Fast Food

Anthony Lewellen

Chicago ad agency We Are Unlimited commissioned local multidisciplinary artist Anthony Lewellen to do “Fast Food” (ink, acrylic, spray enamel on wood panels and concrete; 2017), a mural and painting that vividly stokes the appetite.

Lewellen has branched out from was a key figure in the Chicago graffiti community and continues to work on the street in addition to working on large scale mural commissions and personal studio work.

inWe Are Unlimited, Chicago, IL

Meet the Creator

Anthony Lewellen

Chicago, IL

“Born in Chicago in 1971 Anthony Lewellen is a multidisciplinary art maker working in various mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and more recently animation, video and projection mapping. In his formative years he was an innovative figure within Chicago's graffiti culture and 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. Lewellen’s work is always building upon a highly personalized visual vocabulary that continues to evolve and grow. The elements of this enigmatic pictorial language are quintessentially Midwestern and even more precisely quintessentially Chicago.
These elements consistently appear in his work regardless of the medium and seem to evoke unspoken narratives written in the urban landscape like images torn from a book. Lewellen has also worked commercially as an illustrator, designer and art director for more than a decade and appropriates traditional commercial art techniques into his work. He is now is solely focused on a personal studio practice and continues to live and work on the city’s north side.”