Do you enjoy trains and graffiti or both of them together? If so, Baltimore-based artist, Tim Conlon will be exhibiting life-size aerosol paintings of aged freight cars and weathered model trains featuring scaled-to-size graffiti this Saturday at The Seventh Letter Flagship Store and Gallery. We’ve seen some of Conlon’s paintings in person and his renderings are of the highest quality. The artist’s obsession with freight train graffiti has spanned over twenty years, attracted to the logos, typography and color schemes of freight trains old and new. About this specfic collection of work, Conlon say, “I discovered this art form when I was living in Baltimore and the nationwide freight train graffiti scene was just emerging. Because Baltimore is one of the biggest port cities on the east coast, commercial cargo regularly arrived on large ships in Baltimore Harbor and was then transferred to freight trains headed toward larger cities like Atlanta, St. Louis, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Train cars were everywhere and, in many ways, served as a revolving art gallery for graffiti and train lovers alike.”
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