Ok starting a new art thread for 2023! Here's the deal: a mostly daily thread with a different artist every day (sometimes I repeat from previous years if I feel like featuring other work/projects), primarily modern and contemporary since that's my thing. I'm even making a hashtag for it in case that makes it easier for folks to follow. Enjoy! #art#BigArtThread
Paintings by Korean American artist Cha Yuree, 2020s, whose work is often influenced by her experiences of the Asian diaspora as well as stories told by her grandmothers. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Ceramic candelabra sculpture by American artist Graham Marks, 2020s, who was an influential artist and teacher in the 70s and 80s, but left to pursue a career in healing and acupuncture. He has recently taken up clay again in work like these pieces inspired by French decorative arts. #art#ceramics#BigArtThread
Paintings by Canadian artist Henrietta Shore, 1920s-30s, known for her experimental explorations of nature that often incorporated abstract motifs. #art#painting#BigArtThread
Photographic works by American artist Shikeith, 2010s-2020s, whose practice explores Black masculinity and expressions of queerness. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by Iranian artist Samira Alikhanzadeh, 2000s-10s, known for her collages that incorporate found family photos, creating links between Iran's past and present. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by American sculptor Harriet Hosmer, 1850s-60s, known for her Neoclassical depictions of Greek and Roman mythology and history. She was one of the first professional women sculptors, spending much of her career in Rome due to restrictions on women in the US from using live models. She was also an inventor, patenting a process for making artificial marble, and designing a perpetual motion machine. #art#sculpture
Paintings by American artist Richard Diebenkorn, 1970s-80s, known for his "Ocean Park" series inspired by Matisse and the area of Santa Monica where he kept his studio. #art#painting#BigArtThread#AbstractArt
Works by Japanese illustrator and animator Yoji Kuri, 1970s-80s, known for his darkly comedic films, comics, and books as well as commercial illustrations for magazines and book covers. #art#illustration#BigArtThread
Portrait paintings by Brazilian artist Anita Malfatti, 1910s-20s, who after studying abroad incorporated Expressionist and Cubist concepts in her work, and is credited with introducing Modernism to many in Brazil. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Mixed media sculpture by multidisciplinary Santa Clara Pueblo artist Rose B Simpson, 2010s-20s, whose practice focuses on finding and creating tools of healing against "objectification, stereotyping, and the disempowering detachment of our creative selves through the ease of modern technology." #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Mixed media collage by Canadian artist Julie Liger-Belair, 2010s-20s, combining paint, ink, vintage photographs, and other materials. #art#collage#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by American artist Ayana V Jackson, 2010s-20s, who uses herself as a model in compositions that deconstruct the racist history of photography and the colonialist gaze. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works on paper by Polish artist Zbigniew Makowski, 1960s, whose "romantic geometry" style pulled inspiration from philosophy, literature, Surrealism, symbology, and his own experiences. #art#drawing#BigArtThread
Sculpture and installation by multidisciplinary Moroccan artist Mohssin Harraki, 2010s, whose conceptual practice explores language, literature, history, and collective memory. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by Chinese American artist Amanda Ba, 2020s, who describes her work as "vivid paintings that combine personal memory with psychosexual fantasy," informed by race and gender theory. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Stoneware vessels by Danish ceramicist and illustrator Axel Salto, 1930s-50s. He was also the founder of Klingen magazine, an important proponent of Modernist and avant-garde art in Denmark from 1917-1920. #ceramics#BigArtThread
Works by American photographer Arielle Bobb-Willis, 2010s, who turned to film after a teacher gave her a film camera in high school, and views her work as a kind of therapy, saying “I feel with depression you live in the past and with anxiety you live in the future, so photography is something I need to remain present and productive.” #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Joe Overstreet, 1970s, whose "Flight Pattern" series moved away from traditional rectangular surfaces onto malleable canvases that could be suspended, stretched, and folded, inspired by nomadic cultures and his own experiences of displacement as a Black man in America. #art#painting#AbstractArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by Taiwan-born (though raised in Shanghai), Oakland-based artist and commercial illustrator Jocelyn Tsaih, 2020s, whose recent work explores the emotional rollercoaster brought on by the pandemic stemming from isolation, fear, and newfound hope. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
"Mother's Day Off" series by British photojournalist, painter, and teacher Grace Robertson, 1954, documenting a day trip to Margate undertaken by a group of women friends. Robertson was a pioneering photographer who shot for Picture Post and Life Magazine, often showcasing women-centric subjects. #art#photography#1950s#BigArtThread
Works by Jewish American artist (now based in Sweden) Martha Edelheit, 1960s-70s, whose erotic, boundary-pushing work explores cis female sexuality and the body. She became an anti-censorship activist in the 70s along with several other women artists. #art#BigArtThread
Works by American artist Dana Chandler, 1960s-70s, a Black Power activist who believed in using art as a tool for change. His most known work is "Fred Hampton's Door" (1970, remade in 1974), which boldly recreates the apartment entryway after it was shot through with dozens of bullets in the FBI raid that murdered the 21-year-old Black Panther Party deputy chairman. #art#PoliticalArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Beverly Fishman, 2010s-20s, whose distinctive abstract works on wood take their color palettes and forms from the advertising schemes of medical and pharmaceutical industries. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Mixed media sculpture by American artist Catalina Ouyang, 2010s-20s, whose tactile, assembled work explores themes of subjugation, literature, longing, gender, and race through a mixture of found materials and objects accumulated since their childhood. #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works from the "Girl Pictures" series by American photographer Justine Kurland, 1997 -2002, for which the artist traveled around the US in a van, collaborating with local teen girls in towns where she stopped to create intimate, dreamy images of teen runaways. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by American artist Nicole Dixon, 2010s-20s, whose cathartic, healing practice references her personal experiences as a Black woman, incorporating ancestral history, spirituality, and reverence for nature. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Embroidered works by Ömie (Papua New Guinea) artist Ilma Savari, 2010s-20s, whose primary canvas is tapa cloth or bark cloth, made from the inner bark of a mulberry or fig tree, often used ceremonially as well as domestically. She incorporates natural materials in her appliqué technique, including leaves, fruit pulp, and volcanic ash. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by multidisciplinary American artist and teacher Peter Grippe, 1940s-50s, who incorporated Cubist and Surrealist motifs into his work. #art#sculpture#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Rachael Tarravechia, 2020s, known for her detailed, dreamlike interiors that combine elements of kitsch, retro, and horror aesthetics. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by London-based photographer Nadine Ijewere, 2010s-20s, known for her portraits and fashion shoots centering non-traditional models that the artist typically casts herself, as well as series that explore her Nigerian and Jamaican roots. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt
Paintings by American artist Stuart Walker, 1930s, a member of the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico - artists who combined various philosophies and spiritual beliefs in lyrical abstractions that they hoped would tap into a "collective unconscious" - an emotional visual language understood by anyone. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Landscapes by American artist and educator Louis B Sloan, 1970s-90s, known for his impressionistic plein-air paintings depicting nature scenes primarily inspired by trips around Pennsylvania and New York. He became the first Black full professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. #art#painting#BigArtThread
Sculpture by Italian artist
Massimiliano Pelletti, 2010s-20s, who re-interprets Classical sculpture busts with a focus on material and texture. #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by Jewish photographer Gertrudes Altschul, 1950s, who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for São Paolo. She joined the modernist photographer group Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante as one of its few women members. She also made floral decorations for the hat factory her husband managed. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Works by Hong Kong artist and animator Kongkee, 2010s-20s, whose comic, film, and illustration work blends cyberpunk settings and aesthetics with ancient Chinese history, creating alternate timelines and imagined futures. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by Spanish artist and illustrator Sonia Alins, 2010s-20s, whose work often takes inspiration from the ocean, using vellum, tulle, and yarn to create underwater effects for her ink and paint swimmer figures. #art#MixedMedia#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by German multidisciplinary artist Otto Piene, 1970s, whose experimental process incorporated smoke and fire. He was also an important innovator in the realm of kinetic and technology-based artwork. #art#painting#BigArtThread
"Trapunto" works by Filipino artist Pacita Abad, 1980s-90s, who pulled together various cultural influences from her travels through Indonesia, Korea, Sudan, and her native Philippines, among other places, for these large-scale quilts with mask motifs, embellished with shells, buttons, beads, mirrors, and other objects collected while traveling. #art#TextileArt#BigArtThread
Works by Swedish artist Eva Stenram, 2010s, whose "Parts" and "Drape" series take vintage pin-up photo negatives as their foundation, which the artist then digitally edits to obscure most of the figure, re-routing the gaze in a humorous, thought-provoking way. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by Japanese artist and illustrator Tiger Tateishi, 1970s, whose vibrant, irreverent style pulled inspiration from Western Pop and Maximalist movements. #art#BigArtThread
Works by American artist Darrel Ellis, 1989-91, known for his multidisciplinary practice exploring Black family and identity. This project incorporated photos taken by the artist's father, who ran a portrait studio in Harlem in the 1950s, but was murdered by police a month before Darrel was born. The artist himself died of AIDS-related illness in 1992. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Photographs by American artist Sharon Core, 2000s-10s, who painstakingly recreates still life tableaux from paintings by artists from earlier centuries, including Raphaelle Peale, Otto Marseus van Schriek, and Wayne Thiebaud. #art#photography#StillLife#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Installations by British-Nigerian artist and designer Yinka Ilori, 2010s-20s, known for his bright colors and playful sensibility, seen here transforming common urban spaces into maximalist playlands. #art#InstallationArt#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Jonathon Downing, 2020s, who combines montage-style portraiture with his personal love of basketball and interest in sports fandom. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Pencil drawings by Yankton Dakota artist Mary Sully, c. 1920s-40s, whose "personality portraits" took the form of triptychs with traditional abstract motifs that paid tribute to various celebrities and influential figures in her life, along with other works referencing Native history. #art#AbstractArt#BigArtThread
Portraits by American photographer Roz Joseph, 1970s. While more known for her architectural photos, she also documented the San Francisco drag scene in the 70s and attempted to put out a book about the community, but it was considered too risky by publishers at the time. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Carrie Moyer, 2010s-20s, whose work explores the legacy of Abstract Expressionism while also referencing Feminist and Pop Art movements. #art#AbstractArt#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by Polish Jewish artist and environmental activist Frans Krajcberg, c. 1970s-90s. After fleeing his home country for the Soviet Union during WWII, he eventually settled in Brazil, where his art practice took on an ecological focus, incorporating natural materials - especially wood rescued from fires in the Amazon. #art#sculpture#BigArtThread
Paintings by French-Canadian artist Joani Tremblay, 2020s, whose oil on linen works assemble various figurative and abstract motifs into composite fantasy landscapes. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by pioneering Cherokee photographer Jennie Ross Cobb, 1890s-1900, who is the earliest known Native American female photographer. She took photos of family, neighbors, and schoolmates in what is now Oklahoma, creating portraits that defied many deep-seated stereotypes held by settler colonizers. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Works by self-taught Romanian artist Ionel Talpazan, 1990s-2000s, who immigrated to NYC as a political refugee in his early 20s and became known for his drawings and paintings depicting UFOs (inspired by his own experience seeing one as a child). #art#BigArtThread
Bronze and plaster busts by American sculptor Ruth Inge Hardison, 1960s-80s, known for her reverent, tactile portraits of prominent and trailblazing Black Americans (seen here: Sojourner Truth, Dr Charles Drew, Frederick Douglass, and Mary McLeod Bethune). #art#sculpture#BigArtThread
Prints by British artist Nadia Attura, 2020s, whose layered, fantastical collages combine her own photographs with touches of paint, ink, and gold leaf. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Home decor by Italian designer and architect Gaetano Pesce, 1980s-2000s, known for his unconventional forms and experiments with material. #art#design#BigArtThread
Works by pioneering Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair, 1940s-60s, one of the first Modern abstract artists in the Middle East. #art#AbstractArt#ModernArt#BigArtThread
"Art/Life One Year Performance" (aka "Rope Piece") by Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh and American artist Linda Montano, 1983-84, a work of endurance art for which the artists tied themselves together by an 8-ft rope for one year, never touching one another except by accident and documenting the experience through photographs and audio recordings. Montano said they fought about 80 percent of the time. #art#PerformanceArt#BigArtThread
Cut paper collage by American mixed media artist and photographer Bria Sterling-Wilson, 2020s, who uses magazine and newspaper clippings to recontextualize images of Black Americans, taking back control through the purposeful act of cutting and arranging. #art#collage#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Illustrations by Swedish artist John Bauer, 1910s, known for his work in the Swedish fairy tale anthology "Among Gnomes and Trolls." #art#illustration#BigArtThread
Works by UK-based Nigerian photographer Ruth Ossai, 2010s-20s, known for her saturated fashion spreads and portraits of her family and community in both London and Nsukka, with visuals inspired by West African culture. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Performance and video stills from works by multidisciplinary American artist and activist Wu Tsang, 2010s-20s, whose practice explores queer community, social justice, gender identity, and the blurred lines between performance and daily life, often working collaboratively. #art#VideoArt#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by Belarusian-born French artist Ossip Zadkine, 1920s-50s, a member of the Cubist movement whose style was influenced by both Greek and African art. #art#sculpture#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Works by American artist Marjorie Strider, 1960s-2010s, whose distinctive Pop paintings playfully skewered over-sexualized commercial images of white women, often adding three-dimensional elements. #art#PopArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi, 2010s, known for his vibrant impasto works with paint typically applied using a spatula, broom, or shovel. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by London-based Spanish artist Saelia Aparicio, 2010s-20s, whose multimedia practice explores the body as "a malleable source of wonder and horror." #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Kristy Luck, 2010s-20s, whose practice draws motifs from family heirlooms, childhood memories, and her Navajo heritage. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works from the "Hysteria" series by Ghanaian-Scottish artist and poet Maud Sulter, 1991, a project inspired by the life of pioneering 18th-century Black sculptor Edmonia Lewis. #art#BigArtThread
Landscapes by American photographer Richard Misrach, 1980s-2000s, a pioneer of large-format color photography whose documentary work often explores the impact of industrialization, chemical waste, urban sprawl, and other man-made causes of environmental destruction. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Works by Sičáŋǧu Lakota artist and curator Dyani White Hawk, 2010s-20s, whose practice combines abstract motifs from both Modernist and Lakota traditions, reflecting her own cross-cultural experiences. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by Brooklyn-based Mexican artist Felipe Baeza, 2020s, whose mixed media practice explores memory, migration, and hybrid bodies. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by German illustrator and stage painter Quint Buchholz, 1990s-2010s, who employs a Pointillist technique in his playfully surreal images. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Street photography by British artist and playwright Jill Posener, 1970s-80s, whose work often explores lesbian identity and sexuality. This early series documented graffiti seen on advertisements featuring queer, feminist, antiracist, and antiwar messages. #art#photography#graffiti#BigArtThread
Ceramic works by London-based Spanish artist and activist Bisila Noha, 2010s-20s, whose work draws from her own Equatorial Guinean heritage as well as the long history of women working in clay. #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Images from the "Silueta" series by influential Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta, 1970s, whose "earth-body" works integrated her own body or its form into various landscapes.
Woodblock prints by Japanese artist Nishijima Katsuyuki, (couldn't find dates for some of these but I'm guessing) c. 1990s-2000s. Known for his romantic images of Japan, he uses the same traditional woodblock printing techniques employed by ukiyo-e masters centuries earlier. #art#printmaking#BigArtThread
Works by American artist, illustrator, and animator Mike Perry, 2010s, known for his work on Broad City as well as various fashion, product, and print design collaborations. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Early works by American multidisciplinary artist Nina Yankowitz, 1960s-70s, whose large-scale "Draped Paintings" experimented with form, texture, and material, combining aspects of painting and sculpture. #art#BigArtThread
Paintings by Japanese-American artist Maya Fuji, 2020s, whose work takes inspiration from her multicultural background as well as her communities in the Bay Area. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Landscapes by French artist Maurice de Vlaminck, 1900s, a key figure in the Fauvist movement, characterized by artists' use of intense, fanciful color. #art#painting#BigArtThread
Paintings by Chinese artist Qi Zhilong, 1990s-2000s, a member of the Political Pop movement, known for his images of young women dressed in Red Guard uniforms, commenting on nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution era. #art#painting#BigArtThread
Glass vases designed by Ukrainian designer and creative director Kateryna Sokolova, 2020s, made by Lviv glassblowers in the tradition of Kyivan Rus "Guta" glass. #art#glassblowing#design#BigArtThread
Photographs by multidisciplinary Emirati artist and musician Farah Al Qasimi, 2010s, whose practice explores themes of gender, religion, displacement, and the legacy of colonialism through imagery highlighting everyday minutiae. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by American artist and activist Suzanne Jackson, 2010s, who has worked across a wide variety of media and genres in a decades-long career. Her more recent, textural works are considered "anti-canvases", employing found objects and paper ephemera. #art#BigArtThread
Collage by British artist Jamie Reid, 1970s-2020s, known for his anti-authoritarian and anarchist cut-paper works made for The Sex Pistols. #art#collage#BigArtThread
Paintings by Egyptian artist, illustrator, educator, and musician Hussein Bicar, 1970s-90s, one of the most prominent and influential creatives in Egypt during the 20th century. #art#painting#BigArtThread
Works by Indian photographer Dayanita Singh, 1990s-2010s, known for her art books and "mobile museums" featuring interconnected bodies of work that can be rearranged and displayed in different ways. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Matthew Hansel, 2010s-20s, known for his technically complex compositions that deconstruct and playfully re-contextualize Western art historical motifs. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by multidisciplinary American artist and former actor Leelee (Sobieski) Kimmel, 2010s, which act as 3D representations of gestures found in her large-scale abstract paintings. #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture and installation by Berlin-based Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes, 2010s-20s, whose work often draws inspiration and motifs from women artists, crafters, and designers of the past. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by French artist Valentine Prax, c. 1930s-40s, who was forced to destroy much of her and her husband Ossip Zadkine's work during the Nazi occupation of France. Her fanciful Cubist-style compositions made during the war were often inspired by her childhood in Algeria.
Paintings by Japanese American artist Miyoko Ito, 1970s, who after being forcibly sent to an internment camp during WWII eventually became an influential abstract artist associated with the Chicago Imagist movement. #art#painting#BigArtThread
Works by American photographer Alec Soth, 2000s-10s, known for his large-format portraits of people and landscapes taken during his travels. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by Pintupi Aboriginal artist Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, 2010s, whose understated abstractions often represent topographical patterns of sacred sites, made using natural pigments from his home environment. #art#ContemporaryArt#painting#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by American artist Lavett Ballard, 2010s-20s, whose collages combine found photographs with paint, pastel, and metallic foil on reclaimed wooden fences, in an ongoing exploration of Black American history and the African diaspora. #art#collage#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by British artist and writer Gordon Onslow Ford, 1930s-50s, who left the Royal Navy to study art in Paris, befriending André Breton and Roberto Matta, later giving lectures on Surrealism in NYC that influenced the first generation of Abstract Expressionists.
Sculpture by Korean artist Park Hyunki, 1970s-80s, known for his meditative experiments with video, particularly his "TV Stone Tower" series. #art#sculpture#VideoArt#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by American artist Merion Estes, 2000s-10s. She was involved in L.A. feminist art groups in the 70s, and her more recent semi-abstract landscapes bring attention to environmental disasters. #art#MixedMedia#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Self-portraits by Chinese photographer Ziyu Wang, 2020s, whose current work explores and satirizes enforced stereotypes of masculinity, especially in connection to his experiences as a young gay man in China. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Prints by Jamaican-American artist Mavis Pusey, 1960s-70s, a painter, printmaker, patternmaker, and teacher who pursued an abstract style despite pressure on Black artists of the time to make figurative work focusing on identity and social issues. #art#printmaking#BigArtThread
Paintings by Japanese artist Fuyuko Matsui, 2000s, known for her work in the Nihonga style (traditional "Japanese style" paintings using ink and mineral pigments on silk or paper). #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Textile works by American artist and teacher Karen Hampton, 2000s-10s, whose practice explores her personal family history as well as broader histories of Black Americans and the Black Diaspora. #art#TextileArt#BigArtThread#ContemporaryArt
Mixed media works by Brazilian artist Erika Malzoni, 2010s, whose sculptural practice includes assemblage, ceramics, and installation in her exploration of ordinary objects and their meaning and value. #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Photographic works by American artist Lyle Ashton Harris, 1990s-2010s, known for his multi-media practice investigating Black identity, especially Black representation, objectification, and sexuality in history. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Woodblock prints by Japanese artist Yoshida Chizuko, 1950s-60s, a co-founder of the Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, the first association for women printmakers in Japan, known for her abstract experiments within the medium. #art#printmaking#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist and doctor Sharon Madanes, 2010s-20s, whose colorful, crowded compositions take inspiration from hospital and medical school environments. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Drawings by Italian-French artist René Gruau, 1940s-50s, an influential commercial and fashion illustrator, known for his collaborations with haute couture fashion houses like Givenchy, Dior, and Schiaparelli. #art#illustration#BigArtThread
Ceramic vessels by Japanese artist Shoji Hamada, 1940s-60s, whose minimalist style and implementation of various folk craft traditions learned in England, Korea, and Okinawa have influenced many modern and contemporary potters. #ceramics#art#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Site-specific installations by Czech-German artist Magdalena Jetelová, 1980s-2010s, known for her multimedia works exploring environmentalist and architectural themes. #art#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera, 2010s-20s, who combines oil bars and printing ink to recreate images from her dreams and fantastical interpretations of her own experiences. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by Greek American artist Chryssa, 1960s, who moved from Athens to the US in her twenties and became a pioneer in using neon and plexiglass as art materials. Much of her work was inspired by colorful signage seen in NYC. #art#sculpture#BigArtThread
Paintings by Japanese artist Ulala Imai, 2020s, known for her oil still lifes featuring her own children's toys and other household items, evoking a kitschy nostalgia. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#bigArtThread
Furniture designs by American artist Luam Melake, 2020s, whose recent series "examines how furniture’s ability to shape how bodies are positioned in space can directly shape more meaningful social interactions and psychological well-being." #art#design#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu, 1950s-60s, known for his documentary photos depicting life in post-war Japan. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Prints by Jewish Polish-Brazilian artist Fayga Ostrower, 1970s-80s, whose family fled Germany in the 30s and settled in Brazil, where she became an important figure and teacher within the abstraction movement. #art#printmaking#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Drawings and paintings by Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta, 2010s-20s. After leaving Cuba for the US as a teen in 1960, his art career has grown through multiple styles and media with subjects addressing urban poverty, racism, the AIDS epidemic, and isolation. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by American artist Petah Coyne, 2010s, known for her use of unconventional materials including scrap metal, silk flowers, human hair, and taxidermied animals. #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by American artist Troy Simmons, 2010s-20s, known for his work with acrylic, concrete, construction debris, and found materials. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
"Tarantella" by pioneering American filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute, 1940, whose experimental animations combined lively abstract visuals with music in an effort to create a new kinetic form of art.
Mixed media portraits by Canadian artist Lauren Brevner, 2010s-20s, whose practice draws inspiration from her Japanese-Trinidadian heritage, with a focus on matriarchal influence. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by multidisciplinary American artist Patssi Valdez, 1980s-90s, a founding member of Los Angeles-based experimental Chicano art collective ASCO. #art#painting#printmaking#BigArtThread
Paintings by German artist and curator Hilla Rebay, 1940s-50s. A proponent of Non-Objective Art, she became a collecting consultant to Solomon R Guggenheim, and the first director/chief curator of his museum established in 1939, but was fired when he died in 1949. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Porcelain coasters by Chinese-born American artist Yage Wang, 2022, whose practice re-appropriates images of blue and white ceramic objects found in traditional European paintings. #art#ceramics#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Textile works by Diné artist Tarrell Tapaha, 2020s, a sixth-generation weaver combining traditional and contemporary elements in their pieces made of hand-spun and naturally dyed fibers. #art#FiberArt#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Landscape paintings by Afro-Native American artist Richard Mayhew, 1990s-2000s, who was a founding member of landmark Black arts activism group Spiral. #art#painting#BigArtThread
Paintings by American visionary artist Paul Laffoley, 1970s-90s, who established the Boston Visionary Cell in 1971 and was known for his visually and intellectually complex diagrammatic work exploring themes like time travel, religious philosophies, and alchemy. #art#BigArtThread
Works by American artist Baseera Khan, 2010s-20s, whose multidisciplinary practice explores consumerism, spirituality, cultural exploitation, and material history, at times using their own body or hair within the work. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by Russian artist and set designer Ivan Bilibin, 1890s-1900s, known for his early illustrations of Russian and Slavic folktales and mythology, though he also published political cartoons during the First Russian Revolution and later worked in Paris. #art#illustration#BigArtThread
Paintings by Austrian artist Maria Lassnig, 1970s-90s, known for her gestural self-portraits and focus on "body awareness" - works that explore how it feels to inhabit a body, as opposed to its literal exterior appearance. In 1980 she became the first female painting professor at a German-speaking university. #art#painting#BigArtThread
Paintings by self-taught American artist Jon Ching, 2020s, whose surreal hybrid compositions exploring the natural world are often inspired by his upbringing on O'ahu. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by American artist Roxanne Jackson, 2010s-20s, who incorporates a range of materials into her experimental ceramic works. #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by Ivorian photographer Paul Kodjo, 1970s, whose images documented young people during the Ivory Coast's break from French colonial rule and subsequent economic boom. #art#photography#BigArtThread
Textile installations by American artist Sarah Zapata, 2010s-20s, whose vibrant fiber works often pull inspiration from her Peruvian heritage as well as her experiences growing up in an evangelical Christian household. #art#FiberArt#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Structural designs by Mexican architect Ludwig Godefroy, 2020s, known for merging brutalist aesthetics with older traditions sometimes inspired by indigenous temples. #art#architecture#BigArtThread
Works by French artist Jacqueline Lamba, 1940s, who despite being a multi-talented designer, painter, dancer, and translator, is often more remembered as André Breton's wife and a Surrealist muse. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Works by American artist Shana Moulton, 2010s, whose multimedia installations often center around her alter-ego, Cynthia, an uncertain woman looking for security and wellness cures in an uncertain world. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works from the "Queer Icons" series by Mexican-American artist Gabriel García Román, 2010s, a portrait series representing queer artists, writers, and activists of color, inspired by Catholic iconography. #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Drawings by German communist artist Lena Meyer-Bergner, 1930s-40s, who studied at the Bauhaus and became an influential fabric designer and textile instructor across several countries (including the USSR and Mexico), introducing industrial weaving techniques to poor communities. She believed art's greatest role was to empower revolutionary societies. #art#drawing#Bauhaus#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Works by self-taught Turkish photographer Sabiha Çimen, 2010s, known for her series documenting the private lives of Muslim girls in Turkey. #art#photography#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by self-taught Polish-American artist Morris Hirshfield, 1940s, who ran a successful shoe business as a designer of women's slippers but retired due to poor health, taking up painting in later life. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by Miami-based, Haitian-born artist Morel Doucet, 2010s-20s, whose work combines imagery relating to Caribbean flora, climate gentrification, and environmental issues. #art#sculpture#ContemoraryArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Alice Stallknecht, 1930s-50s, who paused an illustration career to marry and care for her family, but turned back to art in her forties after meeting John Singer Sargent, making portraits of her Chatham, MA neighbors as well as a series of murals. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Collage works by British artist and punk rocker Linder Sterling, 1970s, known for her subversion of advertising and pornographic imagery. #art#collage#BigArtThread
Mixed media works by British Caribbean artist and former fashion stylist Yvadney Davis, 2020s, whose vibrant portraits connect to her own heritage as a granddaughter of the Windrush Generation of immigrants. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Prints by Japanese artist Iwami Reika, 1970s-80s, incorporating metallic inks and natural textures into woodcut and collograph techniques. #art#printmaking#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Samantha Haring, 2010s-20s, who describes her quotidian still lifes as "quiet paintings in a noisy world." #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Sculpture by self-taught Jamaican-Canadian artist Tau Lewis, 2010s-20s, whose found object and textile work explores collective and personal traumas, ancestral histories, and the Black diaspora. #art#sculpture#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Book cover illustrations by British artist Bruce Pennington, 1970s-80s, known for his influential work in sci-fi and fantasy genres. #art#illustration#BigArtThread
Paintings by French artist Amédée Ozenfant, 1920s, who along with Le Corbusier founded the "Purist" movement, an offshoot of Cubism emphasizing the simplification of objects and forms. #art#painting#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Paintings by American artist Elizabeth King Stanton, 2020s, whose recent work is inspired by her experiences of motherhood and domestic routines. #art#painting#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Works by Japanese American artist, illustrator, and teacher Chiura Obata, 1920s-30s, a classically trained art prodigy who immigrated to the US in 1903 and became known for his elegant landscapes of the American West. He was forcibly interred during WWII, and set up an art school at the prison camp. #art#ModernArt#BigArtThread
Works by American artist Jeanne K Simmons, 2010s-20s, whose performance photography explores human connections to the organic world through sculptural garments and headdresses integrated into natural surroundings, #art#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Abstract mixed media works by South African artist Turiya Magadlela, 2010s-20s, whose layered compositions incorporate various fabrics - including nylon pantyhose, correctional service uniforms, and prison sheets. #art#AbstractArt#ContemporaryArt#BigArtThread
Illustrations by French pharmacist and naturalist Jean Baptiste Vérany, c. 1840s-50s, known for his study of cephalopods. #art#illustration#BigArtThread
Sculpture by American artist Rachel Harrison, 2010s-20s, whose multimedia works often combine found objects and references to art history and pop culture along with brightly-colored abstract elements.
Works by American artist Erika Ranee, 2020s, whose freeform, layered abstract compositions incorporate a range of materials and techniques in response to the busy world surrounding her.
Buildings by German architect Gottfried Böhm, 1960s-2010s, who came from a family line of architects and whose children also entered the profession (in his later career he collaborated with his son, Paul Böhm).
Sculpture by Amsterdam-based Estonian artist Katja Novitskova, 2010s-20s, whose work explores connections between biology and technology, at times employing algorithms in their development.
Paintings by Argentinian artist Alfred Hlito, 1950s, a member of the Concrete Art movement, a postwar style popular in South America that sought pure abstraction removed from symbolism or representation.
Textile works by Inuk artist Marion Tuu'luq, 1970s-80s, who lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle with her family before moving to Baker Lake settlement, where she began sewing colorful wall hangings reflecting on cultural traditions and connections to the land.
Paintings by Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida, 1990s-2000s, whose detailed, surreal work often reflected the anxieties and insecurities of Japan's "Lost Generation" of men who came into adulthood during the economic crisis of the 90s. The artist passed away suddenly at age 31 after a train accident.
Photographs by American artist Rosamond Purcell, 1990s-2000s, known for her painterly documentary images capturing scientific specimens and subjects in a state of decay.
Mixed media works by Nigerian artist David Olatoye, 2020s, whose pen and acrylic domestic scenes take inspiration from his hardworking single mother, imagining "a home free of hardship."
Paintings by Lithuanian American artist Irving Norman, 1960s-70s, whose "socialist surrealism" works were influenced by his experiences during the Depression, fighting against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, and the crush of McCarthyism.
Works by London-based Mauritian artist Shiraz Bayjoo, 2010s, whose multimedia practice explores the legacies of colonialism through the study and use of archival materials.
Embroidered sculpture by self-taught Polish artist Justyna Wołodkiewicz, 2010s, who incorporates polymer clay elements into her three-dimensional sewn compositions.
Experimental still lifes by Japanese photographer Eiko Yamazawa, 1980s, who first worked as a portrait photographer but moved into abstraction in her later career. In 1950, she founded a studio to nurture young women photographers.
Works by multidisciplinary Italian-Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi, 1960s-70s, known as one of the first Pop artists, making collages that co-opted advertising imagery as early as the 1940s.
Mixed media works by Los Angeles-based Bahamian artist and educator April Bey, 2020s, whose practice is "a social critique of American and Bahamian culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism Speculative futurism, and Blerd culture."
Gouache paintings by American artist Anne Buckwalter, 2020s, whose interiors are inspired by the folk art traditions of her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage.
Miniature works by German artist Frank Kunert, c. 2010s, known for his darkly comedic images exposing the absurdities of everyday life through meticulously crafted and photographed sets.
Paintings by Italian artist Giovanni Boldini, 1870s, who spent most of his career in Paris and was known for his loose, gestural style and unconventional portraits of women.
Inflatable sculpture by American artist Ann Slavit, 1970s-80s, whose use of women's legs in her earliest work was a commentary on objectification of women's bodies in media.
Paintings by Palestinian artist Mohammed Alhaj, 2020s, a founding member of the Palestinian Visual Artists Association in Gaza whose recent work represents his experiences living with persistent violence, destruction, and siege.
Paintings by pioneering American artist Peter Bradley, 2010s-20s, who also curated the "De Luxe Show" in Houston in 1971, the first racially integrated exhibit in the US.
Fabric patterns by American designer Dorothy Liebes, 1930s-60s, a self-taught weaver who was one of the first American artists to adapt her techniques to mass production methods, becoming influential to the Modernist aesthetic with her bright colors and early use of synthetic materials.
Illustrations by Irish artist Harry Clarke, 1910s-20s, a prominent figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement who contributed artwork for authors like Poe, Goethe, and Hans Christian Andersen. He also designed stained glass windows after taking over his father's church decoration business.
Photos by American artist Cindy Sherman, 1980s. Known primarily for her performative and transformative self-portraits, she has long been interested in horror themes as evidenced in series like this, a rare example where her own body is not the center of the compositions.
Paintings by American artist Kenny Rivero, 2020s, whose symbol-rich work explores "what he perceives as the broken narrative of Dominican-American identity, socio-geographic solidarity, familial expectations, race, and gender roles."
"Homo Algus" sculptures by French artist Sophie Prestigiacomo, 2010s, made of mud and algae with metal armatures, placed within the Réserve Naturelle des Marais de Séné, a swamp near where the artist lives.
Works by South African artist Zana Masombuka, 2010s-20s, who typically uses herself as a model in photographic explorations of South African identity and Ndebele culture.
Watercolors by Scottish artist Arthur Melville, 1880s-90s, known for his innovative landscapes and depictions of daily life inspired by both his home country and his travels around Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Works by American artist Taylor Lee Nicholson, 2020s, whose multidisciplinary practice explores kitsch themes and their childhood experiences of poverty and "trash" culture through performance, video, and mixed media.
Works by French-Vietnamese photographer Nhu Xuan Hua, 2010s-20s, whose commercial photography often intersects with her more personal practice, which explores her own family and cultural history and her experiences as a second-generation immigrant.
Mixed media works by American artist Eric N Mack, 2010s-20s, who approaches his found textile-based work and installations with the mindset of a painter.
Illustrations by Russian-born French artist Erté, 1920s-80s, who at age 19 moved to Paris (to the dismay of his proud military family in Russia) to be an artist, eventually designing numerous covers for Harper's Bazaar as well as becoming an influential fashion and costume designer.
Installations by multidisciplinary American artist Lita Albuquerque, 2000s-2020s, known for her expansive environmental and conceptual works that incorporate pigments, rocks, and light to represent links between humanity and the cosmos.
Paintings by American artist Aaron Morse, 2010s-20s, whose works are composed like collages, pulling together fragments of print ephemera into complex, fantastical landscapes.
Paintings by pioneering Japanese American artist Kenzo Okada, 1950s, who studied in Paris and taught in Japan before immigrating to NYC in 1950 and moving into Abstract Expressionist circles.
Works by American fantasy illustrator Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 1960s-70s, known for her painterly paperback and comic book covers. Frank Frazetta once called her the “greatest living painter." She came out as a trans woman and began her transition in the late 90s, passing away in 2011 due to illness.
Photos by multidisciplinary Indian artist and filmmaker Poulomi Basu, 2010s-20s, whose practice is rooted in the intersectionality of ecological, racial, cultural, and political issues experienced by women of the global south.
Woodcuts by Kiowa artist TC Cannon, 1970s, known for his distinctive bold portraits that subverted stereotypes of Native American culture, often incorporating kitsch elements. He died at 31 in a car crash just months before his first major solo show was scheduled to open.
Textile works by American artist Qualeasha Wood, 2020s, whose practice explores voyeurism, queerness, and her experiences with internet culture as a Black woman.
Paintings by Uruguayan artist Carmelo Arden Quin, 1940s, a co-founder of Madí, a multidisciplinary art movement characterized by irregular shapes and cut-out forms that strove for completely non-representational geometric abstraction.
Designs by pioneering American architect Julia Morgan, who was one of the first female engineering majors at UC Berkley, the first woman architecture student at Beaux-Arts de Paris, and the first licensed woman architect in CA. Major projects include Hearst Castle, Mills College, and various YWCA buildings.
Works by Lithuanian-born American artist and activist Rudolf Baranik, 1960s-70s, son of Jewish socialists who were killed by Nazis, who became a leader in the anti-war movement. His semi-abstract art incorporated imagery related to the destruction and extreme violence of the Vietnam War.
Works by British street photographer Shirley Baker, 1960s, known for her documentary images of working-class life in Manchester and Salford, capturing a period when many neighborhoods were being torn down and rebuilt, leading to displacement of inner-city families.
Paintings by Bangladeshi American artist Asif Hoque, 2020s, whose iconography blends Roman and Bengal mythology, inspired by his multicultural upbringing, living between Rome and South Florida with his Bangladeshi family.
Watercolors by Scottish artist Frances MacDonald MacNair, 1890s, who along with her sister Margaret and their husbands was one of "The Four" working in the British Art Nouveau style. Her output included paintings, illustration, textiles, and metalwork, but in his grief her husband destroyed much of it after her death.
Works by South African ceramicist Bonnie Ntshalintshali, 1990s. Because she had polio as a girl and couldn't do farm labor, she apprenticed as a ceramic artist, creating work combining biblical and Zulu motifs. She died of AIDS-related illness and a museum was founded in her name in 2003.
Paintings by Palestinian artist Malak Mattar, 2020s, who started painting at age 13 during the 51-day Israeli military assault on Gaza in 2014, using her work as way to channel her fear and anxiety.
Sculpture and installation by Philadelphia-based Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, 1990s-2020s, whose multimedia work explores Latino identity and social issues, often inspired by his experiences working as a social worker in the Bronx.
Works by Haida artist Robert Davidson, 2010s, who combines traditional motifs with abstract stylization. In 1969 he carved and erected the first totem pole in his ancestral Massett village since the 1880s.
Works by Japanese American photographer Will Matsuda, 2010s-20s, who describes his practice as "examining ideas about home, belonging, and performance in relation to my mixed heritage."
Works by Lebanese American artist, writer, and philosopher Kahlil Gibran, 1910s, most known for his hugely popular 1924 book of prose poetry, The Prophet.
Paintings by London-based Chinese artist Li Hei Di, 2020s, known for their fluid, layered, and sensuous works that combine abstract and figurative elements.
Posters by Russian artist brothers Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, 1920s. Associated with the Constructivist movement, they worked in sculpture, theater, architecture, and graphic design, and today are especially known for their inventive movie posters.
Dresses by pioneering Black fashion designer Ann Lowe, 1950s-60s, who often went uncredited for her work but today is remembered for designing Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress along with numerous highly detailed couture gowns for high society women and debutantes.
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