Ansel Adams

(1902 - 1984)
 

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed during exposure, negative development, and printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
https://www.anseladams.com/

Mount williamson sierra nevada from manzanar
ca-1944

Dianna Molzan

 (b. 1972)
 Dianna Molzan is an American contemporary artist and painter based in Los Angeles. Thus far in her career, she is known for exploring the relationship between painting and sculpture through deconstruction and materialization of traditional painting materials and tools.  

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianna_Molzan
http://www.diannamolzan.com

Untitled
2013
Oil on canvas
164.5 x 137.1 cm

 Robin F. Williams (b. 1984) 

Robin F. Williams is a contemporary painter based in Brooklyn, New York.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_F._Williams

http://www.robinfwilliams.com/

Speak of the Devil
2021
acrylic on canvas,
144 x 144 cm

Jo Baer

(b. 1929) 

 Josephine Gail Baer (born August 7, 1929) is an American painter associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s, she turned away from non-objective painting. Since then, Baer has fused images, symbols, words, and phrases in a non-narrative manner, a mode of expression she once termed "radical figuration." She currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Baer

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/studio-visit-jo-baer-1922458
https://www.jobaer.net/paintings

 

 Royal Families (Curves, Points and Little Ones)
2013
oil on canvas
185 x 185 cm

Private Collection

 

Jo Baer, 2020. © Yaël Temminck, courtesy of Pace.

Yvonne Thomas

(1913 – 2009) 

Yvonne Thomas was an American abstract artist.
Although she always saw her work as rooted in the American modernist vernacular, Thomas remained connected to the art and culture of Europe where she spent formative years as a child; she maintained close friendships with fellow European émigré artists including Willem de Kooning and Marcel Duchamp.
 

In 2016, she was one of the artists included in Women of Abstract Expressionism exhibition catalogue, a traveling exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum. The accompanying catalogue, consisting of essays by several scholars, celebrated “the special contributions of women to Abstract Expressionism,” providing an “essential corrective” to what has been the “unequal accounting of women’s contributions” to the movement.

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

Portrait
1956
Oil on linen
96.5 × 114.3 cm
Private Collection

 Rita Ackermann
(b. 1968)

Rita Ackermann (born April 19, 1968) is a Hungarian-American artist. She is currently living and working in New York City.

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

 

 Mama, Memory Spinner
2019
Oil, acrylic, pigment, and china marker on canvas
190.5 x 198.1 cm
Private Collection

Leiko Ikemura
(b. 1951)

Leiko Ikemura is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor. She lives and works in Berlin and Cologne.

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

 

 Standing Figure II
1991
 mixed media on canvas
70 x 55 cm
Private Collection

Cindy Sherman

(b. 1954) 

   
Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.

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

Untitled
2019
Polyester, cotton, wool and acrylic woven together
284,5 x 218 cm

https://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/sherman-tapestries-la/
Tapestries was on until 1 May 2021 at Sprüth Magers Los Angeles

The tapestries were produced in Belgium, a nod to its long history of weaving and tapestry. 

Pat Steir

(b. 1940)

Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site-specific wall drawings.

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

Summer Moon
2005
Oil on canvas
278,1 x 348 cm

 Cecily Brown
(b.1969)
 

Cecily Brown is a British painter. Her style displays the influence of a variety of contemporary painters, from Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon and Joan Mitchell, to Old Masters like Rubens, Poussin and Goya. Brown lives and works in New York.

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

 

Lady with a little dog 

2009–201

oil on canvas

246 x 226 cm.

Private Collection

Jennifer Packer

(b. 1984) 

Jennifer Packer is an American painter living and working in New York City. In 2020, she won the Hermitage Greenfield Prize and the Rome Prize. Packer won the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome 2020-2021. 

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

The Body has Memory
2018
Oil on canvas
152,4 x 121,9 cm
Private Collection

 

 

 Kelly Reemtsen
(B. 1967)

Kelly Reemtsen is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She was born in Flint, MI in 1967, and studied fashion design and painting at Central Michigan University and California State University Long Beach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Reemtsen
http://www.kellyreemtsen.com/

 

Knock
2016
Oil on panel
36 x36 inch (91,5 x 91,5 cm)
Private Collection

 

 

 

Marlene Dumas

(b. 1953) 

Marlene Dumas is a South African artist and painter currently based in the Netherlands.
Dumas paintings are seen as portraits but they do not represent people but an emotional state that one could be in. Her art focuses on more serious issues and themes such as sexuality and race, guilt and innocence, violence and tenderness. Dumas style is more older Romanticism tradition. She uses loose brushstrokes to add distortion but also great detail to her art. Dumas likes to use a wet-on-wet technique, that combines thin layers of paint with thick ones. Her media of choice is oil on canvas and ink on paper. Her subjects range from new born babies, models, strippers, and many figures from popular culture.
The sale of Dumas's Jule-die Vrou (1985), positioned Dumas as one of three living female artists to trade for over $1 million.

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

 

 Jule, die Vrou
1985
oil on canvas
125 x 105 cm

Zoë Charlton
 (b. 1973) 

Zoë Charlton (born 1973) is an American contemporary artist and Professor of Art at American University.

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

 
𝗜𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 (𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀)
2020
𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿, 𝘃𝗶𝗻𝘆𝗹, 𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘂𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿
𝟳𝟱” 𝘅 𝟲𝟰”

 Arghavan Khosravi 

Architecture of a Moment

2019

Acrylic, wood cutouts, cotton rope, brass, iron nails on cotton canvas mounted on two panels
Private collection