Every morning, William Rosser starts his day painting signs. The 77-year-old butcher and owner of Wild Woody's Happy Foods on 31st Street and Myrtle Avenue in Kansas City, Mo., has been painting ...
Dan Kamba and Chuck Wilmarth are debating how to spell Oscar Mayer wiener. The “i” should be before the “e,” says Kamba, co-owner of Southwest Signs in the Clearing neighborhood, but Wilmarth, the ...
The mystery of the surreptitious sign-maker has been solved! Okay, so it’s not exactly the Bermuda Triangle enigma, but for years, many Brooklyn Heights residents have wondered about the unknown ...
“That’s How They Get Ya” by Alex Sheldon at Match & Kerosene, part of Signs Galore! at KO Gallery (All images by the author for Hyperallergic) Installation view of Signs Galore! at KO Gallery ...
A woman in a pink bikini holds a hose in her hands, her breasts exaggerated, her buttocks protruding in a car wash hand-painted ad in Dominican Republic. The car stands by her waiting to be washed.
If you’ve seen hand-painted signs in Richmond, there's a strong chance you've seen the work of Sure Hand Signs. Trimmer, 38, had been a painting and printmaking student at Virginia Commonwealth ...
Next to the Suame Police station in Kumasi, Ghana, just near the roundabout, is Kwame Akoto’s art shop. It’s hard to miss. The storefront is decorated with French, American, and Ghanaian flags, and ...
There were once countless thousands of such painters across India, working by hand to complete unique, vibrant designs for everything from juice stands to tailor's shops and butcher's stalls. Nowadays ...
Someone drove a vehicle over 28 hand-painted wooden signs at a housing development in the 0N0-99 block of North Mill Creek Drive, police said.
CHICAGO — Dan Kamba and Chuck Wilmarth are debating how to spell Oscar Mayer wiener. The “i” should be before the “e,” says Kamba, co-owner of Southwest Signs in Chicago, but Wilmarth, the other ...