ARTT 428
Advanced Painting Studio
Richardson
An ongoing List of Painters, mostly from mid-twentieth century to the present, in semialphabetical order. Artists listed are American unless otherwise noted. Look up online and
then go to library.
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Philip Ackerman – Dutch. Self portraits. Theatrical. Obsessive.
Franz Ackermann – German. Painting/installation
Layla Ali – African. Funky cartoon figures.
Ghada Amer – Egyptian. Dense, finely stitched networks of overlaid figures.
Joe Andoe –Tight realist. Horses.
Timothy App –Faculty at MICA. Cool, geometric abstraction. Blacks, whites and greys.
Polly Apfelbaum – Installation of painted fragments. Often works on floor.
Charles Arnoldi – Quirky color, loose geometry.
Milton Avery – Mid-century American modernist. Simplified form. Representational.
Richard Artschwager – Strange realist paintings on celotex. Older artist who continues to look
hip.
Frank Auerbach – British. Expressionist, painterly portraits. Very loosely representational.
Ida Applebroog – Narrative, multi-paneled, figurative, feminist.
John Alexander – Expressionist, painterly, semi-figurative. Texan.
Gregory Amenoff – Abstract, landscape oriented, symbolic.
Joan Brown – West coast funk, figurative, narrative.
Stepah Balkenol – German. Mostly sculpture, some painting. Figurative.
Christopher Brown – West coast, bay area, abstract/figurative blend.
George Baselitz – German. Expressionist, figurative.
Elmer Bischoff – Bay Area Figurative. Went through abstract period.
Jennifer Bartlett – NY, grids, multi-paneled, abstract/representational, pattern.
Robert Berlind – NY. Urban landscape, later blurred multi-figured photo driven.
Richmond Burton – Painterly pattern and repetition. Young.
Jean-Michel Basquiat – post graffiti figurative expressionistic. Words.
Glen Brown – British. Post-surreal.
Romare Bearden – Collage. Figurative, expressionistic, African- American social content.
Francis Bacon – English. Surreal, psycho-sexual, figurative, expressionist.
Mel Bochner – Abstract, conceptual, geometric, structural.
Jake Berthot – Abstract, singular form, painterly, textural.
Phyllis Bramson – Chicago, funky, personal, narrative, figurative.
Ross Bleckner – NY, abstract, sometimes symbolic, cellular. Black.
James Biederman – abstract, geometric, expressive paint.
Michael Borremans – Realist/portraits.
Tom Burkhardt – Painting/installations/studio reconstructions.
Henry Brown – UMCP grad. Cool, geometric abstraction. Young.
David Brody – NY. Eccentric abstraction, architecturally derived, young.
Mark Bradford –LA. Young. Abstract, process.
Isabel Bigelow – MICA grad. NY. Minimal, representational elements in abstract context.
Ellen Burchenal – Baltimore. Installation, painterly geometry. Multi-paneled, sculptural.
Joe Buck – Diagrammatic, symbolic, figurative.
Charles Burwell – Philadelphia. Complex, layered, painterly abstraction.
Donald Baechler – NY. Collage. Funky, imagist, child-like, iconic.
Claudio Bravo – Tight realist. Intense color.
David Bates – Painterly, figurative, narrative, bayou.
William Bailey – Long-time Yale professor. Idealized realist still life.
William Beckman - Nudes, minimally presented realist figures. Some landscape.
Wallace Berman – California. Beat generation. Early use of photo-copy. combinations.
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Strangely obsessive compulsive repetition of format.
kabbala, mystic symbolism.
Chuck Close – Super realist. Heads. Process oriented photo-realism. Painterly pixellation.
Robert Colescott – Funky, figurative, narrative, political and social commentary.
Francesco Clemente – Italian. Figurative, symbolic, expressive, sexual, mystical.
Carole Caroompas – Mass media images on found fabric, collaged to canvas.
Steven Cushner – UMCP grad. Abstract/imagist.
John Currin – Figurative, NY, post-illustrative. Surreal, social commentary.
Paula Crawford – George Mason U. professor. Abstract, geometric, painterly, oil paint.
Colby Caldwell – Photographer/digitial, painterly images, figurative and abstract.
Susanna Coffey – NY. Painterly heads and generic portraits.
David Chung – Stylized figurative, social commentary, murals, installations, environments.
Corcoran grad.
Ingrid Calame – Young, NY, abstract, process oriented.
Greg Colson – NY conceptual, painting/construction
George Condo – Post surrealist
Theresa Chong – NY. Abstract systems, digital influences.
Michael Ray Charles – Representational, abstract mix. Racial commentary, social issues.
Vija Celmins – Super realist, meditative. Small drawings and paintings of astronomical and
natural forms. Super-rendering.
Jay Davis – Young, West Coast cool abstraction.
Karen Davies – NY. Abstract, young.
Lydia Dona – NY. Abstract, structural, theoretical. Geometry/process.
Jane Dickson – NY. Representational, urban.
Tom Downing – Washington Color School. Dots, discs, circles.
Steve DiBenedetto – NY, abstract/imagist. Painterly.
Carroll Dunham – LA/NY funky, figurative, painterly.
Jean Dubuffet – French. Great figure in the 2nd half of 20th century. Funky figures (early), material
exploration, abstraction.
Richard Diebenkorn – California. Bay Area figure, abstraction, major20th century artist.
Roy DeForest – West coast, funky , figurative. Humorous.
Richard Deacon – British. Sculptor. Abstract. Always worth a look.
Moira Dryer – NY. Died young. Abstract constructions, exotic materials.
Peter Doig – Scottish. Fantasy, blended landscape. Relates to Leipzig School.
Ron Davis – LA. Geometric, abstract, shaped structures, fiberglass resin.
Rackstraw Downes – NY. Realist. Urban/suburban landscape. Excellent.
Willem DeKooning – Dutch. Major figure in New York School. Abstract expressionist.
Jim Dine – NY. Pop, performance, installation, iconic representation.
Mark Dagley – NY. Op redux.
Marcel Duchamp – French. His paintings are always worth a look. Painted constructions as well.
Richard Estes – Photo-realist. Storefronts, urban scenes, complex, reflective surfaces. The best.
Stephen Ellis – NY. Abstract, process and geometry. Uses squeegees.
Don Eddy – Super-realist, impossible still-life.
Benjamin Edwards – DC. Inkjet prints of fantastice geometric landscapes and spaces
Inka Essenhigh – Surrealist, figurative. Strange.
Todd Eberle – Photographs of architectural facades. Pattern/structure.
Sharon Ellis – LA. Slick cool botanicals and landscapes. Graphic.
Manny Farber – California. Flattened, aerial views of still-life objects. Toys, trains, etc….
Laurel Farrin – UMCP grad. Teaches at U. of Iowa. Eccentric organic abstraction.
Janet Fish – Realist still life, lots of glass.
Eric Fischl – NY. Figurative, narrative, psycho-sexual suburbia.
Helen Frankenthaler – NY. Abstract expressionist. Landscape derived, thin, liquid paint pioneer.
Lucien Freud – British. Juicy, post-cezanne nude figures, directly observed and painted. Intense.
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Confrontational.
Ciao Fonseca – Soft geometric abstraction. Lyrical.
Raphael Ferrer – Later paintings are figurative, narrative, social commentary, portraits.
Louise Fishman – NY. Small, dense, tense, painterly abstraction.
Ellen Gallagher – NY. Narrative, conceptual, mixed-media, social comment, race.
Katarina Grosse – German. Giganto post-abstract expressionist extravaganzas. Young.
John Gibson – Realist.
Graham Gillmore – Post graffiti. Very funky.
Kojo Griffin – Imagist, political, social comment. Funky.
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe – LA. Abstract, theoretical, writer, critic.
April Gornik – Landscape, luminist influenced.
Simon Gouvenor – DC. Deceased. Quirky, geometric, symbolic.
Cheryl Goldslegger – Atlanta/NY. Geometric, encaustic, architectural, geometric, conceptual.
Tom Green – DC. Funky, ideographic, narrative – abstract.
Andreas Gursky – German photographer whose work is painterly enough to be included here.
Leon Golub – Chicago, figurative, political, monumental, unique.
Philip Guston – Great painter. Early work is abstract expressionist, later work is painterly,
expressionistic, cartoony, funky and intense.
Michael Goldberg - 2nd generation ab-ex.
Gregory Gillespie – Magical, strange realist. Surreal. Unique.
Sidney Goodman – Painterly realist. Urban vision.
Nancy Graves – Sculptor and painter. Map paintings interesting.
Sam Gilliam – DC. Constructed paintings, drapes, 3D ventures.
Adolph Gottleib – NY. Ab-ex.
Arshille Gorky – Armenian, NY. Early abstract expressionist.
Peter Halley – NY. Geometric abstraction, theoretical, writings. Neo Geo.
Mary Heilman – NY. Soft geometric abstraction. Washy, poetic.
James Hyde – NY. Constructed painting.
John Hull – Realist, narrative, political, human content. Implied violence.
Eberhard Havekost – German. Big minimal post-photographic, architectural semi-abstract.
Leipzig School.
James Huckenpahler – Digital prints, painterly/tech perspective. Young.
Robert Helm – Washington state. Highly crafted imagist painting.
Willy Heeks – Post-abstract expressionist. Linear, painterly overlays.
Hillary Harkness – Complex figurative, fantasy, strange.
Doug Hall – another painterly photographer I like.
Mark Innerst – NY. Realist. Dark inward turning landscapes.
Warren Isensee – NY. Geometric abstraction.
Jim Isermann – LA. Geometric abstraction/installation.
Jorg Immendorf – German. Narrative, neo-expressionist.
Alfred Jensen – Systematic, painterly, conceptual abstract pioneer.
Jasper Johns – NY. Early pop, later quotation embedded abstraction with representational
elements.
Yvonne Jaquette – Aerial pointillistic views of NY.
Bill Jensen – NY. Small dense abstract paintings.
Anselm Kiefer – German. Monumental, collaged, landscape and historical painting. Mythic and
grand. Also makes amazing books.
Martin Kobe – German. Leipzig School. Monumental, geometric interiors.
Per Kirkeby – German. Abstract, painterly, landscape inspired.
William Kentridge – South African. Great artist. Drawing, collage, animation, social content.
Ellsworth Kelly – Geometric, shaped minimal canvases and structures.
R.B. Kitaj – Figurative, narrative, social. Excellent.
Karen Kilimnik – Representational with a twist. Young.
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Franz Kline – NY. Ab-ex. Black and White.
Robert Kushner – NY. Pattern and decoration
Frida Kahlo – Mexican. Personal, narrative, self-portraits.
Lee Krasner – NY. Abstract expressionist, collage
Byron Kim – NY. Conceptual abstract constructed paintings.
Shirley Kaneda – NY. Abstract, computer driven.
Patrice Kehoe – UMCP. Abstract, painterly, structural.
Nicholas Krushenick – Abstract Pop. Hard edged, acrylic, eccentric, pure color.
Gustave Klimt – Look at his landscapes.
David Kreuger – UMCP grad. Teaches at Mont Coll. Wild and crazy figurative, narrative,
outdoorsman Bigfoot delight.
Jeff Koons – might be the devil. Photo driven extravagant later paintings.
Yayoi Kusama – Japanese. Abstract, fetishistic, eccentric, historic.
Guillermo Kuitca – Argentina/NY. Painting/Installation.
Jacob Kainen – DC. Large, lyrical, abstract painting.
Martin Kippenberger – German. Postmodern/pop, installation
Jonathan Lasker – NY. Quirky, semi-geometric abstraction. theoretical basis.
Jacob Lawrence – Historic, African American, figurative, abstract.
Roy Lichtenstein – Major pop artist. Brilliant compositions.
Morris Louis – Washington Color School. Poured, liquid stained.
Sylvan Leoni – NY. Young. Abstract referential.
Eva Lundsager – UMCP grad. Abstract, landscape inspired, painterly.
Julian Lethbridge – British. Abstract, physical.
Frank Lobdell – California, bay area, abstract. Quirky.
Glen Ligon - NY. African American, young, word paintings.
Sean Landers – NY. Young. Imagist. Self-absorbed.
Marcus Lupertz – German. Neo-expressionist, more abstract.
Antonio Lopez-Garcia – Spanish. Excellent urban realist.
Alfred Leslie – NY. Hyper-real figures.
Stanley Lewis – DC. Teaches at AU. Collaged, canvas urban/suburban backyard landscapes.
Brice Marden – NY. Abstract master. Early work minimal, later calligraphic and painterly.
Tom Martinelli – NY. Dots, lots of dots.
Ed Moses – LA. Abstract, loose geometric, fields.
Robert Motherwell – NY School abstract expressionist. Excellent writer.
Robert Moskowitz – Minimal imagist. New Image painter.
John McLaughlin – LA. Early minimal painting.
Donald Moffett –
Oliver Mosset – Painted plywood constructions. Flat, bold.
Beatrix Milhazes – Brazillian, young, decorative, eccentric process.
Fabian Marcaccio – Argentinian, NY based. Shaped canvases, digital and photo processes
mixed with painting. Recently doing large installations.
Conrad Marca-Relli – NY school contemporary. Collaged canvas on canvas.
Agnes Martin – Quiet, poetic minimal grids. Special.
Alex Mayer – DC artist. Eccentric formal constructed paintings.
Vic Muniz – Remakes masterpieces out of strange materials.
Will Mentor – NY. Abstract, neo-geo related.
Sarah Morris – Geometric abstraction. Young.
Giorgio Morandi – Italian. Early 20th century quiet still life. Subtle,amazing paintings always
worth looking at.
Alyssa Monks – young
Takashi Murakami – Japanese. King of Superflat. Artist, curator, Pop mover and shaker.
Warholish-san.
Julie Mehretu - South African? Large abstract spatial fantasy. Linear, drawing fields, futuristic.
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Linn Meyers – DC. Large and small works on mylar, graph paper, notebooks. Repetitive
beauties made line after line with markers and ink.
Barnett Newman – NY School. Ab-ex to minimal. Theorizing the sublime.
Jim Nutt – Chicago, Hairy Who. Absolutely the strangest funkiest cartoon imagery.
Alice Neel – NY. Portraits. Personal, expressive, realist style.
Thomas Nozkowski – NY. Eccentric organic and geometric abstraction.
John Newman – Painter and sculptor.
Odd Nerdrum – Scandanavian. Strange surreal old-masterish realism.
Barry Nemett – Baltimore. MICA. Landscape in strangely narrative context. Allegorical.
Ken Noland – Washington Color School. Geometric stained abstraction.
Nathan Oliveira – San Francisco, post-bay area, atmospheric abstraction.
Jules Olitzki – NY. Post-painterly abstraction
Bodhan Osyczka – Older, European ab-ex
Frank Owen – NY. Physical, chunky, process oriented abstraction.
Laura Owens – LA. Young. Abstracted, graphic, landscape.
Kaz Oshiro – Japan. Installation / painting. Weird “realism”
Albert Oehlen – German, conceptual, images, words, multi-media.
Sigmar Polke – German, free-floating images and abstract forms and processes, source artist for
much post-modern painting.
Richard Prince – NY. Text, painting, constructions.
Katherine Porter – NY. Excellent neo-expressionist abstraction in 80’s.
Fairfield Porter – Simple realist. Excellent.
David Park – Bay Area figurative. Crude, direct painting.
Emilio Perez – NY. Abstract cartoons on steroids. Tsunami.
A.R. Penck – German. Ideographic.
Jackson Pollock – NY School master.
Ed Pasche – Chicago figurative. Surreal, electronic color, perverse.
Mimmo Palladino – Italian. Mytho-poetic, symbolic, iconic, semi-abstract.
Larry Poons – NY. Early geo-op, minimal. Later big schmears of paint.
Judy Pfaff – Large scale installations, some paintings.
Peter Plagens – Abstract paintings, critic and writer.
Phyllis Plattner – Baltimore based. Surreal altars with social/political overtones. Great pastel
still-life.
Elizabeth Peyton – British. Representational, illustrative, portraits.
Monique Prieto – LA. Young. Abstract imagist.
Jack Pierson – NY. Abstract paintings build on layered Styrofoam.
Gary Peterson – NY. Soft geometry.
Francis Picabia – French. Early futuro-cubist, mid-century figurative paintings of interest.
Harvey Quaytman – NY. Subtle, geometric abstraction. Iconic, post-minimal.
Robert Rauschenberg – NY. King of pop/neo-dada. Early work constructed, off-the-canvas
painting, later photo-driven.
James Rosenquist – NY. Big Pop images. Billboard influenced, collage-like juxtapostion.
Ad Rhinehart – NY. Second generation NY school. Minimal, geometric abstraction.
Susan Rothenberg – Expressive, painterly, simple images, animals, symbols.
Susie Rosemarin – Tight, hard-edged, op, patterns, grids. Young.
Barbara Rossi – Chicago. Abstract figures, tight, flat.
Robin Rose – DC. Encaustic patterns and forms on aluminum panel. Saturated translucent color.
Robert Ryman – NY. Minimal, white, object oriented, surface/support.
David Row – NY. Large lyrical simple geometry.
Ed Ruscha – LA. Cool, conceptual, minimal, photo-driven, pop.
Gerhard Richter – German. Master painter, abstraction and photographic paintings in equal
doses.
Fiona Rey – British. Abstract, process and image.
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Michal Rovner – Israeli. Blurred, poetic photographic images. Recent computer animations
amazing.
Alexis Rockman – NY. Realist/surrealist, eco-ironic?
Matthew Ritchie – British. Abstract painting and installation, pseudo-scientific, wild, massive,
ambitious.
Jennifer Riley – Quiet, meditative abstraction.
Bridget Riley – Op goddess.
David Reed – NY. Abstract paintings that have strangely photographic presence. Baroque
beauties.
Mark Rothko – NY School. Pre-minimal painting. Excellent color and surface.
Christine Rusche – German. Large scale installations. Crazy geometry.
Catherine Redmond – Gutsy, still-life pushed toward symbolic.
Clifford Still – West coast abstract expressionist.
James Siena – NY. Repetition, pattern, system. Quiet gems.
Donald Sultan – NY. New image oriented. Big, bold, physical simple objects and lemons.
Disaster paintings from 80’s are particularly good.
Joan Snyder – NY. Painterly, expressive, abstract and imagist work. Feminist perspective.
Hollis Sigler – Funky, narrative, figurative.
David Salle – NY. Post modern, neo-pop. Image stacking and juxtaposition.
John Stephan – 50s-60s-70s Glowing discs. Circles in squares. Still look good. Irwin and Turrell
luminosity.
Tom Sachs – Not really painting but too interesting to leave off list.
Frank Stella – NY. Early minimalist and geometric work, later enormous constructions and 3D
paintings.
Sean Scully – Irish/NY. Stripes, physical constructed post-minimal paintings.
Peter Schuyff – Dutch. NY. Neo-op, geo.
Peter Saul - NY. Imagist, intense, distorted, over-the-top.
Jessica Stockholder – NY. Installations. 3D objects treated in painterly manner.
Antonio Suarez – Spanish. Expressionist, painterly.
Jaune Quick-to-see Smith – Native American imagist, proto-symbolic.
Richard Serra – NY. One of the greatest living artists. Sculpture amazing, but 2D work is great
as well.
Lisa Stephanelli – Lyrical, tight, abstraction.
Amy Sillman – NY. Post abstract expressionist.
Joe Smail – MICA faculty. Symbolic/iconic abstration.
Tony Sherman – Large painterly heads, imagist.
Nancy Spero – Feminist, symbolist, mythic.
Alan Shields – Stitched, constructed paintings and structures.
Tony Smith – Minimal sculptor. 2D work excellent.
Hunt Slonem – NY. Painterly, representational.
Wayne Thiebaud – Bay Area California. Painterly, imagist, landscapes and pies, lotsa pies.
Herve Telemaque – Argentinian? Wacky abstracted figures.
Jack Tworkov – Second generation AbEx and later geometric abstraction.
Cy Twombly – Subtle, grand, painterly abstraction.
Graeme Todd – Scotland. Lyrical, hip abstractions.
Lane Twitchell – Cut paper. Amazing psychedelic snowflakes from hell.
Antonio Tapies – Spanish. Iconic, physical abstraction. Sand, marble dust, wall-like surfaces.
Fred Tomaselli – NY. Abstract paintings made from pills, plants, collaged images under serious
polyeurethane.
Bob Thompson - African American. Flat stylized figures in narrative structure. Jazz.
Luc Tuymans – Belgian. Image/abstract.
Richard Tuttle – Shaped, informal, geometric, multi-part
Juan Usle – Spanish. Simple structural abstraction.
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James Valerio – Realist, super-realist, figurative.
Claude Viallat - French. Abstract, patterns, constructions.
Terry Winters – NY. Organic/geometric painterly abstraction.
Dan Walsh – NY. Soft geometric abstraction. Hand made hard edge.
Kara Walker – African American, social/political/racial content.
Kehinde Wiley – Hip hop portraits on highly decorative abstract ground. Young, Africanamerican.
William T. Wiley – California. Funky, eccentric, imagist/abstract work.
Michael Weiss – Baltimore. MICA. Abstract, lyrical, poetic.
Karl Wirsum - Chicago. Wacky cartoon images. Hairy Who.
Paul Wonner – Still life, color, composition.
Trevor Winkfield – British. Tight, cartoony images.
David Wojnarowicz – East village. Social issues.
Martin Wong – NY. East village, community social issues.
Leslie Wayne – NY. Physical painting. Paint as object.
William Willis – DC. Teaches at AU. Still life and symbolic elements combine in painterly
abstract poetic structure.
Andrea Way – DC. Works on paper. Intricate, systematic fields of overlaid structures. Hypnotic.
Christopher Wool – NY. Bold, painterly, image/abstract/words.
Jerome Witkin – NY. Figurative realist.
Fred Williams – West coast abstract/landscape. B.1927
Howie Lee Weiss – Teaches at MICA. Bold, linear, charcoal imagist work.
Robert Yarber – Narrative, figurative, fantasy
Robert Yoder –
Lisa Yuskavage – Strange figurative fairytale psycho-sexual images wrapped up in bad illustrative
style.
Joe Zucker - Constructed paintings made with thick additive to paint.
John Zinssner – NY. Post minimal abstraction, process.
Larry zox – Gemetric abstraction
Eric Zener – California realist. Water imgages w/figures.