
I see the right, mirrored; in the center a soft Volkswagen
2004
Kelley Walker's *I see the right, mirrored; in the center a soft Volkswagen* presents a visually disorienting composition that plays with symmetry, repetition, and the language of consumer culture. The mirrored structure fragments and doubles familiar imagery, collapsing distinctions between original and copy, while the central presence of the Volkswagen evokes the soft, malleable quality associated with Claes Oldenburg's Pop sensibility. Walker's work probes the circulation of images and objects within mass media, questioning how meaning shifts and destabilizes through reproduction and reflection.
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- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 17, 2016
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Richard Prince
American · b. 1949

Prince's appropriation of advertising and consumer imagery, particularly his rephotographed car hoods and commercial imagery, directly parallels Walker's interrogation of image circulation and the collapse between original and copy within consumer culture.

Wade Guyton
American · b. 1972

Guyton's digitally manipulated, inkjet printed works share Walker's cool detached mood and post internet sensibility, both artists using mechanical reproduction and digital processes to destabilize the authenticity of images and objects.

Josephine Meckseper
German · b. 1964

Meckseper's work similarly fuses Pop Art influences with sharp consumerism critique, deploying mirrored surfaces, automotive imagery, and commodity display to expose the seductive logic of consumer capitalism in a conceptually rigorous way.
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