Justin's profile
Justin “Nether” Nethercut is a native Baltimorean street artist and mural painter. Nether's work is as a social documentarian of the struggles, dreams, history and dilemmas that our cities and subcultures face. With outdoor work, acting first as an artistic hand to the communities aspirations, pieces are generally designed in conceptual collaboration with native stakeholders, always site-specific, and focused to the locale. Woven into many of the artworks is a spiritual, natural sense of balance and design to evoke an understanding of our presence and importance to surrounding ecosystems. The quest is merely an attempt to help reclaim and recycle neglected parts of the landscape, bring out the city’s cultural pride, and capture the poetic chaos that is Baltimore.
Nether has and has painted over 90 walls over the past 10 years across the city and helped organize over 30 more pieces of public art. On top of painting murals, Nether is a founding co-director of the public art and landscaping organization Arts+Parks. He also co-curated the Eubie Blake: Sandtown Mural Project in 2015 with Ernest Shaw following painting the Freddie Grey Memorial Mural and the Wall Hunters project in 2013 around the issue of negligent ownership of housing. Nether’s works can be found in many US cities and internationally in London, Paris, Berlin, and Montreal.
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