Ross Bleckner

(b.1949)
 

Ross Bleckner is an American artist. He currently lives and works in New York City. His artistic focus is on painting, and he held his first solo exhibition in 1975. Some of his art work reflected on the AIDS epidemic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Bleckner

Knights not Nights
1987
oil, beeswax, pigment, and damar crystals on canvas
274,3 x 182,8 cm
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/87.93/

 Gerard Richter
(b. 1932)
 

Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time.
Richter has been called the "greatest living painter", "the world's most important artist" and the "Picasso of the 21st century".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter

St. John
1988
Oil on canvas
200 cm × 260 cm
Tate collection, London, UK.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/richter-st-john-t05207

St John belongs to a series called the ‘London Paintings’, each named after one of the chapels of Westminster Abbey. The titles are not meant to be descriptive, but refer merely to associations connected with the artist’s visits to London. Since 1980 Richter has made his abstract paintings by manipulating spatulas of different lengths, loaded with paint, across areas of the canvas. New layers of colour cover earlier ones. Richter’s inability to control the precise distribution of paint allows a degree of chance to determine the paintings’ final appearance.

David Salle
(b. 1952)

David Salle is an American Postmodern painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer. Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and lives and works in East Hampton, New York. He earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, where he studied with John Baldessari. Salle’s work first came to public attention in New York City in the early 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Salle

Mingus in Mexico
1990
oil and acrylic on canvas
241.5 x 311cm
Private collection
Sold by Christie’s London, 6 OCT 2017
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6100695

Gordon Bennett
(1955 - 2014)

Gordon Bennett was an Australian artist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Celtic descent. Born in Monto, Queensland, Bennett was a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_(artist)

Myth of the Western man (White man's burden)
1992
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
175 x 304 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/390.1993/

Brice Marden
(1938 - 2023)

Nicholas Brice Marden Jr. was an American artist generally described as minimalist, although his work has roots in abstract expressionism, color field painting. and lyrical abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra, Greece; and Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brice_Marden

The Muses 1991 - 1993
About 1875
Oil on linen
274,3 x 457,2 cm
Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
https://www.daros.ch/brice-marden.html

 

Cy Twombly
(1928 - 2011)
 

Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. His best-known works are typically large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Twombly

The Four Seasons: Spring
1993-1994
Synthetic polymer paint, oil, house paint, pencil and crayon on four canvases
312,5 x 190 cm
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80085

Emily Kame Kngwarreye
(1910 - 1996)
 

Emily Kame Kngwarreye (also spelt Emily Kam Kngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. After only starting painting as a septuagenarian, Kngwarreye became one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Indigenous Australian art. She was a founding member of the Utopia Women's Batik Group and is known for her precise and detailed works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Kame_Kngwarreye

Untitled (Awely)
1994
synthetic polymer paint on paper laminated to canvas
100 x 213 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/567.1994.a-c/