Adams Has Covered The Aboriginal Mural In White Album In Alertness For The New Work

Houston art vandals are at it again . . . and this time, it's fueled by partisan politics.

During the weekend, an unknown assailant (or assailants) threw bright red paint across the Breakfast Klub mural of President Barack Obama at the intersection of West Alabama and Travis. Surveillance cameras show two glass jars filled with paint shattering across the eyes of the president early Monday morning.

Breakfast Klub buyer Marcus Davis — a allegiant Obama adherent who commissioned the section in 2008 and owns the architecture aloft which it was corrective — apparent the abuse and bound contacted the mural's aboriginal artisan Reginald Adams to altercate the next step.

"The new angel is great. It shows Obama pointing at the eyewitness in this array of Uncle Sam 'I wish you' pose. It's about looks like he's admonishing abeyant vandals."

Adams, in fact, had been active tweaking addition Obama angel for the accessible election, acquisitive to actualize a mural from it for addition Houston building. Until Monday, he hadn't begin the appropriate location.

"The way they damaged the old mural, Marcus and I knew we'd accept to alpha from scratch," the artisan tells CultureMap.

"Amazing, though, I already had an abstraction accessible to go, one application some of the 2012 graphics. The new angel is great. It shows Obama pointing at the eyewitness in this array of Uncle Sam 'I wish you' pose. It's about looks like he's admonishing abeyant vandals."

Adams has covered the aboriginal mural in white album in alertness for the new work, which he will alpha to acrylic during the Breakfast Klub's presidential agitation watch affair on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

"The mural's been vandalized three other times, but we're determined to keep protecting it," Davis says.

"We're inviting the whole community to join us for the debate and in helping Adams paint mural patterns . . . Much like what Obama's done with the auto industry and the job market, we're hoping to turn a something negative into something positive."