robert longo

pretty much impossible to overstate how much i love longo's men in the cities series. late '70's early '80's. so graceful. caught between dance and violence.

www.robertlongo.com

david pier

now that i have my very first follower who is not a personal friend, i thought i'd better start linking to my sources. http://www.davidpier.com/

more later. gotta run

ovidio giberga

amazing. working with figure as vessel idea, but also using stirrup as visual/design element. looks like terra cotta with engobes. uncertain. the foot is perhaps fired a bit higher. his website bills these as simply "ceramic"
www.ovidiog.com

bodil manz

she's a danish potter. these are porcelain. unbelievable. love. love.

gert germeraad

'portrait of a man' series. based on the work of phsycologist paul ekman. (who i also love) also has the 'four temperments' series, and the 'physiognomy' series. believe this is earthenware. some of his other work on accessceramics says it is fired to cone 5. not sure about these pieces. surface treatment is paint/ watercolor on much of his work. some are pigments.

bethany benson

benson has lovely functional work. what made me decide to post her were a pair of beach cups on access ceramics (see sidebar for link,) but the images on that site were a bit small so i found this one one her site. www.bethanybenson.com

roxanne jackson/ my sister from another mother

hers:

mine:

this appears to be my long lost doppelganger. flocking, disembodied, earless heads. wow! and her artist's statement says she's influenced by horror films! love this lady!!

slicin' up eyeballs, oh ho ho ho!!

un chein andalou. 1929, directed by luis bunuel, written by bunuel and salvador dali. seriously insane.

anne drew potter

deals with the question of our own awareness of a subjective reality. also, theatrical emotive depiction to point out the artifice of personal personas in daily life. haven't successfully found how she finishes/ what her clay body is. some of the pieces look like terra cotta..

robert ryman

white paintings...

beth cavener stichter

she builds these large forms solid on armatures, hollows them, cold finishes. uses animals to convey human emotions

adelaide paul

she's dealing with issues of breeding animals, of eating animals, of the separation of the animal from the cut of meat in the supermarket.

lari pittman

pretty straightforward-he's a painter.

sergei isupov

don't know tons about his technique, more later when i look it up

jeff koons

yeah, i don't need to be reminded that i love jeff koons. but, i just love this lobster in the palace of versailles. sweetest fucking juxtaposition ever. love this photo.

fred wilson

smart guy. the bottom image is of a blown up picasso. over one of the faces of the women is an african mask. inside is a video of the artist with some african friends discussing art. wilson points out in interview that modernism 'kills' traditional african art. picasso was inspired by it without really understanding it..

deals with race also with black dot prints, with glass drips, with placement of found objects to change their context/ meaning.

layla ali

conveys emotions with as little of the body as possible. often removes arms, noses, ears, other body parts. deals with isssues of power, race. gouche.

walton ford

humorous/ grotesque watercolors inspired by audubon watercolors.