Stephen McKenna (sometimes signed as SMCK) (20 March 1939 – 4 May 2017) was a British-born visual artist known for his postmodern figurative paintings.
His works can be seen in the collections of the Tate Galleries,[1] the British Council,[2] the Imperial War Museum, London,[3] and has been shown at various galleries including the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin[4] and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
He was a guest professor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (Brunswick, Germany) from 1995 to 1996.
(1982) is an example of postmodern pastiche, combining imagery from classical art and sculpture, Max Ernst, Constantin Brâncuși, and archaic Greek pottery.
According to an Ingeborg Hoesterey, it throws together images from the cultural memory of western civilisation, showing them to constitute only a "wasteland".