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I Am Speaking: John Lewis mural by Open Air Gallery in Rochester, NY
Rochester, NY

I Am Speaking: John Lewis

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≈3,200sq ft

I Am Speaking: John Lewis, in Rochester, New York — about 3,200 square feet of wall. One of two civil-rights portraits Open Air Gallery painted in the city.

Location
Rochester, NY
Size
≈3,200 sq ft
Medium
Hand-painted
Category
Public work · Painted portrait

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Fourteen views of the same wall

The John Lewis wall from the street corner in Rochester, over the parking-lot fence, with a green one-hour parking sign in the foreground
Day one: the wall primed white, the scissor lifts raised at one end and cones and tape across the lot
Two of the crew holding up the gridded reference print at the wall
A painter on a lift at John Lewis’s eye, the rest of the face still in grid outline on the white wall
Paint being poured from a gallon can on the lift, paint-spattered cans lined up below
Looking up at the wall: the face finished and two scissor lifts working along the white lower edge
A rainbow over the lot with the wall half painted, the lifts raised against it and people watching from the tarmac
Two of the crew, hooded, looking up at the nearly finished portrait
A painter in silhouette against the evening sky, brush to the wall
The finished wall at dusk, three of the crew standing at its foot and a scissor lift beside them
The finished wall at night, lit by street lamps over a wet parking lot
The finished wall square-on across the empty lot, glass and brick towers on either side
The wall from a rooftop across downtown Rochester, the round-topped tower and the Holiday Inn beside it
The wall a year after it was finished, in low autumn sun over a lot full of cars
In the press

Ten stories about this wall

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