METROPOLIS / Illustrated City

They appear painted on walls of 98-cent stores and swap meets, general merchandise wholesalers and electronics stores--household items of every sort. The blender. The broom. The box of crayons. The bottle of shampoo. The baby wipes dispenser. The idea appears to be: Let’s illustrate on the outside nearly all the goods we carry inside. It is the street as catalog. It is also the street as art gallery, full of odd, whimsical renderings. The wristwatch looks as large as the box of Tide. The red and silver iron hovers in the yellow starburst, suddenly as important as an icon, as magnificent in its way as Angelyne.