![]() A New York native, Gaia has also painted murals around the world, including in London, Rome, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, Bogota and Perth.Ĭontacted as he was putting the finishing touches on the mural yesterday, Gaia said he and his crew started painting it on Monday, October 15. A leader in the international street art movement and producer of the Open Walls Baltimore mural program in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District, Gaia, 30, has painted more than 10 murals in Baltimore, including the Dove mural on the “Chicken Box” Building that was torn down to make way for an expansion of the Parkway Theater on North Avenue. Preston Street mural is the creation of Andrew Pisacane, a 2007 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art better known as the street artist Gaia. But they weren’t able to raise the necessary funds, and the monument never materialized. The group received permission from Baltimore’s Public Art Commission after one panel member said she was “appalled” no one had done it already. ![]() David Hess and Sebastian Martorana were the artists. In 2016, a local group launched a $70,000 Kickstarter campaign to erect a monument to Divine near the corner of Read and Tyson streets, where the dog-poo scene was shot. ![]() Divine also features prominently in “Indecent Exposure,” the retrospective of Waters’ work as a visual artist that opened this month at the Baltimore Museum of Art. “He wanted to be Godzilla… We created Divine to scare hippies.”Ī 10-foot-tall statue of Divine, by British sculptor Andrew Logan, is on permanent display at the American Visionary Art Museum, to which Logan donated it last year. Waters gave him the name Divine and it stuck, though in real life, Divine “had no desire to be a woman,” Waters told an audience in New York City last summer. The actor, also known as Harris Glenn Milstead, was born in 1945 and died in 1988, just after “Hairspray” was released. It’s one of the first murals anywhere to pay tribute to a drag queen. The mural is the first work of public art in Baltimore to commemorate Divine, a cult figure who was dubbed “Drag Queen of the Century” by People magazine. “Wow! It is great,” he wrote in an email to Baltimore Fishbowl. It was the sixth single released from his album, “The Story So Far.” It’s six blocks from the corner where Waters filmed his notorious scene of Divine eating dog feces in “Pink Flamingos.” It shows Divine as he appeared on the cover of his 1984 disco single, “I’m So Beautiful,” with arched eyebrows, bare shoulders and puckered lips.
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