Kelley Walker

American(1969)

Works

Walker creates paintings and sculptures using appropriated imagery and unconventional materials including chocolate and toothpaste. His work examines race, consumerism, and American visual culture through processes of reproduction and manipulation. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Kunsthalle Zürich, and MoMA PS1.

Mixed Media Contemporary American Abstract Male Artist Contemporary Artist Appropriation Art American Artist Pop Art Bold Conceptual Minimalist

‘The collaged newspaper and magazine pages also help inspire in myself – and I imagine in other viewers – an impulse to lash out or cut the canvas – to graffiti it.’

gold leaf and digital image on laser-cut steel

Stop the Clock

Black Star Press; Star Press, Black Star Press, Black Press

Sometimes you have ideas that don't make any sense to execute on your own, or you don't feel like being alone in the studio. It's more interesting to work things out with a friend.

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