RISE
A large-scale wheat paste mural takes up the side of a business wall. The image is on a black rectangular background, bordered with white/cream. A Native person looks up at the word "RISE" bordered by two lightning bolts. Their portrait is done in a pop-art style. They wear a pair of traditional-style earrings, one with a lightning bolt in its center and the other with a cross. Most of the portrait beyond their face is shadowed.
Gregg Deal (@greggdeal)
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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F.S.
Artist: Gregg Deal (@greggdeal)
Photographer: Impermanent Art (@impermanent_art)
UAM-GF_2877
210 W Colorado Ave, Telluride, Colorado, United States 81435
Indigenous American Portrait
On a backdrop of white paint, a portrait of an Indigenous (Native) American man wearing full traditional dress. The portrait is completed in a stylized glitch, making it difficult to discern clear detail, but the man's feathered headdress, earrings, and necklaces are most visible. The portrait is done in white, red, and blue paint. Overlaid on the black background, a repetitive purple motif repeats. The artist's signature, "aware.", is included in a similar glitch style to the viewer's left of the portrait.
AWARE (@aware_indecline)
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Artist: AWARE (@aware_indecline)
Photographer: Impermanent Art (@impermanent_art)
Downtown Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States
No Justice, No Peace
A realistic black-and-white portrait of Malcolm X smiling with the words "No Justice, No Peace" surrounding him in bold, stylized lettering. The names "George Floyd, Breonna Taylor..." are slightly visible behind the new mural.
Muralist: Tristan Eaton (@tristaneaton)
Background Lettering: (@korea_lts)
Foreground Lettering: Shane Jessup (@shanejessup)
Tristan Eaton (@tristaneaton) replaced his Martin Luther King Jr. mural that was destroyed and covered in racial slurs earlier that week on June 22, 2020.
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Muralist: Tristan Eaton (@tristaneaton)
Background Lettering: (@korea_lts)
Foreground Lettering: Shane Jessup (@shanejessup)
Photographer: Impermanent Art (@impermanent_art)
UAM-GF_2781
5000 York Blvd, Los Angeles, California, 90042
Breonna Billboard Takeover
A billboard above a business has been taken over by the artist Sickid and covered in a wash of black paint. The billboard reads, in white paint from left to right "Breonna Taylor // *this is graffiti by Sickid" // demand justice @(502)-646-5300 // Txt "enough" to 55156"
Sickid (@sickid1)
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Creator: Sickid (@sickid1)
Photographer: Impermanent Art (@impermanent_art)
UAM-GF_2780
1050 Vine St, Los Angeles, California, United States 90038
Too Many of You
On a fully black background, a white profile of a person with an afro is overlaid with stylized, fully-capitalized bubble lettering that reads "Mother, Mother there's too many of you crying // Brother, brother, brother, there's too many of you dying". The artist's signature, Ms.Wrong, is in the lower right corner of the mural.
Ms.Wrong (@mswrongg)
The text is derived from the 1971 Marvin Gaye song "What's Going On"
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Creator: Ms.Wrong (@mswrongg)
Photographer: Impermanent Art (@impermanent_art)
UAM-GF_2779
356 E. 3rd Street, Long Beach, California, United States, 90802