John Carrico
photograph by John Carrico
This year's winners voted by you as the two best pieces of wall art in Austin, Texas, are not only in the same part of town (the University) they face each other right where 24th hits the Drag - a street corner homage to an entire generation of Austin mural art. The colorful tribute to motion pictures, Varsity Theatre Mural, by Carlos Lowry at what is now Tower Records, has been a West Campus fixture since 1980, while Le Bonheur de Vivre by Doug Jaques and his students in an Austin Commmunity College art class, directly across the street at The Gap, is brand spanking new - a psychedelic swirling dose of life in 1998.
