They also enter a fourth trend, in photorealism by Robert Bechtle, Richard Estes, Rackstraw Downes, and John Baeder — or actual photography, like Lee Friedlander touring America by car. (haberarts.com)
Richard Hickam's development reveals an underlying dedication to abstraction and confrontation as it follows a non-conformist path from photorealism through unsparingly raw and gestural figuration. (1stdibs.com)