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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Anthony White

Anthony White makes supersaturated maximalist 'paintings' of the cheap consumer trash, luxury branded ephemera, and digitally mediated bodies that populate our ultra-capitalist post-internet reality.

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Anya Roberts-Toney

Anya Roberts-Toney is a painter of still lives, apparitions, feminine mystique, and cultural contradictions.

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David Joel Kitcher

David Joel Kitcher uses intuitive mark making to construct abstract paintings, watching them unfold with each decision he makes.

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Philippe Hyojung Kim

Philippe Hyojung Kim makes paintings and paint-made objects that get to the heart of paint-as-material, that gooey viscous stuff with which we make paintings.

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Rithika Pandey

Rithika Pandey's surreal, dream-like paintings make heavy use of pattern and saturated, fauvist interiors.

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Cynthia Cruz

The paintings of Cynthia Cruz are maximalist phantasmagoric scenes populated by weird bodies, alien creatures, and lots of decorative patterns.

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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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Jean Alexander Frater

Chicago artist Jean Alexander Frater makes paintings about paintings that deal in simple forms, restraint, and judiciousness.

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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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Dan Gluibizzi

Dan Gluibizzi makes work that recontextualizes internet photography into chromatic groupings of anonymous bodies and faces.

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Buffalo

This week's artist makes a wide range of work outside the traditional gallery setting and goes by the moniker Buffalo.

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Amir H. Fallah

Los Angeles based artist Amir H. Fallah constructs lush, vibrantly hued paintings populated by shrouded figures in shallow spaces.

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Bobby Haulotte

Kansas City artist Bobby Haulotte is an imminent painter of our times, addressing certain hallmarks of this decade like screens, saturation, obfuscation, artifice, split attention, and anxiety.

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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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