Atlanta murals to look for in the city’s most unexpected in‑between spaces

1. Transitional throughpoints on a journey to a final destination, such as an elevator, parking lot, highway interchange, waiting room or skybridge between two downtown buildings.
2. Creepy or surreal locations that just don’t feel right, like a once-familiar interior removed from its normal context, such as a dimly lit deserted shopping mall after business hours where you can hear the echoes of your footsteps. Or perhaps an abandoned place like Morris Brown College’s eerily silent, graffiti-tagged Herndon Stadium that now hosts roosting birds instead of fans.

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The artist known as RISK and other members of the Atlanta Style Writers Association infuse their works with humor on the retaining walls of the Atlanta Beltline bridge at Ralph McGill Boulevard.
(Arthur Rudick)

1. Beltline bridge over Ralph McGill Boulevard

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”egarevoc“ ”KSIR“ ”DIAR“ egarevoC“ — — uoy s’retirw drow htiw hcihw egatniv nav esu siht eht eht eht eht eht eht eht enilgat bus-bus teerts .yarps ,ralimis secalper tniap ”.no no fo fo fo fo revresbo .eciton ton swen thgim gninaem si ,ecnatsni tcesni edulcni ni sah eldnah erneg tnof derutaef selpmaxe neve elbuod .egarevoc elpuoc tnuoc sroloc lausac nac nac dellac msiladnarb tra era dna dna a a ehT sweN nI lennahC esuaceB noitcA A 2 s0791

Orchestrated by Living Walls and curated by Drew Borders, six women and nonbinary artists of diverse cultural backgrounds created “I Am Mine / We Are Ours” at the Arizona Avenue MARTA underpass.
(Arthur Rudick)

2. Arizona Avenue MARTA underpass

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Mr. Totem works on a mural in progress along the Northeast Beltline trail.
(Arthur Rudick)

3. Northeast Beltline Trail railroad tunnel

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Murals featuring pet portraits by Ashley Dopson greet clients in the parking lot of the West End Animal Wellness Center.
(Arthur Rudick)

4. West End Animal Wellness Center’s back wall

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Landscape murals by Gordon Anderson greet passengers at the North Avenue MARTA Station platform. “I wanted the commuters to experience the distorted sensations of a pilot flying into the (station),” Anderson says.
(Courtesy of MARTA)

5-6. MARTA’s North Avenue and Edgewood-Candler Park stations

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“Synchronicity” by Krista Jones (a.k.a. JONESY) as seen from outside the Sugarloaf Parkway/I-85 underpass.
(Arthur Rudick)

7. Sugarloaf Parkway underpass at I-85

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”,yticinorhcnyS“ htiw htiw htiw nopu pu ssaprednu ssaprednu mrofsnart ot ot ot siht eht eht eht esor snoitroporp fo noisacco larum larum larum evissam tsegral otni ni evisremmi .ecneirepxe yllauqe emoc dellac stnatsissa tra dna na aka a rehtegoT ehT faolraguS ,rebuS dammahuM seliM atsirK ,senoJ eoJ ,YSENOJ YSENOJ tnemevorpmI .aigroeG ,rorreF ,reherD tcirtsiD ,sivaD ytinummoC xelA nócralA adiA toof-erauqs-000,12

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JONESY’s mural “Synchronicity” is the largest underpass mural in Georgia.
(Arthur Rudick)

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