Jun 24, 2022
On today's episode, I talk to artist Steve Keene. Originally
from the DC metro area, Steve wanted to be an artist from an early
age, taking off on a path that eventually led him to Yale art
school. But it wasn't until his early 30s that he realized what he
actually wanted to do as an artist, and since then Steve has become
the most prolific American painter of all time, producing more than
300,000 hand-painted works via his studio/chainlink fence cage
where he paints more than 50 paintings at a time.Time Magazine even
gave him the moniker of the "Assembly-Line Picasso" because of his
unique mass-production painting style. In addition to his
affordable mass produced paintings, Steve's also painted the album
art for many indie rock bands, including Pavement, The Apples in
Stereo, The Silver Jews, as well as many others, and a new book
about Steve, produced by photojournalist Daniel Efram, was recently
published on Hat and Beard Press!
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