Issy Wood (born 1993) is an American-born British artist known for her paintings and pop music who lives and works in London, England. [1] [2] [3]
Wood released an EP, Cries Real Tears!, in 2020 with Zelig Records. [2] [4] She released a second EP, If It’s Any Constellation, on April 13, 2021. [4] [5] In 2022, Wood released My Body Your Choice. [6]
Wood's work is included in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami), [7] the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence), [1] the Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing), [8] the Zabludowicz Collection & [9] and the National Portrait Gallery (London). [10]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas. With 5.36 million visitors in 2023, it is the most-visited museum in the United States and the fifth-most visited art museum in the world.
Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. He has settled in Trinidad since 2002.
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Glenn Brown is a British contemporary artist known for the use of appropriation in his paintings. Starting with reproductions from other artists' works, Glenn Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its colour, position, orientation, height and width relationship, mood and/or size. Despite these changes, he has occasionally been accused of plagiarism.
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