Saturday, 1 December 2012
Swoon
Swoon is a street artist born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. She moved to New York City at age nineteen, and specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon, real name Caledonia Dance Curry, studied painting at the Pratt institute in Brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999.
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.
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Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu (born 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an artist, best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. She lives and works in New York City. Mehretu shares her New York studio with her partner, the artist, Jessica Rankin
Matthew Ritchie
Ritchie attended the Camberwell School of Art 1983 to 1986. He describes himself as "classically trained" but also points to a minimalist influence.
Ritchie's art revolves around a personal mythology drawn from creation myths, particle physics, thermodynamics, and games of chance, among other elements.
Mark Bradford
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Mark BradfordThe Devil is Beating his Wife (and detail)
2003
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Mark Bradford’s abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty. Working in both paint and collage, Bradford incorporates elements from his daily life into his canvases: remnants of found posters and billboards, graffitied stencils and logos, and hairdresser’s permanent endpapers he’s collected from his other profession as a stylist. In The Devil is Beating His Wife, Bradford consolidates all these materials into a pixelised eruption of cultural cross-referencing. Built up on plywood in sensuous layers ranging from silky and skin-like to oily and singed, Bradford offers abstraction with an urban flair that’s explosively contemporary.
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| Mark Bradford Kryptonite 2006 Mixed media,collage on paper 249 x 301 cm |
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Mark BradfordThe Devil is Beating his Wife (and detail)
2003
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Roni Horn
Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955, and lives and works in New York. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. Horn explores the mutable nature of art through sculptures, works on paper, photography, and books. She describes drawing as the key activity in all her work, “because drawing is about composing relationships.” Horn’s drawings concentrate on the materiality of the objects depicted. She also uses words as the basis for drawings and other works....
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| Just XIV, 1992 pencil, pigment and varnish on paper 84 x 159.5 cm |
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| Doubt by Water (How), 2003 12 pigmented-printed photographs, produced as 6 two-sided units, 6 aluminium stanchions, UV acrylic (ed. of 4 + 1 AP) 41.9 x 55.9 cm each |
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| Agua Viva: The dense jungle ..., 2004 silkscreen on Saunders hot press W/C 410 gr. (ed. of 2) 129.5 x 129.5 cm |
| When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes No.689: THE ZEROES-TAUGHT-US-PHOSPORUS, 1993 8 units of solid aluminium and black plastic (ed. of 3) 5.1 x 5.1 x variable length (from 66.67 to 181.61) cm |
Idris Khan
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| Idris Khan Every...Bernd And Hilla Becher Prison Type Gasholders 2004 Photographic print 208 x 160 cm |
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| Idris Khan Every...Bernd And Hilla Becher Spherical Type Gasholders 2004 Photographic print 208 x 160 cm |
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| Idris Khan Every...Bernd And Hilla Becher Gable Sided Houses 2004 Photographic print 208 x 160 cm |
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