Wasteland Wanderlust

An exploration of the beautification graffiti artists unleashed in the 1970's through the 1990's on Philadelphia's post industrial wasteland of factories, storage facilities, and manufacturing plants left like carcinogenic ghosts across the city. The artist framed work in the center is a PEZ piece done on an abandoned factory along the Market-Frankford EL corridor of roof tops in North Philadelphia in 1985.

2015

Acrylic, house paint, spray paint, paint marker, oil pastel, tar, aluminum, conduit, electrical wire, and concrete on canvas.

Dimensions: 48" wide x 30" high

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Wasteland Wanderlust

Detail: Handmade frame of a PEZ piece done in 1985 on an abandoned factory roof top.

Wasteland Wanderlust

Rocco Albano in front of Wasteland Wanderlust in the Merkle corporate collection in Chicago, Illinois, 2017.

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