Stockton Artists Transform Downtown Buildings With Murals

Several artists are using imaginative visual art to reshape how people see familiar subjects and places. French painter Bruno Pontiroli combines humans and animals in precisely rendered, impossible poses that challenge assumptions about nature and the body, while Los Angeles illustrator Evan Cohen turns streets, trains and alleys into neon-colored, surreal urban scenes. In Nevada, muralist Lee Lanier is creating his first mosaic, a 30-by-12-foot desert landscape for a Las Vegas park, assembled from 27 panels. In downtown Stockton, the Murals and Main project is bringing local and visiting artists together to paint building murals, including a community mural open to public participation.