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The artists start with a blank canvas; what emerges is a window into the soul of the surrounding area.
Photographs by Benjamin Ginsberg.
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Welcome Home
Shepard Fairey’s 7,000-square-foot, 55-foot-high mural (2017), seen along the 55 Freeway in Costa Mesa, is at the Baker Block apartments—former site of the offices of Where GuestBook.
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Escape from Alderaan
Detail from a mural with a “Star Wars bounty hunter robot frog theme” by Jim Heath (2019). It’s at the Frog House surf shop in Newport Beach.
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International Surfing Museum
A mural in Huntington Beach by D.J. Mac (1996) depicts different surf styles; here’s one of them.
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Lemon Park
David Whalen and Fullerton Union High students painted six murals on a pedestrian bridge in the 1970s. Emigdio Vasquez Sr. and local at-risk youths added two more in the 1990s.
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Gray Whale and Calf
Marine artist Wyland created the first of his 100 Whaling Walls in 1981. He re-created the 170-foot mural at his Laguna Beach gallery in 2019.
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Among Heroes
Carlos Aguilar’s 2013 mural at La Chiquita restaurant honors World War II veterans from the Logan neighborhood of Santa Ana.
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East 4th Street
A mural in Santa Ana by Texan artists Werc Alvarez and Isaias Crow (2013)
is on the back of a building between Spurgeon and French Streets.