Tag: street art
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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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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.