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Thursday, September 25, 2014

ARTIST COMPLETES NEW MURAL AT GALLERY BETHESDA (PHOTOS)

Artist Jordann Wine has completed the latest public art addition to the plaza in front of the Gallery Bethesda apartments, at 4800 Auburn Avenue. Wine was hired by the Donohoe Companies to beautify a drab, blank wall directly opposite the plaza. This is her second finished mural in the Woodmont Triangle this year, and took about three weeks to complete by hand. You can get a sense of the painstaking process in the close-up photo below, where each triangle was pre-outlined with tape, and then painted.

The finished mural spans the 24x90' wall, and includes 26 shades of purple, and over 1200 triangles in all.  It's interesting how the purple matches with the hue of the windows across at Triangle Towers, at the time of day the final photo was taken. 

Wine is a native of Bethesda, and a graduate of Walt Whitman High School.

See the work come together in these time lapse photos:
The finished product
Artist's signature and date
at the top left corner of
the building

Zoomed-in view of the top
photo shows how the triangles
were individually painted

Photos:
Top, bottom: Ilyah Kyriacopoulos
All others by Jordann Wine
at

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:37 AM

    It is beautiful and bold on one end and then gets smaller and fades out toward the other end. Seems like she started strong and the tired of the job. I only like the bold end. Kika

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    1. Robert Dyer10:32 AM

      Kika, I think the reason it fades across is to make the wall dynamic, rather than a static pattern that would be more of a background.

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  2. Anonymous9:51 AM

    WHY aren't you reporting on the upcoming opening dates on Pike and Rose? WHY DO YOU HATE SMART DEVELOPMENT!?

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    1. Robert Dyer10:35 AM

      9:51: Where have you been for the last week, during all of my Pike & Rose coverage? And, WHY IS YOUR CAPS LOCK BUTTON STUCK?

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  3. Anonymous10:50 AM

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  4. Anonymous1:53 PM

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  5. Anonymous2:17 PM

    Which one of you was surprised to see Bob at the Del Frisco VIP event?

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