Steven Walls
 September 6 – October 11, 2003

 “My most recent work has focused on an investigation of representations of art-historical figures in film. Dramatizations of artists’ lives such as in the films; Basquiat, Vincent and Theo, and Surviving Picasso have provided source material for paintings, prints, and drawings. I’m interested in simplifying the photographic information to arrive at an image where the artist portrayed, and the actor portraying, are equally present as well as obscured. This simplification/abstraction also serves to homogenize the images creating a sense of simultaneity from painting to painting.

 “My interest lies in the questions of time, identity, and authenticity posed by the paintings: Does the image exist in the time of the painter, the film, or the artist examined? Who is identified (Bowie, Warhol, or Bowie as Warhol)? And, how does one determine the veracity of the depiction?”

 -Steven Walls



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