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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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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Dan Gluibizzi

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

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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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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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Calvin Ross Carl

Calvin Ross Carl makes paintings that look like thick ropes of paint methodically built into graphically flat images of words or simple icons.

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