Francis Ruyter (born 1968) is an American painter and gallerist. He was born in Washington, DC. [1] [2] [3] [4] Ruyter often paints using photographs as source material, in a style that has been compared to Pop art. [3] [5] In 2002 he produced a billboard work, as part of MoMA Projects 77. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, [6] SFMOMA, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Denver Art Museum. [2]
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The institution was conceived in 1929 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie P. Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan. Initially located in the Heckscher Building on Fifth Avenue, it opened just days after the Wall Street Crash. The museum, America's first devoted exclusively to modern art, was led by A. Conger Goodyear as president and Abby Rockefeller as treasurer, with Alfred H. Barr Jr. as its first director. Under Barr's leadership, the museum's collection rapidly expanded, beginning with an inaugural exhibition of works by European modernists. Despite financial challenges, including opposition from John D. Rockefeller Jr., the museum moved to several temporary locations in its early years, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. eventually donated the land for its permanent site.
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian visual artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him being frequently labelled as a joker or prankster of the art world. Self-taught as an artist, Cattelan has exhibited internationally in museums and Biennials.
Nicholas Nixon is an American photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography, and for using the 8×10 inch view camera.
Sheila Hicks is an American artist. She is known for her innovative and experimental weavings and sculptural textile art that incorporate distinctive colors, natural materials, and personal narratives.
Robert Gober is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs.
Terence Koh is a Canadian artist who has also worked under the alias "asianpunkboy". The artist's work spans a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and the internet. Originally working under the alias asianpunkboy, Koh designed zines and custom-made books. His recent work has expanded to include durational performances, complex installations, and the exploration of natural ecosystems. Much of his diverse work involves queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities. In 2008, he was listed in Out magazine's "Out 100 People of the Year".
Huma Bhabha is a Pakistani-American sculptor based in Poughkeepsie, New York. Known for her uniquely grotesque, figurative forms that often appear dissected or dismembered, Bhabha often uses found materials in her sculptures, including styrofoam, cork, rubber, paper, wire, and clay. She occasionally incorporates objects given to her by other people into her artwork. Many of these sculptures are also cast in bronze. She is equally prolific in her works on paper, creating vivid pastel drawings, eerie photographic collages, and haunting print editions.
Lisa Yuskavage is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her figure paintings that challenge conventional understandings of the genre. While her painterly techniques evoke art historical precedents, her motifs are often inspired by popular culture, creating an underlying dichotomy between high and low and, by implication, sacred and profane, harmony and dissonance.
Brian Wood is a visual artist working in painting, drawing and printmaking and formerly with photography and film in upstate New York and New York City.
Bozidar Brazda is an artist. He lives and works in New York City.
Ester Partegàs is a Spanish contemporary artist and educator. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
David Horvitz is an American artist who uses art books, photography, performance art, and mail art as media for his work. He is known for his work in the virtual sphere. Horvitz is a graduate from Bard College.
Peter Nagy is an American artist known for his post-conceptual art of the 1980s and as an active art gallerist. He is the owner of Gallery Nature Morte, which was founded in New York City's East Village in 1982 and was part of the Collins & Milazzo exhibitions sensual conceptualism scene. It closed in 1988, and in 1992, Nagy moved to New Delhi, India, where Gallery Nature Morte is now located.
The year 2012 in art involves some significant events.
Alfred Flechtheim was a German Jewish art dealer, art collector, journalist and publisher persecuted by the Nazis.
Joseph Hart is an American artist. Originally from Peterborough, New Hampshire, he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work has recently been exhibited at Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco, Dieu Donne, David Krut Projects and Halsey Mckay Gallery in New York, among others. Hart's work has also been included in notable group shows at the Frans Masareel Center in Belgium, Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. He has been featured in periodicals such as FlashArt, Modern Painters, Huffington Post and The New York Times. His work is in the public collections of The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Hart received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999.
Adam Pendleton is an American conceptual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice, involving painting, silkscreen, collage, video, performance, and word art. His work often involves the investigation of language and the recontextualization of history through appropriated imagery.
Lisa Dent Gallery was a contemporary art gallery located in San Francisco, California.
Ann Craven is an American painter. Craven is known for her paintings of birds, the moon, flowers and animals, often executed with strong chromatic contrasts. In a 2006 project, she painted over 400 paintings of the moon, as seen from the roof of her New York residence.
Lucas Foglia is an American photographer, living in San Francisco. "His work is concerned mainly with documenting people and their relationship to nature", for which he has travelled extensively making landscape photography and portraiture.