Neo Rauch
(b. 1960)
 

Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align himself with surrealism. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, and he lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig, Germany and works as the principal artist of the New Leipzig School. The artist is represented by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and David Zwirner, New York.

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

Gold
2003
Oil on canvas
250 × 210 cm
Private collection

Will Cotton
(b. 1965)
 

Will Cotton is an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Will Cotton lives and works in New York City.

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

Ice Cream Cavern
2003
Oil on linen
178 x 203 cm
The Seavest Collection
https://www.seavestcollection.org/artist/Will_Cotton/works/240

Vincent Desiderio
(b. 1955)

Vincent Desiderio (born 1955) is an American realist painter. In 2005 he was on the teaching staff at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; he is a senior critic at the New York Academy of Art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Desiderio
http://www.vincent-desiderio.com/

Cockaigne
1993 - 2003
oil on canvas
284.8 x 389.6 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
https://www.si.edu/object/cockaigne:hmsg_04.19

In Vincent Desiderio's ambitious new painting, "Cockaigne," six centuries of Western art lie scattered on the floor like the remains of a really great party. A virtuoso representational painter known for his large-scale, postmodernist allegories, Mr. Desiderio worked on the 13-by-9-foot "Cockaigne" on and off for 10 years. On the pages of the books in the painting, he painstakingly reproduced miniature versions of his favorite works by artists ranging from Masaccio, Vermeer and van Eyck to Matisse, Jasper Johns and Chuck Close.
The title is a reference to Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Land of Cockaigne" (1559), a moral allegory set in a land of plenty where the houses are tiled with cakes, the fences are made of sausages and the fowl fly roasted and ready to eat.

From an article By MIA FINEMAN

 Elizabeth Peyton
(b. 1965)

Elizabeth Joy Peyton is an American contemporary artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Best known for figures from her own life and those beyond it, including close friends, historical personae, and icons of contemporary culture, Peyton's portraits have regularly featured artists, writers, musicians, and actors.

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

Keith (From Gimme Shelter)
2004
Oil on board
25.4 x 30.5 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum N.Y.
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/14581

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

1000 Thread Count
2004
Oil on linen
228 x 198 cm
http://cecilybrown.com/1000-thread-count/

Amy Silman
(b. 1955)

Amy Sillman is a New York-based visual artist, known for process-based paintings that move between abstraction and figuration, and engage nontraditional media including animation, zines and installation. Her work draws upon art historical tropes, particularly postwar American gestural painting, as both influences and foils; she engages feminist critiques of the discourses of mastery, genius and power in order to introduce qualities such as humor, awkwardness, self-deprecation, affect and doubt into her practice. Profiles in The New York Times, ARTnews, Frieze, and Interview, characterize Sillman as championing "the relevance of painting" and "a reinvigorated mode of abstraction reclaiming the potency of active brushwork and visible gestures."Critic Phyllis Tuchman described Sillman as "an inventive abstractionist" whose "messy, multivalent, lively" art "reframes long-held notions regarding the look and emotional character of abstraction."

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

Ich Auch
2009
Oil on canvas
230 x 215 cm
The Saatchi Gallery
https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/amy_sillman

Stephen Farthing
(b. 1950)
 

Stephen Farthing RA  is an English painter and writer of art history.
Farthing described his work in a 2005 interview, saying "I have dined with the devil in terms of becoming a modern artist. I have taken hold of history, tried to understand it—and then used and abused it."

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

Mrs G's Chair
1982
encaustic on canvas
165 x 269 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London