Title: Charlotte, Past, Present and Future
Location: 508 Beatties Ford Road
Artists: Dyair, Curtis King, Kyle Holbrooks, Jaxon and Devon Alan Johnson
Date: 2010
Media: Acrylic paint
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Title: Washington Heights mural
Location: Beatties Ford Road
Artist: Georgie Nakima
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Artist Info: @gardenofjourney
Story: Coming soon!
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Title: The Ritz at Washington Heights
Location: 1201 Beatties Ford Road
Artist: Maykayla Binter
Date: 2021
Media: Acrylic paint on shipping container
Artist Info: @mkay_15
Story: Coming soon!
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Title: Northwest School of the Arts entrance mural
Location: 1415 Beatties Ford Road
Artist: Rosalia Torres-Weiner
Date:
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info: @redcalacastudio
Story: Coming soon!
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Title: West End Mural
Location: 2020 Beatties Ford Road
Artists: Michael Grant, Carla Aaron-Lopez, Makayla Binter, Dammit Wesley, Matthew Clayburn, LordPhly, Justin Surgeon, Dyair, Ricky Singh, DeNeer Davis
Date: 2020
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Title: Sankofa mural
Location: 2120 Beatties Ford Road
Artist:T'Afo Feimster
Date:
Media: Acrylic paint
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Title: Beatties Ford Strong
Location: 2200 Beatties Ford Road
Artist: Ricky Singh
Date:
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Title: The River of Life
Location: 2206 Beatties Ford Road
Artist: Abel Jackson
Date: 2021
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info: @artbyabel
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Title: Icon and Rocket
Location: 2020 Beatties Ford Road
Artist: Georgie Nakima
Date: 2021
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info: @gardenofjourney
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Title: Trader Joe’s mural
Location: 1133 Metropolitan Avenue
Artist: Ivan Roque
Date: 2019
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info:@ivanjroque
Story: Miami, Florida based artist Ivan Roque gets the perfect location at the Metropolitan. You can see his mural each time you drive in circles looking for a parking place in this very busy shopping center. The colors, sun, and landscape of South Florida appear often in this artist’s work but here his inspiration is North Carolina.
Key Formal Elements:
A large brown trout with green and orange colors provides the focal point in this image. Found most often in mountain streams and lakes, the brown trout is native to this area. The artist frames the trout with blue iris flowers, another native species to North Carolina.
Title: “Plight of Hand”
Location: 1055 Metropolitan Avenue, 6th floor of the parking garage
Artist: Tay Douglas
Date: 2019
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info: @tarantuga
Story: If you made it to the top of the parking deck, you are rewarded with both a mural and a lovely view of uptown. Once a local artist and now based in the Northeast, @tarantuga lost a wall, then got a wall, and then finally got a lift to do his mural painting for Talking Walls 2019.
Key Formal Elements:
A large hand holds what looks like a mountain range. With the water behind, perhaps it is a reference to North Carolina and from the mountains to the sea.
Title: Extravaganza
Location: 1610 N. Tryon Street
Artist: BellaPhame
Date: 2019
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info: @bellaphame
Story: This Portugal-based husband and wife team form their artistic name with a combination of each of their individual names. They work internationally and were part of 2019 Talking Walls.
Key Formal Elements:
The purple and teal colors represents their artistic partnership. Each color is a connection to one of them and their use is always balanced in their art. If you had an artistic color, what would it be?
Title: “Queen Life”
Location: 3217 The Plaza
Artist: Ramiro Davaro-Comas
Date: 2018
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info:@ramirostudios
Story: Ramiro Davaro-Comas is an Argentine-American artist living in NY and Director of Dripped on the Road, a traveling artist residency. As an artist, he’s inspired by street art and comics.
Key Formal Elements:
Eleven figures in princess dresses, thickly applied lipstick, and hair styled to the max line the wall of this bar. Purple, brown, red, or blue hair and frilly, patterned dresses guide your eye down the wall. Each celebrates the feminine and they are all queens of Charlotte. Do you have a favorite?
Title: Pure Intentions mural
Location: 2215 N. Tryon Street
Artist: Arko & Owl
Date: 2018
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info:@arko.art, @owl.clt
Story: Prominent local artists Arko and Owl embrace the balance of two very different artistic styles. Owl’s metaphysical blob forms of undulating lines flow across the wall. While the magical, fantasy landscapes produced by Arko tell a story of his make-believe world. Together they are richly layered and delight the eye. Oh, and the artists wear masks when they work.
Key Formal Elements:
Why wear a mask when they work? Each believes that working while masked allows them to create freely and removes any gender or ethnicity from their work. In this composition which spans two walls and a corner, an Arko figure sees a vision and follows that vision around the corner where the Owl blob forms flow across the doors. The playful figure on the green blobs of grass searches the landscape for more.
Title: Ink Floyd mural
Location: 1101 E. 36th Street
Artist: Trasheer
Date: 2018
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info:@trasheer
Story: Mexico City artist @trasheer is influenced by comics and surrealism and this mural is from the inaugural year of Talking Walls.
Key Formal Elements:
Are you burning the candle at both ends? With a figure that is both human like but also animal like, maybe the artist is making a statement about our over stimulated world. Notice the use of the small comic book dots called Ben-Day dots.
Title: “Almost Gone”
Location: 2902 The Plaza
Artist: Scott Nurkin
Date: 2018
Media: Acrylic paint
Artist Info: @themuralshop
Story: Scott Nurkin grew up in Charlotte, went to UNC Chapel Hill and is the founder of The Mural Shop. His studio is currently working on a series of mural celebrating North Carolina musical legends. Give them a follow @ncmusicianmurals. In this mural, Nurkin features a dozen native species to North Carolina that are “critically endangered.”
Key Formal Elements:
From left to right here are the animals that are “critically endangered.” eastern cougar, noonday globe snail, Virginia big eared bat, bog turtle, St. Francis butterfly, green salamander, flying squirrel, short nose sturgeon, gopher frog, red wolf, and the right whale. It is hard to image that the next step for all of the animals is extinct.
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