Street art is beginning to define Miami’s art scene. Some say there are more walls covered in street murals in one area (Wynwood) than anywhere else in the world. Maybe. But the artists who have been tagging and painting are also becoming more well known, helping to write our growing artistic language.

One such artist is TYPOE, whose work, stepping off the walls to include sculpture, have been shown at the Spinello gallery. There’s a tell-tale graffiti style to his work (the artist is known to show up to openings with a bandana covering his face), but also a more specific urban Miami aesthetic, mixing Catholic and gang symbols and imagery, for example.

Now he is unveiling a site-specific work at Locust Projects, which again involves a religious reference, but to a very different time and place — that of Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, with the outstretched hand of god. Called “Purgatory (False Ceiling),” it actually won’t resemble anything like the Italian master’s work. TYPOE has created a false, dropped ceiling in the 2,700 square-foot area, on which he will paint, use text, collage, and other materials. According to the not-for-profit exhibition space, it will incorporate a street art practice known as “wheat pasting,” where the artist “will affix images printed on paper to the dropped ceiling. Combined, the architectural installation and imagery will convey parallel cultural and autobiographical narratives.”

It’s another example of how street art has migrated indoors, off the dilapidated walls and into the galleries and lexicon of contemporary Miami art. And it should be a good one.

“Purgatory (False Ceiling)” opens at Locust Projects on March 12 and runs through April 30, 155 N.E. 38th St., Miami; locustprojects.org.