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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.
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Laura Owens is an American painter celebrated for her expansive and eclectic canvases that blend various art historical references, digital aesthetics, and personal narratives.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.
Scott Olson
Chicago, United States
Scott Olson (b. 1972) is an American painter known for his minimalist abstract compositions. His work employs a restrained palette and subtle gestures, focusing on the interplay of color, texture, and light to create contemplative and atmospheric surfaces that invite quiet introspection.
Eamon Ore-Giron
Tucson, United States
Eamon Ore-Giron, born 1973, is an American artist recognized for his vibrant abstract paintings. His work synthesizes influences from Latin American modernism, indigenous Peruvian patterns, and global abstraction, creating geometric compositions that resonate with cultural hybridity and spiritual depth. He explores the interconnectedness of form and ancestry.
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.
Byron Kim
La Jolla, United States
Byron Kim (b. 1961) is an American painter renowned for his minimalist and conceptually rich abstract works. His practice often uses systematic approaches to explore themes of identity, memory, and perception, famously exemplified by his ongoing "Synecdoche" series that translates skin tones into abstract color fields.
Mernet Larsen
Michigan, United States
Mernet Larsen (b. 1940) is an American painter distinguished by her unique figurative style, which renders scenes with fragmented perspectives and geometric distortion. Her work creates unsettling, almost Cubist, tableaux that explore the uncanny nature of everyday life and the complexities of human interaction within a flattened, abstract space.