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.
Anya Roberts-Toney
Anya Roberts-Toney is a painter of still lives, apparitions, feminine mystique, and cultural contradictions.
Howard Fonda
Portland artist Howard Fonda might best be descirbed as a painter-philosopher who uses his painting practice to contemplate themes of love, death, existence, and humanity.
David Joel Kitcher
David Joel Kitcher uses intuitive mark making to construct abstract paintings, watching them unfold with each decision he makes.
Dan Gluibizzi
Dan Gluibizzi makes work that recontextualizes internet photography into chromatic groupings of anonymous bodies and faces.
Wokeface
After spending 12 years as a freelance graphic designer, Wokeface began making art for herself and displaying it on the streets of Portland. Her paintings are beacons of joy in these dark times with her remarkably simple symbol of a serene looking smiley face with a wide open third eye.
Jeremy Okai Davis
Jeremy Okai Davis makes paintings that adroitly mix elements of abstraction and figuration. The skintones of his figures are alive with spots of intense color that are a testament to optical color mixing.
Ralph Pugay
Ralph Pugay makes paintings that trade in archetypes, uncomfortable humor, and weird space.
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.