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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Jazz Brown

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

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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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Kelly Bjork

Kelly Bjork paints domestic interiors-- scenes of tenderness, intimacy, and vulnerability in which she envisions something like utopian cohabitation.

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