KELLEY WALKER

His exemplary works include large-format, billboard-like canvases featuring recognisable societal signifiers that are overlaid with abstract expressionist flourishes, not only rendered with paint but sometimes unconventional materials such as toothpaste or chocolate. Walker is also well known for his “brick paintings” which consist of scanned individual bricks, screen-printed onto canvas, and a “mortar” consisting of elements from a single newspaper or magazine. This analogue/digital conversion and interplay is a key factor of his work, as well as the thematisation of different modes of production.

Walker’s work has been shown at renowned institutions worldwide, such as the LUMA Foundation, Arles (2018); MAMCO, Geneva (2017); Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2017); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2016), Fridericianum, Kassel (2016); Tate Liverpool (2015); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2014); Le Consortium, Dijon (2014); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2012); MoMA, New York (2012); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2011); New Museum, New York (2010) among many others.

Text courtesy Capitain Petzel.