Urban Walls: Cincinnati
Carl E. Solway, Executive Director
Jack Boulton, Project Manager
1970

Urban Walls: Cincinnati, a project spearheaded and sponsored by the Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, initially involved a series of ten city walls, eventually others would be included. Joe Bottoni’s wall located at 123 West 6th Street was the first to be completed.

To help finance the project a portfolio of ten signed silkscreen prints of limited edition based on the inaugural wall designs were sold.

My first reaction to “my” wall was it looked like an inconspicuous, insignificant abutment sandwiched between a sizable multilevel parking garage and a long second floor pedestrian walkway. My intent was to visually integrate, connect and extend the wall into the adjacent structures, making it more noticeable and consequential. And to have it environmentally compatible, I chose a brown-yellow palette, colors that were predominate in the surrounding cityscape.

Applications:
Urban Walls: Cincinnati by Jay Chewning. A book describing the selection, process, and execution of the first ten murals.
Slide show documenting the painting process.
Silkscreen print, 36” x 28".
Urban Walls: The Parkade Garage Mural, Bottoni’s Wall at 6th and Race St., produced by Matt Denzer, Mark Gerlach and James Zanoni, narrated by Joe Bottoni. A video history of the Parkade Garage Mural.