Artist Directory

A French-born Los Angeles-based street artist, Thierry Guetta, better known as "Mr. Brainwash." Guetta was a proprietor of a used clothing store and amateur videographer who was first introduced to st...

Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940, Chicago; d. 2007, New York) belonged to a generation of artists who emerged in the 1970s and whose exposure to Cubist-derived Minimalism and Surrealist-influenced Pop inspir...

The artist was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He got his early training at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He was awarded the Holmes Art award and his work was published in The Baltimore Sun.The...

Lowell Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker best known for his large-scale depictions of flowers. These frontal paintings of irises, lilies, tulips, orchids, and roses, isolated the flower f...

Jack Perlmutter(1920-2006) Born in New York City, Jack Perlmutter was a Washington DC painter and printmaker. He was Professor Of Art and Chairman of the Printmaking Department at the Corcoran Gallery...

Richard Pettibone (American, b.1938) is one of the pioneering artists to use appropriation techniques. Pettibone was born in Los Angeles, and first worked with shadow boxes and assemblages, illustrati...

Elizabeth Joy Peyton is an American contemporary artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. She is known for figures from her own life and those beyond it, including close friends...

Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (1925 Ð 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. He is well known for his collage-like prints layering ...

Paul Rebeyrolle (1926 - 2005) was a French painter born in Eymoutiers, France. As a child he had tuberculosis of the bone, which caused for long periods of immobility. Later he studied in Limoges and...

Duke Riley is an American artist. Riley earned a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a MFA in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is noted fo...

Larry Rivers (1923 Ð 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, Long Island, and Zihuatanejo, Mexico....

George Rodrigue was an American painter known for his iconic and long-running Blue Dog series of paintings. Beginning in the late 1980s, Rodrigue painted a reoccurring character of a blue dog with yel...

American painter James Rosenquist (b.1933) was known for being the most openly political artist in the Pop Art movement. Rosenquist began his career as a billboard painter, a skill he would apply in h...

Francesco Scavullo was an American fashion photographer best known for his work on the covers of Cosmopolitan and his celebrity portraits.

Lorna Simpson (born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African-American photographer and multimedia artist who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square D...

Donald Sultan (b. 1951) is an American artist who is most known for his use of industrial materials as a median of production. These materials often include tar, enamel, and tiles. Sultan creates life...

Taboo! (b.1959)Painter, theatrical designer, and drag artist Tabboo, also known as Stephen Tashjian, was an essential figure in New York's early downtown art scene.

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is a Belgian visual artist best known for his paintings which explore our relationship with history and confront our seeming ability to ignore it. World War II is a recurring the...