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Tag: the grocer

  • Nipplettos (imaginary fruit)

    Nipplettos (imaginary fruit)

    Played around for awhile making up fruits. These “Nipplettos” looked so dang great on this Halsted street bridge.

  • An apple for Big Horse

    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.

  • Horned Melon (Kiwano)

    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.

  • Red Beet

    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.

  • The Grocer: first works

    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…

  • Rejoice and The Grocer collab

    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.

  • Row of Apples

    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.

  • Cherry

    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…

  • Avocados

    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…