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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Ann Gale

Ann Gale is an artist and educator widely revered among painters but less recognized commercially. For years she has mentored a new generation of painters at the University of Washington while keeping a rigorous studio practice making highly observed perception-based oil paintings.

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Jazz Brown

Jazz Brown is an artist working in geometric abstraction but with a softer, more painterly bent than typical.

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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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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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Ilana Zweschi

Ilana Zweschi makes process-based paintings that seek to disarm documents of propaganda and harmful pronouncements.

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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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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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