Tag: street art
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Tomatoes on the vine
The Grocer’s punchy little bunch of tomatoes looked really lovely in the alley.
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Radishes
The Grocer’s little bunch of radishes went up on Damen avenue near a little cupcake bakery that I liked, i think it was called Sweet Cakes.
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Carrots
This bunch of carrots was painted and pasted up by The Grocer on Halsted near 18th in Pilsen in June 2007. This is one of my all-time favorite paintings in its street context. A few years later I created a version of this painting on panel for a friend.
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Eggplants
One of The Grocer’s earliest, and never one of my favorites. I pasted this near Chicago avenue next to a great Rejoice piece, but i think it would’ve been better on a different colored wall. I revisited the subject of eggplants in depth later on a large panel for a show.
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Asparagus
One of the first few Grocer paintings – a small and a large bunch of asparagus. The asparagus sketch shown below was what started the entire Grocer thing, but it wasn’t my first painting. These were both pasted up somewhere near Milwaukee and Damen in Wicker Park. The small one I put up near a…
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Paintings from friends
This is a photo of my office wall from 2008. At the top is a triptych of Peabe’s. The blue bird stencil board is by Saro, and the lower right panel is by Revise. The white board was a work table that Vegan did a test spray on when he was over to tag a…