Archives: Mural Map

Kevin Freligh works as a graphic designer. He mixed the color of each panel of the wall individually for its subtle gradient effect. NOTE: This mural has been deinstalled.

Emily Roberts-Negron is a visual thinker who studies the nuances between shapes, patterns and architecture, and the relationships created there. Her piece on Wall Street incorporated all of these things one step further by using a mirrored medium, thus assuming the viewer and artist as part of the piece as well. NOTE: the work has been de-installed.

Geddes Jones Paulsen, a Hudson Valley/Nantucket-based illustrator and tattoo artist collaborated with Raudiel Sanudo, an illustrator and painter who lives in Tijuana, Mexico to conjure up this fantastical creature. The eagle that is depicted was inspired by the eagle on the Mexican flag. Jones Paulsen added his signature clothing style. Their collaborative work has the distinction of being the first permanent O+ mural in Kingston.

In Mushroom Utopia, Goodnight Stetz incorporates beautifully rendered mushrooms that can be found in the Hudson Valley into a magical landscape of color, pattern, dynamism and surprise that speaks to the wonder to be found in the natural world.

The Blooming Colors series, by Pau Quintanajornet, is a vivid reminder that life is a kaleidoscope of experiences, just like the ever-changing colors of nature. It is a spirited invitation to rejoice in the spectrum of life, to embrace the beauty of diversity, and to remember that our lives, like the petals of a flower, also bloom in unexpected and wondrous ways. The mural is a testament to the enduring beauty and hope that surrounds us, waiting to be discovered and the radiant spirit that is inherent in all of us.

Represented within a colorfield of yellows and greens, almost pixelated in appearance, this mural offers three food-related solutions to climate change that have the power to remove as much as 237 Gigatons of CO2 Equivalent from the Earth’s atmosphere. This abstract composition of yellow and green, accompanied by a small QR code where people can find out what the piece represents. Viewers are then prompted to take a single climate action that’s specific to Kingston/the Hudson Valley and the destination page of the QR will continue to be updated over time.

On a facade looking over the YWCA playground, Gross renders plants and birds native to the Hudson Valley in a composition that speaks to diversity, the interdependence one has with their neighbor, being rooted in community, inclusiveness and a connection to the natural world. She states: “The landscape depicted is a transition to utopia; rewilding is about creating habitats/sanctuary and maximizing diversity. The birds serve additionally as symbols of joyful freedom and upward movement.”

David Najib Kasir’s recent work revolves around the struggle of refugees and families in war torn communities. The figures in the mural are based on a picture of the artist’s older daughter trying to show her baby sister how to dance. But in drawing it the image became one of an older sibling leading and protecting her younger sister. It is the work of a son to a mother from Syria, a neighbor to myriad families impacted by the devastation of war and of a painter using his own children’s likeness as the stand-ins for countless other children in conflict. It has become a timely image of loss, of letting go and of trust and hope that our children will protect each other as time goes on. The mural is dedicated to the artists’ daughters, to the children of Syria and to the older sister of a friend who passed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Good Work is a public art evolution of Brian Kaspr’s background in graphic design and typography reflecting both his love of lettering and of painting as a process. The mural was created using three overlapping layers of lettering, not intended to be read or to communicate an explicit message but to create a color field of energy, geometry, and abstracted letter forms. The mural Good Work was created with input from the folks at Good Work Institute who shared language with Kaspr that is core to the principals of the work they do but who also trusted the artist to express himself freely. Their only request was that the color green be included, as the location is called ” The Greenhouse” and that the ‘G’ of Good Work Institute be legible.