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OCT 2017

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46 art&culture; striking Self Portrait (2000) in shades of gray. "I would love to meet Chuck Close one day," says Walsh. "I particularly wanted one of his self- portraits. They have become the most quintessential of his works." Among all the black and white, there is no shortage of color in Walsh's delightful 1920s home. On the dining room table, a series of Jeff Koons' brightly colored Balloon Dogs are lined up in their individual display cases. "I love them and can't wait to get the next color," says Walsh. "Although Koons is often referred to as the 'king of kitsch,' these are such fun and playful pieces." Perched atop pedestals close by are two more Koons pieces: the highly polished magenta Balloon Venus from the 2008-2012 series and the glazed ceramic Puppy (1998). Behind the dining room table hangs one of Walsh's favorite works: a powerful and colorful silk-screen portrait of Sitting Bull (1986) by Andy Warhol. The piece is a nod to Walsh's Cherokee Indian heritage, which also includes Irish and German in the mix. In a corner above two white sofas hang two contrasting pieces. Walsh describes Citta Samtana Metonymy Diptych 9 (2016), a large multicolored work by Canadian-born artist James Verbicky: "It's a mixed-media wall hanging made up of vintage fashion magazines held together in resin and stainless steel with LED lighting. It's a com- plex piece, and I keep finding words I haven't seen before." Next to the Verbicky is a 3-D photographic print on polymer of The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (2013), Damien Hirst's famous shark in a tank of formaldehyde. When Walsh wed his partner of 14 years, Matthew Holland, this past summer, many of the couple's artist friends attended the celebration and presented them with artwork as gifts. One guest, German-born artist Rainer Lagemann, gave the couple Big Love (2017), a stainless- steel heart-shaped sculpture. The piece served as the backdrop during the ceremony and now has a home in the newlyweds' garden, where LEFT: MINI MELTDOWN (GLACIER), DESIRE OBTAIN CHERISH; DALÍ'S BRONZE LE CABINET ANTHROPOMORPHIQUE; KEEP CREATING, THIERRY GUETTA; BLACK AND WHITE PLATES, PIERO FORNASETTI. RIGHT: DEVOTION, RAINER LAGEMANN

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