Charles Gaines

"Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gainesis celebrated for his photographs, drawings, and works on paper that investigate how rules-based procedures construct order and meaning. Working serially in progressive and densely layered bodies of works, Gaines explores the interplay between objectivity and interpretation, the systematic and the poetic. His groundbreaking work of this period serves as a critical bridge between the first generation conceptualists of the 1960s and 1970s and those artists of later generations exploring the limits of subjectivity and language."

http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2015/charles-gaines-gridwork-1974-1989/

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