquor Store, to the south of most of the other murals that I saw. By the way, it was a nice little store with an interesting selection of wine.