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Jef Aérosol – Teenager

Jef Aérosol 
Teenager

Aérosol’s signature stencils, found across campus, bend reality in playful ways. 

Jef Aérosol – Tom Sawyer

Jef Aérosol 
Tom Sawyer

Aérosol’s signature stencils, found across campus, bend reality in playful ways. 

Jef Aérosol – Sittin Kid

Jef Aérosol 
Sittin Kid

Aérosol’s signature stencils, found across campus, bend reality in playful ways. 

Jef Aérosol – I Love Boston

Jef Aérosol 
I Love Boston

Aérosol’s signature stencils, found across campus, bend reality in playful ways. 

Jef Aérosol – Hendrix

Jef Aérosol 
Hendrix

Aérosol’s signature stencils, found across campus, bend reality in playful ways. 

Jef Aérosol – Taking A Leap

Jef Aérosol
Taking A Leap

Aérosol’s signature stencils, found across campus, bend reality in playful ways.

 

Jef Aérosol – Little Boston Tea Party

Jef Aérosol 
Little Boston Tea Party

Aérosol’s signature stencils, found across campus, bend reality in playful ways. 

Cedric Douglas and Daniel Anguilu 

Cedric Douglas and Daniel Anguilu 
Untitled 

Douglas’ photorealist style and Anguilu’s colorful and sprawling imagery meld together beautifully in this collaborative mural on Huntington Avenue.

Sophia Ainslie 

Sophia Ainslie 
In Person

This mural in Ryder Hall incorporates 16 colors to help represent the relationship between body and landscape.

Nate Swain 

Nate Swain 
Northeastern Hidden Worlds 

A series of nature scenes—including a forest, mountains, and a house with a stream running under a bridge—beautify a concrete retaining wall at the Russell J. Call Children’s Center playground.

Shepard Fairey 

Shepard Fairey 
Commanda 

A fictionalized portrait of the artist’s wife, Amanda, is the centerpiece of this mural in the International Village lobby.  

John Park 

John Park 
Reality Check II 

Two figures hover midair over an urban landscape in this East Village mural. Whether the figures are flying or falling is up to your own interpretation.

Katy Ann Gilmore 

Katy Ann Gilmore 
Tethered in Space

Thousands of lines slowly cascade toward a central vanishing point in this mural in the Snell Engineering Center.

Susan Kelk Cervantes 

Susan Kelk Cervantes 
We Are All Streams Leading to the Same River 

Students contributed mightily to this mural on the Latinx Student Cultural Center, showcasing diverse colors and cultures. 

Daniel Anguilu 

Daniel Anguilu 
100 Years of Solitude

Images of birds, faces, portals, and other abstract representations of daily life transform
a pedestrian bridge retaining wall into an abstract mural.

IMAGINE

Sneha Shrestha (aka IMAGINE) 
Knowledge is Power 

This mural, along the concourse outside Gallery 360, features the vibrant reds, blues, and gold colors from the artist’s native Nepal.

Quintessenz

Quintessenz 
Gemini 

Redefining the entrances to Richardson Plaza, this installation creates an optical illusion as colorful mesh banners, hung from steel structures, shift in the wind.

Felipe Ortiz

Felipe Ortiz 
Plumage 

Birds with seasonal migratory patterns soar along Huntington Avenue in this mural inspired by Ortiz’s life journey.

El Mac

El Mac 
Ars et Scientia 

El Mac created a mural on the side of Meserve Hall that he describes as “an allegorical image that represents the fusion of art and science.”

Cedric Douglas

Cedric Douglas 
A World of Innocent Discovery 

Douglas’ Tyrannosaurus Rex roars out from the exterior  wall of the Behrakis Health Sciences Center.

Silvia López Chavez 

Silvia López Chavez
999 Cranes/Joy

López Chavez transforms the façade of Ruggles Station with hands nestling a paper crane, a woman blowing bubbles, and illustrations of paper airplanes, a bicycle, and a train.

Astro 

Astro
Untitled

Astro’s perspective-bending style of street art adorns the twin walls of a building along Huntington Avenue.