Windows on Allston
This project was commissioned by the Jack Young Company and Allston Village Main Streets Association (City of Boston). The twenty-one panels created to cover bricked-in windows in the facades of two adjacent buildings in Allston are designed to restore a sense of liveliness and stature to these buildings (one of which is a prominent local landmark), as well as to depict and celebrate the diversity of the local population. Painted in a loose “trompe l’oeil” (illusionistic) manner, in order to preserve the architectural integrity of the buildings, the panels are meant to imitate the windows that might actually be there while including portraits of citizens and a few historical figures—among them the namesake for this neighborhood, the painter, Washington Allston.
Click here to watch an interview with Elli on Boston’s Channel 5
Visit the Clark University web site to read more about this project:
www.clarku.edu/activelearning/departments/vpa/crocker/crockerD.cfm