New York, California / France. Born 1972
Avant-garde social commentary painting
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Born 1967 Dresden, Germany. Known for: Painting from photo and video-ordinary subjects.
Eberhard Havekost makes dense, anti-gestural paintings that explore the tension between a highly mediated image and the visceral immediacy of a seductively painted surface. Working from photographic... Read full biography
Eberhard Havekost makes dense, anti-gestural paintings that explore the tension between a highly mediated image and the visceral immediacy of a seductively painted surface. Working from photographic sources - shots from TV and video, images culled from magazines and catalogues and his own... Read full biography
Eberhard Havekost makes dense, anti-gestural paintings that explore the tension between a highly mediated image and the visceral immediacy of a seductively painted surface. Working from photographic sources - shots from TV and video, images culled from magazines and catalogues and his own photographs - he selects prosaic subjects ranging from anonymous buildings, trains and trailers, and modifies them to make inkjet prints as the departure point for his paintings. His paintings elude... Read full biography
Eberhard Havekost makes dense, anti-gestural paintings that explore the tension between a highly mediated image and the visceral immediacy of a seductively painted surface. Working from photographic sources - shots from TV and video, images culled from magazines and catalogues and his own photographs - he selects prosaic subjects ranging from anonymous buildings, trains and trailers, and modifies them to make inkjet prints as the departure point for his paintings. His paintings elude straightforward classification: mundane images that are abstracted into a kind of mannerism of the everyday. Havekost's paintings are executed in colour on top of a six underlying and alternating coats of grey and white. This slow, careful process creates a... Read full biography
Eberhard Havekost makes dense, anti-gestural paintings that explore the tension between a highly mediated image and the visceral immediacy of a seductively painted surface. Working from photographic sources - shots from TV and video, images culled from magazines and catalogues and his own photographs - he selects prosaic subjects ranging from anonymous buildings, trains and trailers, and modifies them to make inkjet prints as the departure point for his paintings. His paintings elude straightforward classification: mundane images that are abstracted into a kind of mannerism of the everyday. Havekost's paintings are executed in colour on top of a six underlying and alternating coats of grey and white. This slow, careful process creates a luminous atmosphere that makes the paintings glow with a strange, otherworldly richness of light. Havekost describes this as a 'democratic light'... Read full biography
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Germany. Born 1973
Drawing, painting, and sculpture
Born 1973
Figurative, abstract painting, atmospherics
New York, California / England. Born 1965
Monochromatic death themed paintings, mixed media, graphite
England, India. Born 1974
Visionary, violent image painting and sculpture
Germany. Born 1973
Collaborative abstract painting, woodcuts
Poland. Born 1972
Abstract imagery
United States, England, Holland. Born 1963
Mixed-media sparse landscape, still life and figurative painting, abstraction
Germany. Born 1968
Painting
New York. Born 1969
Rorschach sculpture, social commentary
New York. 1958 - 2005
Monochromatic paintings, neo-geo art
California, Connecticut / Iran. Born 1981
Satirical painting of contemporary culture
Germany. Born 1962
Figurative social commentary
Sculpture, painting
New York / Switzerland. Born 1973
Large scale abstract sculpture, installations
New York. Born 1973
Abstract expressionist painting-religious subjects
California. Born 1964
Whimsical abstraction, conceptual
Germany. Born 1970
Sculpture and painting
California. 1965 - 2006
Installations-sexual and political themes
Germany. Born 1963
Social theme based conceptual paintings and installations
Utah, California. Born 1945
Abject disfigurative sculpture, installation
California / England. Born 1972
Fragmented mixed-media figurative sculpture
California, Michigan. 1954 - 2012
Multi-media installations, comic book scenes, fabric sculpture, videos
New York, New Jersey. Born 1979
Conceptual art, mixed media, sculpture
Trinidad and Tobago, England. Born 1968
Mixed media mod Nigerian figure painting
France. Born 1949
Geometric abstract painting
Germany. Born 1967
Photography
New York / Germany, Austria. 1953 - 1997
Mixed media sculpture, collage, installation
California / Germany. Born 1972
Geometric block sculpture, collage, abstraction, video installation, painting
New York, Nevada. Born 1979
Paintings, sculpture
New York, Connecticut. Born 1965
Pop art and and romantic portrait painting
Germany. Born 1968
Portrait and figure painting, nudes