Melissa Brown (born 1974) is an American artist who lives and works in New York. [1] [2] [3] Brown is known for her paintings and her public artwork. [4] [5]
Her work is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. [6]
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as the "Whitney", is an art museum in Manhattan. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite and art patron after whom it is named.
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian 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. In 2011 the Guggenheim Museum, New York presented a retrospective of his work. Some of Cattelan's better-known works include America, consisting of a solid gold toilet; La Nona Ora, a sculpture depicting a fallen Pope who has been hit by a meteorite; and Comedian, a fresh banana duct-taped to a wall.
Bobbi Brown is an American professional makeup artist, bestselling author, public speaker, entrepreneur, and the founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. As a professional makeup artist, Brown created ten simple lipsticks that evolved into a global beauty empire. Brown has written nine books about beauty and wellness and is a New York Times bestselling author. Since leaving her billion-dollar company Bobbi Brown Cosmetics in October 2016, she has launched Beauty Evolution, LLC and was certified as a health coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
Joan Mitchell was an American "second generation" abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. She was a member of the American abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, Shirley Jaffe, Elaine de Kooning, and Sonia Gechtoff, she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings and editioned prints can be seen in major museums and collections across the United States and Europe.
Hannah Wilke was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist. Wilke's work is known for exploring issues of feminism, sexuality and femininity.
Elizabeth Woodman was an American ceramic artist.
Laura Owens is an American painter, gallery owner and educator. She emerged in the late 1990s from the Los Angeles art scene. She is known for large-scale paintings that combine a variety of art historical references and painterly techniques. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Amanda Leah Brown is an American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress from New York City. She was a contestant on the third season of NBC’s The Voice and finished in fifth place.
Nicole Eisenman is French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial. On September 29, 2015, she won the MacArthur "Genius Grant" award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century."
Alva Rogers is an American playwright, composer, actor, vocalist, and arts educator. She is known for the use of dolls and puppetry in interdisciplinary work. Rogers performed in the role of Eula Peazant in Julie Dash's 1991 film Daughters of the Dust. and was a vocalist in the New York City alternative rock band Band of Susans.
Alexandra Bell is an American multidisciplinary artist. She is best known for her series Counternarratives, large scale paste-ups of New York Times articles edited to challenge the presumption of "objectivity" in news media. Using marginalia, annotation, redaction, and revisions to layout and images, Bell exposes what she perceives as the pervasive racial and gender biases embedded in print news media.
Agustina Woodgate is an Argentinian artist who lives and works between Amsterdam and Miami.
Fia Backström is a Swedish artist, writer and educator known for her multidisciplinary artworks. Backström lives and works in New York City.
Sonia Gordon Brown was a Russian-American sculptor.
Carolina Caycedo is a multimedia artist based in Los Angeles.
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.
Anna Craycroft is an American conceptual artist who works with a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, intervention and public engagement. Craycroft was born in Eugene, Oregon.
Mira Dancy is an American painter. Dancy is known for her paintings on plexiglass of nudes, often executed in bright fluorescent colors. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Martha Diamond is an American artist. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Australia, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Amy Gartrell is an American artist. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.