Kiki Smith, an artist with an enormous imagination, makes drawings, prints, but most importantly, sculpture that has set a tone for her generation.
‘Night Birds on Black
Rainbow’, 2006
Ink on Nepal paper
Betye Saar, a pioneering African-American artist, produces images resonant with the nuances of black history.
Betye Saar (b.1926)
Untitled, 1976-77
mixed media collage on handkerchief
10" x 10", signed
Julie Mehretu, a painter working with the complex imagery of our media-saturated culture, transforms the into swirling, layered abstract forms.
Black City
2007
Cindy Sherman is the master of narrative self-portraiture, producing large-scale photographs that demonstrate the mutability of identity.
Cindy Sherman
Untitled (#199), 1989
color photograph
24 15/16 x 18 inches
Amy Cutler’s gouaches employ a child-like sense of the surreal to poke at stereotypical roles, revealing a serious sensibility.
Amy Cutler
Four Snowmen, 2002
Gouache on paper
22 x 30 inches
Vija Celmins's work questions the nature of abstraction, by producing scrupulously detailed drawings annd paintings based on photographs of the sea or the desert sands.
Vija Celmins (1938)
Night Sky #19, 2004
oil on linen mounted on board
Laura Owens, Untitled (LO 272), 2004
Color spit bite aquatint with soft ground etching
39-1/2 x 44-1/2”, edition 40
Published by Crown Point Press
Lorna Simpson creates photo-based works that focus on African-American life, while exploring broader issues of woman's role in contemporary society.
"Waterbearer" (1986)
gelatin silver print, vinyl lettering
photograph 45 x 77 inches (framed)
55 x 77 inches overall
