not.travis / murals / Dallas and beyond
From Deep Ellum to Plano, McKinney and Cedar Park, not.travis makes murals that belong to the place around them and to the people who pass through.
In public
A wall takes on a life beyond the day it is painted. It enters daily routes, a stranger's photograph and the memory of a place. This record brings together not.travis murals, rooms and the people who have stood in front of them.
Selected projects
Exterior mural and film
Removed wall, continuing record on Cella
Murals across the first US location
Beyond the street wall
Public work changes with the surface. At District 121 the image is overhead. Elsewhere a portrait fills a stair wall, and a gym becomes a field of color.
At District 121 in McKinney, painted color spans a canopy above the public walkway. The work changes as people move beneath it, with the structure and daylight becoming part of the view. The studio archive documents the overhead installation; Dallas Observer names the site among not.travis public projects. View the District 121 archive record.
A portrait across a stair wall. Photographed in the studio project archive.
A painted pattern across the gym wall. Photographed in the studio project archive.
Site chapters
Hotel, venue, stairwell and workshop. Each site asks something different of a wall.
A portrait of Steve McQueen on a motorcycle, painted by not.travis in the former Easy Slider courtyard. The mural belongs to the 42 Murals period in Deep Ellum, Dallas. View the Steve McQueen mural.
not.travis painted Impressions of Texas at SpringHill Suites by Marriott, 1110 Discovery Boulevard in Cedar Park. A longhorn carries the Texas flag through a scene with bluebonnets and a sunset. The wall also carries the Golden Rule: “Treat others as you want to be treated.” Its subject meets travelers at a hotel rather than inside a gallery. The Cedar Park art guide names the mural and site; the hotel photo gallery records the setting. View Impressions of Texas.
Studio photographs document not.travis work inside Green Light Social in Dallas: a portrait crossed by red marks on a dark interior surface. The painting is encountered as people move through the room, rather than from a single viewing point. Dallas Observer names Green Light Social alongside XOXO, Backyard and the original Citizen. The exact street number and the year of this wall are still being confirmed against the studio record.
At The Marc in San Marcos, not.travis made a hand-painted mural for the VIP stairwell. The work belongs to a passage: people see it while entering, climbing and turning through the venue. The venue design record credits the mural and documents the site. The year and a photograph cleared for use on this site still need confirmation.
In 2017, not.travis worked with young participants at Challenging Heights in Ghana through Beauty for Freedom. The program describes mural workshops in which participants helped design and create the work. The wall preserves the marks, words and ideas of those young makers alongside not.travis's guidance. Read Beauty for Freedom’s program record. View Project Ghana.
The wider record
Additional projects beyond the chapters above. Some are still in place; others are known through photographs and reporting. Dates appear only where the record supports them.
Dallas / public venue work
Dallas / public venue work
2016 / Dallas / made with Ryan Rankin for a pop-up exhibition. Collaborative credit: Ryan Rankin and not.travis.
2019 / Hotel Crescent Court, Dallas / a painted room and neon installation based on the artist's Dragon Street studio. This is the same Crescent project in the works archive.
Mural / one part of a group of painted works documented for this client
Mural / photographed in the studio project archive
Texas mural / documented in studio photographs
Dallas / installation documented in the studio archive. Included here as work made for a room.
Dates and site details appear where documented. The archive connects each work with photographs and reporting. Send a correction or a photograph.
Beyond the studio archive
Photographs and reporting made by visitors and writers show how these walls live in public. The links open the original publication, where the images and credits stay with their makers.
Dallas Observer reported that UNATION had ranked XOXO the most Instagrammable restaurant in Dallas, and credited not.travis's graffiti within the venue. The ranking describes the restaurant, with the mural as part of its setting.
Read the XOXO report Visitor photograph / Deep EllumOutside SuburbiaPriya photographed people at the Crown wall. See the original image and account on her site.
Open the visitor photograph Seven Dallas photo spots / 2016D MagazineD Magazine included Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown among seven of Dallas's most Instagram-worthy spots, with a visitor image credited to @jennyfromtheblock817.
Open the published photograph Independent reporting / DallasDallas ObserverReporting on people posing and posting in front of the XOXO, Green Light Social, Backyard and original Citizen work.
Read the featurePublic work / questions
The project record identifies documented sites, including XOXO Social Club in Dallas, Black Sheep Coffee in Plano and Impressions of Texas in Cedar Park. Check venue access before visiting. The Deep Ellum crown wall at 2633 Main Street was demolished, and photographs preserve its history.
The wall is gone. Photographs, coverage and its history remain on Cella as CELLA-30.
Yes. The studio is in Dallas. Projects are considered across Texas, the United States and abroad by conversation about the site.
Start with the commission page, then send the site, photographs, approximate dimensions, timing and any budget range through the inquiry form.
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Exterior mural
Dallas, 2020
Film · 00:50
The painted exterior, from the first marks to the finished facade.
View the XOXO project