Provenance
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Private collection, Europe
Catalogue Essay
“I don’t escape the effects of branding but think of the processes associated with appropriation as a way of dealing with branding as a social space.”
KELLEY WALKER

New York based artist Kelley Walker has long situated his incomparable practice in dialogue with modern design and social media. Walker’s investigation, subsequent skewering, and finally his elevation of the modern photographic or design-based image has carved out a space for him in the pantheon of young contemporary artists. His satirically bent and socially conscious works have gained him status as one of our shrewdest visual innovators, as evidenced in the present lot, Untitled, 2006. Employing one of his most trusted mediums– the Inkjet printer– Walker creates a design pastiche, a prototype that demonstrates the personal nature and technological means of distributing modern art.

Much like his frequent collaborator, Wade Guyton, Walker places an essential emphasis on the nature of the popular image, and, more specically, the recognizable motif. Untitled, 2006, comes to us as a mesmerizing portrait of Walker’s means of production itself. The alternating red and black bars create areas of indefinite coloring between them in an optical bonanza of illusion. Highlights of blue and yellow round out the ink on the canvas, simultaneously evoking Warhol’s iconic silkscreens and the famed Color Field paintings of Joseph Albers. Walker’s genius, however, lies in the intentional granularity of the printer’s color saturation; each individual pigment stamp is visible. While Lichtenstein chose to paint the Ben-Day dot to “industrialize” his work, Kelly Walker allows the Ben-day dot to speak for itself, as real as the design that it creates.

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Kelley Walker

Untitled

2006
Inkjet on canvas
62 x 37 in. (159 x 98 cm)
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, signed by the artist.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000

Sold for $110,500

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Ryan Sullivan
June 18, 2009 - January 20, 2010
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Dan Colen
Oy Vey 3
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Glenn Ligon
Silver Just Us #5
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“Half Dollar / Butterfly” chair
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Kelley Walker
Untitled
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Rob Pruitt
I Love Bamboo (I hate you)
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Wendell Castle
Black Edition “Big Table,” from the “Molar” series
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Mark Grotjahn
Butterfly (Black, Red, Orange)
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Ettore Sottsass, Jr.
“Menta” totem
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Damien Hirst
Levorphanol
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Cecily Brown
S.A.P.
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Albert Oehlen
Traurigkeit
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Andy Warhol
Knives
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Ed Ruscha
Anchor Stuck in Sand
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Sigmar Polke
Untitled
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Gerhard Richter
Fuji (839-12)
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Martin Kippenberger
Leiden Warum, Leiden Wozu (Suffer Why, Suffer What For)
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled
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Ron Arad
“Oh-Void 2” chair
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Massage)
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George Condo
The Monk at the Brothel
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Maurizio Cattelan
A Perfect Day
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Gilbert & George
Wheel
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Louise Lawler
Going
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Jim Hodges
The Good News, Ta Nea, 3/20/2007 (Athens Greece) 3/20/2007
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Ken Price
Oh Gee
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Sylvie Fleury
Eternal Wow on Shelf (cyan/purple)
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Tom Friedman
Inside Out
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Anselm Reyle
Untitled
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T.V. Santhosh
Enemies' Enemy II
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Eric Fischl
The Cattle Auction (A Study)
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Thomas Houseago
Untitled (Coin Mask I)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (3 Text Pieces)
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Richard Prince
Eden Rock (oil rig and cowboy)
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Francesco Clemente
Zip
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Karel Appel
Personage
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Ahmed Alsoudani
You No Longer Have Hands
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Elliott Hundley
Garland
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Os Gêmeos
Landscape
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Studio Job
“Perished” table
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