Museum In My Backyard

Graffiti tells a story. Here's one of many. With the exception of a class trip in grade school I had never been to an art museum until Jane Golden head of Mural Arts Philadelphia took us (former graffiti artists) to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MOMA in NYC in the late 1980's. A couple of years ago I posted a NOT piece (see picture at the bottom of this page) done on the apartment roof top my family rented, on North 63rd street in West Philadelphia on Instagram and someone commented ..."you had a museum in your backyard". Henceforth the concept for the Museum in My Backyard painting with my tag name PEZ was created. In my youth, SUROC, my first graffiti partner and I must've rode the Market Frankford EL line the 14 miles it spanned Philly from West to East hundreds of times. We stood at the front of the train and gazed out upon our museum of endless roof tops, highway walls, and miles of underground subway tunnels viewing our work and that of over 400 high profile graffiti artists.

Museum in my Backyard

2015

Acrylic, house paint, spray paint, paint marker, signage, aluminum, and wall texture on canvas and solid wood gold frame.

Dimensions: 48" wide x 48" high

On exhibit at a solo show: "Roots and Wings - A Story of Transformation" in 2016 at the Mural Arts Philadelphia gallery.

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Museum in my Backyard

In the Merkle Inc. corporate collection in the Philadelphia metropolitan office.

Museum in my Backyard - The Idea

The practice wall on the rooftop of the apartment I grew up in on N. 63rd st. in West Philadelphia, with a NOT piece done by MB on the sneak one night. This rooftop served as a meeting place for some of the most high profile Philadelphia graffiti artists of the 1980's. The "museum" was torn down in the late 1990's.

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