Mural at the Noble
Artist Hoxxoh’s Untiled mural at 200 Spring Garden Street brings his exhilarating “rain bird” technique to a wall that faces a public garden adjacent a new residential building. Bressi, as curatorial advisor to Mural Arts Philadelphia, worked with National Real Estate Development to select the artist, commission the artwork and oversee the installation of the artwork.
Date | 2024
Client | National Real Estate Development
Collaborators | Mural Arts Philadelphia
Mural Arts’ most dynamic new mural in 2023 is more than 300 feet along a wall that encloses a new public space at the Noble, a recently completed mixed-use building at 200 Spring Garden Street.
Miami-based artist Hoxxoh brought his unique painting approach to Philadelphia for the first time, resulting in a mural unlike any other in the city. His installation process is improvisational, using pressurized spray tanks to saturate the wall with layer upon layer of sweeping color fields, then applying abstract markings with contrasting colors sprayed through garden hoses and everyday gardening tools. The approach is an exercise in letting go – the artist allows the art to guide itself along, and the viewer can re-imagine color as a symphony of movement and voice.
This untitled project adds to the expanding collection of murals along Spring Garden Avenue and in the nearby Spring Arts District. Like the mural on a wall at La Chinesca restaurant, just a few blocks away, it explores the imaginative possibilities of using spray paint on corrugated metal walls. Rather than using aerosol spray, Hoxxoh is constantly experimenting with pumps, hoses, and nozzles to achieve his projects’ everyday latex house paint.
Mural Arts was proud to partner with National Real Estate Development on this project, which follows our previous collaboration on Cradle, at Jefferson Plaza at 12th and Chestnut.
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