
‘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
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
February 12, 2015
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