Kelley Walker
Black Star Press; Star Press, Black Star Press, Black Press
Kelley Walker's *Black Star Press; Star Press, Black Star Press, Black Press* uses appropriation as a means of interrogating the cultural mechanics of branding and reproduction. By layering digitally manipulated images of civil rights-era photographs with smeared chocolate and toothpaste across printed surfaces, Walker implicates both historical trauma and consumer culture within the same visual field. The work resists a straightforward lineage from Warhol, instead positioning appropriation not as a stylistic end in itself but as a critical framework for examining how images, bodies, and commodities circulate within social space.
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- “With the Black Star Press pieces (the chocolate riots) I attempt to sidestep a familiar art source, Warhol, as a starting point. Looking back at artists dealing with appropriation in the ’80s, it seems the strategy of replicating in itself became the style or brand of the artist using it. In my works, I don’t escape the effects of branding but think of the processes associated with appropriation as a way of dealing with branding as a social space.” Kelley Walker, 2006
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 17, 2013
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