As years pass cities and towns can become a mass of grey and brown decaying structures. Industrial buildings are built for function and not esthetic beauty and over time rust and dirt eat away at whatever paint was originally there.
A group of artists in Braddock, Pennsylvania are working to change the esthetics of the aging steel mill town to one of creative artistic beauty by painting the buildings, bridges and store fronts and creating new works of art. This takes the art out of the galleries and puts it in a place that everyone can enjoy in a town that desperately needs a face lift.
Using mis-tinted paint Maya Hayuk creates architectural and linear designs in unlikely places with unlikely colours. This authorized graffiti has created small corners of fine art in unexpected ways.
Handmade Portraits: The Public Art of Maya Hayuk from Etsy on Vimeo.
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