There in the Valley: Phoenix is full of Maggie Keane's artwork
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Local artist Maggie Keane has done numerous murals around town, including this one of Prince on Rodriguez Boxing Club near downtown Phoenix. Photo: Jeremy Duda/Axios
This Prince mural is on the side of Rodriguez Boxing Club, where Roosevelt Street intersects 15th and Grand avenues.
State of play: The mural belongs to local artist Maggie Keane, and you may have seen some of her other work around town. Keane also painted:
- The David Bowie murals that line a wall on 7th Street north of McDowell Road
- A scene from A-ha's famous "Take On Me" video as part of the Oak Street murals
- A trio of Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Diana Ross at Central Avenue and Portland Street
- Another image of Prince at The Pemberton
- Other artists like John Lennon and Michael Jackson near the Prince mural at the boxing gym.
- She has plenty of non-music themed work, too. Keane painted Black History Month murals for the Shining Light Foundation, boxers on the Central Boxing Gym near the state Capitol (a collaboration with local artist Lucretia Torva), and even Phoenix Suns stars Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, Dan Majerle, Tom Chambers and Danny Ainge on city buses.
Flashback: Keane has worked for years as a courtroom sketch artist for TV news stations and has drawn figures from major cases like Joe Arpaio, Jared Loughner and Warren Jeffs.
- In the 1980s, she painted billboards.
- She's also a woodworker and restored the horses on the carousel at Encanto Park in the early '90s.
Zoom out: Not all of Keane's work is in the Valley — she painted Prince and Cuban singer Celia Cruz in Atlanta.
What's next: Keane told Axios she's planning an Emmett Till mural for the Shining Light Foundation later this year.
- She also hopes to put together a book of her courtroom sketches.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that the mural of boxers on the Central Boxing Gym near the state Capitol was a collaboration between Maggie Keane and local artist Lucretia Torva .