The Hoboken Museum is pleased to host another live-streamed artist talk on Friday, March 12 at 7 pm, with Hoboken artist, graphic designer and photographer McKevin Shaughnessy, whose solo show “The Hidden Faces of Hoboken, Photos by McKevin Shaughnessy” opens in the Museum’s Upper Gallery starting Sunday, March 14, with a reception from 2 – 5 pm.

The talk will be streamed live on YouTube, as well as Facebook and Twitter. Use the buttons below to bookmark your preferred channel, or look us up by our handle “HobokenMuseum.”

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Shaughnessy has lived in Hoboken since the mid-1980s, but only recently started noticing how many faces are embedded in the residential and commercial facades of Hoboken’s cityscape. What began as an idle way to entertain himself as he walked through Hoboken became an obsession and a pandemic project: Documenting over 540 (and counting) faces adorning Hoboken buildings. 

“The overall variety is staggering,” he says, “from family portraits to mythical griffins, bald eagles, lion heads, imaginary beasts, viking warriors, a sultan, numerous kings, a wolfman, the wolverine, a birdman, princesses and goddesses, cherubs and the like.”

Shaughnessy is working on a book project now, and the exhibit will display about 20 framed images he’s taken and printed, mostly in black and white, but some in color, of close-ups of the faces he’s “headhunted” in the past few months. The exhibit will remain on view through April 25.