TEMP_CC and RELM1_DAWOOD Mural @ 173 Oxford St

This mural on Oxford Street in downtown Lynn is the work of TEMP and RELM, two graffiti artists who both hail from Lynn and have contributed greatly to the city’s street art and graffiti scene. It was installed in 2017 during that year’s mural festival, which used many of the same walls the pair had painted decades earlier. The piece marked their return to Lynn to showcase their work once again.

TEMP was the most prolific graffiti artist in Lynn throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. RELM then took the helm, keeping the city’s active graffiti scene going in the years that followed. According to the organizers, the pair’s style defined Lynn and put the city on the map as a hot spot for the genre, which makes this wall a piece of the local history of graffiti as well as a public artwork.

What to Know

• The mural was organized by Beyond Walls.
• Both artists are heavily featured in Caleb Neelon’s book on the history of American graffiti.
• It is listed as public art by the Downtown Lynn Cultural District.