{"id":736,"date":"2025-02-10T12:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/reframingphotography\/?post_type=content&p=736"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:52:46","slug":"bird","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/resources\/rp-exhibitions\/the-story-of-your-life-in-detroit\/bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bird<\/strong> comes from a family of professional sign painters in the city of Detroit, where he was born and raised. Taught how to paint by his grandfather and uncle, Bird\u2019s work can now be seen on buildings all across the city. Bird keeps a photo album of his work from the past few decades. Photos shown here were taken from 1981 through the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bird<\/strong>.\u00a0Since I was a teenager, I have been painting signs and murals on buildings across the city. This is an early mural from 1981 at Grand River and 14th<\/sup>. It has since been painted over.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird<\/strong>.\u00a0A painting of two women on an African Hairdresser\u2019s shop at 7mile and Hayes.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird<\/strong>.\u00a0This painting, of Bob Marley, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr, and Haile Selassie was done for Triple A Liquor at Warren and Drexel when I was 17<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird<\/strong>.\u00a0My old backyard studio with swinging bench and easel.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Music Machine\u201d, an unfinished painting on the side of an abandoned storefront. When there isn\u2019t much work around, I find empty walls and do my own thing. It\u2019s a way of advertising my work and something to do to keep my skills fresh during slow times.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird.<\/strong>\u00a0An Ernie Barnes inspired mural on the interior of Sugar\u2019s After Hour Club at Chalmers and Chelsea. From 2007.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird<\/strong>.\u00a0Hand painted church exterior from the late 1980\u2019s on Chalmers north of Houston Whittier St.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird.\u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s the birthday girl. I made this airbrushed photo backdrop for this teen\u2019s birthday party in the mid 1990\u2019s.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird.<\/strong>\u00a0Me in front of a photo backdrop I painted for my daughter\u2019s graduation from Cass Tech in 2004.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird.<\/strong>\u00a0Here I\u2019m beginning a new sign for the \u201cOriginal Hand Car Wash\u201d in 2007. The final mural had lettering and a painting of a 55 Mercury hardtop\/convertible. It\u2019s been painted over.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird.<\/strong>\u00a0American Car Care Center, on 7 Mile.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird.<\/strong>\u00a0Convenience store at Houston Whittier and Chalmers, now closed.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird<\/strong>.\u00a0Barber and candy shop on Houston Whittier. Still there.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird.\u00a0<\/strong>My paintings in front of my family\u2019s mattress shop on Van Dyke. I paint on bed sheets stretched around old bed frames from the shop.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bird is available for commissions<\/strong>. 313-704-3709<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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