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- Hilary Pecis. Lives and works in Los Angeles. Hilary Pecis, Two Candles, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. Hilary Pecis, Visiting Michelle, 2020.
- Holly Coulis. Lives and works in Athens, Georgia. Holly Coulis, Small Cup and Steam, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Advertisement.
- Nicole Dyer. Lives and works in Baltimore. Nicole Dryer, My Pantry, 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Nicole Dyer updates the grand Pop art tradition of incorporating representations of branded foodstuffs into her art, à la Andy Warhol and, more recently, Katherine Bernhardt.
- Anna Valdez. Lives and works in Oakland. Anna Valdez, installation view at Hashimoto Contemporary. Photo by Shaun Roberts. Courtesy of the artist. Anna Valdez draws and paints tables and floors crowded with art books (featuring David Hockney, Georges Braque, and Philip Pearlstein), plants, cow skulls (clear nods to Georgia O’Keeffe), conch shells, and decorative vases evocative of ceramic traditions from around the world.
- Giorgio Morandi
- Jasper Johns
- Wayne Thiebaud
- Marc Quinn
- Josiah McIlheny
- Ori Gersht
- Mat Collishaw
- Edmund de Waal
Italian painter Morandi treats his still life works as portraits, his chosen domestic objects reimagined as a composition of figural elements, a gathering. Most of his still lives use his famed muted and earth-toned palette, giving his objects and composition a feel of warmth and humility. The painted objects, often jugs and assorted pots, sit in c...
In the mid twentieth century still life is invigorated by American artist Jasper Johns with an attitude that foreshadows the emergence of Pop Art. Though Johns is known primarily for his painting, this sculptural take on the still life is stoic in its simplicity. Moving away from the painterly conventions more readily associated with the still life...
We are at a 1970’s dinner party, the food is cold, but no one cares because it is gaudy, kitsch and ridiculously styled. This is the world that Wayne Thiebaud has thrown us into with his energetic and cheerful still life, a portrait of the seventies. Aperitifs take the form of synchronized swimming events, the symmetry and vibrancy of which animate...
Made from ten pints of the artist’s blood, Marc Quinn’s Self confronts the incremental ageing process and its precarious road to death. Quinn’s work then situates itself amongst the great vanitas works of art history. The sculpture references a period of alcoholism in the artist’s life and the consuming dependency that came with it. Requiring const...
American sculptor Josiah McIlheny brings new depth to the still life, with the infinite meandering of reflections produced in his mirrored cabinets. His hand blown objects sit proudly in regimented rows, each forming and consumed by unending factory lines disappearing into infinity. Mclheny is well known for his glass blowing, a practice whose rari...
The traditional still life was intended to capture a moment in time unnoticed or dismissed in its commonality, Gersht turns this on its head by using the camera to capture moments so dynamic and explosive, they are but a blur to the naked eye. Using an air rifle, Gersht shoots his photographic subjects, catching the moment they shatter into tiny pi...
Mat Collishaw’s bleak but intimate take on the still life, pays tribute to the genre of vanitaswith a dark humour. Capturing the chosen last meal of death-row inmates before their execution, Collishaw takes advantage of the capacity of the still life to render an absent subject somehow present, forming a portrait via the story the accoutrements tel...
Edmund de Waal’s art is populated by his iconic porcelain vessels, the delicacy of which consecrate his title as master potter. His works recall Mondrian plus many other exemplars of the modernist grid, but also pay simultaneous homage to the still life of the humble object. The clean, subdued colour palette also recalls Morandi. De Waal’s artistic...
- Sarah Meyers. Sarah Meyers is renowned for her dynamic use of lighting and precise workmanship, both of which infuse her still-life compositions with a sense of vitality.
- Javier Rodriguez. The playful manipulation of perspective and size that Javier Rodriguez engages in presents a challenge to our understanding of space and the world around us.
- Maya Singh. The colorful and bold still-life paintings that Maya Singh creates burst with a riot of colors and textures, producing a visual feast that is also a feast for the eyes.
- Andrei Petrov. The abstract interpretations of still-life subjects that Andrei Petrov creates challenge the conventional notions of form and representation.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the most famous contemporary artists and American painters of all time, emerged from the early ‘80s American Punk scene in New York and swiftly became recognised in the international art circuit for work such as his abstract paintings of faces.
- Peter Doig (b. 1959) Peter Doig is a Scottish artist who spent most of his formative years in Trinidad and Canada, and studied art in England. His contemporary art is described by the Saatchi Gallery as containing themes of magical realism, “capturing timeless moments of perfect tranquillity, where photo-album memory flits in and out of waking dream.”
- Christopher Wool (b. 1955) Christopher Wool first made a name for himself in the New York contemporary fine arts scene in the 1980’s. He is best known for his modern art paintings of words, his trademark white canvases with large black stencilled letters.
- Rudolf Stingel (b. 1956) Rudolf Stingel is an Italian artist based in New York. Since the ‘80s, Stingel’s contemporary art is concerned with interrogating his chosen medium of painting and subverting notions of authenticity, hierarchy, meaning, and context.
Sep 20, 2020 · Craig Wylie ‘s work seeks to exploit the potential of still-life and figure painting in the 21 st century. Most famous for his hyperreal portraiture, the Zimbabwe-born artist is mainly concerned with color and texture.
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Apr 17, 2024 · Who are some notable modern still-life artists? Contemporary still-life artists such as Janet Fish, Audrey Flack, and Charles Demuth continue to push the genre’s boundaries. Their work represents the ever-changing nature of modern still life painting.
