Wicker Park
Wicker Park's mural scene grew out of the 1990s DIY arts culture that made Milwaukee Avenue one of the most creative corridors in the Midwest. Today the neighborhood's walls carry a mix of commissioned large-format works and surviving indie pieces — abstract, figurative, and typographic — that document twenty years of Chicago's alternative art scene evolving in real time.
Featured Artists
All artists →Chris Devins
Chicago-based abstract artist who emerged from the Wicker Park DIY scene of the late 1990s. "Electric Milwaukee" is his signature large-format work — a 60-foot abstraction of neon signage and architectural fragments from Milwaukee Avenue's old strip clubs, record stores, and dive bars, rendered as a kind of elegy for the neighborhood's pre-gentrification identity.
Jeremiah Ketner
Painter and illustrator known for dreamy, nature-inspired imagery populated by birds, flowers, and soft-focus color fields. "Wicker Bird" on North Ave is one of his largest works — a 40-foot wingspan painted in translucent layers of cyan and violet that shift in appearance as the light changes throughout the day.
Sentrock
Chicago-born artist of Puerto Rican descent whose signature masked character appears on walls across the city and internationally. "Division Street" was his first major Wicker Park piece — the character is shown mid-stride on Division Street, carrying a bundle of painted letters spelling out neighborhood names that have been displaced by rising rents over the past decade.