Murals of Baltimore

<div>This is the completed street painting that was created in Baltimore about the War in Ukraine The street art project is made in protest against the invasion of Ukraine. This project was not funded or paid for in any way and is 100% volunteer work by a father/daughter team that wishes to make the world a better place. The chalk art took seven days to complete with about 60 to 70 hours of work which will be washed away with the coming rain. It measures about 8 x 6 meters. The image is about the devil/Putin coming from hell to grab the country of Ukraine and drag it down into hell which is happening in real life at this moment.&nbsp;</div>

Save Ukraine

<div>This mural was painted in 2009 in Prince George’s County, Maryland in a suburb outside of Washington DC for Art in Public Spaces. The mural depicts the development of a rural area into a bustling extension of DC into Maryland. The statues represent African American leaders of Maryland. The statues are Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist from the Civil War: Charles Herbert Flowers, a Tuskgee Airman from WW2: Doctor N. Louise Young, the first African American woman licensed in the State of Maryland. The small statue that she is holding is of Henrietta Lacks. The last statue is my personal favorite and represents Tom Miller, an artist and muralist from Baltimore. The mural was painted on fiber cement panels and later installed across the street from C. H. Flowers High School.&nbsp;<br><br>The mural is designed to be seen from an angle from the viewpoint of the High School versus straight on like most paintings. The right side of the images has been elongated so that they will seem to be natural to the rest of the mural when seen from a sharp angle as well as the arches.</div>

Paradise

<div>This was a mural that I completed in 2007 and was started in 2006. The mural took over a year to complete and is the largest mural I had ever painted until that time. The mural is in Gloucester, Virginia which is the birthplace of Pocahontas. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Tsenacommacah. Chief Powhatan ruled over what is present-day Virginia. There is an article in National Geographic from 2007 that explains better than I ever could about this, so I recommend you visit your local library and grab a copy. For the 300th Anniversary of the state of Virginia, the Cook Foundation commissioned me to create this mural in the historical town of Gloucester on the side of the main library. The mural depicts various scenes from the life of Pocahontas and represents various contradictions and extremes of her life. Throughout my career, I have always been fascinated with extremes, contradictions, and opposites. Pocahontas went from one extreme to another starting with her people in Virginia to England which was at the time two extremely different worlds like night and day, east and west, left, and right. The mural depicts Pocahontas in these two different worlds that are lit by two different light sources: moon and sun. The lower section of the mural depicts the story of Powhatan painted in various rocks and metals of Virginia.</div>

Life and Legend of Pocahontas

<div>Or also known as Monument to a Penis or Monument to Ovaries. Yes as you can imagine the Mural depicts upside-down Ovaries. At the time I was expecting the birth of my first child and being a father, the father generally sits in the waiting room while the mother goes into the doctor's office to be examined on a monthly or weekly basis. Well, these waiting rooms for fathers are generally decorated with plastic sculptures and posters of women's ovaries. Being surrounded by these images for a number of months inspired me to create a mural about it. So I flipped the ovaries and thought it looked like a penis and felt it looked cool for a mural. Around this image, I designed flowers and shapes that I felt were inspired by reproduction. Then the three panels were divided into the 3 primary colors, red, blue, and yellow. I am an anatomy fanatic and in my studies, I have generally been obsessed with the skeletal system and muscles, this mural allowed me to focus on the reproductive organs in human anatomy for the first time.</div>

Fertility

<div>These are some chalk drawings created during the 90s in Fells Point. They are all copies of things that I was interested in at the time like Star Wars, Far Side, Disney, etc. I tried to do copies of Renaissance Art like what I was doing in Europe but that did not fly so well in Baltimore so I adapted. In the long run, it taught me to adapt and change subject matter for the audience and not everyone likes the same things as you.&nbsp;</div>

Baltimore Street Paintings

<div>First 3D Mural ever made and was painted on the side of a row house in 2005 in Baltimore. The mural is about the love affair of Jerome Bonaparte from France and Elizabeth Patterson from Baltimore and is inspired by the Romeo and Juliet scene on the balcony where Juliet cries out “Oh Romeo, Romeo, where out thou Romeo” but here the roles are reversed, and Jerome ignores his wife and child while being obsessed with himself. Elizabeth looks back to her son for strength as her husband rejects her. Her son pulls his mother away from France, Jerome, and back to Baltimore. Jerome came to Baltimore in the early 1800s on a tour of America where he meets Elizabeth Patterson in Baltimore, they were married in 1803 and had a son named Jerome. Jerome’s older brother, Napoleon, was furious and forced his younger brother to abandon and divorce his American wife while she was pregnant.&nbsp;</div>

Bonaparte Patterson

<div>This is a mural that Murals of Baltimore (MoB) painted on the side of a steel railroad bridge in South Baltimore in a neighborhood called Brooklyn which is neat Curtis Bay in 2005. The mural is located above South Hanover Street near Patapsco Ave. 17 years later the mural is still in prime condition with zero fading or peeling from the steel substrate. MoB had to use a nasty, filthy, disgusting paint system that dried in 30 minutes once the can was opened. MoB had to throw away more than 100 brushes to complete this mural<br><br><br></div>

Man Using Blue to Extract Green from Yellow 

<div>Madonnari Mural - Most recent mural in Baltimore in the historic neighborhood of Little Italy. This mural is about the Art of Madonnari and the different aspects of Motherhood. Madonnari are artists that travel creating images on pavements using chalk or soft pastels. The majority of their images are of the Virgen Mary or Madonna for that reason they are called Madonnari. Throughout this mural are images of people that have been or are extremely important to Madonnari. The theme of the mural depicts various stages of the life of a mother from childbirth to the loss of a child. Many of the images or vignettes are recreations of images that created in Italy to achieve the title of Maestro Madonnaro at the Festival of Madonnari in Grazie di Curtatone</div>

Madonnari Mural

<div>This mural was painted along a retaining wall in South Baltimore by Murals of Baltimore (MoB). The mural is still there and in very good condition but could use a cleaning from all the exhaust fumes from 17 years of rush hour traffic. The mural uses a unique style developed by MoB of dividing subject matter into 3 primary colors and patterns. The left side is dominated by blues and squares, the middle area is dominated by yellow and circles, and the right side is dominated by reds and triangles. Each section is meant to represent a different area of the city</div>

Three Baltimores

This is a legal graffiti wall in Perryville. Provided by users of legal-walls.net.<br /><br />
      <strong>Is this wall really legal?</strong><br />
      View <a href="https://www.legal-walls.net/wall/2429?utm_source=api" target="_blank">the comments</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/legal-walls/how-to-assess-the-legality-of-a-graffiti-hall-of-fame-a27884696f34">check this post</a> for tips. 
      If it's public property, you should get in touch with local authorities. For private property, just contact the owner.<br /><br />
      <strong>Where does this information come from?</strong><br />
      Legal-walls is a crowd-sourced community. If you believe the wall is no longer there, or not legal, leave a comment by clicking the link below.

Artworks in Baltimore