Artist Benjamin Terry makes playful paintings that use color and form to highlight longstanding painting traditions precisely by veering from them.

Artist Ronald Hall makes paintings that seamlessly blend figurative elements, painterly abstract passages, and post-pop art flourishes, into compositions that have the affect of a fever dream.

Artist Caetlynn Booth makes high chroma paintings full of patterns, reflections and hard edges.

Portland based Artist Samantha Wall makes haunting, ethereal, figurative pieces of flowing ink and virtuosic brushwork.

Chicago artist Jean Alexander Frater makes paintings about paintings that deal in simple forms, restraint, and judiciousness.

Artist Victor Perez takes the digital age as a given in creating paintings that playfully riff on painting conventions and contemporary living. His work is rife with humor that often takes a snarky or sardonic tone.

Seattle based artist Emily Gherard creates subdued process-based work that reads as abstract landscapes, but which is actually rooted in figurative drawing.

Super Future Kid's work is a post-ironic ode to cartoons, plastic toys, and the saccharine.

New York artist Chason Matthams is a painter of our times, making work referencing memes, digital interfaces, net art, and generations of art history.

E.E. Ikeler makes work that uses painting as a technology to develop a particular type of knowledge. The paintings are gridded, patterned, textual, and textural compositions that demonstrate the plasticity inherent to both abstraction and language.

Dan Gluibizzi makes work that recontextualizes internet photography into chromatic groupings of anonymous bodies and faces.

This week's artist makes a wide range of work outside the traditional gallery setting and goes by the moniker Buffalo.

Los Angeles based artist Amir H. Fallah constructs lush, vibrantly hued paintings populated by shrouded figures in shallow spaces.

Kansas City artist Bobby Haulotte is an imminent painter of our times, addressing certain hallmarks of this decade like screens, saturation, obfuscation, artifice, split attention, and anxiety.

Jack Bishop paints brandscapes— artificial business park landscapes teeming with nameless highways and late capitalist branding that coalesce into a Geography of Nowhere.

Gwen Yip's painting series, Backs, powerfully illustrates the quiet loneliness that characterizes living in a bustling metropolis. In each painting we see the backs of one or two people in minimally rendered city spaces.

Amoako Boafo paints figures of the African Diaspora as "a celebration of Black life." His figures are dense flurries of brushstrokes amidst smoother patterns and monochrome backgrounds.

Jeremy Okai Davis makes paintings that adroitly mix elements of abstraction and figuration. The skintones of his figures are alive with spots of intense color that are a testament to optical color mixing.

The simplicity of Linda Stark's paintings belie their meticulous construction. Using tiny brushes, she builds layers of oil paint into graphical images rich with ridged patterns, textures, and sculptural effects.

Calvin Ross Carl makes paintings that look like thick ropes of paint methodically built into graphically flat images of words or simple icons.