Her head is raised to the stars above and her mind seems focused as spiraling chemical reactions of muted red and blue manifest into the rhythm behind her. "The focus of the piece is an allegorical image of an ethereal goddess, a sort of Greek muse, who floats in a grayscale with subtle hints of color while holding a bolt of electricity in one hand and and a paintbrush in the other. On the building where the studies of arts and sciences converge there is clearly a deeper and much more personal artist statement that has been written on the wall. His father went to Northeastern and studied engineering, during this time his father also met El Mac’s mother who was studying painting at nearby MassArt. The subject matter and location of El Mac’s latest public work are of notable significance. It began its life over a century ago as the home of the United Drug Company before eventually becoming part of the University. The wall has not been painted since 1893, and has seen a lot of change in that time. The mural was created with his signature spray paint technique of haloed circles and ghostly lines on the brick facade of Northeastern’s Meserve Hall.
The school is across the street from The Museum of Fine Arts, where El Mac was a selected artist at 2014′s MFA Summer Auction along with Augustine Kofie and Jaybo Monk. “Ars et Scientia" was painted at Northeastern University, in Boston. The mural was commissioned by Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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