Contemporary

Contemporary art covers work being made right now, roughly from the late twentieth century to today, and it resists any single definition on purpose. Unlike earlier movements built around one shared style, contemporary art can mean anything: painting, sculpture, photography, digital work, or pieces that mix several mediums together. What often connects contemporary artists is less a visual style and more a willingness to question what art is for, or to respond directly to the world around them. This section gathers work from that space, where the only real rule is that there is no fixed rule left to follow.

Liu Bolin | Contemporary

Spot Liu Bolin if you can. Follow the Beijing artist from a demolished studio to photographs where he vanishes into walls, flags and supermarket shelves.
Andrew Salgado | Contemporary

Andrew Salgado is a Canadian painter known for large, emotionally charged portraits built with wild color and texture. Since moving from Regina to London, he has built a career of sold out exhibitions, a documentary, and a major monograph on his work.
Neil Welliver | Contemporary

Neil Welliver was an American landscape painter who left teaching at Yale to move to Maine, where he painted huge wilderness scenes, sometimes eight feet wide, outdoors in every kind of weather. He died in 2005, but his paintings of cold rivers and quiet woods still hang in the Smithsonian and the Tate.
Yves Klein | Contemporary

Yves Klein was a French artist born in Nice in 1928, best known for his deep, patented ultramarine hue called International Klein Blue. He used blue paint covered models as living brushes in his Anthropometry series and died in 1962 at just 34, leaving behind a body of work built around emptiness, color, and the…
Ignat Ignatov | Contemporary

Ignat Ignatov is a Bulgarian American painter born in 1978 in Veliko Tarnovo who trained at an art school in Tryavna before moving to the United States in 1997. Known for bold brushwork and glowing color influenced by Sargent and Sorolla, he has also painted shelter dogs to raise money for animal rescue.
Mark Lague | Contemporary

Mark Lague is a Canadian painter born in Lachine, Quebec, in 1964 who spent 13 years in animation before becoming a full time painter in 2002. Known for his luminous painterly realism, he builds up layers of translucent oil paint to create serene landscapes and waterscapes inspired by the Romantic movement.
Daniel Gerhartz | Contemporary

Daniel Gerhartz is an American realist painter born in 1965 in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, celebrated for his luminous light and tender portrayals of childhood and women. An Art Renewal Center Living Master, he has won top honors at the Prix de West and the Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition.
R. B. Kitaj | Contemporary

R. B. Kitaj was an American painter born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in 1932, who studied at the Royal College of Art in London and became close friends with David Hockney there. Known for merging Pop Art collage with Abstract Expressionist brushwork, he was elected to the Royal Academy in 1985, the first American since…
Mamma Andersson | Contemporary

Mamma Andersson is a Swedish painter born in Luleå in 1962 who studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where her nickname stuck after a classmate shared her real name. She worked as a guard at Moderna Museet early on and calls fellow painter Dick Bengtsson her greatest teacher, and her narrative paintings…
David FeBland | Contemporary

David FeBland is a British painter born in London, who earned degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Manchester and worked in landscape architecture and communication design before turning to painting in the mid 1980s. Since 1984 he has bicycled through fifty five countries, using what he sees along the way to…
George Tooker | Contemporary

George Tooker was an American painter born in Brooklyn in 1920, remembered as a leading figure of the Magic Realism movement alongside friends Paul Cadmus and Jared French. He studied English at Harvard before turning to art at the Art Students League, and his egg tempera paintings captured the quiet unease of modern city life.…
Anna Razumovskaya | Contemporary

Anna Razumovskaya is a Russian born painter known for romantic, expressive figurative work, trained at an art academy in Russia before further study in Germany, Belgium and Holland. Her paintings blend the elegance of Renaissance portraiture with a loose, modern touch, drawing on influences like John Singer Sargent, Valentin Serov and Rembrandt. She has held…