Murals – Page 4 – Ezra Dickinson

Free Sheep Bald (2010)

(2010) mural painted for the Free Sheep Foundation, Seattle

Something that I truly love is solving space through design. For me in this case, this means finding a way to take a space that is undervalued and make the entirety of this space something special. I have a real obsession with confronting the hard to reach spots, wanting to fill every last nook. Leading the viewer on a journey that has uncountable ways that it could be traversed. There is something quite satisfying about using a pen up entirely from start to finish. This mural consisted of an underpainting of spray paint color. Then, fifteen hours continuously of hand drawn work until the pen gave up.

Pride Parade Floats (2009-12)

(2009-12) Painting

I have had the pleasure of helping design and create four Seattle Pride Parade floats over the years. I very much enjoy how the collective power of a team can make big projects and ideas come to life really fast. These have been some of the most fun creative projects I have done, the delirium of building/painting all week and then all night before the day of the parade. Painting right up to the last moment as we are lining up for the parade, then partying our butts off during the parade is the best! To top it off, our first three floats won people’s choice award for Best Float.

Gaywatch (2009)

Gay team (2010)

Ass Cream Truck (2011)

Gay Wettings (2012)

Artopia bald (2008)

(2008) mural painted on semi truck

I was commissioned by PBR and the Georgetown (Seattle) Artopia festival, to paint a mural on the side of a semi truck. This work took all of one day, and was painted with spray paint. The design features the Bald Man, a recurring character in my visual art work.

The Belmont (2007)

(2007) Mural Installation, with New Mystics collective

An apartment building that had stood for a hundred years, housing countless folks, in its last days was a home to many artists. The New Mystics came together to organize a celebration to release this structure into our memory. Many artists were involved in the creation of this work. Some people worked alone with whole apartments, some joined together and collectively decorated their allotted space. Some lived in their homes until the last moment they could. I chose to paint this hallway. It took me a day and a half painting uninterrupted through the night. We threw a party on the last day of legal habitation.

619 banner (2005)

(2005) mural painted on banner

I painted this banner while living in a small studio apartment. When I got the 30’ by 8’ vinyl banner home my first obstacle was to unfold this massive canvas and set it up so that I could paint it in my small space. I decided that I was going to navigate this banner into a scroll configuration so I could easily work from one end to the other. Panic set in a bit after I had unfolded the banner in my small space and subsequently filled my home with a slightly tangled heavy banner, after about an hour of pushing and pulling I finally wrangled this piece into the configuration I was aiming for, it was an adventure for sure, there was quite a few moments when i was sure I wasn’t going to get the banner under control though.

Photo Anthony Rigano

I hung this banner off the third floor fire escape of the 619 building for an art walk evening. It was really satisfying to see the whole piece unroll and hang from the building, up to that point I had not seen the whole piece together.

A few months later I paired down this banner and cut it into ten sections that I, one by one, turned into stretched paintings on wooden frames. Each paired down piece I added to with adhesive vinyl and/or new colors of acrylic paint.