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Gordon Cheung
London, United Kingdom
Gordon Cheung is a British artist known for his multimedia works that combine painting, collage, and digital media. His practice often uses financial newspaper pages as a ground, exploring themes of globalization, capitalism, and the digital age with intricate, often dystopian, visual narratives.
Dexter Dalwood
London, United Kingdom
Dexter Dalwood is a British painter known for his large-scale, often politically charged, historical paintings. His work reconstructs significant events or celebrity deaths through fragmented, collaged compositions, exploring memory, media representation, and the inherent subjectivity of historical narratives.
Gonçalo Barreiros
Lisbon, Portugal
Gonçalo Barreiros is a Portuguese artist whose practice combines painting, drawing, and sometimes installation, characterized by a bold, often raw, aesthetic. His work frequently features abstracted figures and narratives, exploring themes of human connection, isolation, and the complexities of contemporary existence with a visceral energy.
Brian Calvin
Santa Cruz, United States
Brian Calvin is an American painter known for his distinctive portraits of stylized, often abstracted, female figures. His work employs flat planes of vibrant color and bold outlines, creating intimate yet enigmatic compositions that explore gestures, expressions, and the nuances of human interaction.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
London, United Kingdom
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist known for her evocative oil paintings of fictional Black figures. Her distinctive portraits, often rendered in muted tones, explore themes of identity, representation, and the act of looking, inviting viewers to project their own narratives onto her subjects.
Jennifer Packer
Philadelphia, United States
Jennifer Packer is an American painter known for her expressive, often somber, portraits and interior scenes. Her powerful canvases, characterized by gestural brushwork and muted palettes, explore themes of intimacy, grief, and racial identity with a profound emotional depth and raw beauty.
Imran Qureshi
Hyderabad, Pakistan
Imran Qureshi is a Pakistani artist renowned for his intricate miniature paintings that blend traditional Mughal techniques with contemporary themes. His work often incorporates explosive, blood-red imagery over delicate floral patterns, commenting on violence, resilience, and the fragile beauty of life.
Glenn Sorensen
Sydney, Australia
Glenn Sorensen is an Australian painter known for his intimate, often melancholic, canvases featuring mundane subjects. His distinctive style employs a muted palette and delicate brushwork, transforming everyday objects and scenes into poignant reflections on presence, absence, and the subtle beauty of ordinary life.
Richard Hawkins
Los Angeles, United States
Richard Hawkins is an American painter known for his vibrant, abstract canvases that merge geometric forms with expressive gestures. His work often incorporates a grid-like structure, exploring color, pattern, and illusion with a playful complexity that evokes both digital aesthetics and textile design.
Alex Da Corte
Camden, United States
Alex Da Corte is an American artist renowned for his vibrant, meticulously constructed installations and videos that merge pop art aesthetics with surrealism and consumer culture critique. His work, often featuring recognizable characters and products, creates dreamlike, hyper-saturated worlds exploring identity and alienation.