Eyes on the Streets

and feets on the ground. Graffiti, street art and murals seen while wandering the streets and alleys of our colourful world.

Greenleaf Street., Rochester NY

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Mary C

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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.

mural of a man taking off his boots

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.

mural, pink face

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.

mural with text, the world is yours

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.

South Avenue scenes

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Mary C

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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