Wynwood Black


The Wynwood Arts District of Miami | 2003 – 2014

The Wynwood neighborhood of Miami is directly adjacent to the glimmering skyscrapers, upscale shopping boutiques, and galleries of downtown. But up until the 90’s, almost nobody who didn’t actually live there ever strayed into it, at least on purpose. Economically depressed and forgotten, it was an area simply avoided by visitors and most Miami natives alike.

But then something happened — a renaissance of sorts fueled by the newly burgeoning street art phenomenon. As it turns out, Wynwood was the perfect place for street art due to the many flat, smooth walls of the old factories and warehouses built in an era when Wynwood was a thriving commercial and residential neighborhood in the early 1900’s.

Many of the most famous street artists in the world have displayed their work here over the last few decades, and the work you see here was done between 2002 and 2012.

Unlike art hanging in galleries available only to those wealthy enough to buy it, you could say street art is a pure art form available to anyone who wants to see it at any time, regardless of social and/or economic status. You cannot own it, and it is temporary. All the art you see here is gone now, mostly painted over with new work.

Many think that the Wynwood from this past era is gone now, replaced by a highly commercialized version in a highly gentrified Wynwood.

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