Detroit Street Art ~ 40 New Discoveries ~ Summer 2017

The 40 works of Metro Detroit street art examined in this web-post were hunted down and shot by yours truly between June 14th and September 25th, 2017. As always, we invite the public to kindly inform of us of any factual inaccuracies identified herein. ~I♥DM

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6/14/2017 ~ E & S Uniforms, 18986 Schaefer, Detroit. Artist: Sydney G. James…..

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6/14/2017 ~ Carhartt, 5800 Cass, Detroit. Painted by Kelly Golden and Jordan Zielke of Golden Sign Company based on illustrations by Michael Burdick and James Noellert…..

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6/15/2017 ~ The Farmer’s Hand, 1701 Trumbull, Detroit. Artist: ‘Ouizi’ aka Louise Chen…..

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6/15/2017 ~ 3437 Cochrane, Detroit. Artist: Nicole MacDonald…..

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6/15/2017 ~ Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, 1211 Trumbull, Detroit. Artist: ‘J~Mack’. Find a few other respectable pieces on this exact same wall…..

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6/16/2017 ~ Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple, 4345 Trumbull, Detroit. Artist: Nicole MacDonald…..

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6/16/2017 ~ Whole Foods, 115 Mack, Detroit. Artist: Tylonn J. Sawyer. Three more commissioned works of similar subject matter by other artists grace this exact same Midtown wall…..

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6/16/2017 ~ 1820 Mack, Detroit. Artist unknown to us, but you could probably figure it out pretty easily from one of the ‘Murals in the Market‘ folks. This piece went up long before their 2017 event but it appears not at all out of place among the fest’s other productions…..

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6/16/2017 ~ 6447 Mack, Detroit. Artist: Unknown…..

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7/21/2017 ~ Approximately 9299 Lawton, Detroit. Artist: Unknown…..

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7/21/2017 ~ Lawton @ Joy Rd, Detroit. Artist: ‘Chaos’…..

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7/21/2017 ~ 9345 Lawton, Detroit. Artist: ‘Worse’…..

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7/21/2017 ~ 9345 Lawton, Detroit. Artist: Unknown…..

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7/26/2017 ~ Queens Bar, 35 East Grand River, Detroit. Artist unknown to us. This billboard is often repainted and if we were into betting, we’d bet the good people at Library Street Collective curate it. We could easily be wrong, but we advise ya to start with them if you’re hoping to get to the bottom of it…..

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7/26/2017 ~ Somewhere near Griswold & Michigan, Detroit. Artist: J. Dwyer…..

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The following five works were commissioned advertisements for the recently released, Katherine Bigelow-directed film, “Detroit”. They appear, in our opinion, to be fabricated enlargements of smaller pieces, with the exception of the last work, which appears to have been painted directly onto the wall. We photographed them all between July 26th and August 8th.

7/26/2017 ~ 1420 Washington, Detroit. Artist: Sydney G. James…..

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8/2/2017 ~ Town Pump Tavern, 100 West Montcalm, Detroit. Artist: ‘Jacx’ aka Jaclyn Shanes…..

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8/2/2017 ~ The Michigan Building, 220 Bagley, Detroit. Artist: Marlo Broughton…..

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8/7/2017 ~ The Michigan Building, 220 Bagley, Detroit. Artist: Marlo Broughton…..

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8/8/2017 ~ Thomas Magee’s Sporting House Whiskey Bar, 1408 East Fisher Freeway Service Drive, Detroit. Artist: Nic Notion…..

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8/3/2017 ~ Atkinson @ Rosa Parks, Detroit. Another fabricated enlargement of a smaller piece, as far as we can tell. Artist: Hubert Massey…..

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8/4/2017 ~ 3445 Cass, Detroit. Artist: Christpher Konecki. Find another decent mural by ‘Caratoes‘ on this building’s perpendicular wall to the right in this photo. Make no assumptions regarding its current condition. We have no idea. Haven’t seen it in person, only in online shots…..

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8/8/2017 ~ Adelaide @ Orleans, Detroit. Another piece that appears to be part of the ‘Murals in the Market’ project (it’s even included in their website’s listing of 2017 creations) but was painted many weeks prior to the actual event. Artist: James Bullough…..

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8/8/2017 ~ Adelaide @ Riopelle, Detroit. Artist: Zak Meers…..

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8/8/2017 ~ Approximately 1530 Winder, Detroit. Multiple Artists…..

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8/8/2017 ~ Winder @ Riopelle, Detroit. Surrounded on all sides by ‘Murals in the Market‘ productions but NOT included among the event producers’ roster of 2017 works. Artists: ‘Patch Whisky‘ & ‘Ghostbeard‘…..

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8/8/2017 ~ The Brooklyn Street Local, 1266 Michigan, Detroit. Artist: Unknown…..

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8/8/2017 ~ Detroit Institute of Bagels, 1236 Michigan, Detroit. Artist: Meredith Miotke…..

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8/8/2017 ~ Prince Valley Market & Bakery, 5913 Michigan, Detroit. “The History of the Future Series 1: Imagination” (2011). Artists: Nivek Monet and Juan Carlos Hearn in collaboration with the residents of Detroit’s Chadsey-Condon community…..

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8/8/2017 ~ 3439 Livernois, Detroit. Artist: Jesús Benitez…..

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9/5/2017 ~ GFM Motors, 11505 Livernois, Detroit. Artists: ‘Hael’ & ‘Este’ (we think)…..

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9/7/2017 ~ 1227 East 10 Mile, Madison Heights. Artists: ‘Hygienic Dress League‘ aka Steve and Dorota Coy…..

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The following four pieces were all part of Midtown Detroit‘s 2017 ‘DLectricity‘ festival that has now realized incarnations in the early Autumns of 2012, 2014 and 2017. Our photographs are merely stills, fractions of elongated pieces that contain numerous images in motion…..

9/23/2017 ~ Meyer L. Prentis Cancer Center, 110 East Warren, Detroit. “Carnival Love Wall”. Artist: Kelley Bell…..

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09/23/2017 ~ Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 4800 Woodward, Detroit. “Graffiti Grandma”. Artists: ‘Dawn of Man‘. Unbeknownst to the creators, their work was projected onto a wall that’s embellished with custom architectural culpture created by Detroit’s own Corrado Parducci in the year 1959…..