Murals in Los Angeles California Fairfield Marriot LAX

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Murals in Los Angeles California Fairfield Marriot LAX

If you’re visiting Los Angeles and want to see an amazing mural – visit Fairfield Marriot just a few minutes away from Los Angeles International Airport LAX. This artwork was created as a tribute to all those in the travel industry and to all the pilots who soar through our skies with unwavering courage. Through their bravery and hard work the world moves triumphantly forward.

The mural is titled “The World Wants the Best” because when taking a flight we all want to feel safe and secure. The mural features a 737 landing on the LAX runway in front of a beautiful sky filled with color.

South of LAX

Nestled just south of LAX, El Segundo has a small-town coastal feel with wide sandy beaches, less crowded than neighboring Manhattan and Hermosa. El Segundo often doubles as a filming location for movies, TV shows, and commercials, thanks to its versatile mix of industrial backdrops, beaches, and suburban streets. The city has a growing craft beer scene and a variety of local restaurants, from laid-back diners to trendy coastal eateries. Despite being next to busy LAX and major freeways, El Segundo maintains a walkable downtown, family-friendly parks, and a reputation as a hidden gem compared to more tourist-heavy LA spots.

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Preserved Moss – A Living Wall Mounted Sculpture at National Landing Arlington, VA

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Preserved Moss – A Living Wall Mounted Sculpture at National Landing Arlington, VA

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This preserved moss wall relief pulls your eyes from floor to ceiling with monumental grace. Designed and installed by The Color Dreamers at Hazel Luxury Apartments in Arlington, VA. This artwork is made from real preserved moss, creating a textured relief sculpture. The artwork is named: Hazel in Bloom.

Towering up to 30 ft, the artwork pulls your eyes up as you get closer. From a distance the simple silhouette is modern and clean but draw in closer and the details of the moss becomes captivating.

Above the artwork hangs a beautiful white ceramic chandelier with soft light bouncing around the entire space. The lobby design is modern with hints of inspiration from around the world. A wooden installation features prominently in the center of the lobby beside the moss artwork. The warm stained wood reaches all the way up to the ceiling helping to achieve the monumental height in the same slender language written across the space.

The building is Located 5 minutes away from Washington, DC in Arlington, VA. Buildings with this level of quality will fill quickly so don’t wait if you’re considering moving in.

Relief Artwork in Luxury Building Design

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Relief Artwork in Luxury Building Design

Drifting away from traditional styles, the new luxury focuses on meaning, rarity and experience. Combining delicate beauty of classical ornate design with smooth and minimalistic features fill todays luxury spaces. Each element tells a story of prestige curated to create and impactful experience. Transforming spaces from impressive to unforgettable is hidden in the details. Developers, Artists and design teams are pushing the limits of interior architecture to build storied spaces for the future.

When a guest steps into a lobby where sculpted walls rise around them—shapes emerging softly from stone, bronze, or cast concrete—they feel more than architecture. They feel narrative. The relief transforms a flat surface into an encounter with something uniquely expressive. Light dances across textured surfaces, shadows breathe life into forms, and visitors sense that the building is alive and speaking to them. Art not only graces the walls, it weaves into and out of the surfaces.

A façade adorned with carefully crafted relief sculptures becomes a landmark and visual anchor in the city. For interior designers, relief artworks layer the atmosphere and exaggerate the mood. A dining space framed by abstract sculpted panels feels intimate, a lobby wrapped in sculpted reliefs conveys power and vision, a spa with organic, flowing botanical forms radiates calm.

Well thought out relief artworks offer versatility of materials and aesthetic. Materials can range from aluminum to plaster and textiles to preserved moss or cement finishes. They can be clean and modern or complex and classical with features ranging from minimal or elaborate. The mood of a space shifts with the time of day as the sculptural relief play with shadows and color temperature to create and constant shifting mood.

These artworks elevate the experience of any space and transform normal into special and spectacular. Relief artworks express capture the performance of an artist since such art is never mass-produced but tailored and crafted uniquely to a project.

For developers, relief artworks are more than embellishment, they are brand-building and memory making. Creating vibrant relief artworks and murals create timeless features that make a building turn into an unforgettable feeling. Collaboration between Designer, Architect and Artist defines a meeting place of function, beauty and meaning.

Bringing Nature Inside: A Mural for Downtown Miami Lobby

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Bringing Nature Inside: A Mural for Downtown Miami Lobby

It began on a small square of canvas, no larger than a notebook page. A quick, playful exercise—brushes moving fast, color laid down freely, almost carelessly. The greens tangled together with hints of olive and a design began to emerge. Enough to see how these shapes and gestures, could expand out into something much larger.

On the lobby wall of Atlantic Squaren in Downtown Miami, it stretched itself into something monumental: two sweeping banana leaves, fifteen feet tall by eleven feet wide, unfolding like they had always been there. Shadows deepened, tones of olive whispered back to the velvet sofa nearby, and the wall took its first breath. A final clear coat sealed the artwork in place on August 11, 2025.

The mural doesn’t live in isolation. Just beside it, a brass chandelier shaped like curling trumpet horns casts its warm metallic glow. Across the lobby, a velvet olive sofa connects with the mural through color, texture, light, and form.

From the street, through the curtain glass wall, the mural glimmers into view. A flash of green against brass and glass, it calls to the eyes, hinting that inside this building, art and atmosphere matter as much as structural steel and concrete.

It’s a reminder of how something small and expressive can grow into something monumental, how a playful draft can turn into the defining heartbeat of a place. Together, the mural and chandelier create a dialogue between nature and design. And in the city’s restless center – an artwork titled “The Sound of Leaves” celebrates Miami’s tropical identity and connection to nature’s beauty.

Palm Shores Florida Exhibit

Exhibiting with Robot Love

If you are in the Palm Shores area March 31st and April 1st, 2017 stop by and see my work exhibiting at Robot Love.

LOCATION
Adventure HQ
5270 North US Highway 1
Palm Shores, FL 32940

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Art + Music + Dance + Tech = Love

Robots are throwing a party, full of colossal murals, immersive art installations, dance performances, live music, bouldering demonstrations and a family experience day. View Map


The Schedule – Live Music Performances and Art Exhibit

Musical performers include SWIMM, Gary Lazer Eyes, the Dull Blades, Konglom, plus bands and guest DJs yet to be announced.
Opening Night: Friday March 31, 2017 6pm-midnight
Closing Night: Saturday April 1, 2017 6pm-midnight
Family Experience: Saturday April 1, 2017 11am-4pm

Ticket Sales: $20 presale single night entry (tickets available online until midnight March 29th) $25 at the door single night entry. $35 presale Friday & Saturday night entry (tickets available online until midnight March 29th). $40 at the door Friday & Saturday night entry. *Last paid entry 11:30 pm. 18+

Family Day tickets available thru Eventbrite for $5 (tickets available until midnight March 29th) $10 at the door. *Last paid entry at 3pm.

Sponsor Packages

Robot Factory location: http://adventurehqfl.com 5270 N. US Hwy 1, Palm Shores FL 32940 Cash bar provided by Sol-Tree Event Services, beer by Intracoastal Brewery.

Food available including by Base Camp Cafe, located inside Adventure HQ serving their menu through the weekend. VIP and sponsorship packages available.

VIP Humans will experience the full weekend plus a private show preview, private concert and have personal interactions with the artists and curators of Robot Love. http://robotloveart.com/sponsors/

A portion of proceeds benefit Code Craft Lab and the Verdi EcoSchool
Full Details available on Robot Website: www.robotloveart.com
Contact: Derek Gores, Robot Love Art Curator, derek@derekgores.com