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As Time Goes By consists of five painted panels, each approximately 6 x 8 feet, made for Aylen Junior High School in Puyallup WA. These separate painted images on thin polyester backing are affixed to wall surfaces above eye level on parallel facing walls; from the southern direction three images can be seen in recession and from the northernmost...
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Mak Roote is a collaborative installation by John and Poet Betsy Davids. A combination of paint and poetry wedded to architecture visually defines the Berkeley Transit Plaza, an area located under University Avenue between Fourth Street and the train tracks. All Aboard!
Train Platform Mural—Passengers include Bishop Berkeley, Spanish Explorer de...
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Ocean View Library
"When we read a story we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like the roof and four walls."—John Berger
Worlds Fly Away is a complete installation, a theater of effects permeating the stairwell and second floor hallway of the Ocean View Branch Library in San Francisco. Elements of color, image and language are used to...
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An ambitious collaboration with fellow artists, Daniel Galvez and John Pugh, this historic crossroads mural covers two freeway underpasses underneath I-680 in the city of Dublin.
John Pugh painted the medallions on the end walls, Daniel and I the series of arches and figures on the interior walls.
Dublin Boulevard—North Wall
A setting of...
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Painted Grisalle figures carrying letters levitate through the vast space of this Los Angeles Public Library.
The letters make words, the words form quotes. The quotes from Kafka, Groucho Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sonja Carson and others reflect on books libraries and learning. The Scribes appear to float throughout the building, entering...
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The full title is Revisionist History of San Pablo Avenue.
The idea was to create a facsimile of the street scene that existed before the freeway was there, along with all the different cultures who lived in this area for the past 500 years or so. The storefront business evolved into Historical themes, like the movie theater
relating the events...
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RACETRACK GHOSTS. The bricked street outside the Thoroughbred
building in Emeryville, CA is what remains of the original Racetrack
where Ulysses S. Grant once saw a world record broken
and later Barney Oldfield raced an airplane.
The horse and Riders were carved from architectural foam cement coated,
hand painted and cemented to the wall of the...