Kelley Walker

Art Brokerage: Kelley Walker American Artist: Born 1969 in Columbus, GA. Using the potency of advertising media, Kelley Walker's prints appropriate iconic cultural images, digitally altering them to highlight underlying issues of politics and consumerism. Perhaps no artist deals so strategically and systematically with pop culture as Kelley Walker. The 39-year-old artist is something of a post-pop wizard, using a copy, cut, and reprint technique that often involves an Epson ink jet printer and screen-printing. The result is a series of loaded pop images-somehow violent, hilarious, spontaneous, and overdetermined all at once. Most famously, Walker has screen-printed paintings based on photos similar to those used by Andy Warhol in his Race Riot works, smearing the images with chocolate. He also likes to work with toothpaste, images of disasters, and most recently, every still frame from Whitney Houston's video "How Will I Know." Listings wanted.