Louisville Magazine

DEC 2014

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98 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 12.14 arts the bits One Question ypal.org/connect For two weeks in November, Mario Muller was in town touching up the mural he painted in 1993 at the Kentucky Center's below- street-level patron drop-off. The 22 concrete panels — 10 featuring black-and-white silhouetted street scenes, interspersed with various colors (including "apple green") — stretch for 245 feet and are almost 10 feet tall. "It's dingy," said Muller, wearing a Lakers hoodie (he lives in L.A.). While working, headphones played Nicki Minaj in his paint- smudged ears. The 52-year-old, who grew up in New York and lived in Louisville in the '80s and '90s (he co-founded Zephyr Gallery), also has permanent pieces at the airport and Baxter Avenue Theatres (yep, he did those murals of famous flm faces). "When I lived here, I littered Louisville with my work," Muller said. "Littered is the wrong word." What's it like revisiting a piece you did in '93? "Mimicking each line is a really interesting time warp. It's like meeting my 31-year-old self. But I like what I see. (He points to a woman's painted silhouette.) That's the sexiest high heel I've ever seen." komenlouisville.org

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