52 CRITICAL PAINTERS

52 Critical Painters highlights artists pushing the practice of painting forward. Artists who have developed a voice, carved out a corner, imagined a vision, or set themselves apart.

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Kendrick Corp

Kendrick Corp makes paintings that expose the inherent contradictions of American masculinity.

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Jean Nagai

Jean Nagai's paintings are interference patterns of bright hues that seem to move and vibrate.

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Stephanie Pierce

Stephanie Pierce makes laboriously observed paintings from her immediate surroundings that feel glitchy, time-lapsed, and transitory.

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