Black Blues Guitarist Art Print | African American Music Wall Decor

"Tangle Guitar" is the Black blues guitarist art print where the strings and the player have become the same thing—Antionette Simmons Hodges draws a guitarist in a dense web of looping, crossing lines that makes visible what every serious guitarist knows: you don't play the guitar, you are played by it. The Tangle Series is Hodges at her most formally inventive, and the guitar subject gives her everything she needs.

The guitar has a particular place in African American musical history—from the Delta blues that gave birth to rock and roll, to the jazz guitar traditions of Django and Wes, to the Jimi Hendrix moment when Black guitar playing remade the entire sonic landscape of popular music. Hodges honors all of this in a composition that refuses to simplify. The tangle of lines suggests both the complexity of this inheritance and the physical demands of the instrument: the way the fingers find their positions, the way the body learns to accommodate the guitar, the way player and instrument become inseparable over years of devoted practice.

Hang "Tangle Guitar" in a music room, living room, or studio where the guitar's centrality to African American music should be acknowledged. A compelling gift for guitarists, blues lovers, and anyone who understands what this instrument has meant to Black American culture.

This archival-quality giclée print is produced on premium cotton rag paper with museum-grade inks. Available in sizes from 7×9" to 15×19", with select sizes featuring an optional ½" white margin for easy framing.

Antionette Simmons Hodges honors Black music across every genre and every instrument with the same depth of attention—bring "Tangle Guitar" home.