Dubbed alternatively a “conceptual folk artist,” ”the Grandma Moses of Brooklyn,” or “an assembly-line Picasso” (by Time), Steve Keene has sold or given away approximately 300,000 artworks as of 2021, making him quite possibly the most prolific artist in history. While he may be best known for the iconic album covers he has created for alternative rock acts such as Pavement, Silver Jews, The Apples in Stereo, Soul Coughing, and The Klezmatics, his work—which he thinks of as an “endless painting with no boundaries”—can also be found in many private and public collections. Keene creates hand-painted multiples in his Greenpoint studio inside “the cage,” a large rectangle of tornado fencing he covers with pieces of plywood. His process of painting multiple versions of an image is intense and meditative—part performance art, part endurance contest—moving down each row and adding one paint color to each plywood canvas until he reaches the end. He then returns to the beginning, continuing to paint with various colors until the artworks are completed.