How Sharpie Left Its Mark Everywhere From Facebook to the White House

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Ethan Murrow is a fine artist in every sense of that term. His highly realistic yet often phantasmagorical works—some the height of a two-story building—have been shown from Paris to Los Angeles. He's drawn murals at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and for the offices of Facebook. Murrow's sweeping images are "done with such precision, such sensuality," waxed one critic. Staring at them, "you may feel you're plummeting, Icarus style, from cerulean heights," said another.

 

Photo: Nick Ferrari; Illustration: Dianna McDougall

You may presume that an artist of Murrow's caliber must work with sable brushes and hand-crushed pigments—but no.

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