Instagram: @PlanetDeo

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Paul Deo is a visionary artist who integrates the spirit and technology, and whose work has been described as both psychedelic and historic. Growing up between New York City and New Orleans, Paul absorbed the rich flavors of both cultures, finding early inspiration in soul performances at the Apollo Theater as well as dancing in the streets in New Orleans' second line parades. You can see those influences in this fantasy piece.

Instagram: @CephasBradleyJr

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Cephas knows the vibrant streets of Harlem, where he navigated a journey from homeless shelters to a place he could call his own. Through his art, he finds solace, connection and the power to uplift others in similar circumstances, as well as a testament to resilience. He is fascinated with the intricate complexities of the human mind and the unseen energies that surround us. For Grandscale, his portrait of a man with locs explores both pride in culture as well aspsychological identity, the duality of human nature, and the challenges individuals face within.

Instagram: @annalustberg

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Anna Lustberg is an illustrator based in Harlem. Her vibrant use of color and bustling compositions infuse everyday scenes with both humor and tenderness. For Grandscale, her piece is an homage to and celebration of the rich history of jazz musicians in Harlem, as well as the jazz clubs that have a legacy of bringing the community together.

Instagram: @raddingtonfalls

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Originally from Los Angeles and with family in Cuba, RAD is an artist and educator based in Harlem who has been teaching art to children since graduating from The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. RAD creates paintings, collages, murals, printmaking, digital and mixed-media pieces that aim to stay true to the spirit and vitality of youth. His piece for Grandscale features his characters Super RAD and RAD, Jr., superheroes with the power to spread peace and transcend lives with art and color.

Instagram: @artbysandrapereztapia

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Sandra Perez Tapia was born in Puebla, Mexico, and has lived in East Harlem for the past 30 years. She has served as the director of the Mexican Community Center (CECOMEX) to defend the rights of Mexican immigrants, assist victims of domestic violence and celebrate Mexican culture here in the neighborhood. For more than a decade, she has been working as an artist, and is especially known for her work to create elaborate Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) altars for local small businesses, the People's Church, El Museo del Barrio, Rockefeller Center and more. For Grandscale, her piece is about the close ties between death and life, and how we should enjoy life while we have it.

Instagram: @ydc.art

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Yeline Del Carmen is an abstract artist who grew up in the Bronx after her family immigrated from the Dominican Republic. Her works are a playful experimentation of mark-making, bold colors, abstract patterns, repetition and nature. Her piece for Grandscale resembles a postage stamp and the contour lines of a topographic map, featuring two of her signature faces -- a circular face that she has doodled for many years, as well as a face inspired by Dominican patiner Candido Bido whose works are often displayed in Dominican households and public plazas throughout the country. Each face has accent designs under the eyes, reminiscent of Dominican carnival masks.

Instagram: @gladitsknite

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Pips was born in Washington Heights and spent most of his childhood in Harlem. He now works as both an artist and art teacher. Pips' art is often surreal, drawing on his experiences growing up in the city, and frequently using the image of lips to express emotion. For Grandscale, his piece is an extension of his work in the schools to encourages us to look through others' point of view and to seek to understand others.

Instagram: @LUISA_VIBES

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Luisa is a Yonkers-raised and based visual artist who began her organic, free-flowing line style as a teenager with a ballpoint pen and paper. She has a passion for making her lines move and dance. Whether working with vivid color combinations or high contrasts of black and white, Luisa’s line work specifically explores fluidity and motion, with precise linear tension and balance. As a collaborator on Grandscale in previous years, she loves making murals and looks forward to feeling the energy of the public spaces and meeting the people who work or live nearby and are part of it. Her piece for this year's project is of a watchful eye to protect the community.

Instagram: @artwork_by_kir

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

KiR is a New York City-based artist who has participated in various wall projects across the boroughs, including not only the Grandscale Mural Project, but Bed Stuy Walls, Underhill Walls and Washington Walls. Heavily influenced by the world of comics, his piece for Grandscale is of one of his signature cartoon characters.

Instagram: @carmencommunityartist

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Carmen Paulino is a visual artist who provides community art programming in hospitals, community centers, senior centers and public spaces both in East Harlem and citywide. Raised in El Barrio with family roots in Puerto Rico, Carmen's love for the arts was inspired by her mother and grandmother, both of whom would knit, crochet and sew unique quilts and patterns, as well as her father, who performed as a musician in several salsa bands. Her piece for Grandscale is a celebration of the current generation's reclamation of the world of fiber arts, and yarnbombing across the five boroughs.

Instagram: @peacheeblue

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Peach Tao was born and raised in Beijing and has lived and worked in New York City for 15 years now. As a teaching artist in various schools Uptown, she creates murals that spread joy through all kinds of places: Public schools, hospitals, small businesses, basketball courts and public spaces. Her piece for Grandscale is of two iguanas gathering in a Harlem barbershop. “I like the barbershop energy,” said Peach. “The chatting, the cutting, the feeling of a new start.”

Instagram: @ericapurnell

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Erica Purnell traces her family roots to Harlem, with her paternal grandfather and grandmother starting out here when they first moved from the South in the 1940s. She recalls stories from her father about her grandfather and his love for Harlem and the vibrant community he felt living here. The family eventually relocated to Brooklyn, but Erica has maintained Harlem ties by working in community art. After studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology, her work evolved to creating largescale canvas paintings and murals. Her current goal is using her art to advocate for health and wellness due to a blood cancer diagnosis she has been overcoming since 2022.

Instagram: @axxhouse

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

E Capers grew up in The Bronx during the 1970s, steeped in the arts renaissance of graffiti artists using burned-out buildings as their canvases. Fascinated with this new art form, E started his own journey into the world of graffiti art and began writing "Cape," a shortened version of his last name, as an homage to Cope, his favorite writer. After several run-ins with law enforcement, E moved on from walls and trains to legal art. While you can still spot an old "Cape" tag in classic 1990s movies including "New Jack City" and "Juice," E is now the creative director of Art In The Park, a local nonprofit that works to engage youth in beautifying their neighborhood.

Instagram: None

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Marvelous Santiago is a Puerto Rican native who has resided in East Harlem for more than 50 years. He moved to East Harlem in 1969 and grew up on 110th Street, steeped in the world of the Young Lords and salseros including Tito Puento, Ruben Blaze and Celia Cruz. He started in art by making and selling shoe-shine boxes, then moved on to specialize in designing and building custom graffiti bikes. For Grandscale, his piece is about the city that he loves.

Instagram: @nasa.one

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Nasa One has lived in the Bronx her entire life, and has always found art as a source of joy. As a member of the skateboard community, she has a special love for graffiti and making designs with grip tape. For Grandscale, her piece features the old Twin Towers with a view of the old World Trade Center train station, in memory and honor of everyone in the city who lost a friend or loved one.

Instagram: @flacowaters

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

DaQuane Cherry grew up in North Carolina but has lived in Harlem for the past six years. Prior to the pandemic, his professional focus was on a career in acting and modeling, but ever since has redirected his focus and concentrated his interest in figurative painting, portraiture, poetry and photography. With his art rooted in emotional intellect, mental health awareness, healing, playfulness and storytelling, he often employs the image of a teddy bear that represents the imagination and keeping the inner child alive. DaQuane was the winner of the 2023 Steve Madden x Harlem Festival of Culture Design Challenge, in which he created a three-piece limited edition wearable art capsule collection. For Grandscale, his piece is of a young boy playing his saxophone for his teddy bear.

Instagram: @Picasso_actual

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

1Ie is a Bronx-born and raised classically trained multidisciplinary artist primarily utilizing painting collage and sculpture. With parents that are also artists -- his mother in graphic design, his father a graffiti writer from the train era -- he has deep roots in East Harlem, which is where both of his grandmothers arrived as teenagers after immigrating from Puerto Rico. He draws inspiration from family stories including one of his great-grandfathers, who served as a Harlem Hellfighter during World War I, was part of the Great Migration from Georgia to Harlem, and later served as a building super at 104th & Lexington, in a building where the whole family lived. 1Ie creates abstract work that aims to capture the concept of movement and vibration, imagining the building blocks of life like the illustrations on science textbook covers.

Instagram: @ysabelstudio

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Titled, "Back to Nature" depicts a young person looking to the horizon with hope and being guided by the hands of the ancestors.

Instagram: @brittanymaldonadoart

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Brittany’s work is always about love and resilience. Without love there is no life. This piece is dedicated to self reflection, and love. Connection to a higher self. And peace.

Instagram: @Mtnwone

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

M is an artist with graffiti roots who freestyles work.

Instagram: @lexibellaart

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Instagram: @leilapintonyc

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Leila Pinto is a New York - based artist. She creates abstract paintings in oils and mixed media that express her emotional responses to nature and current events.

Instagram: @Jaysa_drew_it

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Born and raised in New York City with Dominican roots, Jaysa has never fallen short of life-changing experiences. Through these events, she has become the woman and artist that she is today. Her piece represents city life but also how the power of reading and imagination can take you to your own utopia no matter your current situation. There is beauty in the struggle.

Instagram: @maspaz and @guache_art

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

In both of their signature styles, Mas Paz and Guache are representing indigenous people that are reflective of their own cultural heritage.

Instagram: @Iammichaelnow

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Bobby! painted "In 'A Futuristic Family Stroll,' a scene where a contemporary family of the future takes a leisurely walk through a beautiful park.

Instagram: @soulsnyc

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Souls’ piece for Grandscale this year is intended to create discussion about the commodification of Black culture and Black women.

Location: 124th b/t Lexington & Third

Anastasia is a multi-disciplinary creative interested in history, storytelling and sociology, and works in media ranging from paint to electronics. She lives in East Harlem near a community garden, and her piece is a tribute to the community gardens of the neighborhood — escapes into nature that are yet full of community, in the middle of the building-dense city.