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.
Yearly Archives: 2012
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.
Bettina Rheims
Richard Renaldi (b. 1968)
Jack Pierson
Jack Pierson was born in 1960 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and educated at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson’s work spans an array of media, including photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings, and artist’s books. He is considered to be part of a group of photographers known as the Boston School, which includes David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisroe, and Doug and Mike Starn, among others. Pierson’s “Self-Portrait” series was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and his works are represented in the collections of major museums worldwide.
Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips is most known for his paintings of human obsessions that reference sexuality, politics, power and death. Phillips alters the would-be setting of his portraits: images of politicians are re-cast in neon, while supermodels are represented as academic paintings. Phillips currently lives and works in New York City.
Walter Pfeiffer
Walter Pfeiffer is a Swiss artist most known for his portraits of friends, lovers and the youth surrounding him in cities he spent time in, such as Zurich, Paris and New York. Pfeiffer’s work has been linked to the revival of realistic photography in the 1990s and early 2000s
Rachel Papo
Rachel Papo was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine arts high school in Haifa. At age eighteen, she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. She earned a BFA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University (1991-96), and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2002-05).
Rachel’s photographs are included in numerous public and private collections, and have been exhibited and published worldwide. She currently lives in Berlin working on personal projects, as well as accepting commissioned projects. Her first book, Serial No. 3817131, was published by powerHouse Books in 2008. She was selected as a finalist for the “Santa Fe Prize for Photography,” and was been awarded a NYFA Fellowship in 2006. In 2009 Rachel won a Lucie Award for “Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year.”
Alan Ostreicher
Alan Ostreicher has been making photographs for over 20 years. Born in New York in 1964, he first learned darkroom photography in high school. He graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in American Studies in 1987. His work has been exhibited nationally and is held in numerous corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe. His photographs have been published in Diffusion Annual, Black and White Magazine, The Photo Review, Conscientious Photography Magazine, and San Francisco Magazine.