Co-curated by Sydney - based artist Rod Luff and
gallery director Ken Harman, the annual exhibition sees invited artists producing artwork on Moleskin sketchbooks, the weapon of choice for many of them for the initial stages of their creative process.
• Ed Paschke (1939 — 2004), neon - lit Chicago Pop artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), world - famous sculptor of elevated banality and gleaming toys Prema Murthy (b. 1969), Net - conscious media artist Sarah Morris (b. 1967), brainy geometric abstractionist and appropriationist Jennifer Rubell (b. 1970), food artist extraordinaire Tony Matelli (b. 1971), hyperrealistic sculptor of flora and aggressive fauna • Edward Kienholz (1927 — 1994), Ferus
gallery co-founder, iconic Los Angeles artist Jack Goldstein (1945 — 2003), Pictures Generation star and looper of films Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959), Neo-Geo artist of lurid island pop Mark Dion (b. 1961), naturalist conceptualist and arch-cataloguer • Vito Acconci (b. 1940), seminal father of transgressive»70s performance art Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951), artist - turned - «Hurt Locker»
director Ken Feingold (b. 1952), conceptualist sculptor of heads Robert Longo (b. 1953), wizard of charcoal and graphite, disturber of «Men in Cities» Mark Innerst (b. 1957), engineering - slanted landscape painter Brock Enright (b. 1976), postmodern pop - culture investigator David Salle (b. 1952), brainy Neo-Expressionist descendent of Picabia Annette Lemieux, lecturer of visual and environmental studies at Harvard Michele Zalopany, pastel Postmodernist • Dan Graham (b. 1942), sculptor of reflective / transparent psychological architecture R.H. Quaytman (b. 1961), literary - minded process painter of high intellectual wattage Cameron Rowland (b. 1988), conceptual found - object sculptor • Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), Neo-Expressionist godhead and Hollywood filmmaker Bill Saylor, sketchy maximalist and Harmony Korine collaborator Greg Bogin (b. 1965), post-Net minimalist
Click on the image to listen to an audio recording of
Ken Currie discussing the paintings on display in his solo exhibition Tragic Forms with Christopher Baker,
Director of the Scottish National Portrait
Gallery.