Pearl Street
Boulder's Pearl Street pedestrian mall is one of the country's most successful downtown revitalization projects, and its mural program has matched the ambition of the streetscape. The buildings flanking the mall — a mix of 19th-century sandstone storefronts and 1970s infill — host work that ranges from politically engaged portraiture to abstract interpretations of the Front Range geology visible at the west end of every cross street.
Featured Artists
All artists →Shepard Fairey
"Flatiron Formation" reimagines the sandstone rock formations as a constructivist poster celebrating the geological forces that shaped the Front Range — a natural subject for Fairey's political poster aesthetic.
Alexis Diaz
"Prairie Sky" depicts a hawk in flight rendered in thousands of fine stippled lines, the wing feathers transitioning into cloud formations over the Great Plains — a nod to Boulder's position at the meeting point of mountain and prairie ecosystems.
CASE
German muralist CASE (Christian Awe) creates large-format abstract landscapes that pull color and form from natural observation without ever settling into representation. "Boulder Creek Rising" captures the creek's spring snowmelt surge in a composition of near-vertical color bands — greys, cobalts, and silts — that reads as both abstraction and flood map.