One of the large murals brought to Lynn Massachusetts by Beyond Walls is one on Munroe Street by Caleb Neelon (with help from Lena McCarthy). It is on the side wall of a building adjacent to a parking lot so it is easy to see but difficult to get a good picture of the whole mural without a wide angle lens. It was painted in 2017.
The mural is full of details! Polka dots, stars, and other little shapes. Also miniature drawings of animals, people, buildings, and much more.
It is a patchwork of shapes in many colours, all stitched carefully together with black thread. It is an artful arrangement of shape, colour, and texture. A series of circles around little fuzzy blue creatures (called Sonik) forms the central core of the mural.
The previous post, Il Tempo Paso was about 2 murals in Comiso by artists Case Maclaim and Marak Morik. These two have also painted murals in nearby Ragusa.
below: “Familia” by Case Maclaim, 2024
below: Marak Morik, “On the way to Pescheria” (the fish market), 2017
…..and in the same area of the city is another mural, from FestiWall 2018, an abstract scene (is there a bird in there?) by Alexey Luka,
There are many other murals in Ragusa, spread out around the city and most are the product of the annual FestiWalls event. Because of limited time, I only had a chance to check out one more neighbourhood where I found three murals.
below: First, there was a very faded old mural by Fintan Magee; I think that it is a man with a prickly pear cactus.
below: A screen shot from Fintan Magee’s Facebook page – this is what “The Gardener” looked like back when it was painted in 2016 (ten years ago)
below:Agostino Iacurci, “Immobile” – pottery jugs, urns, and other vessels.
below:Evoka 1 (aka Elio Mercado), “Resistenza di Incertezza”, 2016, a young girl with an apple on her head as well as six or so more in her hands.
In 2012 the father and daughter team Tirso Araiza and Lucia González Ippolito (aka Cia Lu Art) painted this mural in Balmy Alley. It was restored and updated in 2022. The theme of the mural is the (ongoing) gentrification of the Mission District neighbourhood with the consequent displacement of those poorer and less fortunate.
Brunswick is one of the suburbs of Melbourne; it is north of the Central Business District.
below: One of the murals painted on the side of an older building on Sydney Road. This is the Retreat Hotel and the mural was painted by Buff Diss.
below: Treaty” and “Teach Black history” JESWRI (aka Jesse Wright) on the side of another older building on Sydney Road. There is a Korean BBQ restaurant on the lower level although most of the building looks a bit decrepit.
below: A series of paintings in shades of gray with a large pointy mountain in the back.
below: “Tram Kangaroo” by Mike Maka. One very large kangaroo hops along beside an old abandoned Melbourne tram (route 19, which runs along Sydney Road) in this dystopian future scene.
below: A closer look …
below: Not such an old building this time.. on the side of the Savers store is a mural by Danielle Weber. A pair of hands is trying to pull back the gray wall to reveal a tropical scene hiding behind it.
below:Zatira (aka Katherine Gailer). has used a palette of vivid colours in this mural dedicated to Teresa Bruno, a well known local chef and owner of Zia Teresa Restaurant (Italian).
below: Protest type poster where the mayor is shielded from the people by layers of armed police. People are too mesmerized by what is on their screens to care.
Edificio de Mujeres, or The Women’s Building, is a woman owned and operated community centre that opened in 1979. The exterior is covered with a painting titled “MaestraPeace” which depicts women of different cultures and ages throughout history, both real and fictional. Six hundred names are written into the mural. A group of seven women artists (and numerous helpers and volunteers) completed the painting in 1994 (it was restored in 2012). What follows here is a selection of images showing parts of the mural.
below: Over the front entrance
According to Wikipedia, the artists involved were: Juana Alicia, Miranda Bergman, Edythe Boone, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Meera Desai, Yvonne Littleton, and Irene Perez
below: There is a mural on the side of the Amsterdam News building on Frederick Douglas Blvd. The full mural shows two women and a child under a baobab tree. “A Family’s Tree” by Alexandre Keto.
below: By any means necessary
below: The top part of this painting has been covered by the ads. The words “Show Love to Artist”, as well as the gold crown that the man is wearing, have been obscured. That side of the wall was painted by Amir Diop.
below: Too many humans and not enuf souls. The blue is a remnant from a previous paste-up while the bleeding eyes are from yet another layer.
below: Handcuffs, a gun, and a bottle of liquor – but turn your back on all that and head towards reading and education.
below: Under the railway tracks.
Life’s path is not always so clear. Many of us look, but still don’t see. We hear but still don’t listen. This doesn’t mean that slavery doe not exist. Jesus struggles through great obstacles so that we could learn how to be free; how to find our way through darkness. Many of us will continue down a path of destruction like chained slaves toward their grave. Be free my friends, be free.
below: We fit you to a T featuring Mr. T. from the 1980s TV show, “The A-Team”. His given name was Laurence Tureaud.
below: We are New Yorkers.
below: That’s a lot of words! Zeitgeist is defined as “the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time” Perhaps this poster captures the zeitgeist of New York City in the 2020s.
below: There are two large murals along the walls at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Plaza.
There is an aquatic (and fisheries) themed mural that can be seen from the Pinellas Loop Trail in St. Petersburg. It was painted by PlasticBirdie (Jeremy Nichols) and BlaineFontana during the SHINE Mural Festival in 2019 in partnership with PangeaSeed Foundation’s Sea Walls. Funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). It is over 120 feet long and took eight days to paint. It’s title is “The 8th Funky Fish Town”.
below: Each of the 7 pegs describes one of Florida’s local fisheries. Number 1 is Madeira Beach and number 2 is Panama City …. followed by 3. Cortez, 4. Apalachicola (for oysters), 5.Steinhatchee (for scallops) 6. Matlacha and 7. Key West
below: A coral reef with a dark red grouper fish poking its head out. A gray manta ray is also pictured.
below: And last, a giant green eel with many arrows.
This post first appeared in my Toronto blog back in 2019. I am posting here because I have learned that this mural has been painted over.
In Toronto, just south of St. Clair West, Runnymede Road runs under the CP train tracks. In the summer of 2017 the wall on the west side of the underpass a mural was painted by Christopher Ross (aka GAWD). It is a collection of animals, mostly in shades of pink and blue – dragonfly, pigs, birds, and more. Most of the animals are in pairs.
At one end of the mural, this little engine sits on a tree stump.
I spotted a mural on Ala Moana, close to the ocean that was painted by Katch1
below: From the east, a long series of images predominantly in shades of blue all with a Japanese theme.
below: At one end, a woman holds a fan.
below:… And a fan of another type in the real shadows of the wall.
below: A turtle wearing a helmet with satellite dishes attached to it. He doesn’t seem too pleased.
below: There is more artwork on the adjacent building where a Mickey Mouse hand is pulling back a curtain to reveal the faces and text that have been painted there.
Christina Angelina, painted this very large mural on the side of an Office Depot store in the Kaka’ako neighborhood in Honolulu.
It shows two women warriors (? or Roman goddesses?) each wearing helmets and holding a gray and pink bird. The long curved beaks of the birds almost touch and their bodies come close to forming a heart shape.
Eyes on the Streets 