Brady Black & Myron Curry (Brady website, Brady Instagram ; Myron website, Myron Instragram)
Location: 2221 3rd Avenue (Alley)
Artist Statement 
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Some of the best art happens when two people who barely know each other decide to have a conversation — and then let that conversation play out on a wall. The gorilla-and-girl mural by Brady Black and Myron Curry, tucked into a Belltown alley off Third Avenue, is exactly that kind of work.
Brady and Myron hadn’t worked together before this project, and hardly knew each other when they started. What emerged from their collaboration was a playful, charged visual dialogue: a girl leaning in to whisper something into a gorilla’s ear, and the gorilla’s face caught in an expression that could be excitement, could be anger — you genuinely can’t tell. That ambiguity is entirely intentional, and entirely the point.
The two artists brought contrasting instincts to the wall. Myron wanted something with an edge — aggressive, confrontational. Brady pushed toward something more suggestive and open. The whispering girl and the uncertain gorilla are the meeting point of those two impulses, and the tension between them is what makes the piece so difficult to look away from.
The mural also existed as part of a wider dialogue: characters from a gallery show the two artists had done together kept echoing and evolving here, like a game of visual telephone rolling down the street. Look carefully around the corner near where a dumpster fire later caused damage — since repaired by Myron — and you’ll find a small hidden rat, a sly footnote to the whole conversation.
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