Procession Painting

12/13/52 Painter/Professor Walter King has been making art since 1963 when he decided to be an artist at age 10. He currently teaches drawing, color and illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus Ohio. Walter King is an artists artist. These complex and brooding commentaries on post-modern life, layered in meaning and wry humor, unexpected color and amniotic atmospheres are flawlessly executed yet accessible surfaces whose space and form is both haunting and celebratory. Contemporary media such as auto body primers, wall paper samples, toys, and a range of modern (even industrial) as well as classical painting techniques including collage, spray enamels, oils and acrylics, egg tempera and encaustic are all within his reach. All are manipulated masterfully. His opulent color and somber tonalities are perfectly modern yet almost medieval. At times he seems able to straddle 5 or more centuries of art while at once surprising us by celebrating the highs and exploring the lows of the current human condition-- all the while suggesting that not much has really changed since the days of Altamira. One has only to decide to follow his relentless and multifaceted-- often subterranean thinking through the passages between one painting to the next. Greater Columbus Arts Council, OH Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima Japan Ohio State University/Newark Campus, Newark OH World Wide Arts Resources, Columbus OH Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires Argentina Commercial Bank of Tulsa Oklahoma Industrie-Technik Magazine of Hungary Private Collections in the United States and abroad including collections in Croatia, Argentina, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Cypress and Germany including but not limited to the following in the U.S.: Dr Paul and Ann Allen, Boston Dr Joe Shonkwiler Washington DC Brad Michael Moore, West Texas Mr. and Mrs. Vazquez, New York City NY Mrs. Oliphant, Tulsa OK