Monthly Archives: February 2012
Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith is a West German-born American artist. Largely self-taught, Smith has been known since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary practice that encompasses sculpture, drawing, printmaking, textiles, and photography. Bearing the influence of Surrealism, Smith’s work addresses a broad range of themes relating to the human condition, the human body, and the natural world. Her works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others. Smith lives and works in New York City.
Hunt Slonem (b. 1951)
Kerry Skarbakka (b. 1970)
Lorna Simpson (b. 1960)
Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons is an American artist best known for her photography in which she stages scenes for her camera often using dolls, ventriloquist dummies, and objects on legs. She came to prominence in the mid-1970s, and is commonly discussed as part of The Pictures Generation, which includes such artists as John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Allan McCollum, Richard Prince, David Salle, and Cindy Sherman, among others.
James Siena (b. 1968)
Andres Serrano (b. 1950)
Andres Serrano is an American artist of Honduran and Afro-Cuban heritage who is best-known for his large-scale Cibachrome prints which employ religious symbolism. Widely maligned during the Culture Wars in the late-1980s for his artwork “Piss Christ,” the artist (who was raised by a devoutly Catholic family) asserts the photograph was never meant to shock or be blasphemous or offensive.
Serrano’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among others.
Dana Schutz
b. 1976
Dana Schutz is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Schutz is known for her gestural, figurative paintings that often take on specific subjects or narrative situations as a point of departure.
Collier Schorr
b. 1963
Michelle Sank (b. 1953)
Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha is a California-based artist often associated with the Pop Art movement. He is active in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and book arts.
Thomas Ruff (b. 1958)
Frank Rothe (b. 1972)
Elliot Ross
Elliot Ross is a photographer most known for his images of animals. Ross was born in Chicago and received a Master of Fine Arts degree and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute. His critically acclaimed books “Animal” and “Other Animals” were released by Schilt Publishing in 2010 and 2014 respectively.
Ken Rosenthal
James Rosenquist (1933-2017)
James Rosenquist was an American painter who had a large role in the pop art movement. Originally working in sign painting, Rosenquist’s pieces explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he learned making commercial art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane everyday objects.
Herb Ritts (1952-2002)
Herb Ritts was an American fashion photographer and director most known for his fashion photographs of celebrities and supermodels in the 1980’s and 1990’s. His work was almost always black and white.