Walt Morton follows the path of Kippenberger, Tuymans, and Oehlen—painters who understood that painting could interrogate rather than beautify. Trained by Mike Kelley, Alexis Smith, and John Baldessari in Los Angeles,
Morton creates paintings where classical technique collides with commercial culture. Beauty commodified, commerce elevated, until you can't tell which corrupts which.
Both do.
Walter Morton
Walt Morton follows the path of Kippenberger, Tuymans, and Oehlen—painters who understood that painting could interrogate rather than beautify. Trained by Mike Kelley, Alexis Smith, and John Baldessari in Los Angeles,
Morton creates paintings where classical technique collides with commercial culture. Beauty commodified, commerce elevated, until you can't tell which corrupts which.
Both do.