Tag: painting
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Mushrooms up high
These two mushrooms by The Grocer went up on a dilapidated high-rise on State street near Jackson. I climbed the scaffolding and used a squeegee to paste it higher. There’s a real fun story about my lookout not looking out, but in the end it was pasted and I got away clean.
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Grapefruit
At the time, this was the largest street installation by The Grocer, roughly 5 feet wide. I put this up on Milwaukee on one of the old bank windows, and it was quite a show stopper. Some tagger went over my piece (in blue) and I heard he got a lot of flack for it…
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Avocados, relocated
When I saw that a construction company had discarded the plywood that I put these Avocados up on originally, I grabbed the board and used a jigsaw to cut it out. After painting the edges, i took it up to Wicker park and screwed it up on a long wall near Uprise skate shop. In…
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The Grocer: summer 2007
More works by The Grocer from the summer of 2007.
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Peabe collab (eggplant)
My buddy Peabe had an idea to do a collab for a show he was putting together. I painted the eggplant first and then he came in with the pinup character. The opening of this show was the first time I ever met folks as “The Grocer” and it was the beginning of the end…
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Nipplettos (imaginary fruit)
Played around for awhile making up fruits. These “Nipplettos” looked so dang great on this Halsted street bridge.
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An apple for Big Horse
There used to be a bar on Milwaukee avenue called Big Horse, but it had long since closed by the time we decided to feed this lovely horse an apple. A collaboration with my future wife, who painted her arm and hand whilst The Grocer painted the apple.
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Horned Melon (Kiwano)
This big old Kiwano was painted and pasted up by The Grocer in July 2007 on very corner of the iconic street art building at Grand and Milwaukee. I was always proud of this painting and its placement.
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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…