Downtown Colorado Springs
Downtown Colorado Springs has reinvented itself around Tejon Street and Pikes Peak Avenue, with mural commissions that reflect the city's ambition to match its spectacular natural setting with equally ambitious cultural investment. The Creative Alliance CS has organized the most visible commissions, bringing national and international artists to the largest building faces in a downtown that has more south-facing wall than almost any city its size.
Featured Artists
All artists →Ricardo Cavolo
"Garden of Gods" on Pikes Peak Avenue populates the Precambrian sandstone formations with Cavolo's folk-art menagerie — each creature outlined in bold black against a terracotta and cinnabar ground that references the actual color of the rock.
RONE
"Springs Heritage" depicts a woman in 1890s dress standing in an imagined room of Colorado's territorial era — the peeling wallpaper behind her becoming actual wall, her figure rendered in RONE's hyper-realistic style that makes the historical feel intimate and present.
Conor Harrington
"Altitude" on Tejon Street collides the formal conventions of 18th-century battle painting with the gestural marks of contemporary abstraction — figures in military dress from Colorado's Fort Carson era dissolving into the atmospheric light that surrounds Pikes Peak on a summer afternoon.