Las Vegas, NV
Away from the Strip's neon spectacle, Las Vegas has built a serious public art culture in the 18b Arts District downtown and along the Fremont East corridor. These are murals that refuse to compete with the casinos — works of quiet scale and genuine ambition that serve a local community that lives here year-round. The desert light hits the 18b walls like nowhere else on earth.
Featured Artists
All artists →Gabe Gault
Los Angeles–based muralist with a deep Las Vegas practice, Gault's 18b work is known for its photorealistic portraiture executed at impossible scale. His Arts District mural "Desert Frequency" — a close-up face dissolving into Mojave landscape — has been named one of the top ten murals in the American Southwest by several public art publications.
Tes One
Las Vegas native who has worked the Fremont East corridor since the district's earliest days as a creative zone. Tes One's gestural, lettering-based work references the graphic heritage of Vegas's own neon sign tradition — Googie fonts, desert color, the kinetic energy of a city that never stops — rerouted into a form that belongs to the street, not the casino.
Sasha Prood
New York–based illustrator whose meticulous Mojave flora series has found a permanent home in the Las Vegas Arts District. Prood's Charleston Boulevard mural catalogs the desert plants that bloomed on that site before the city arrived — a pointed act of ecological remembrance in a city often accused of forgetting its own ground.