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When we were faced with a large white space in a new apartment a few years ago, my wife found an artist named Steve Keene who mass-produces his work at a very reasonable price. But more than being affordable art, his process is what intrigues me.
Many artists mass-produce work, but usually it is through selling prints of originals, or hiring other artists to create work in the style of the artist. Ghost-painting, if you will. Instead of using either of these options, Steve Keene paints his pieces in an assembly-line fashion, painting dozens of versions of the same painting all at the same time by doing the same brushstrokes on each of his wooden canvases before adding the next element. See a bit of his process and his thinking behind it here. It's neat to watch him add just one small line of, say, a tree at a time to each of the canvases.
He also has a very interesting way of selling his work -- based in Brooklyn, Steve Keene opens his studio weekly to the public for viewing and sales, as many artists do, but for those who would like to purchase without the trip to the studio, he also sells "5 paintings that kind of range from medium to large" for $30. The online purchaser doesn't know what will be shipped out -- it will be whatever he is working on at the time of the order. Thanks to the unknown of what one will get, it's kind of nerve wreaking and kind of exciting to order online.
Check out more about Steve Keene and SKSK Brooklyn here and here.
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