[CCAI Alumni in the News! -- Fall 2006 'CAP' [CCAI Art in Public] artist Erik Burke was featured in New York Times. Our thanks to Joe DeLappe for the tip!]October 23, 2008
A Facade to Celebrate the Neighbors
By Steven Kurutz
Last spring, Jeremy Sapienza, a 28-year-old Web editor, and his partner bought a two-story house on a rough block of Central Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Like most urban pioneers, they have been renovating as funds allow.
They couldn’t afford to redo the facade, though, which Mr. Sapienza described disdainfully as “flat stucco painted Pepto-Bismol pink.” So this summer they hired an artist named Erik Burke to cover it with a mural.
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[photograph from the New York Times. Click to enlarge.]
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