Favorite Contemporary Artists or Artworks

[annie aronburg]

[semper occultus]

The artist who spied on MI6

[Luther Blissett]

The artist who spied on MI6

Wow, thank you for this.



I have a ton, and they are always changing, so these are by no means definitive.
Dan Mountford:






John Baeder:


etc etc etc/

[Canadian_watcher]

love those Dan Mountford photo manipulations!

[MacCruiskeen]

Ulrich Kubiak & Ludwig Rauch:





PDF catalogues

Full disclosure: These guys are friends of mine, and I've modeled for them twice. One of them's a photographer, one a painter. Their artistic partnership lasted about ten years. Reproductions don't do their work justice - it's dense and multilayered and translucent and weirdly luminous.

Boyd & Evans, Kubiak & Rauch... it's not often that visual artists engage in lengthy collaborations, but the results are often fascinating when they do.

[Project Willow]

I have no explanation for neglecting Kera Walker.

Mac, that top piece is amazing! Thanks for sharing.

[Nordic]

I'm no contemporary art expert, but I just happened across this guy:

Antony Gormley

http://www.antonygormley.com/#/sculptures/projects

[bks]

Mark Ryden

[vanlose kid]

John Squire. [yeah, him, one of them.]















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[vanlose kid]

doesn't really count but Robert Rauschenberg.









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[vanlose kid]

Young artist Kieron Williamson, whose watercolours have become an art world sensation, describes painting in winter, his love of Norfolk and his creative ambitions

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[Canadian_watcher]

Young artist Kieron Williamson, whose watercolours have become an art world sensation, describes painting in winter, his love of Norfolk and his creative ambitions

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soul food. thanks for bringing it to our attention, VK.

[vanlose kid]

Anselm Kiefer











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[Luther Blissett]

Some Valero Doval:






What has Laylah Ali been up to lately?


Some Ryan McGinley:

[Project Willow]

This is not a favorite, just a point of conversation perhaps... the king of the cult of concept.

Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists

http://www.ted.com/talks/shea_hembrey_how_i_became_100_artists.html