Alegria del Prado (artists Esther del Prado from Spain and Octavio Alegria from Mexico) created this mural in Sacramento before their 2017 exhibition at the 1810 Gallery.
Sep 032025
Aug 262025
Denver-based artist Patrick Kane McGregor created this mural for the 2021 edition of Wide Open Walls Festival in Sacramento.
From the Wide Open Walls website about the artist-
Patrick “Kane” McGregor’s painting style starts with roots in graffiti and letters. In the next phase of art study he gained application, color theory and anatomy skills painting at various hand painted billboard companies over the last three decades. With the newfound knowledge of brushes and oil paints, he now explores portraiture more and found a love for it. Most his work now is based in realism, sometimes using impressionism and abstract ideas for scale or effect while exploring the use of color. Patrick enjoys painting animals, especially dogs, as they are a big part of his life. He has a deep appreciation and pride for canines in his paintings and likes to represent them majestically as they live in the moment.
Aug 182025
This mural by Micah Crandall-Bear was created for Sacramento’s Wide Open Walls Festival in 2017.
From the Wide Open Walls website about the artist-
Micah Crandall-Bear’s abstract landscape paintings examine Earth’s intrinsic resources and our disposition toward their accelerated transformation. His concept is infused with linear layers that cascade from atmospheric to subterranean. Landscape details hint at daily and seasonal shifts in light, evoking a sense of evolution and balance. In an ever-increasing technological world, his work reminds us to pause and admire our wild and natural surroundings. He presents abstractions that inspire a deep and effusive connection to nature.
Crandall-Bear achieves longitudinal depth by exacting precisely rendered lines and seamless expanses of color. This explicitly composed depth communicates a sense of contingency and locality. Micah’s construction of space is enhanced by his painting method. His ‘wet-on-wet’ method is a contemporary application of ‘alla prima,’ a traditional technique used mostly in oil painting, where layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint. No matter how precise or general the area, Micah’s layered brushstrokes are decisive, but also gestural, often spanning the entire surface of the canvas from left to right. This highly active method of painting is sometimes tempered through rapid buffing and blending. The outcome is a smooth, boundless, and energetic surface.
As a Northern California native, Crandall-Bear established his artistic roots locally and continues to promote the growth of his community. His reputation brings him consistent national and international attraction from both private and public collectors. Micah’s work now adorns the walls of prominent corporations throughout the country, university hospitals, Facebook data centers in Malaysia, Sweden, and more. His work has been featured in ArtSlant, American Art Collector Magazine, Forbes, and PBS.
Aug 082025
The Energy of Color by Shawn Rainey, aka Fabstraq, was created for the 2023 edition of the SHINE Mural Festival in St. Pete, Florida.
Aug 012025
This mural by Gabriel Specter is located in North Collinwood, Cleveland, in the Waterloo Arts District.
Jul 292025
Isabelle, by German sculptor Julian Voss-Andreae is located in Palm Springs, California. Voss-Andreae creates sculptures designed to change their appearance- disappearing at times when viewed at a certain angle. His background in science helped to influence this work when he went on to study art.
Below is a section of his biography from his website-
Prior to his art career, Julian Voss-Andreae studied quantum physics and philosophy at the Universities of Berlin and Edinburgh. As a graduate student at the University of Vienna, Voss-Andreae was one of the small team led by 2022 Nobel Prize Laureate Anton Zeilinger that conducted a ground-breaking experiment in quantum mechanics in 1999. The researchers showed that even molecules as big as C-60 “Buckyballs” can reveal their fundamentally quantum nature under the right conditions. Zeilinger’s group found that a beam of them, passed through a diffraction grating, will exhibit the purely wavelike property of interference. Subsequent experiments showed how interactions with the environment (in the form of infrared photons and background gas of different densities) will gradually wash away the ‘quantum-ness’ thanks to the process of decoherence, which is now recognized as the way the classical world emerges from the quantum.
Our Single Garment of Destiny, (pictured below) is located in Washington Gladden Social Justice Park in Columbus, Ohio. It was specifically designed for the park and takes its name and inspiration from the Martin Luther King Jr. quote below.
“All [people] are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
The video below explains his process when creating the sculptures.
Jul 252025
ILL.DES created this mural in 2022 for Tampa Walls.
About the artist and his work from his website-
ILL.DES (David Fratu) is a Romanian-American abstract artist based in Denver, CO whose work is rooted in geometric shapes and technology. With a background in computer engineering, he brings elements of technology into their art, creating visually striking pieces that represent the balance between chaos and order.
His style is characterized by their use of gradients of color and intricate patterns that create a sense of depth and movement. Their compositions are filled with vibrant colors, geometric shapes, and organic line work. The use of optical illusions and visual effects in their pieces adds to the illusive nature of their work, and is influenced by the op-art movement.
Despite the strong geometric shapes and technological influences, his pieces are not cold or mechanical. Instead, their work reflects the complexities and contradictions of the natural world. The use of symmetry and repetition creates a sense of order, while the use of unexpected shapes and colors adds a sense of chaos and unpredictability. Together, their unique compositions form a perfect equilibrium of harmony and discord.
ILL.DES’s work has been exhibited in galleries in Denver and nationwide, and has received critical acclaim for its ability to blend technology, art, and the exploration of the balance between chaos and order. They continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the world of geometric abstract art, creating pieces that are both visually stunning and thought-provoking.
Jul 242025
Liminal, 2019, was created by North Carolina artists Ian Henderson and Shae Bishop, and is located outside the Center for Craft in Asheville.
From the center and Henderson-
The installation explores the idea of the liminal, or state of being in transition, through the shifting pattern created by this large-scale tessellation of concrete tiles.
“Liminal invites the viewer, even the casual passer-by, to enter that liminal state and feel the vastness of a world pulsing with change and uncertainty.”
– Ian Henderson
Jul 182025
Sewing Seas by Jamaican artist Taj Tenfold was created for the 2019 edition of SHINE Mural Festival in St. Pete, Florida.
You can also find her work on Instagram.
Jul 112025
Ai Weiwei‘s Arch, pictured above, was part of his 2017 multi-site exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors. The exhibition was curated by Public Art Fund and took place in several parts of New York City. This work was located in Washington Square Park.
About the exhibition from Public Art Fund’s website-
Ai Weiwei conceived this multi-site, multi-media exhibition for public spaces, monuments, buildings, transportation sites, and advertising platforms throughout New York City. Collectively, these elements comprise a passionate response to the global migration crisis and a reflection on the profound social and political impulse to divide people from each other. For Ai, these themes have deep roots. He experienced exile with his family as a child, life as an immigrant and art student in New York, and more recently, brutal repression as an artist and activist in China. The exhibition draws on many aspects of Ai’s career as a visual artist and architect, and is informed by both his own life experience and the plight of displaced people. In 2016, Ai and his team traveled to 23 countries and more than 40 refugee camps while filming his documentary, Human Flow.
“Good fences make good neighbors” is a folksy proverb cited in American poet Robert Frost’s Mending Wall, where the need for a boundary wall is being questioned. Ai chose this title with an ironic smile and a keen sense of how populist notions often stir up fear and prejudice. Visitors to the exhibition will discover that Ai’s “good fences” are not impenetrable barriers but powerful, immersive, and resonant additions to the fabric of the city.
Seattle Art Museum is currently showing Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei, his first US retrospective in over a decade. The exhibition “highlights the artistic strategies of his 40-year career for questioning forms of power”. It will be on view until 9/7/2025.