Murals and Large Scale Artwork
Personal and Collaborative Large Scale Art Projects, Murals, and Public Installations.
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2022 Addams Fest Mural — Westfield, NJ
Wicked Windows of Westfield Project - Handpainted 6 Window Mural for Addams Fest on Amazing Lash Studio
Located in Westfield, NJ. This piece was part of the 2022 AddamsFest celebration all throughout town.
This year’s mural was all about putting the Treat in Trick or Treat! Featuring Morticia Addams and Other Mother, Coraline and Wednesday Addams, and Thing and The Cat. These lovely ladies have all had a visit to Amazing Lash Studio as a little treat and girl-bonding-time. The mural features 4 different puns with related little seasonal icons: “Have a most fabuLASH Halloween”, “You look GOURDgeous”, “BAT those beautiful lashes”, “Hello BOOtiful.” Each figure heavily featured dramatic eyelashes! The spiders have eyeballs for bodies and their legs resemble eyelashes for a little extra thematic creepy flair.
Mural spanned across 3 main storefront windows and 3 smaller detail windows in entrance way.
Retro Rainbow Midsommar Mural — Private Residence
Behr Paint Living Room Accent Wall Mural
This mural is painted on the living room wall in a renovated one bedroom apartment.
Colors are inspired by a style palette from the 60s & 70s as well as landscapes of the Southwest US & mountainscapes of the Pacific Northwest US; it was also partly inspired by a love of retro interior design and vintage Film & TV.
Modern influences come from the films of Wes Anderson as well as new horror classic “Midsommar” by Ari Aster.
It was painted in eggshell finish to give the apartment an updated aesthetic from glossy paint.
2021 Addams Fest Mural — Westfield, NJ
Wicked Windows of Westfield Project - 2 Handpainted Window Mural for Addams Fest on Nos Vino Storefront
Located in Westfield, NJ. This piece was part of the 2021 AddamsFest celebration all throughout town. This year’s mural was inspired by two moms kicking back, relaxing, and having a fun night out on the town after a year of pandemic related social-isolation. Featuring Morticia Addams and Elvira with two delicious glasses of blood red wine on the main window with monster-movie inspired font. The corresponding window featured Thing carrying a “charspookerie” board featuring eyeball skewers, creepy cheeses and snacks, and dripping blood-red grapes with a Nosferatu silhouette in the backdrop.
2020 Addams Fest Mural — Westfield, NJ
Wicked Windows of Westfield Project - Six Panel Handpainted Window Mural for Addams Fest on Acting Out School Storefront
Located in Westfield, NJ. This piece was part of the 2020 AddamsFest celebration all throughout town. The mural was inspired by the classic women in kitschy retro horror. Beginning with a drawing of the 1960s Morticia Addams from television, this fusion of Pop Culture and Pop Music was born! Vampira, Elvira, Lily Munster, and Morticia Addams graced the walls of the Acting Out School for the Halloween season, emblazoned with lyrics from Lizzo. These HalloKWEENs also wished everyone a happy season and reminded people to keep one another safe during the pandemic; masks aren’t just for Halloween!
2019 Addams Fest Mural — Westfield, NJ
Wicked Windows of Westfield Project - Five Panel Handpainted Window Murals on Sherwin-Williams Storefront
Located on South Avenue in Westfield, New Jersey from October 1st through November 2nd 2019.
Inspired by the classic comic by Charles Addams and the 1960s television sitcom
Completed with Sherwin-Williams paints (sponsor of “Wicked Windows” portion of Addams Fest by donating supplies.)
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The Language Project — Metuchen, NJ
“The Metuchen Downtown Alliance Public Art LANGUAGE PROJECT looks to our burgeoning multicultural community with welcome and inclusion by way of LANGUAGE as a medium of art. The visual arts are present in a Town Portal, designed and fabricated by Robert Russo, and ten Adirondack chairs designed by artists from around the state.”
Chair made of Recycled Palette Wood by Downtown Metuchen Alliance.
Custom Hand Painted Adirondack Chair painted by Ellen using spray paint, acrylic paint, and acrylic paint pens.
On display at Schwartz Design Showroom, and later auctioned off and “adopted” by Cai’s Cafe at 420 Main Street.
“Heroes Among Us Mural” — Heady Field in Rockaway Boro, NJ
Project initiated by Life Center Stage, LMTI/WRRD, Rockaway Boro, Teaching Artist Arianne Petersen and Ellen Avigliano.
Project Sponsored by Home Depot, Community Coalition for Safe & Healthy Morris, Chroma Inc, and Rockaway Boro Recreational Department. Project completed with help from local county and town residents and businesses. This mural celebrates the tapestry of diversity within our community. It celebrates the unique perspectives and individuals that make up each community, and how we can use the arts and our interests to connect with one another.
View this mural in the park at Heady Field in Rockaway Boro, New Jersey on Maple Avenue.
“U in Your Community” — Heady Field in Rockaway Boro, NJ
Project initiated by Life Center Stage, LMTI/WRRD, Rockaway Boro, Teaching Artist Arianne Petersen and Ellen Avigliano.
Project Sponsored by Home Depot, Community Coalition for Safe & Healthy Morris, Chroma Inc, and Rockaway Boro Recreational Department. Project completed with help from local county and town residents and businesses. This mural celebrates the tapestry of diversity within our community. It celebrates the unique perspectives and individuals that make up each community, and how we can use the arts and our interests to connect with one another. View this mural in the park at Heady Field in Rockaway Boro, New Jersey on Maple Avenue behind Rest Stop Rejuvenate.
Starting from the left, the tree represents several things: putting down “roots” in our community, our personal family trees, and also ties in specifically with the “Stigma Free” campaign in town. The leaves represent the many individuals and many members that reside in our homes, neighbourhoods, and town; the flowing leaves represent those who leave and set up roots in new homes, and those who go “wherever the wind may take them” on new adventures. To the right of the tree, you’ll find a lovely little minstrel friend: the musician faces out to the open park area, welcoming those to come and share in positive self expression through the arts. Art and music have a great power to unite others where simple words often fail; this is represented by the teal music notes trailing off and throughout the mural. As you follow the trail of music notes, you’ll notice little shapes and handprints within the rainbow bubbles; these symbolize the unique interests, hobbies, and personal connections each of our community residents have.
“Through the kindness and generosity of our sponsors such as Rockaway Boro Recreation Department, Chroma Inc Paints, Home Depot, Community Coalition for Safe and Healthy Morris, we received in-kind donations of supplies, grant funding for support, and support for building the framework for hanging. Adult and youth members of our community worked alongside the Life Center Stage team to physically paint and complete our mural, and we couldn’t have made it what it is without them. It is the literal embodiment of our community members supporting one another from start to finish!”
“You Choose: Drugs or Life”— Dover Free Public Library in Dover, NJ
“YOU CHOOSE DRUGS OR LIFE MURAL WORKSHOP — Three Panel Canvas Mural”
Project initiated by Life Center Stage, Family Intervention Services, and the Dover Free Public Library.
Artwork portion facilitated by teaching Artist Ellen Avigliano.
Divided into three themes: the bottom represents bad choices, negativity, drugs, and not seeking help when you need it; the mid-level represents the local community, interests and hobbies of residents, important central locations in the community, and where we are now”; the upper sky portion of the mural represents a realm of untapped potential, the choices we have yet to make, and the ever changing possibilities that lie before us.
View this mural in the Dover Free Public Library located in Dover, New Jersey.
