An artist’s tour of America — through its strip mall signs

D.C. artist Mark Kelner’s meticulous text paintings of roadside signs are a window into the country’s socioeconomic life.

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Unless you happen to be driving around the suburbs looking for a Guatemalan bank, Korean nail salon or halal butcher, you might never notice the signs. But once you really see them — the directories rising over America’s strip malls and shopping plazas — you can glean a lot more than where to turn for a good bowl of pho..