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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Arvie Smith

Arvie Smith makes large scale phantasmagoric oil paintings that reference everything from American racial stereotypes, contemporary politics, historical events, to narrative and art-historical tropes.

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Dawn Okoro

Artist Dawn Okoro makes large bright hued pop-influenced figurative paintings centering the experiences of Black Americans.

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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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Evan Hudson

Artist Evan Hudson uses the "aesthetically familiar" material plasticine, or modeling clay, to construct naïve looking scenes that pack a sinister punch.

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Anya Roberts-Toney

Anya Roberts-Toney is a painter of still lives, apparitions, feminine mystique, and cultural contradictions.

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Julie Alpert

Julie Alpert's work manifests the language and vernacular of post-pop contemporary abstract painting into jubilant, dramatic, 3-dimensional stage settings awash with nostalgic color palettes.

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Howard Fonda

Portland artist Howard Fonda might best be descirbed as a painter-philosopher who uses his painting practice to contemplate themes of love, death, existence, and humanity.

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David Schell

Portland artist David Schell makes paintings that utilize simple color and abstract forms to convey a discrete affect in each piece.

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Amy Bernstein

Amy Bernstein is an artist heavily invested in the process of painting. She makes paintings on large canvases, composed of lyrical brushstrokes on a painstakingly smooth layer of white gesso.

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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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Nadia Waheed

Nadia Waheed makes narrative paintings rich with color, metaphor, and iconography.

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Kate Greatmochi Bae

Kate Greatmochi Bae is an artist moving painting forward with her process-based peeled acrylic forms.

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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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David Joel Kitcher

David Joel Kitcher uses intuitive mark making to construct abstract paintings, watching them unfold with each decision he makes.

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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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Rithika Pandey

Rithika Pandey's surreal, dream-like paintings make heavy use of pattern and saturated, fauvist interiors.

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Kendrick Corp

Kendrick Corp makes paintings that expose the inherent contradictions of American masculinity.

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