Artist: Lion’s Grip
Location: The Burl, 375 Thompson St.
An approaching train is the focal point of this mural, installed last month at the recently opened Distillery District music venue The Burl. (The venue also commissioned and funded the work, though it was installed in conjunction with the 2016 PRHBTN festival.) Painted by the Ohio-based art collective Lion’s Grip, an art collective formerly known as Higher Level Art and consisting of Art Academy of Cincinnati professor Matthew Daylor and two former students, the mural ties in visual reference to the nearby historic train tracks with a quote by famous Kentuckian Hunter S. Thompson, giving new life to what was formerly a blank wall facing Manchester Street.
