Jean-Michel Basquiat

an untitled drawing from 1986

Archie Rand

Painter who completed a very ambitious project of painting all of the Jewish commandments. What would that look like for Mormons? We have just as many rules, right?

Martin Wong

Martin Wong

Brainwashing Cult Cons Top TV Star, 1981
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
2009.11

http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/martin-wong-human-instamatic

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Installation view of Horizontal, 2011, six-channel projection with 5.1-channel audio, 6 minutes, Marian Goodman gallery, New York, 2011. Photo by John Berens.

http://bombmagazine.org/article/6621/eija-liisa-ahtila

What is the nature of the miraculous, of divinity or grace? What does it mean to share the planet with other creatures who inhabit very different life worlds from our own? What are my responsibilities as an artist or a person regarding historical events that transpired in another time and place? Can something familiar become strange and, in so doing, transform who I am and how I see?

Lucy Mink Covello

Great interview: http://hyperallergic.com/251543/beer-with-a-painter-lucy-mink-covello/

" I had an interest in things that were weird and that did not need a lot of explanation."

"I think my obsession with hiding thoughts in paintings will continue to grow. With social media, and media in general, there are a vast amount of stories out in the world. But painting always holds mystery, and you can keep coming back to it. Like the poetry and lyrics I am drawn to, I don’t need answers for them, or plots, or outcomes. I like vague."

Nicolas I de Larmessin

Nicolas I de Larmessin

People defined by objects

Amy Brener

Amy Brener, Dressing Room (2015) from "Greater New York" 2015

Gary Webb

Gary Webb Rainbow, 2006 Q-cell, glass, steel, spray paint, acrylic rods, brass, speakers 66 x 57.5 x 35.75  in./ 167.64 x 146.05 x 90.81 cm

http://bortolamigallery.com/artist/gary-webb/

Abdelkader Benchamma

http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/9/upcoming/805/abdelkader-benchamma-representation-of-dark-matter/

Daniel Zeller

http://www.pierogi2000.com/artists/daniel-zeller/#jp-carousel-5468

Barbara Rossi

Nauvoo Temple Sunstone

John O'Connor

A Good Idea

2010, Graphite and Colored Pencil on Paper, 78.5 x 78.5 inches

http://www.pierogi2000.com/artists/john-oconnor/#jp-carousel-1508

Dawn Clements

Untitled (B&W Table)

2010, Sumi ink on paper, 83 x 156 inches

http://www.pierogi2000.com/artists/dawn-clements/#jp-carousel-2928

Segawa Atsuki

http://hyperallergic.com/230754/mesmerizing-gifs-of-japans-floating-world/

Michelle Grabner

Penti Sammallahti

BIlly McGuinness

http://billymcguinness.com/artwork/3620886_the_women_s_dormitory.html

Ford Foundation: Art and Social Justice Fellows

http://www.fordfoundation.org/newsroom/news-from-ford/953


Pedro Reyes - Disarm

• Robert Battle, artistic director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York, NY
• Amitav Ghosh, author, Brooklyn, NY
• Thelma Golden, director and chief curator, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
• David Henry Hwang, dramatist, Brooklyn, NY
• Deeyah Khan music producer and filmmaker, London, U.K.
• Arnold Lehman, director, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• Joy Mboya, executive director, GoDown Arts Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
• Laura Poitras, filmmaker, New York, NY
• Bill Rauch, artistic director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR
• Toshi Reagon, singer, composer, musician, and producer, Brooklyn, NY
• Pedro Reyes, visual artist, Coyoacán, Mexico
• Albie Sachs, activist, jurist and author, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Carrie Mae Weems, visual artist, Syracuse, NY

Vacancy by Jen Lee

Harrell Fletcher

Paul Gauguin

I'm really loving the Pont Aven style of painting right now

Maurice Denis

LOVE the flatness

Thomas Demand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJIcbjrT4Zs

Merlin James

This painting has lovely colors in it and yet it is coarse and unrepentant.

Jim Shaw

Cloud Chamber, Utopian Landscape 4

1988

Mushroom clouds

Title manipulates viewer to think of trees

Aerial, omnipotent view

Infers mass destruction

Pessimistic conclusion that utopia is achieved when all is destroyed