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Maja Ruznic:  The Past Awaiting the Future/Arrival of Drummers, 2023. Oil on linen, 99½ × 151½ in. (252.73 × 384.81 cm)

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Francis Alÿs, 2009 installation view. National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Kiki Smith (American, born in Germany, b. 1954)
Kneeling Woman with Rabbit, 2004
Collaged photo-lithographs and photo-etchings with pen and ink on Nepalese paper

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“Evening Star” (2023), aqueous archival inkjet, acrylic archival inkjet, white gold leaf on Hahnemüle rag paper, 60 × 43 inches. Edition 1 of 18

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KOMAR AND MELAMID - America's Most Wanted, 1994 oil and acrylic on canvas

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Jeffrey Deitch has compared Lee's practice to Pop Art, “As Andy Warhol used photo silkscreens to connect painting with the image-making technologies of the 1960s, Lee fuses digital techniques with traditional painting and sculptural processes to create totally contemporary works of art."[4]

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Tracey Emin

The more of you the more I love you, 2016

Neon (flamingo pink)

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Kyle Staver, Ophelia, 2020, Oil on canvas, Zürcher Gallery.

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For a 2013 painting, forget-me-not three, Hauser painted her own text to undergird ambiguous black shapes. Beneath lines, circles, and a pair of cartoonish legs, the viewer can just make out the titular phrase, “forget me not.” Written in off-white against a pale background, the words already look endangered, as though their disappearance and erasure is imminent.

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Henry Taylor - Quotes
“I paint everyone, or I try to. I try to capture the moment I am with someone who could be my friend, a neighbor, a celebrity, or a homeless person.”[40]

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Kahinde Wiley, BMA GIANTS.  Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter based in New York City. He is known for his naturalistic paintings of Black people that reference the work of Old Master paintings

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Barbara KrugerUntitled (The future belongs to those who can see it), 1997Silkscreen on vinyl85 × 60 in | 215.9 × 152.4 cm. Barbara Kruger's art has challenged cultural and social conventions, inspired other artists, and fostered critical discussion of important societal issues, making her one of the most influential and important artists in recent history.

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2018. LeWitt first conceived of his wall drawings in 1968, and from then until his death in 2007, he created more than 1,300 of them. With the recent gift from The LeWitt Estate, in Chester, Connecticut, the Gallery now has 66 wall drawings in its collection. Underlying these works is the idea that the conception of an artwork can be separated from its execution: LeWitt crafted a set of simple guidelines or a diagram for each wall drawing so that others, such as studio assistants, can produce the work independently. The drawings in the current exhibition were installed by a team of 14 trained assistants, and in the case of LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #1180—on view in the museum lobby—members of the public participated in the final stages of its execution.

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Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #442,

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Robert Indiana, HOPE.   2013, Silkscreen in colors on Coventry neutral ph 100% rag paper

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Roy Lichtenstein, Ohhh… Alright… (1964).

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Stuart Davis. Lucky Strike. 1921Oil on canvas, 33 1/4 x 18" (84.5x 45.7 cm). Gift of The AmericanTobacco Company, Inc.  Director, Glenn Lowry: Cigarettes were increasing in popularity in America during the 1920s, along with the rise of advertising, branding, and colorful packaging.

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Georges Braque, "Still Life with Bottles and Glasses", 1912, oil on canvas

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More detailsThe Jones Family Conversation Piece, by William Hogarth, 1730.  A conversation piece refers to a group portrait in a domestic or landscape setting depicting persons chatting or otherwise socializing with each other

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Creation and the Fall are a pair of 1420-1425 frescoes by Paolo Uccello, produced for the Chiostro Verde (Green Cloister) in Santa Maria Novella in Florence. 

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Leaf from a Book of Hours (recto and verso), late 15th century
Possibly The School of the Master of Mary of Burgundyexpand_more
Ink, gouache, and gold leaf on vellum

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Nan Golden epic work “the Ballad of Sexual Dependency” uses sound along with hundreds of photographs shows between 1979-1986 

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emotional works using memory of her intimate life,

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His combination of contemporary video technology with traditional drawing skills reminiscent of those of the German Expressionist movement has fascinated audiences throughout the world. Much of his work deals with socio-political conditions in South Africa and the human dilemmas of passion, greed, pain, and injustice.

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1991 Mine (HIGH RES) by artist William Kentridge

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Liu Xiaodong, "Irredeemable Loafers" (2023), oil on canvas, 98 3/8 x 118 1/8 inches (© Liu Xiaodong, courtesy Lisson Gallery)

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Liu Xiaodong, perhaps one of the greatest painters of all time, is known for his strong brushwork, rich colours, and precise forms. He started out with traditional brushwork to create extremely realistic subjects, but later changed his approach and started working with cropped framing, an unusual use of perspective, and the use of colours to strengthen emotion. Liu paints his subjects in their natural settings, capturing everyday people in complex places such as Israel-Palestine, Tibet, and rural China. His intimate, on-location approach and sensitivity to his subjects are what make his painting style so moving and powerful when compared to works by other contemporary artists.

Liu is an observational painter who works on site, often on a very large scale.

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John Currin, Rachel in Fur (2003). Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

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ohn Currin (b. 1962)

John Currin, one of several famous American painters on this list, and photographed above while working on a portrait of his wife, is known for his seductive yet also repelling paintings of lustful women. He combines the beautiful and the grotesque, and influences ranging from Renaissance paintings to magazine ads from the ‘50s can be found in his often erotically charged works. It could be precisely his ability to create contemporary art that defies taste, that makes you both hate and love it, which has helped make Currin one of the most popular artists today, and maybe one of the greatest painters of all time.

One of the most provocative and successful artists of his generation, John Currin makes delightfully bad, perverse paintings which enchant and repel in equal measure. His art, which constantly evades categorization, pinpoints the moment where sublime beauty and the grotesque are held in productive tension. An irreverent mannerist who brings a satirical savvy to contemporary portraiture, Currin has been confounding and seducing critics and audiences for over two decades. His work is characterized by a meticulous, masterly technique and an unfashionable investment in classical painting traditions commingling with other representational languages drawn from popular culture, including movies, pinups and 70’s Scandinavian porn.

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Lovers, 1993, by John Currin (oil on canvas, 86.4cm x 71.1cm) © John Currin. Photograph: Fred Scruton. Courtesy Gagosian

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Peter Doig
Untitled (Canoe)
Baldwin Contemporary
Ask for price

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Peter Doig is a Scottish artist who spent most of his formative years in Trinidad and Canada, and studied art in England. His contemporary art is described by the Saatchi Gallery as containing themes of magical realism, “capturing timeless moments of perfect tranquillity, where photo-album memory flits in and out of waking dream.” Doig takes inspiration from photographs, newspaper clippings, scenes from movies, covers of record albums, and the work of earlier artists like Edvard Munch. In 2002, he settled in Trinidad again, where he opened a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Centre. In 2007, his White Canoe sold for $11.3 million at Sotheby’s, which at the time was a record for a living European artist, and is one of the reasons he is on our list of popular artists.

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727, 1996, by Takashi Murakami, via Christie’s.

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In this triptych artwork, Murakami merges a background resembling a historical Japanese nihonga painting with a Hokusai-like wave, and a cartoonish character in an anime or manga style. In doing so, Murakami makes his art a reflection on the long history of Japanese art. The central character in this artwork is Murakami’s avatar, a character named Mr DOB. He paints the character with a gaping mouth, sharp teeth, and a series of large, cartoon eyes. Murakami derived the name of his alter-ego from the slang Japanese phrase ‘dobozite’, meaning ‘why?’ He often paints this character with a maniacal grin, as if mocking the seriousness of the contemporary art world.

Meanwhile this character’s ambiguous name adds to the artist’s desire to question the nature of art and its relationship to the real world. Along with this artwork, Murakami has featured his character as a brand like Mickey Mouse or Hello Kitty on a range of artworks and merchandise. The title of the artwork – 727 – nods towards the Boeing American airplanes that he saw flying over his home in Japan as a child. In naming his artwork after them, Murakami acknowledges the continuing presence of the U.S. in post-war Japan.

Japanese Neo-Pop artist Takashi Murakami is a superstar in the contemporary art world, also known as the “Warhol of Japan”, is famous for his merging of fine art and popular culture, often referencing colourful anime and manga cartoons to create abstract paintings of faces. According to Murakami, “Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended.” It is the West that imposes such a severe hierarchy when it comes to art. Despite this, Murakami has been fully embraced in the Western art world as well, and his work is extremely in demand in the art world today.

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Renowned for her figurative work across mediums, Mutu is committed to reshaping the narratives of womanhood; by doing so, she challenges Western culture’s racist and misogynistic tenets. In her collages, sculptures, videos, and performances the figure of the woman is depicted with the complexity and profundity of a timeless archetype

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Though forward-looking, her work reveals a deep awareness, both intellectual and sensory, of how the body has been represented over time and across cultures—from antique and Hindu sculpture, to Renaissance drawing and painting, to the work of modern artists such as Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, and Pablo Picasso.

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 Huxtable explores the intersections of race, gender, queerness, and identity. She uses a diverse set of means to engage these issues, including self-portraiture, text-based prints, performance, nightlife, music, writing, and social media.  In much or her visual work, Huxtable references her own body and history as she examines socio-political issues.