Discover Painting Artists
Browse our curated selection of artists working in Painting
Tobias Spichtig
Lucerne, Switzerland
Tobias Spichtig is a Swiss artist known for his multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, and installation. His work often utilizes everyday objects, consumer goods, and digital imagery to explore themes of transience, consumerism, and the uncanny within contemporary visual culture, often with a subtle melancholic humor.
Julian Lethbridge
London, United Kingdom
Julian Lethbridge is a British painter known for his abstract canvases characterized by intricate, textured surfaces and rhythmic mark-making. His work explores the physicality of paint and the illusion of depth, creating complex, contemplative compositions that evoke natural phenomena and psychological landscapes.
Rosy Keyser
New York, United States
Rosy Keyser is an American painter known for her visceral, materially rich abstract canvases. Her work combines raw pigment, found objects, and unconventional tools, embracing chance and process to create dynamic, textured surfaces that evoke natural forces and primal energies.
Henning Strassburger
Mainz, Germany
Henning Strassburger is a German painter known for his vibrant, multi-layered canvases that playfully deconstruct imagery from popular culture and digital media. His work often features bold colors and fragmented forms, creating compositions that explore the complexities of perception and representation in the digital age.
Werner Büttner
Jena, Germany
Werner Büttner is a German painter known for his raw, satirical canvases that critique society and art history with dark humor. A key figure in the "Neue Wilde" movement, his work employs a distinctively blunt style to explore themes of absurdity, alienation, and political commentary.
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.
Emily Mae Smith
New Haven, United States
Emily Mae Smith is an American painter celebrated for her vibrant, allegorical canvases that meld art historical references with contemporary feminist critiques. Her distinctive style, often featuring anthropomorphic paintbrushes and surreal landscapes, humorously deconstructs patriarchal narratives and the male gaze.
Christa Dichgans
Berlin, Germany
Christa Dichgans was a German painter associated with Pop Art and Critical Realism, known for her vibrant, often unsettling depictions of toys and mass-produced objects. Her work critiques consumerism and societal anxieties, transforming innocent subjects into surreal, crowded compositions that hint at deeper unease.
Maki Na Kamura
Tokyo, Japan
Maki Na Kamura is a Japanese painter known for her evocative landscape and still-life compositions that merge classical influences with a contemporary, often abstract, sensibility. Her work uses bold brushstrokes and a muted palette to create atmospheric scenes that explore light, shadow, and perception.
Spencer Sweeney
New York, United States
Spencer Sweeney is an American artist known for his vibrant, expressive paintings, often depicting crowded scenes and figures in various states of revelry or introspection. His diverse practice also encompasses performance and music, characterized by a raw energy and an embrace of spontaneity and collaborative spirit.