Making a splash: Meet Beau Stanton, the Red Hook resident painting eye-catching murals across the globe * Brooklyn Paper

"In Bushwick, Stanton - a kind of modern Michelangelo, or at least a painter who specializes in realistic, imaginative murals - painted a pair of murals, "Ariadne and the Flowers" and "Flower Boy" on a 150-foot-long, 15-foot-tall wall. The work is so big, he said, that he used a drone to get good images. Located at 421 Troutman St., the piece was commissioned by Quebracho, a custom framing company surrounded by cafes, bars, clubs, restaurants and other nightlife."

""People photograph themselves, do fashion shoots," Stanton said. "The building is a challenging canvas. It has lots of roll gates and windows, not a lot of open wall space." On Troutman Street, Stanton created "mini murals" that connect including large, blooming magnolias, partially obscured by the figure of Ariadne asleep, and replacing another mural he had done there nearly a decade ago."

""I like to reference history, often things from antiquity, and contemporize them," Stanton said. "There is this classical figure from Greek mythology, Ariadne, Perseus' partner for a while. She helped him get out of the minotaur labyrinth." Stanton liked the idea of providing a placid pause on a busy street, showing someone "sleeping among the flowers," which he painted in the spring of 2023 "when magnolias were blooming.""

Beau Stanton, a Red Hook resident, paints realistic, imaginative murals across New York City and transforms buildings into public canvases. In Bushwick he painted two large murals, "Ariadne and the Flowers" and "Flower Boy," on a 150-foot-long, 15-foot-tall wall at 421 Troutman Street, commissioned by Quebracho. The scale required drone imagery and adaptation to challenging surfaces with roll gates and windows. Stanton created interconnected mini murals featuring large magnolias and a sleeping Ariadne, replacing an earlier work. He incorporates antiquity and Greek mythology, aiming to create placid pauses amid busy streets. Bushwick and Troutman Street serve as vibrant mural districts and tourist attractions.

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