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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Kate Greatmochi Bae

Kate Greatmochi Bae is an artist moving painting forward with her process-based peeled acrylic forms.

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Daisy Patton

Daisy Patton's numerous bodies of work are all steeped in research and held together by a sincere concern for this planet and its inhabitants.

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Kendrick Corp

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

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Robert Otto Epstein

The paintings of Robert Otto Epstein are vividly colored gridded compositions that call to mind 8-bit imagery and 90's computer software.

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Cable Griffith

Seattle artist Cable Griffith is known for his dense, colorful, fantasy landscape paintings informed equally by nature and video games. They are flattened, expansive compositions with different land forms coming together in a single image.

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Benjamin Terry

Artist Benjamin Terry makes playful paintings that use color and form to highlight longstanding painting traditions precisely by veering from them.

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Ronald Hall

Artist Ronald Hall makes paintings that seamlessly blend figurative elements, painterly abstract passages, and post-pop art flourishes, into compositions that have the affect of a fever dream.

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Caetlynn Booth

Artist Caetlynn Booth makes high chroma paintings full of patterns, reflections and hard edges.

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Samantha Wall

Portland based Artist Samantha Wall makes haunting, ethereal, figurative pieces of flowing ink and virtuosic brushwork.

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Victor Perez

Artist Victor Perez takes the digital age as a given in creating paintings that playfully riff on painting conventions and contemporary living. His work is rife with humor that often takes a snarky or sardonic tone.

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Emily Gherard

Seattle based artist Emily Gherard creates subdued process-based work that reads as abstract landscapes, but which is actually rooted in figurative drawing.

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Super Future Kid

Super Future Kid's work is a post-ironic ode to cartoons, plastic toys, and the saccharine.

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Chason Matthams

New York artist Chason Matthams is a painter of our times, making work referencing memes, digital interfaces, net art, and generations of art history.

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EE Ikeler

E.E. Ikeler makes work that uses painting as a technology to develop a particular type of knowledge. The paintings are gridded, patterned, textual, and textural compositions that demonstrate the plasticity inherent to both abstraction and language.

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Jack Bishop

Jack Bishop paints brandscapes— artificial business park landscapes teeming with nameless highways and late capitalist branding that coalesce into a Geography of Nowhere.

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Gwen Yip

Gwen Yip's painting series, Backs, powerfully illustrates the quiet loneliness that characterizes living in a bustling metropolis. In each painting we see the backs of one or two people in minimally rendered city spaces.

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