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Kelley Walker — "I became interested in creating objects capable of perpetually remaking themselves or allowing themselves to be remade by participating in the culture industry."
Kelley Walker

"I became interested in creating objects capable of perpetually remaking themselves or allowing themselves to be remade by participating in the culture industry."

This work by Kelley Walker layers four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink over collaged magazine imagery on canvas, creating a surface that visually hums with the language of mass media and commercial reproduction. The piece embodies Walker's ongoing interrogation of how images circulate, mutate, and regenerate meaning within consumer culture, treating the canvas as both a product of and a participant in that system. The title itself functions as a conceptual statement, blurring the boundary between the artwork as object and the cultural machinery that endlessly produces and remakes it.

Medium
four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink, collaged magazine on canvas
Location
Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT

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Contemporary Art and Design Evening Sale

March 3, 2015

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Kelley Walker, "I became interested in creating objects capable of perpetually remaking themselves or allowing themselves to be remade by participating in the culture industry."

This work by Kelley Walker layers four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink over collaged magazine imagery on canvas, creating a surface that visually hums with the language of mass media and commercial reproduction. The piece embodies Walker's ongoing interrogation of how images circulate, mutate, and regenerate meaning within consumer culture, treating the canvas as both a product of and a participant in that system. The title itself functions as a conceptual statement, blurring the boundary between the artwork as object and the cultural machinery that endlessly produces and remakes it.

Medium
four-color process silkscreen with acrylic ink, collaged magazine on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Consumer Culture, Large Format Canvas, Bold Colors, Male Artist, Provocative Mood, Consumer Culture Critique, Mixed Media, Collage, Contemporary Artist, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Pop Art, 21st Century, Early 2000s, Silkscreen Print

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