New York / England, Colombia. Born 1986
Large scale non objective mixed media, performance art
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Born 1963 Cairo, Egypt. Known for: Female eroticism, symbolic hand embroidered canvases.
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo in 1963; she now lives and works in New York. Viewing Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, with their delicate traceries of stray threads, involves a visual shift, as what... Read full biography
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo in 1963; she now lives and works in New York. Viewing Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, with their delicate traceries of stray threads, involves a visual shift, as what appears to be a mass of abstract lines gradually comes into focus as highly erotic figures,... Read full biography
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo in 1963; she now lives and works in New York. Viewing Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, with their delicate traceries of stray threads, involves a visual shift, as what appears to be a mass of abstract lines gradually comes into focus as highly erotic figures, displayed in a repetitive pattern. The work refuses to bow to the puritanical elements of both Western and Islamic culture, and what could be called "institutionalized feminism," with its own persistent myth... Read full biography
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo in 1963; she now lives and works in New York. Viewing Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, with their delicate traceries of stray threads, involves a visual shift, as what appears to be a mass of abstract lines gradually comes into focus as highly erotic figures, displayed in a repetitive pattern. The work refuses to bow to the puritanical elements of both Western and Islamic culture, and what could be called "institutionalized feminism," with its own persistent myth of feminine virtue. Curator Valerie Cassel, part of the six-person team to select Ms. Amer for the Whitney Biennial 2000, says in a recent New York Times review of Amer's work that Amer subdues and overpowers the male-dominated language of Abstract... Read full biography
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo in 1963; she now lives and works in New York. Viewing Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, with their delicate traceries of stray threads, involves a visual shift, as what appears to be a mass of abstract lines gradually comes into focus as highly erotic figures, displayed in a repetitive pattern. The work refuses to bow to the puritanical elements of both Western and Islamic culture, and what could be called "institutionalized feminism," with its own persistent myth of feminine virtue. Curator Valerie Cassel, part of the six-person team to select Ms. Amer for the Whitney Biennial 2000, says in a recent New York Times review of Amer's work that Amer subdues and overpowers the male-dominated language of Abstract Expression by sewing on top of it. Amer's embroidery of nude female images taken from pornographic magazines has a... Read full biography
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England, India. Born 1974
Visionary, violent image painting and sculpture
United Kingdom, Scotland. Born 1964
Painting and sculpture
New York, Connecticut. Born 1970
Contemporary realism-figure and genre painting
United Kingdom, Lebanon. Born 1952
Performance art-body focus, assemblage
New York / Japan. 1933 - 2014
Installation sculpture, abstraction, conceptual art
New York / Ireland. 1941 - 2009
Anthropomorphic rabbit sculpture
Massachusetts, Missouri. Born 1965
Sculptor-conceptual, everyday object
New York / Austria. 1947 - 2012
Large-scale and whimsical sculpture, installation, painting
China. Born 1964
Expressionist painting, mistreated hospital patients, lower class themes
New York. Born 1969
Rorschach sculpture, social commentary
New York / Brazil. Born 1960
Decorative collage, geometric design
Italy. 1901 - 1986
Constructions, wire sculpture, abstraction
New York, Massachusetts. Born 1962
Large-size realistic portrait painting, charcoal close-ups
Belarus, France, Russian Federation. 1900/1906 - 1969
Abstract painting
Brazil, France. 1930 - 1990
Non objective painting and constructivist sculpture
New York / Netherlands, South Africa. Born 1953
Abject figurative and portrait painting and drawing-narrative
British Columbia / Canada. Born 1946
Mod interior, installation, large-scale urban life photos
France, Germany. 1904 - 1989
Painter-abstraction
New York / Japan. 1936 - 2010
Modernist genre-caligraphy, graphics
Florida, New York, Minnesota. 1925 - 1996
Sculptor of super real figures
New York / Italy. Born 1952
Mod figure, abstraction, graphics
Japan. 1924 - 2008
Avant-garde painting
Texas, New York. Born 1957
Torn ornate fabric and text image painting, punk propaganda, conceptual
Italy. 1912 - 1995
Non-objective, figurative, abstract painting and mixed media
New York, California. Born 1946
Abstraction, sculptor-installation
India, United Kingdom. Born 1954
Modernist object sculpture, installation
New York / England, France. 1939 - 2008
Pop art, images over paintings, serigraphy
New York, California. Born 1969
Silhouette figures, racial themed work
New York / China. Born 1957
Performance and conceptual art, installation sculpture
Trinidad and Tobago, England. Born 1968
Mixed media mod Nigerian figure painting
Switzerland, France. 1896 - 1986
Abstract painting