Image courtesy Lisa Marie ThalhammerVia the comments and IMGoph’s blog, it looks like the uproar over a large mural by local artist Lisa Marie Thalhammer is just refusing to die down. A Bloomingdale Civic Association meeting tonight will reportedly focus on whether to force the artist’s “Boxer Girl” mural to come down.
“Boxer Girl” was installed on the side of the Bloomingdale home of collector Veronica Jackson back in May, and the neighborhood reaction was decidedly vehement. Some neighbors love it, but others just plain hate the thing, for reasons ranging from generalized complaints that it’s an “eyesore” to it being “ghetto,” whatever that means. The piece, which was funded by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, depicts a young woman wearing boxing gloves, sporting a black eye, amid some rainbows and stars.
Tonight’s BCA meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at St. George’s Episcopal Church, located at 160 U Street NW. Word around the neighborhood is that pressure on the city to destroy the mural is mounting.
