How Brooklyn’s Steve Keene became the most prolific artist in American history

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Steve Keene, who has created more than 300,000 paintings, is widely considered one of the most prolific artists in all of human history. 'If Andy Warhol could have been as prolific as he wanted to be, he'd be Steve Keene.'

an “assembly-line Picasso;” and the Brooklyn Public Library named him artist-in-residence in 2014, which led to then-Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams declaring June 14th, 2014, as “Steve Keene Day.”

Yeah, I met most of those guys 35 years ago in Charlottesville, because we were all on the radio station. So it's been an awful long time, and this Primavera thing was really insane. There were like 65,000 people there, and it was a really good show, and it's so moving to see that [the band is] doing it still.

It's not the only kind of work that you do, but why do you think it has become so synonymous with your style? So it's very much a craft — it's my art, but I've tried to dumb it down to a simple craft, like I'm decorating birthday cakes or doughnuts or bagels, something like that. My system is based on traditional, conceptual art of the '70s, where people make a list of their structure, their approach of what they want to achieve with their conceptual art project. And they follow through with it, and at the end are the results.

What does it mean to you to have this book made about you and your work? It sounds like you didn't have a lot of input on it.

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