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Leiko Ikemura
Tsu, Japan
Leiko Ikemura is a Japanese-Swiss artist renowned for her ethereal paintings and sculptures that explore themes of transformation, nature, and the human condition. Her distinctive style often depicts hybrid figures and landscapes, blurring boundaries between forms with a haunting, poetic sensibility.
Victoria Morton
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Victoria Morton is a Scottish painter known for her evocative abstract compositions that explore the interplay of color, light, and form. Her work often draws from personal experiences and sensory perceptions, creating complex, layered surfaces that suggest both interior psychological landscapes and external environments.
Richard Prince
Panama
Richard Prince is an American artist recognized for his groundbreaking use of appropriation in photography and painting. His influential practice re-photographs existing images, notably "Cowboys" and "Nurses," challenging notions of originality, authorship, and the pervasive nature of media in contemporary culture.
Ugo Rondinone
Brunnen, Switzerland
Ugo Rondinone is a Swiss-born, New York-based artist known for his diverse oeuvre spanning sculpture, painting, video, and installation. His work often incorporates everyday motifs like rainbows, clowns, and ancient stones, imbued with a contemplative, meditative quality that explores themes of time, nature, and human experience.
William N. Copley
New York, United States
William N. Copley, known as CPLY, was an American painter and gallerist associated with Surrealism and Pop Art. His idiosyncratic style, characterized by satirical narratives and bold, graphic lines, often explored themes of eroticism, social mores, and the absurd, bridging European avant-garde with American pop culture.
Andreas Slominski
Meppen, Germany
Andreas Slominski is a German artist acclaimed for his conceptual sculptures and installations, often centered around the motif of the "trap." His practice subtly subverts mundane objects and situations, using humor and paradox to question the nature of art, functionality, and perception within an everyday context.
Carl Andre
Quincy, United States
Carl Andre is an American minimalist artist, a pivotal figure known for his modular sculptures arranged directly on the floor. His work emphasizes elemental materials like wood, metal, and stone, engaging with space, mass, and gravity, thereby redefining sculpture as an environmental experience rather than a singular object.
Nicola Tyson
London, United Kingdom
Nicola Tyson is a British painter whose distinctive figurative works depict distorted, often hybrid, female forms. Her intensely psychological canvases explore themes of identity, embodiment, and the fluidity of the self, pushing the boundaries of traditional portraiture with a unique blend of surrealism and visceral expressionism.
Gabriel Kuri
Mexico City, Mexico
Gabriel Kuri is a Mexican artist known for his conceptually rich sculptures and installations. His work meticulously arranges everyday objects, often consumer detritus, to explore systems of value, consumption, and communication, subtly highlighting the poetry and absurdity of contemporary life.
Ryan Sullivan
New York, United States
Ryan Sullivan is an American painter known for his dynamic, process-driven abstract canvases. His work features thick, viscous layers of paint that dry into richly textured, often volcanic surfaces, documenting the physical properties of the medium and the passage of time through its material transformation.