New York, Connecticut. Born 1990
Feminist figure collage, painting and printmaking
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Born 1974 Memphis, Tennessee. Known for: Black racial themed art with puppets, layered texture paintings, installations, mosaics.
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn... Read full biography
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief. In a bare room upstairs from his... Read full biography
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief. In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was... Read full biography
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief. In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was forging yet another branch of his multiform practice: a live show, inspired by Japanese puppet theater, to complement work in his upcoming gallery exhibition. Mr. Fordjour often depicts Black athletes and performers — dancers, riders, rowers,... Read full biography
"Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence", Art & Design Section, online, The New York Times, by Siddhartha Mitter, Nov. 19, 2020. Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief. In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was forging yet another branch of his multiform practice: a live show, inspired by Japanese puppet theater, to complement work in his upcoming gallery exhibition. Mr. Fordjour often depicts Black athletes and performers — dancers, riders, rowers, drum-majors — as strivers who navigate the ambiguities that come with their achievement, and the racial scrutiny that accompanies... Read full biography
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New York / France. Born 1982
Highly stylised, bold, and neo-surrealist compositions
Born 1982
Painting
New York. Born 1969
Animal, bird
New York / Switzerland. Born 1980
Stylized, high color botanical images, portrait, fruit still life painting, murals
Illinois / South Africa. Born 1973
Urban planning themes, installations, performance art, sculpture
New York. Born 1981
Illusionary landscape paintings, semi-abstract forms, every day objects, interiors, garden scenes
Japan. Born 1969
Abstract surreal pop-culture twisted figure painting, graphic design
California. Born 1961
Large-scale abstract collage-paper items
New York. Born 1980
Exploration of space and color, installations, painting, photographs, drawings, sculptures
New York, California. Born 1981
Non objective painting, installation
New York. Born 1964
Installation sculpture-conceptual, panda painting
New York, Maine. Born 1975
Human figure, minimalist, color field painting
Florida, New York / Cuba. Born 1978
Painting, drawing, video, installation-fantasy, symbolism
New York, New Jersey / Holland. Born 1938/40
Abstract landscape, words, botanic painting
New York, British Columbia / Canada. 1952/54 - 2017
Street art, graffiti, landscape and seascape painting, silhouettes
New York, California. Born 1977
African-American male figures in heroic poses
California, New York. Born 1977
Stylized botanicals, figure, still life and structure paintings
New York. Born 1976/78
Abstract imagery, collage
California. 1931 - 2020
Calligraphy, non objective painting, conceptualism, teaching
New York. Born 1947
Funk biomorph, non ob-geometric
New Mexico, California. 1935 - 2012
Colorful ceramic objects-eggs, teacups, surreal forms
New York / Switzerland. Born 1964
Installation sculpture, video
New York. Born 1960
Text-based painting, allegory, self-portrait
California. Born 1968
Prismatic, abstract paintings and drawings
California / Germany. Born 1972
Geometric block sculpture, collage, abstraction, video installation, painting
New York, Connecticut. Born 1949
Non objective-funk, semi-figurative, prints
New York / Germany. Born 1954
Abstract body parts sculpture-feminist issues
Spain. Born 1955
Public sculpture-light and water, assemblage
New York, New Jersey / Japan. Born 1974
Graffitii tag artist, toy figure paintings, large-scale iconic cartoon image sculpture
New York / Italy. Born 1956
Conceptual art, mixed media non-objective painting
India, United Kingdom. Born 1954
Modernist object sculpture, installation