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Adriana Varejao

From the mid-1990s, the Adriana explored two juxtaposing motifs within her practice -flesh and tiles (or azulejos). The Jerked-beef ruin series (2000 - 2004) are likened to contemporary ruins, where the painted surfaces of floor and wall-based sculptural works are violently ruptured to expose a visceral flesh-like interior, providing a stark contrast to the cold tiled surface.

Key words: Flesh - Juxtapose - Sculpture - Contrast - Living - RIpped - Cut - Torn - Wound

Alyssa Monks

Key words: Portrait - People - Water - Condensation - Photorealism - Obscure - Surface

Andrei Varga

Andrei Varga is fine art painter based out of Dublin, Ireland. ‘Unsaved Memory’ is an abstract portrait series that deals with a genre of expressionism. The exuberant, lush style deliberately splashes outlandish qualities with a tranquil objective. Andrei is currently showcased by Saatchi.

Key words: Portrait - Memory - Distortion - Feeling - Features - Blurred - Dream - Faded - Time

Annabel Emson

"Dabs drips dobs dashes delicious dribbles define demarcate designated areas of splashy spaces drags drawn splatter wipes washes, whispery willow like lines, create a strange and moody menacing moment/s in a space/s deep yet shallow, informal confident casual sensitive with beautiful passages of liquid lagoon light, nervous flurries of brushwork pink skids turquoise twiddles white pulls composed, construct an other space." (Bruce McLean, November 2008)

Key words: Landscape - Colour - Abstraction - Space - Mark making - Movement - Tactile - Moody - Strange

Ansel Krut

Anthony Breslin

Anthony Green

Arthur Lugauskas

Benjamin Bjorklund

Key words: Portrait - Flesh - Colour - Death - Impression - Expression

Boo Ritson

Caroline Achaintre

Chris Dorosz

Dan Perfect

Deenesh Ghyczy

His paintings mean to frame past, future and the acutely present in one canvas. It is a view of the human figure that accounts not just for a single outer surface, but respects that perception is in equal measure directed inwards at a mind capable of transcending linear time.

Key words: Movement - Time - Portrait - Digital - Layers - Distortion - Multiple - Change - Fragments

Edie Nadelhaft

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly
Colors for a Large Wall
1951
oil on canvas, sixty-four joined panels
94 1/2 x 94 1/2 inches (240 x 240 cm)

Ellsworth Kelly
Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance III
1951
collage on paper
39 x 39 inches (99.1 x 99.1 cm)

Ellsworth Kelly
Blue over Orange (Bleu sur Orange)
1964-65
lithograph on Rives BFK paper
35 3/8 x 23 5/8 inches (89.9 x 60 cm)

Emma Bennett

Why do you set those found elements against a black void?

That’s partly just because of the way that allows you to use light: I get a pleasure from the luminosity of the original paintings and can capture that best against a dark ground. It’s also a nod to the notion of a void in abstract painting. And I think of them as night paintings. I use Lamp Black, which felt like the blackest black I could get my hands on.

Key words: Black - Void - Still Life - Nature - Light - Space - Colour - Fire - Death - Empty - Classical painting

Emma Hack

Emma Hack’s latest collections include a focus not just on the human body, but its environment. Since 2005, she has released a series of Wallpaper works that merge the human body with the wallpaper designs of Florence Broadhurst. Broadhurst’s lush, organic wallpapers are painted on nude models by Hack, who are then seamlessly inserted into the Broadhurst original.

Key words: Body - Pattern- Home - Disguise - Disappear - Invisible - Surroundings - Environment - Women - Lost & Found

Evan Roth

Flore Nove-Josserand

It is concerned with notions of pictorial composition and the inter-relationship of one decorative surface to another. Flore Nove-Josserand draws on the concentrated vocabulary of formalist movements and that of the decorative arts: wallpaper motifs, textiles, and so forth, to create aesthetic playgrounds in which abstract forms and painterly marks can perform.

Key words: Neon - Paint - Cotton - Fabric - Pattern - Colour - Layers - Abstract - Window - Textiles - Marks

Françoise Nielly

Frank Auerbach

Gustavo Fernandes

Key words: Photorealism - People - Light - Everyday - Photograph - Family - Portrait - Holiday

Hsin-Yao Tseng

Words of wisdom, from the astoundingly skilled, 26-year-old, San Fransisco-based painter Hsin-Yao Tseng: “It’s important to squint your eyes while studying your subject and to stand back from your painting frequently. Squinting simplifies the details so you can see the big shapes and value patterns of the subject. Also, you get a sense of the lost-and-found edges. Standing back from your painting lets you evaluate the unity of the piece. Seeing the unity prevents you from overworking detailed areas or making unnecessary brushstrokes.”

Key words: Impressionist - Streets - America - Rain - Reflection - Light - Angle - Simplicity - City-Life - Water

J. Adam Mcgalliard

Jaime Gili

Jane Theodore

'I paint without preconception; my work is a spontaneous, passionate response to my internal world and the external natural environment. I strive for what Buddhists describe as “no-mind” – a state that is essentially free of thought and planning. Responding to what is happening in the work, I rotate the canvas or panel continually to “find” the painting. The physical act of creating is an integral part of my process – the gestures, the addition/subtraction of colour, form and line are an alternating rhythm of meditation and intensity.' Jane Theodore

Jason Ratliff

Jens Hesse

Joanne Greenbaum

John Brosio

The tornado in his work represents a perfect blend of mythology and science. He find it easy to imagine it being alive and unpredictable, to view it as a god or agent thereof. One sees this mile high banshee choosing certain targets and skipping others like a jittery reaper.

Key words: Disaster - Animals - Surreal - Landscape - Scale - People - Imagination

John Tremblay

Jonathan Wateridge

Jonathan Yeo

©Jonathan Yeo

Yeo has emerged as one of the foremost pioneers of figurative painting in Britain. His career as a painter has seen him confront a multitude of different narratives and themes. Content ranges from how we consume and discuss imagery, the modern day obsession of social media, actor’s in character, the pervasiveness of pornography, cosmetic surgery and societal portraiture. The appropriate personality to use as subject is decisive and Yeo uses them as a vehicle to explore the study of physiognomy, whilst simultaneously tackling often complex narratives and ongoing themes. Mette Skougaard, Director, Museum of National History, Denmark, said Yeo is “a pivotal force in the revitalisation of figurative art in general and in the art of portraiture in particular. "

Joseba Eskubi

Karina Eibatova

Key words: Crystals - Glass - Colour - Watercolour - Texture - Form - Light

Katie Young

"I paint, I draw, I write, and I photograph the world around me. I am inspired by the beautiful, the ugly, the evanescent. I am forever striving to emulate the wonder and fragility which the subject emits. Exploring the intangible and indescribable, to try and pin down the mystery of nature and of oneself...always slightly out of reach."

Key words: Watercolour - Portrait - Mystery - Sexuality - Identity - Spirituality - Eyes - Character - Personality

Kuin Heuff

Laura Owens

Lou Ros

I'm working on a new serie of paintings "ROUGE ANGLAIS" it is the name of the color I use for all the canvas of this serie. I work on unusual crop with portraits of my entourage.

Key words: Portrait - People - Colour - Expressive - Movement - Youth - Strokes

Luc Tuymans

Magdalena Lamri

"Wrapped in a phantasmagorical cocoon, the young artist Magdalena Lamri pursues indefatigably her questionings on the image … Representation of bodies and flesh … Room of curious and curiosities of all kinds … The Art history feeds her. Since the end of her artistic studies and once her DMA obtained in ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres, the artist juggles with mediums, has fun with established codes and deceives paradoxes. She lives and works in Montreuil ( 93 )."

Key words: Portraiture - Flesh - Body - Nature - Animal - Expression - Wonder

Mark Bradford-Giant

Matthew Davis

Matti Braun

Merlin Carpenter

Miles Donovan

Minam Apang

Nicholas Hatfull

Paul McCloskey

Piet Van Den Boog

Sarah Graham

Sarit Lichtenstein

Shannon Finley

Shin-Young An

The main theme of my recent work is exploring the unfortunate reality of our present world. While reading the newspaper, articles began affecting me to the point that I realized I am a somewhat powerless artist and I wanted this to be reflected in my work. It has given me the opportunity to respond to social and environmental issues.

Key words: Media - Newspaper - Portrait - Shock - Power - Women - Social Issues - Narrative - Imagination