South 1st
South 1st Street runs parallel to South Congress and shares some of its aesthetic DNA — walkable, indie-business-lined, mural-dotted — while maintaining a slightly less polished, more genuinely neighborhood feeling. The murals here tend toward the locally specific and the whimsical, celebrating Austin's food culture, its live music ecosystem, and the particular social life of a South Austin block on a perfect October evening.
Featured Artists
All artists →Chris Rogers
Austin artist who has built an entire mural practice around the city's taco culture — not as a joke or a cliché but as a genuine study of what street food means to a community's identity. "Taco Season" is a celebration of the breakfast taco tradition that Austin claims as its own, rendered in warm sunrise colors on a wall that happens to be next door to one of the city's best breakfast taco spots.
Ana Fernandez
"South Austin Sunset" is Fernandez's most direct engagement with landscape — a massive representation of an Austin sunset, the specific amber and coral tones of the sky at 7:30pm in August, the moment the heat breaks and the light turns golden and the city becomes briefly, genuinely perfect. She calls it "the most politically neutral thing I've painted," which for Fernandez is itself a kind of statement.
Zach Yarrington
"Bats" depicts the nightly emergence of 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats from beneath the Congress Avenue Bridge — Austin's most spectacular natural phenomenon, observed by crowds of Austinites who gather at sunset to watch. Yarrington painted the scene from the perspective of the bats themselves, spiraling upward from under the bridge into the Austin dusk sky, the human watchers tiny figures far below.