Known for his colorful “puddle” paintings, Ian Davenport has gone to great lengths in the name of experimentation, once even using an industrial wind machine to blow paint onto a canvas. In his recent works, …
WILLEM DE KOONING
Willem de Kooning was a renowned American-Dutch painter that helped form the Abstract Expressionist movement. His gestural works—which were loosely based on figures, landscapes, and still lifes—helped establish a distinctly American style of painting. Perhaps De …
DOROTHEA LANGE
Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography. During the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs …
RICHARD DIEBENKORN
Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he began his extensive …
DAN FLAVIN
Dan Flavin employed commercially-sold fluorescent light tubes in order to produce what he liked to call “situations” or installations. His minimalist approach transcended simplicity through his use of neon colors and thoughtful compositions. With straight-edged …
DAMIEN HIRST
There is no other contemporary artist as maverick to the art market as Damien Hirst. Foremost among the Young British Artists (YBAs), a group of provocative artists who graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in …