{"id":199276,"date":"2025-09-04T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/199276\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:17:13","slug":"new-24-foot-mural-at-expo-park-lofts-tells-a-story-about-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/199276\/","title":{"rendered":"New 24-foot mural at Expo Park Lofts tells a story about Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

For decades a cradle of the Dallas art scene, the Exposition Park neighborhood, located between Fair Park and Deep Ellum, has gone through generational turnover in recent years, with the departure of longtime anchors such as 500X Gallery<\/a> and the Reading Room<\/a>, and the former properties of art-friendly landlord David Gibson changing hands.<\/p>\n

Now August Real Estate<\/a>, who took over 17 of Gibson\u2019s properties, is staking a claim as enlightened cultural patrons, commissioning a 24-foot mural from Mexico City-born, Dallas-based painter Francisco Moreno<\/a> to welcome visitors to the Expo Park Lofts at 4100 Commerce St. <\/p>\n

The painting\u2019s illusionistic space subtly connects to the real space of the nearly century-old building\u2019s lobby, with gentle natural light and polished concrete floors serving as a stage on which a roster of notable figures build creative works in both high- and low-tech media. Those represented include local artists and architects, as well as young students, angels, a deer, an eagle and a skeleton.<\/p>\n

Titled The Practitioners, Moreno\u2019s work fulfills one of the most ancient purposes of public art \u2014 to tell the public its collective story, or what Ezra Pound called \u201cthe tale of the tribe\u201d \u2014 and preserves a chapter of Dallas art history for future generations. Moreno\u2019s style, which weaves together pre-Columbian, Baroque and contemporary themes with rare fluency, aptly captures how local and global elements fuse in the city\u2019s art.<\/p>\n

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