Wild Plum

Wild Plum
42"x28" | OIL ON CANVAS | 2005

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No Parking
A Long Night
Used Tires
Lounge Entertainment
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Herby's Red Hot's
Forty Two
32 Lanes
Cocktails
Jack's Corner
Live Music
Plug
Electroliner 801-802
Printers Row
6th Street Apartment
El Vocho
Got Him a Ride
Manufacturing Concern
Eldo
Metropolitan West Side
Free Fries
Red Cab
Blue Caprice
Cordoba
Bittersweet Mist
Wild Plum

Wild Plum

The car is a 1972 Javelin. The color is “Wild Plum.” The building is based on an abandoned structure somewhere west of McCormick place. It looks out of place because all of the other buildings around it were torn down during the urban removal of the ’60s. That’s how the area appears anyway, with a lot of vacant lots and a few scattered high-density apartment buildings ca. 1965.