#BearsArt
Anthony Lewellen, September 21-23, 2018
BEFORE
Project Details:
Installation:
September 21–23, 2018
Address:
6943 Stanley Ave
Wall size:
Direction:
Facing West
Financing:
Chicago Bears
Project Partners:
Chicago Truborn
City of Berwyn
Photo Credits:
WeOurStory
Sabine Krauss
About the Artist:
Anthony Lewellen
Anthony is a Chicago based multidisciplinary art maker. In his formative years he was an innovative figure within Chicago’s graffiti culture and is still active to this day.
Early on he made a name for himself in the Midwest and beyond hallmarked by street work that featured a simple bold palette and emotionally complex characters born out of direct observation and digestion of life in the city. His work has come to include a growing body of large-scale public murals along with numerous private commissions.
Highly prolific in the studio as well Lewellen’s work is always building upon a highly personalized visual vocabulary rooted in a love of drawing that continues to evolve and grow. The elements of this visual language are quintessentially Midwestern and even more precisely quintessentially Chicago, consistently appearing in his work.
The images he creates seem to evoke unspoken narratives written in the urban landscape like images torn from a story. He continues to live and work on the cities North West side.