Australian abstract artist Gabrielle Jones makes paintings that appear like wild bouquets of brushstrokes— energy coalescing into amorphous fleshy forms.

The paintings of Cynthia Cruz are maximalist phantasmagoric scenes populated by weird bodies, alien creatures, and lots of decorative patterns.

The paintings of Robert Otto Epstein are vividly colored gridded compositions that call to mind 8-bit imagery and 90's computer software.

Seattle artist Cable Griffith is known for his dense, colorful, fantasy landscape paintings informed equally by nature and video games. They are flattened, expansive compositions with different land forms coming together in a single image.

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.