Kelley Walker (born 1969 Columbus, Georgia) is an American post-conceptual artist who lives and works in New York City.
[1] His art appropriates iconic cultural images, altering them to highlight underlying issues of American politics and consumerism.
[2] Walker often presents large-scale billboard-like canvases set at 90 degree angles, sometimes splattered with abstracted patterns in symbolic white color and chocolate, such as in his Black Star Press from 2006, a digital painting triptych on canvas.
[4] Created between 2013–14, his identically sized, 2.5-meter tall canvases of powdery silkscreened bricks are lined and separated with fragments of pages from the Italian architecture and design magazine Domus.
[citation needed] On September 17, 2016 Kelley Walker became the center of major controversy after giving an opening artist talk for his show, Direct Drive, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.