Instead, let's talk
about emerging painters and new media.
Not exact matches
As part of a series on «
emerging perceptual
painters who explore inventive possibilities to an old tradition,» Larry Groff posts
about the work of
painter Brian Rego.
Co-curated by musician and
painter Scott Avett, lead singer of the folk - rock band The Avett Brothers, and David Kratz, president of the New York Academy of Art,
ABOUT FACE, which will feature sculpture, paintings, and photographs, brings celebrated artists, many from the East End, together with
emerging artists to examine the diverse ways human beings are presented in portraiture today.
Brown has since
emerged with her own distinct voice, as part of a new generation of
painters living and working in New York to be hailed as one its most exciting and talked
about proponents.
Sonia Boyce was born in London in 1962, where she still lives and works, and in the early 1980s
emerged as a figurative
painter, quickly gaining critical attention as part of the black British arts movement, for works that spoke
about racial identity and gender.
Initially recognized in the 1980s as a
painter, she became a pioneer in the digital / new media / web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work
about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations.
In this regard she can be compared not only to Jean - Michel Basquiat but also to the German
painters who
emerged in the 1970s, especially Jörg Immendorff, whose freewheeling satirical paintings
about his country's Nazi past and its postwar division had a similar sense of necessity.