Elberto Muller

Elberto Muller’s (B. California C. ????) three-dimensional mosaic tile works reference folktales, pop-iconography and pulp sub-cultures, capturing landscapes and vignettes with an overt playfulness in tone. The myriad of faces, characters and stories told in the works bring the viewer into a world, an underground, to witness a disorienting reflection of a distorted culture. A humorous disenchantment with the ‘narcotic state of contemporary humanity’ and its diversions.

Living mostly as a drifter, Muller’s work draws from his experiences riding freight trains, planes and autos across North America, crossing and recrossing the country through a covert network of rail and road maps, resources and guides maintained by fellow travelers. In the course of his travels he has scattered hundreds of small mosaic tile works across the continent, which have become landmarks frequently sought out and documented by his avid followers.

Along with maintaining a studio practice, Muller is a novelist, having published Graffiti On Low or No Dollars: An Alternative Guide to Aesthetics and Grifting Throughout the United States and Canada with Outlandish Press in August, 2023.

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Exhibitions
2023 Vacant Hand - Entrance, New York, NY

Press
2023 Elberto Muller's Hand is Vital in "Vacant Hand" @ Entrance, NYC – Evan Pricco, Juxtapoz