Image World | Contemporary Art from a Private American Collection
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be sold for more than $1 million at auction at Christie's New York in 2005. He is regarded as "one of the most revered artists of his generation" according to The New York Times.
Christopher Wool is an American artist. Since the 1980s, Wool's art has incorporated issues surrounding post-conceptual ideas. He lives and works in New York City and Marfa, Texas, together with his wife and fellow painter Charline von Heyl.
Wool is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on white canvases. Wool began to create word paintings in the late 1980s, reportedly after having seen graffiti on a brand new white truck. Using a system of alliteration, with the words often broken up by a grid system, or with the vowels removed (as in 'TRBL' or 'DRNK'), Wool's word paintings often demand reading aloud to make sense.
Eddie Martinez is a New York-based artist best known for large-scale paintings that feature bold color, urgent line and brushwork, and graphic shapes and forms. His style combines painting and drawing, abstraction and representation, and a casual approach to materials with an eclectic iconography of figurative elements. While contemporary in his choice of materials and subjects, he bridges a wide range of historical influences, including CoBrA, Action painting, neo-expressionism and Philip Guston, and classical conventions of portraiture, still life and allegorical narrative, filtered through the lens of daily experience and popular culture.
Cynthia Morris Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.
Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collected Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself evoking typical female roles in performance media (especially arthouse films and popular B-movies). In the 1980s, she used color film and large prints, and focused more on costume, lighting and facial expression.
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be sold for more than $1 million at auction at Christie's New York in 2005. He is regarded as "one of the most revered artists of his generation" according to The New York Times.
David Ostrowski is a contemporary German abstract painter. Ostrowski's eclectic work is characterized by its sense of Post-Minimalist apathy, wherein his canvases are sparsely decorated with haphazard marks, challenging the viewer’s assumptions of what a finished painting is. His compositions are constructed through non-traditional materials and techniques, including aerosol spray-paint or dirt from the studio floor, and regularly borrows techniques from other painting movements, such as the gesture of Abstract Expressionism or the restraint of Minimalism. His solo exhibitions include those held at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zürich, Peres Project in Berlin, the ICA in London, and Ltd. in Los Angeles.
Ryan Sullivan is an American painter.
His first solo exhibition was in 2015 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Sullivan has exhibited at various museums and galleries worldwide, including The High Line, MoMA PS1; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Hydra Workshop, Greece, Flag Art Foundation, New York; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Maccarone, New York; Rubell Family Foundation, Miami; White Flag Projects, Saint Louis; and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome.
In 2013, he was artist-in-residence at Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida.
Aaron Garber-Maikovska is a contemporary artist. He is known for his multidisciplinary approach, which incorporates sculpture, performance, video, and installation art.
Garber-Maikovska's work often explores themes of power, violence, and the body. He has exhibited his work internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland.
Some of his notable works include "The Power and the Glory," a performance piece in which the artist dressed in a suit made of raw meat and recited a monologue about the nature of power, and "Shadow Boxing," a series of sculptures that depict fighters engaged in violent combat.
Garber-Maikovska is also a co-founder of the art collective Dear Reader, which explores the intersection of art and literature through exhibitions, readings, and other events.
Israel Lund is a conceptual painter based in Brooklyn, New York. He creates acrylic paintings using a combination of digital and analog techniques including silk-screening; digital painting; and the manipulation of photocopies, photographs and PDFs through smartphone applications. His practice has been described as its “own distinctive kind of post-digital abstraction.”
Lund's work concerns the “modularity and scalability” of analog painting. As described by critic and art historian Alex Bacon, Lund's paintings evoke an uncanny “screen-space” that is produced in an “analog-mode” via a silk-screening process, a concept that the artist refers to as “analog.jpg”. In his recent work, this process involves imprinting the palette knife through a silk screen onto the warp and weft of raw, coarse canvas. The result is a dappled or “pixelated” miasma of cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Alex Hubbard is a contemporary American abstraction artist whose work spans video art and painting, exploring the boundaries of each through cross-examination that brings both media to life in new and inventive ways. Constructed along parallel lines, his videos and paintings explore composition, mass, colour and depth of images in unexpected ways. Avoiding a single point of focus, Hubbard constructs his videos in layers, capturing the viewer with bold colours, performative gestures and evolving, complete compositions in which movement is multidirectional and time seems non-linear.
Alec Soth is an American photographer. He is known for his large-format color photographs that often explore the themes of American life, culture, and landscape.
Soth began his career as a newspaper photographer before transitioning to fine art photography. He gained recognition for his project "Sleeping by the Mississippi," which features photographs of people and places along the Mississippi River.
Throughout his career, Soth has continued to produce photographic projects that explore various aspects of American life, from small towns to suburban communities. He has also published several books of his work, including "Songbook," "Broken Manual," and "I Know How Furiously Your Heart is Beating."
Soth's work has been exhibited widely and is included in the collections of many major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has also received numerous awards and honors for his photography, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
Alex Hubbard is a contemporary American abstraction artist whose work spans video art and painting, exploring the boundaries of each through cross-examination that brings both media to life in new and inventive ways. Constructed along parallel lines, his videos and paintings explore composition, mass, colour and depth of images in unexpected ways. Avoiding a single point of focus, Hubbard constructs his videos in layers, capturing the viewer with bold colours, performative gestures and evolving, complete compositions in which movement is multidirectional and time seems non-linear.
