Archives: Mural Map

Artist Chris Victor, installed this large collage of aluminum road signs, steel posts and hardware reduced to a series of contours. Victor’s work often utilizes commonplace forms and found objects, alterring and recontextualizing them through play with place, scale, accumulation, omission and organization to shift our expectations, question the relationship between form and function and to cause us to be more attentive to the everyday.

Good Work is a public art evolution of Brian Kaspr’s background in graphic design and typography reflecting both his love of lettering and of painting as a process. The mural was created using three overlapping layers of lettering, not intended to be read or to communicate an explicit message but to create a color field of energy, geometry, and abstracted letter forms. The mural Good Work was created with input from the folks at Good Work Institute who shared language with Kaspr that is core to the principals of the work they do but who also trusted the artist to express himself freely. Their only request was that the color green be included, as the location is called ” The Greenhouse” and that the ‘G’ of Good Work Institute be legible.

David Najib Kasir’s recent work revolves around the struggle of refugees and families in war torn communities. The figures in the mural are based on a picture of the artist’s older daughter trying to show her baby sister how to dance. But in drawing it the image became one of an older sibling leading and protecting her younger sister. It is the work of a son to a mother from Syria, a neighbor to myriad families impacted by the devastation of war and of a painter using his own children’s likeness as the stand-ins for countless other children in conflict. It has become a timely image of loss, of letting go and of trust and hope that our children will protect each other as time goes on. The mural is dedicated to the artists’ daughters, to the children of Syria and to the older sister of a friend who passed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Gaia and Lindsey Wolkowicz collaborated on this 230+ft long mural project for The Arc Mid-Hudson’s Pecora Center in Midtown Kingston. The mural was completed following a period of community input through surveys, conversations, presentations and (virtual) listening sessions with the people supported by The Arc Mid-Hudson, their self-advocate group, staff, direct support professionals and those who encounter the wall each day. Reflecting that input, the mural presents regional flowers, birds, butterflies, and a spectrum of hands, celebrating the freedom that comes through receiving support you deserve and the spectrum of abilities and identities represented within the The Arc Mid-Hudson community.

Rendered as a brilliant 360° image, in exaggerated color, on a retired brewery fermenter in front of Keegan Ales this sunset landscape is flipped upside down. This piece combines elements of nature; oxygen, sky, trees, flowers, and stars with street art style graffiti writing. The mural, created by Enz in honor of the late Tommy Keegan is titled Up is Down, in part, to refer to the way the world feels after his passing. Enz produced the aerosol landscape through the collaborative spirit of O+ and with the ongoing support of the Keegan Ales family.

This mural illustrates the vast world present in the soil beneath our feet and aims to raise awareness on how the health of our soil impacts our food security, the quality of the air we breathe, and the health of humans, animals and the planet as a whole. Though the state of our soil is dire, we have an opportunity to remediate it through the practice of composting and regenerative agriculture. Composting is a way to reduce our carbon footprint and mitigate climate change. Our soil health is the reflection of our human health and we can all directly contribute to this cycle of regeneration integral to our soil, air and water quality through composting.

To mark what would have been the 11th annual O+ Kingston Festival, but was put on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, O+ asked Vince Ballantine to paint a mural portrait of a Kingston figure of his choosing. Ballentine decided to paint local bon vivant Uncle Willy, a fixture in both Kingston and nearby Rosendale, particularly in their dive bars, festivals and music venues. Uncle Willy is known for a costume-like wardrobe that often includes colorful robes, sparkly glasses and a crown. Ballantine mentored talented local teen (at the time) artist Tafari Saunders through this project, giving him access to his first mural making opportunity.