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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.
Rudolf Stingel
Merano, Italy
Rudolf Stingel is an Italian artist known for his conceptually driven paintings and installations that investigate the processes of painting, authorship, and the viewer's interaction. His work often features highly textured surfaces, such as those made by footprints on carpets or scratched Styrofoam, challenging traditional artistic conventions.
Georg Herold
Jena, Germany
Georg Herold is a German artist associated with the "Neue Wilde" movement, known for his unconventional, often provocative use of materials like bricks, mattresses, and found objects. His diverse practice, spanning sculpture, painting, and installation, humorously critiques societal norms and artistic conventions.
David Korty
San Francisco, United States
David Korty is an American painter recognized for his stylized figurative works and landscapes. His paintings often feature vibrant palettes and flattened perspectives, creating scenes that blend the everyday with a whimsical, dreamlike quality, reflecting on urban life and personal narratives.
Laura Owens
Ohio, United States
Laura Owens is an American painter celebrated for her expansive and eclectic canvases that blend various art historical references, digital aesthetics, and personal narratives. Her work challenges painting conventions with bold experimentation in technique, scale, and imagery, often incorporating text and found objects.
Raymond Pettibon
Tucson, United States
Raymond Pettibon is an American artist known for his distinctive ink drawings and artist's books, often pairing striking imagery with handwritten, poetic, and subversive texts. His prolific work critically examines American subculture, politics, and media, drawing from punk rock, surfing, and pulp fiction.
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Oklahoma City, United States
Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974) is a prodigious American artist known for his complex, mythopoeic narratives. His vibrant paintings, drawings, and sculptures delve into an expansive personal mythology, featuring a cast of characters that explore themes of good versus evil, race, and identity within a fantastical universe.
Naudline Pierre
Leominster, United States
Naudline Pierre (b. 1989) is an American painter whose work constructs vivid, fantastical realms inhabited by mystical female figures. Her canvases are richly symbolic, exploring themes of spiritual transformation, protection, and self-possession through a vibrant, expressive figurative style that draws on personal and collective mythologies.
Matthew Ritchie
London, United Kingdom
Matthew Ritchie (b. 1964) is a British artist whose expansive practice creates elaborate visual systems to map complex scientific and philosophical theories. His works, spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and digital media, form intricate, interconnected networks that explore fundamental principles of information, time, and existence.
Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Arizona, United States
Alison Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1974) is an American artist renowned for her innovative use of marquetry. She employs the traditional technique of wood inlay to create captivating, painterly compositions that explore contemporary subjects, often depicting surreal landscapes, psychologically charged portraits, or everyday scenes with a unique material richness.