Clark Walter

Clark Walter was born in 1983, he lives and works in Lawrence (US)

“I am a white American male from Kansas, FUCK Y’ALL. This expression is what I represent in my painting, intaglio prints, and animation. I know I suck, because I know that I am an American, and I know that I am supposed to be ashamed of who I am and what my fore-fathers have done. It’s from this pressure that I feel compelled to make work that experiments with America’s absurd pride and stupidity. No imagery is off limits, nothing is too immature. You know why? Because I’m ignorant and dumb as most Americans are, the difference here is that I’m embracing it. I am the United States of America, balls-to-the-wall, bright colors, intense imagery, crude, and with a young sense of blind pride. It’s not fancy, but it is in your face. These colors don’t run. Everything is a stereotype and art is a faux-reality.” - Clark Walter

The artist’s favorite themes: sex, violence, pop culture, advertising, porn, American junk food, religion, and their recurring motifs such as the penis, the severed member, bleeding ears of corn, skull fuck, the Ku Klux Klan, television, multicolored condoms, singing vaginal crosses, and many others. Clark will be happy to give you a guided tour of the little manichean and colorful world taking shape in his studio, made up of repainted bus posters, mutant toys, diverted symbols, and blasphemous animations, not without recalling a grunge-meets-mall atmosphere characteristic of the schizophrenia that we Europeans often associate with America.