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El Mac / Miles MacGregor : Muralist / Artist

9/26/2022

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O.K., so here’s another amazing Muralist and Artist out there that I’ld like to share with you all:
https://elmac.net/
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"Ánimo Sin Fronteras" (Spirit Without Borders), 2014, aerosol
Painted in downtown El Paso, Texas.
​This mural represents resilience and strength,
and complements the fighting spirit
of the classic boxing mural next to it.
The figure is based on a man named Melchor Flores,
who has been fighting to get answers and justice
for his son who was picked up and disappeared by police
​in Nuevo León in 2009.
In honor of all those who fight for justice.
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"Abuelita of Presidio" 2018, aerosol on metal
Mural located on the US-Mexico border and commissioned
by the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.
A binational gesture of goodwill painted on a ten-story high water tank in the remote border community of Presidio, Texas, facing its southern neighbor Ojinaga, Chihuahua, and bearing the likeness of a humble local resident named Linda.
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"Native Son (This Saint Flyod)” 2016, aerosol on stucco
Commissioned for The Manitou Art Center (The MAC)
in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
The mural is a collaboration with FUSE AWR,
a Los Angeles graffiti veteran artist
who began painting in the 1980s before relocating
​to Colorado in the 1990s.

The mural depicts legendary and reclusive local artist
Floyd Tunson (born 1947), who had a retrospective at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center a couple years before
EL MAC's exhibition there in 2015.
Tunson is a Colorado native who has been creating art in his Manitou Springs studio for over 30 years.

"It was a pleasure getting to know him, and I would consider him one of the most inspiring and interesting people I've met.
​I recognize in him a deep love for creation, experimentation, and a certain shared philosophy that art and life are inseparable." -
​EL MAC
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"El Regalo Mágico” 2016, aerosol enamel & ceramic tile on brick
 Located in the East Harlem section of New York City
in collaboration with Celso González and Roberto Biaggi
of CERO Design, Puerto Rico.
The title of the mural,
"El Regalo Mágico / The Magic Gift"
refers to the gift of inspiration.
The figure is based on respected Nuyorican author
Nicholasa Mohr, who lives nearby, and is known for being one of the first widely published Latina authors
in the United States.

Cero's part, the geometric infinity pattern that forms a halo around the figure, is composed entirely of tile mosaic.
The mural is located in "El Barrio", East Harlem,
on the side of a large elementary school
at 111th Street and Lexington Avenue.

The mural was created as part of a public arts project
called MonumentArt, curated by Celso Gonzalez.

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"Our Lady of Aalborg" 2013, aerosol
Painted in Aalborg, Denmark
while there for a solo show at Galerie Wolfsen.
The mural is across the street from the maternity ward of Aalborg University Hospital,
so an iconic symbol of motherly love
seemed appropriate for this location. 
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"Tower of Songs" 2017, aerosol and acrylic on brick
A massive tribute to Leonard Cohen
commissioned by the City of Montreal and MU
​in cooperation with the Cohen family.



Paintings:  Aerosol/Indoors
https://elmac.net/aerosol-indoors
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​ 19 Videos​! about El Mac / https://elmac.net/videos-
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El Mac, Retna and Kofie were commissioned to create a mural for the Manifest Equality Event
held in Hollywood, California in March, 2010.

The mural was painted over three weeks after completion without notice or warning
​by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences!

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About EL MAC (Miles MacGregor):
    An internationally renowned artist born and based in Los Angeles. He began painting both smaller indoor works as well as public murals and graffiti in Phoenix in the mid 1990s, and since that time has developed his unique visual aesthetic and rendering style which utilizes repeating contour patterns. His work draws on influences from classical European art, social realism, symbolism and devotional art, as well as the Chicano and Mexican culture he grew up around. He is best known for his meticulous paintings and large-scale murals exploring feminine beauty and honoring ordinary, overlooked, or marginalized people. He has been commissioned to paint all over the world, for museums, universities and other cultural institutions, including the Groeninge Museum (Belgium), San José Museum of Art (California), Northeastern University (Boston), University of California (San Diego), QAGoMA (Brisbane), Fondazione PRADA (Italy), and the Mexican secretariat of Foreign Affairs, as well as murals in Belgium, Cambodia, Cuba, Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Morocco, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Viet Nam. For over twenty years he has aimed "to uplift and inspire through careful, perfectionist renderings of both the sublime and the humble".

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All images copyright MAC ART LLC ©MMXXII
2 Comments
Scott Maxwell
10/9/2022 10:48:54 pm

Holy Okefenokee, the detail on those murals is incredible. I can't imagine how you can render that kind of detail on a small painting or something, much less on a "canvas" the size of a water tower. What amazing work!

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Roberto A. Quintana
10/17/2022 05:06:29 pm

Hi Scott!
Yea, El Mac is an amazing Artist/Muralist!
Working LARGE like that is a real challenge! It requires a lot of preparation because everything has to be designed ahead of time on a much smaller scale, usually 1cm:1m or even 1mm:1m for really large pieces (like the Leonard Cohen Mural).
Copy machines, computers and old fashioned tracing paper really helps the process, plus making scaled patterns (called cartoons) to take out to the job site or even working out a scaled grid pattern (or using a projector indoors) really helps!
But you still need to get out there and hang on the wall with the 'artwork' in your hand and actually PAINT the 'Beast'!
That for me is the real thrill, challenge, and joy! -RQ

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