Portal Innovations Interior Murals
Southline Labs Mural
2023 Boston, MA | 200 sq. ft.
Portal’s Boston Labs are located in the rehabbed Boston Globe building at 135 Morissey Blvd in South Boston. This mural references the building’s history, tying the design to the local neighborhood while still maintaining continuity with the larger Portal brand.
Chicago Interior Installation
2022 Fulton Market, Chicago, IL
Portal Innovations is a life sciences venture capital firm that offers crafted capital to fuel breakthroughs. Each location offers world class lab space to grow start-ups in life sciences. I’ve been part of the development of their visual identity and created custom interior murals or installations for each of their locations. All of the artwork and designs are unique to each individual location, but together they form a cohesive visual brand across all locations. The concept behind this installation was to have a dynamic and bold pattern “moving” through the space (blue stripes). Integrated into the painted elements are 3D “petri dishes” through which you can view detailed, science-inspired organic images like you might see under a microscope. They can also be viewed as a series of “portals” allowing you to peer into a different world. Together, the elements create a playful and bright space to inspire creative research. Each “petri dish” is an oil painting that I created encased in a series of transparent acrylic discs.
FULTON MARKET MURAL
2021 Fulton Market, Chicago, IL | 200 sq. ft.
This is the first mural I painted for Portal Innovations before their grand opening in Chicago. I worked with the interior design team, architects, and founding members to come up with this statement art piece. The circles spreading across the wall are bioinspired and organic in nature, mimicking patterns you might find under a microscope. We wanted a design that would spark creativity and speak to the community of scientists working in the lab spaces here. Inside the circles you’ll see an abstracted pattern, as though you are looking through the circles at an entirely different scene. The scene inside is a reference to Fulton Market and the neighborhood’s iconic neon sign.
