{"data":{"id":"10172","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":10172,"topgoose_id":173,"tms_id":10172,"display_name":"Kelley Walker","sort_name":"Walker Kelley","display_date":"1969–","begin_date":"1969","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eKelley Walker mines the legacy of\nappropriation, from the work of Pop artists\nto that of the Pictures Generation, by utilizing\nphotographs that have appeared in the\npress, in advertising, and in his own works\nor those of other artists, to highlight\nthe ways images are transformed through\ncirculation and dissemination. He frequently\nemploys diverse tools and methods\nto create his works—including scanners,\nPhotoshop, and silkscreen techniques, as\nwell as applications of nontraditional\nmaterials such as toothpaste and chocolate.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor \u003ca href=\"/collection/works/44471\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, Walker lifted advertising\ncampaigns for the Volkswagen Beetle\nproduced in the 1950s and 1960s, and then\nused Rhino, a three-dimensional modeling\nprogram, to perforate, torque, twist,\nfold, and otherwise manipulate the layouts.\nThe technology, as he has explained it,\nadopts biological nuances: “The forms are\ngenerated by cross breeding Photoshop/\nMac with PC; Volkswagen Bug with Rhino\nprogram, creating a hybrid language.\nThis generates architecturally 3-D spatial\nconfigurations where image becomes skin\nand the Rhino program becomes the nerves.”\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resulting forms are then\nsilkscreened, using hand pressure, onto\npainted medium-density fiberboard\npanels, which he has arranged in a precise\nconfiguration. Walker’s reinvention of\nthe found imagery through processes of\nappropriation, digital manipulation, and\nmanual printing parallels the efforts of the\nirreverent and transformative American\nad campaign itself, which made the\nVolkswagen Beetle, produced by a German\ncompany previously associated with the\nNazi Party, into a postwar icon of American\ncool. According to Walker, “The work\nencompasses over a hundred years of\ncompressed history.”\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500294190","wikidata_id":"Q4476103","created_at":"2017-08-30T15:31:39.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-09T07:01:49.862-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/10172/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/10172/exhibitions"}}}}