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Marie Lund

Copenhagen, Denmark

Installation Art Mixed Media Sculpture

Marie Lund is a Danish artist known for her minimalist sculptures and installations that explore the transformation of everyday objects and materials. Her subtle interventions often draw attention to forgotten details, challenging perception and revealing hidden histories within domestic and industrial contexts.

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Albert Mertz

Copenhagen, Denmark

Drawing Painting

Albert Mertz was a Danish artist, a pivotal figure in Danish Concrete Art, known for his rigorous exploration of primary colors, lines, and geometric forms. His work championed a reductionist approach, seeking universal visual language through abstract compositions and film.

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Phillip King

Knaresborough, United Kingdom

Sculpture

Phillip King was a seminal British sculptor, a pivotal figure in the "New Generation" of the 1960s, known for his brightly colored, often geometric and abstract forms. His innovative work challenged traditional sculpture, emphasizing material and color to create dynamic, spatially engaging pieces.

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Lari Pittman

Los Angeles, United States

Drawing Painting

Lari Pittman is an American painter known for his complex, densely layered canvases that blend figuration, abstraction, and decorative motifs. His vibrant, often grotesque, works explore themes of sexuality, identity, and the history of painting with a maximalist aesthetic and intricate symbolism.

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Caragh Thuring

London, United Kingdom

Painting

Caragh Thuring is a British artist known for her distinctive paintings that often blend landscape, portraiture, and abstract elements. Her work employs a unique process that incorporates found linen, challenging traditional notions of the canvas and exploring themes of place, memory, and the act of looking.

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Amy Sillman

Detroit, United States

Drawing Painting

Amy Sillman is an American painter known for her vibrant, energetic canvases that blend figuration and abstraction. Her work often explores emotional states, the human body, and language, characterized by a playful yet rigorous approach to form, color, and expressive gesture.

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Lynda Benglis

Lake Charles, United States

Mixed Media Sculpture

Lynda Benglis is an American artist renowned for her innovative post-minimalist sculptures and installations. A pioneer in challenging art historical norms, her work explores materiality, process, and the body, often using poured latex, foam, and wax to create vibrant, biomorphic forms.

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Vicken Parsons

London, United Kingdom

Painting

Vicken Parsons is a British painter known for her small-scale, atmospheric canvases depicting abstract spaces and architectural forms. Her work explores light, shadow, and perception, creating intimate, dreamlike compositions that blur the lines between interior and exterior, and reality and imagination.

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Clare Woods

Southampton, United Kingdom

Painting

Clare Woods is a British painter known for her large-scale, expressive canvases that transform photographic sources into raw, vibrant abstractions. Her work explores themes of vulnerability, mortality, and the grotesque, creating visceral depictions of landscape, still life, and fractured human forms.

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Naum Gabo Estate

Bryansk, Russia

Sculpture

The Naum Gabo Estate preserves the legacy of Naum Gabo, a pivotal Russian émigré artist and theorist of Constructivism. He is renowned for his innovative, transparent sculptures emphasizing space, time, and movement, embodying his principles of kinetic rhythms and the dematerialization of mass.

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