These three murals by British artist David Puck were created for Sacramento’s 2019 Wide Open Walls mural festival.
You can find their most recent work on Instagram.
Mar 102026
Mar 102026
Pictured are two murals from artist Lin Fei Fei‘s Introspection series, located in Sacramento.
She is also the founder of Sacramento’s Inbetween Tattoo + Arts, which includes an arts studio and gallery space.
Mar 052026
Nonstop (2107) by Arden Bendler Browning was commissioned by Philadelphia’s Percent for Art Program and is on view at Philadelphia International Airport.
From Art at PHL about the work-
Philadelphia artist Arden Bendler Browning is known for creating large-scale, highly energized, gestural paintings inspired by her urban surroundings. Browning’s paintings are mostly abstract, yet include hints of realism with the suggestion of architectural structures, roadways, telephone poles, and green spaces. Browning’s paintings envelop the viewer with their scale, intensity, and sense of movement. Her imagery is derived from photos taken while traversing the city. The photos enable her to see the city from various vantage points and, as she has described, “jump through time and space.”
Browning’s paintings visually capture that sense of timelessness as she often conveys a disorienting landscape where colors and shapes collide and overlap, where only glimpses of reality come into focus. She speaks of the urban environment as “a vast sea of fluctuating boundaries arguing claim to the demarcation of space.” This statement also describes Browning’s work as she depicts the urban landscape using an amalgam of colors, shapes, and painterly marks adrift and influx.
Browning has said, “Nonstop is multifaceted and dense, full of action, and vibrancy in unexpected places with pockets of space and clusters of commotion. It is just like Philadelphia.”
Browning is currently part of the group exhibition, The Landscape: Lost and Found at Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston, on view until 3/28/26.
Feb 182026
This mural by Justine Kelley is one of several located in Philadelphia International Airport as part of their rotating exhibition programming.
From Art at PHL curator Helen Cahng and the artist-
Justine Kelley is a Filipino-American, Philadelphia-based printmaker, illustrator, and designer. She is inspired by vibrant colors, emotions, and the accidents that happen during the art-making process. Most of Kelley’s work is hand-drawn, infusing it with an honest, intimate quality. Her illustrations aim to explore the social barriers that exist between people to create new structures of meaning and connectivity. Kelley likens her art-making process to cooking—she uses the resources she has to feed the people she loves. Her goal is to synthesize emotion as a raw material and use it to create a magic funhouse mirror which reflects the world back at itself.
For her exhibition at Philadelphia International Airport, Kelley presents the Bella Vista neighborhood with an emphasis on the Italian Market, the nation’s oldest open-air market which spans 20 city blocks in South Philly. Bella Vista means “Beautiful Sight” in Italian. For many generations, this neighborhood has been home to a variety of immigrant communities, from Irish, Italian, and African descendants in the 1800s to Vietnamese, Korean, Cambodian, and Mexican communities settling in the 1900s. Having recently moved to South Philly, Kelley says, “I wanted to celebrate the abundance of food and fresh produce, colorful signage and typography, and bustling community that exist in the Italian Market and Bella Vista area, with much thanks to the shopkeepers who run their businesses and the neighbors who live here… If the path to one’s heart is through the stomach, then this place is an artery pumping vitality to the city, feeding us with nutritious foods and delicious sights. It’s a feast for all the senses. If I were to rename Bella Vista, it would be the Italian words for “Beautiful Sights, Sounds, Tastes, Smells, and Feelings”.
Feb 182026
King Saladeen created these murals for the Philadelphia International Airport’s Exhibitions Program.
From Art at PHL about this exhibition–
Philadelphia artist King Saladeen has created his largest painting installation to date currently on view at Philadelphia International Airport. Saladeen’s art is motivational and energetic. His paintings are filled with vibrant colors, shapes, patterns, markings, and text, along with representational imagery that includes his trademark JP the Money Bear and Philadelphia’s skyline. The work represents his passion to inspire as he says, “Dream Big, Love What You Do!” A message evident in this epic four-part painting.
Saladeen created this artwork partially in his studio as four paintings scaled to the proportions of the four gallery walls. The original paintings were scanned, printed on vinyl, and adhered on site. Over two nights, Saladeen painted atop the vinyl to complete his vision. It was an amazing performance to watch as he intuitively added more colors, shapes, and details until it was deemed complete.
Feb 132026
Currently on view at Philadelphia International Airport, It’s A Wrap 2, brightens a section of the airport with art work and installations by several local artists.
Included in this post are works by Nicole Nicolich (pictured above), Tim Eads of Tuft the World, Olivia Chiaravalli, and on the ceiling tiles- work by Miriam Singer and Eurhi Jones.
From the airport about the exhibition–
This exhibition features work by Philadelphia area artists who were invited to create unique architectural interventions within the Airport terminal. Using yarn, fabric, felt, found objects, tape, paint, wheat paste, and wood, the artists applied their work to the ceiling tiles, columns, rockers, walls, walkway, and windows. They have visually transformed this location into an immersive and experiential art-filled passageway.
The artists responded to the existing architectural elements to create an unexpected visual experience and an engaging space for people to pass through. It is a form of urban interventionism where art activates the built environment with the intention to see a public space in a new and creative way.
Work by Tim Eads of Tuft the World
Olivia Chiaravalli, “Brick by Brick”
Miriam Singer, “Dreamliner”
Eurhi Jones, “Tinicum”
Feb 132026
Anuj Chandra Shrestha, “Sumud”
If you have a layover or arrive early to Philadelphia International Airport, make sure to take some time to check out some of the art on display. Works like the murals in this post, are part of the airport’s Exhibitions Program.
About Art at PHL:
The Airport’s Exhibitions Program is a nationally-recognized, award-winning visual arts initiative.
In 1998, Philadelphia International Airport established an Exhibitions Program – a visual arts initiative to humanize the Airport environment, provide visibility for Philadelphia’s unique cultural life, and to enrich the experience of the traveling public.
The Exhibitions Program is responsible for organizing and presenting rotating exhibitions that are located throughout the Airport. The exhibits change throughout the year to provide a variety of educational and cultural programs. This forum for presenting visual arts attests to the Airport’s commitment to supporting arts and culture.
The Exhibitions Program provides millions of visitors from around the world access to a wide variety of art forms by artists and arts institutions from the Philadelphia area.
The artists in this post- Anuj Chandra Shrestha, Lale Westvind, Steve Teare, Olivia Fredricks, and Amze Emmons are all part of the exhibition, Jawn 8. Jawn, a slang term local to Philadelphia, is defined as- “a placeholder word that may refer to a thing, place, person, or event, substituting for a specific word/name”. For even more on the word jawn, check out this article on Atlas Obscura.
Lale Westvind, “They Grew The Garden”
Steve Teare, “The Art Museum Games”
Olivia Fredricks, “The City is Our Playground”
Amze Emmons, “Philly Birdsong Onomatopoeia”
Feb 052026
Symbiosis (2011) by artist Roxy Paine has been on display in Iroquois Park on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia since June 2014.
About this work from the Association for Public Art (aPA), which organized the installation and acquisition-
Hand-fabricated from thousands of pieces of stainless steel pipe, plate, and rods, Symbiosis suggests both ecological and anatomical branching systems.
Rising 34 feet high, the more than 3.5 ton sculpture was created from standard industrial piping that was welded, formed, and polished in the artist’s studio to create two shimmering, interrelated organic forms that both buttress and weigh on one another, referencing the darker aspects of nature and the fierceness of its laws. Symbiosis represents the collision of two dendroids that result in stasis, a questionable relationship that teeters between support and detriment.
Roxy Paine’s work consistently blurs the lines between the natural and artificial. He is known for work that explores the collision of industry and nature, and his series of stainless steel “Dendroid” sculptures are exemplary manifestations of this practice. The “Dendroids,” a term combining “dendron” (Greek for “tree”) and -oid (a suffix meaning “form”), are monumental structures that convey a fusion of industrial and organic forms. They evoke arboreal structures, vascular systems, synaptic networks, and industrial pipelines, interpreting the natural world through a man-made lens. The structures represent search, growth, and the branching of systems that suggest dormant energy and potential, a theme Paine has explored in his work for the last 15 years.
Nearby you can also find Mark di Suvero‘s painted steel sculpture Iroquois (seen in the second image posted).
Jan 312026
Secret Mall Apartment Trailer
The story in the 2024 documentary Secret Mall Apartment, feels relatively straightforward at first. In 2003, a group of eight artists built an apartment in a small, unused space in the Providence Place shopping mall in Providence, Rhode Island. They continued to use it until they were discovered a few years later. But the film takes you on a journey beyond the creation of the apartment. It’s also about gentrification, urban development, and artist housing; mall culture and consumerism; the artists’ work outside the apartment; and, by the end, even the question of what makes something art.
Artist Michael Townsend was no stranger to art installations. He had previously created one inside a drainage tunnel, allowing only a select few with keys to see it. When local artist venue and living space Fort Thunder was torn down, the idea of living in the nearby new mall began. He remembered noticing an odd extra space while the mall was still being constructed. After searching and finding it with his then-wife Adriana Valdez Young, friends and fellow artists Colin Bliss, Andrew Oesch, Greta Scheing, James Mercer, Emily Ustach, and Jay Zehngebot joined them to build the apartment. Luckily for viewers, the process was also documented with a Pentax Optio (even if the footage is low-res). Furniture was added, along with a video game system, and eventually a wall.
While their new home provided a break from the outside world, it also became a place for the artists to plan their tape-art installations. These included a five-year portrait series in NYC for 9/11; a mural on the site of the Oklahoma City bombing; and creating work with kids on the walls of Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Rhode Island. Townsend continues to make tape-art projects today.
The documentary is fun to watch and at times, even inspirational. It’s currently available to watch on Netflix and other online platforms.
Dec 122025
Cleveland artist Jake Kelly‘s 2010 mural was inspired by the artwork and concepts of ArtsCollinwood‘s portfolio project students. Along with his numerous murals band posters, and fliers, he has also made several comics detailing darker moments from Cleveland’s history.
He also created the fictional series, The Lake Erie Monster, with fellow artist John G. A few issues are currently available online for free.
More about the series from their website-
The flagship story is an “adaptation” of a fake movie that J. Kelly developed for a series of Ten Imaginary Movie Posters. Set in the 1970s, we follow a cast of eclectic characters as they have to navigate the choppy waters stirred up by a Monster born out of the pollution from a city gone to seed. Along with the main title, each issue will feature at least one short back up story.
The Aither‘s 2023 interview with Kelly is also worth a read for more information on the artist.