Context & Credits
Item Muddy Waters
Created by Erik den Breejen
Muddy Waters
Art by Erik den Breejen, as seen in Earls Kitchen + Bar, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL
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Item Details
Earls Kitchen + Bar in Lincoln Park features “Muddy Waters"
(acrylic on linen; 72" x 72"; 2015), a show-stopping mosaic piece by Erik den Breejen’s portraying Muddy Waters, the father of modern Chicago Blues. Each mosaic piece of the legend's face is filled with painted tiles that contain his lyrics.
Based in Brooklyn, den BreejenI has had a long-standing interest in the possibilities of combining visual and verbal language and has used text to varying degrees in nearly all of his recent work.
(acrylic on linen; 72" x 72"; 2015), a show-stopping mosaic piece by Erik den Breejen’s portraying Muddy Waters, the father of modern Chicago Blues. Each mosaic piece of the legend's face is filled with painted tiles that contain his lyrics.
Based in Brooklyn, den BreejenI has had a long-standing interest in the possibilities of combining visual and verbal language and has used text to varying degrees in nearly all of his recent work.