Jersey City, NJ
Jersey City sits across the Hudson from lower Manhattan, and its mural scene reflects a city that has learned to define itself on its own terms. The Powerhouse Arts District — centered on the converted PSE&G powerhouse — is home to MANA Contemporary and some of the largest indoor and outdoor murals on the East Coast. Journal Square carries the everyday art of a genuinely diverse urban community.
Featured Artists
All artists →Dasic Fernández
Chilean-born muralist whose large-scale figure paintings have appeared across New York and New Jersey. His Powerhouse Arts District piece faces the Hudson directly — a massive figure in the posture of looking, looking back at Manhattan from the New Jersey shore, a work about perspective, belonging, and who gets to occupy the skyline view.
Nina Chanel Abney
Chicago-born artist whose bold, graphic figurative paintings have moved from gallery walls to building scale in recent years. Her Journal Square commission — executed in her signature flat-color style with figures drawn from the square's transit-hub crowd — is the most ambitious public work she has completed in New Jersey and a landmark of the city's growing art scene.
Cern
Jersey City native whose graffiti practice evolved into a distinctive figurative street art style that has made him one of the city's most recognized visual voices. Cern's Newark Avenue piece is a meditation on the Powerhouse District's layered history — the Prohibition-era bootlegging, the industrial waterfront, the artist influx — rendered in a graphic style that owes as much to WPA posters as to graffiti.