• Artists,  Mural Mondays,  Murals

    Typographic Mural

    These murals painted at the new Queens Metropolitan Campus in Forest Hills (including Queens Metropolitan High School and the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning Middle School) in New York by Paula Scher caught my eye as being  graphic, colorful and even having geographic significance when you read all of the wording. See for yourself. It’s a map of Queens and then some. As the artist state: “These works marry my love of painting maps with my love of environmental design,” says Scher. “When the viewer enters the atrium, they have entered the painting. They are enveloped by it. Space is altered by it. For that moment in time, all perspectives are skewed.…

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