Category: Art
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Red Beet
This gnarly beet painting by The Grocer always pleased me, and it’s location was really nice for viewing while headed northwest on Milwaukee avenue toward Western.
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The Grocer: first works
In the summer of 2007, I began making original fruit and veggie themed paste-ups and installing them on derelict walls in Chicago under the moniker “The Grocer.” At the time, these acrylic paintings on paper gave me a cathartic outlet that the “serious” paintings I was doing at the time didn’t provide. Below are some…
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Rejoice and The Grocer collab
Rejoice and I decided we should do a collaborative piece up on the iconic Milwuakee & Grand building. He would first put up his faces in a form akin to scoops of ice cream, and then I’d come back the next day and paste the cherries on top. I love how it turned out.
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Row of Apples
Process and final images of a row of apples by The Grocer, painted and pasted at Pontiac Grill in Wicker Park, Chicago in June 2007.
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Cherry
I love cherries, so it seemed obvious for The Grocer to paste up a sweet cherry. This was painted in two parts (stem, fruit) and pasted on an old window on Milwaukee avenue in Wicker Park. I ended up revisiting this building a few times over the years. “Vegan” was a prolific tagger at that…
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Avocados
The Grocer’s big avocados were made as two separate paintings, overlapped when pasted. I had this spot picked out on Halsted near 18th but i was afraid the paste-up wouldn’t stick on the weathered wood, so a couple of nights prior to going up with the Avocados I went out with a roller and painted…
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Kiwi
This cut kiwi was one of the longest riding Grocer paintings, staying up here across from Sultan’s market just off Division for over 3 years. I used a squeegee on a pole to paste it up at the top of this board-up arch, and i guess it was pretty enough and high enough that nobody…
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Early watermelons
I love watermelon—everything about it. I only wish the full watermelon pictured below would have stayed up longer, it was gone in less than 2 days. The cut watermelon was pasted high up on a scaffold board in a warehouse district on the near west side, and it was there till the construction was over.
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Tomatoes on the vine
The Grocer’s punchy little bunch of tomatoes looked really lovely in the alley.