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Kelley Walker — ‘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.’
Kelley Walker

‘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.’

Kelley Walker's large-scale work layers collaged newspaper and magazine pages beneath silkscreened imagery, creating a dense, tension-filled surface that pulses with the visual noise of mass media. The accumulation of fragmented text and imagery evokes a sense of overstimulation and cultural saturation, provoking an almost visceral, aggressive response in the viewer. Walker's provocative title becomes self-fulfilling, as the work itself seems to dare its audience to intervene, blurring the line between consumption and destruction.

Medium
collage, silkscreen on canvas

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

February 12, 2015

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Kelley Walker, ‘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.’

Kelley Walker's large-scale work layers collaged newspaper and magazine pages beneath silkscreened imagery, creating a dense, tension-filled surface that pulses with the visual noise of mass media. The accumulation of fragmented text and imagery evokes a sense of overstimulation and cultural saturation, provoking an almost visceral, aggressive response in the viewer. Walker's provocative title becomes self-fulfilling, as the work itself seems to dare its audience to intervene, blurring the line between consumption and destruction.

Medium
collage, silkscreen on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Cultural Commentary, Print On Canvas, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Collage, Contemporary Artist, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Silkscreen, Pop Art, Provocative, Early 2000s

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