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and merchandise shaped his approach to producing and selling art. According to the bio on his webpage, Keene said, "I want buying my paintings to be like buying a CD: it’s cheap, it's art and it changes your life, but the object has no status. Musicians create something for the moment, something with
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named Keene its 2014 Artist-in-Residence, for which he exhibited "Steve Keene’s
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In 2022, to assist with launching the book, Keene participated in 30-year retrospectives in both Los
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