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Sam Durant
Sam Durant is an American artist whose conceptually driven work engages with social, political, and cultural history. His practice, spanning sculpture, installation, photography, and drawing, often re-examines historical events and their representations to critique power structures and collective memory.
Frank Benson
Frank Benson is an American sculptor known for his hyperrealistic figurative works, often rendered with a sleek, polished aesthetic. His practice frequently explores themes of identity, technology, and the contemporary body, capturing subjects with an uncanny precision that blurs the line between the real and the artificial.
Shannon Ebner
Shannon Ebner is an American artist whose practice redefines the boundaries of photography through its engagement with language, text, and architecture. Her work often presents images of letters and words found in urban landscapes, exploring how meaning is constructed and perceived within visual culture.
Ryan Sullivan
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
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
Laura Owens is an American painter celebrated for her expansive and eclectic canvases that blend various art historical references, digital aesthetics, and personal narratives.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
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.
Gabriel Kuri
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.
Richard Prince
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.
Trenton Doyle Hancock
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.