Who are some of your favorite contemporary artists?

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Painters? Sculptors? Performance?

― Star Hustler, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

that naked sushi chick

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005RQ0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That would make an ill tatoo.

― Star Hustler, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost certainly has already.

Serious answer: Aaron Kraten. Man's insanely funny and just as talented.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Stan Lee. He is a real artist. Fuck that squiggily line shit and those drips and drops. My dog can take a crap. Is that art? Hell no!

― Johnny Hummingbirdcake, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Kiki & Herb

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

A Finnish photographer whose name I've forgotten. He takes these incredible panoramic photographs of life on the Finland/Russia border.

Sculpture - um, no one off the top of my head. I've never had a sculpture really knock me on my ass (though I bet I'll see something at the Nasher Sculpture Center - http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/ - if I ever make it to Dallas)

Painter - several, Mark Ryden most of all

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, uh, I was going to say Ryden, too. Off the top of my head, I also like Chuck Close, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha. For 3D/conceptual: Tom Friedman.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.davidmach.com/sculpture/dontimg/imgwin/dontfucklarge4.jpg http://www.davidmach.com/sculpture/dontimg/imgwin/dontfucklarge2.jpg

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary Hume. No question. Greatest Living Painter. Best since Bacon

Scuplture - The Boyle Family.

― neil, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a big fan of Fiona Rae's paintings. I can't really see Richter or Ruscha as contemporary, exactly - if we're just meaning still around, Rauschenberg and Riley (Rs are best!). I love Damien Hirst.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I found out recently about Brian Jungen, an artist from Vancouver who seems pretty neat--he makes Native American decorative patterns from reconfigured Air Jordans. I also like Richard Artschwager, Tom Friedman, and Erwin Wurm for walking this decorative/sculptural/everyday object line. When I think sculpture, I think Katharina Fritsch and Edward Lipski. Photography-wise, I like Araki (admittedly for pervy reasons)and Wolfgang Tillmans (frustratingly simple, non-sequitor and inconsistent, but still likeable somehow). Humorous drawings and such: David Shrigley, Marcel Dzama. David Thorpe gets huge points in my book for immaculate craft.

― mark cunningham (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

ditto on marcel dzama. add neil farber, mat brinkman to that. brandon bird also.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Painter - several, Mark Ryden most of all

ugh. the best thing ryden ever did was make anima mundi worth $300+ on ebay. thanks, markie.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

my ex is showing a painting of hers this weekend in Los Angeles:

http://www.cirrusgallery.com/cirruspics/grant_ptg_004-03-AG_%20pinkpalimpsest_full.jpg

it's fantastic, about 6'x6', there are small scrawled words all over it too.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Kiki & Herb

And who do you think one of their favourite artists is? (whistles, skips about with hands clasped behind back, rolls eyes)

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hardly proposing he's my *favorite* contemporary art, but, Dean, based on the pop culture/lo-fi aesthetic of the ppl you mentioned, I think you might enjoy Derek Erdman.
try derekerdman.com on for size, skipping past the plagarized Shrigley on the first page.

― mark cunningham (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Martin, I included Richter and Ruscha because they're both still producing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 November 2003 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

that painting is wonderful!

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 13 November 2003 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll also ditto Dzama. More as I think of them...

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 November 2003 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

David Shrigley seconded - I'm insanely fond of his work, and have never been able to work out why.

― cis (cis), Thursday, 13 November 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom White, David Shrigley, Chris Cunningham, Mathew Sawyer, Fiona Banner, Mark Leckey, Mark Wallinger, Phil Knott, Vanessa Beecroft, dear Damien dhharling, David Mach, Frank Auerbach, and Carl Imthurn for starters.

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 13 November 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The things I've been most excited about over the past few months include Marilene Oliver, the Janet Cardiff "Forty Part Motet", Ackroyd & Harvey's grass-lined church, Candice Breitz in Oxford, David Batchelor, Faisal Abdu'Allah, err oh curses I've forgotten. It occurs to me that that list is very un-crafty.

I'm waiting for the following to sweep imperiously back into my life and change everything: Mark Wallinger, Cornelia Parker, Langlands & Bell, Inventory.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 13 November 2003 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Gerhard Richter, Raymond Pettibon (much of it, at least), John Frame (an LA sculptor who is very good and almost unknown), Daniela Rossell (if photographers count). Others I can't remember right now.

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 13 November 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like Sarah Tze(sp?) sculpture machine thingys.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

any one ever heard of Robin Rhodes?

― mark cunningham (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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