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Artist takes over Queens billboard Margeaux Walter, 32, created the image plastered on the Sunnyside adspace by the nonprofit 14x48. The project was installed on Tuesday and will run for at least four weeks. Margeaux Walter's billboard on Greenpoint Ave. at 46th St. in Sunnyside. A Brooklyn artist has taken over a vacant Queens billboard with help from nonprofit 14x48, which finds unused ad spaces and fills them up with art.

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Page 1: Artist takes over Queens billboardnewyork.winstonwachter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2016-Pric… · Artist takes over Queens billboard Margeaux Walter, 32, created the image plastered

Artist takes over Queens billboard MargeauxWalter,32,createdtheimageplasteredontheSunnysideadspacebythenonprofit14x48.TheprojectwasinstalledonTuesdayandwillrunforatleastfourweeks.

Margeaux Walter's billboard on Greenpoint Ave. at 46th St. in Sunnyside.

A Brooklyn artist has taken over a vacant Queens billboard with help from nonprofit 14x48, which finds unused ad spaces and fills them up with art.

Page 2: Artist takes over Queens billboardnewyork.winstonwachter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2016-Pric… · Artist takes over Queens billboard Margeaux Walter, 32, created the image plastered

Artist Margeaux Walter, 32, repurposed the roof-mounted sign on Greenpoint Ave. at 46th St., plastering it with spin-offs of the popular “Keep calm and carry on,” poster that provide such practical alternatives as “Keep calm and play basketball,” “Keep calm and kiss on” and “Keep calm and follow the white rabbit.”

The Sunnyside project will be installed at least through mid-February.

“People normally ignore billboards,” Walter said. “But a lot of people are looking up and taking a second look.