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Contemporary Artists to Keep an Eye On
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items Something most people don't know about me is that I'm a huge art nerd. I have a small room in my house that we call “the Gallery” because it's literally just walls for artwork that I try to rotate on a regular basis. In addition to art on the walls e...
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Yes, they're almost all women
Some dudes
Yes, they're almost all women
What can I say? Women rock.
I love, love, love Canadian artist Vickie Vainionpää. She uses modern technology to track movement and eye patterns that she then “translates” to fluid forms on canvas. Her series called “soft body dynamics” is truly fantastic and completely unique. ...
Vickie Vainionpää
Maybe sexualized donuts is more your vibe? Eveleth's work ties decadence to overt feminism, or something like that. In any case, her work feels both trivial and voyeuristic. Okay, I just love looking at her paintings.
Emily Eveleth
Speaking of feminism, if Kelly Reemsten isn't on your radar, she should be. Her work is as powerful as it is pretty, showing women in heels and dresses with ominious looking tools. Her juxtoposition of feminine ideals with traditional male power (too...
Kelly Reemtsen
British artist Eleanor Johnson creates these vibrant and frenetic composition of colors and vague forms that feel reminicient of Renaissance and Baroque masterworks. Her works feels both joyful and urgent.
Eleanor Johnson
If you want to feel a work of art and relate to it, I can't recommend Frances Featherstone highly enough. Her work feels both observational as well as relational. You are both outside of the composition, while also resonating fully with it.
Frances Featherstone
Lydia Makin's work is full of energy and color. It feels like a sort flower bouquet in motion. Both joyful and energizing.
Lydia Makin (@lydiamakinart)
If vibrant is your mood, check out Columbian artist Ilana Savdie. Her work feels like a visual representation of the joie de vivre of the Latin culture that inspires it.
Ilana Savdie
Chinese artist Jesse Zuo creates intimate compositions of everyday human moments that feel somehow delicate and special. Her soft rendering and zoomed in focus magnify the effect.
Jesse Zuo (@chxzuo)
What can I say? Flora Yukhnovich's work is just. so. beautiful. Her abstract style is somehow readable immediately, and the compositions are full of movement and life.
Flora Yukhnovich
British artist Jess Allen creates these evocative shadow compositions that provide mystery while also giving shape. It's an unsettling combination that leaves the viewer wondering.
Jess Allen
I recently stumbled upon a solo exhibition of Richmond-Edwards' work and WOW. This is definitely an artist that you need to experience in person. Large scale works full of dimension and mixed media.
jamea richmond- edwards (@jamearichmondedwards)
I have an Amy Lincoln print hanging in my foyer and it gets the most complements of any piece I have up. No kidding, my plumber actually pointed it out, saying, “I don't normally pay attention to art, but I really like that.”
AMY LINCOLN
Tessa Green O'Brien's work evokes warm evenings in the late summer. Nostalgia. Calm.
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Erika Ranee's vibrant and patterned work reminds me of the liveliness and beauty of African fabrics. The layers of color and shape draw you into her work in the manner of many great abstract artists.
Erika Ranee
I love the soft pastels and gentle feeling of Annieo Klaas's work. They feel like a pleasant dream, a welcome imagining of what could be just beyond the softly undulating light.
Annieo Klaas
Cecily Brown is perhaps the most impressive artist of her generation with her blend of abstraction and neoclassical drama. A British artist with a feminist and independent streak (hell yeah!), her work is held in major art museum collections in Europ...
Cecily Brown
If you like bio-mechanical, you should take a look at Theresa Daddezio's work. Her compositions feel both sturdy and rhythmic, a fascinating effect that you'll feel immediately drawn to.
Theresa Daddezio
Some dudes
I guess guys can be creative, too.
If you like ephemeral and unknowable, you'll love the work of Chinese artist Bai Yiyi.
Bai Yiyi
Willard's portraits are both gritty and lovely, portrayed with a warmth that betrays his famililarity with his subjects.
Holden Willard
Sam Friedman's compositions are both technical and balanced as well as warm and enaging. It's a tricky balance to strike with his style, but he pulls it off well every time.
Sam Friedman (@samfriedman)