Contemporary art links

Artist links

Next Chiho Aoshima -- One of the best of those superflat manga-loid "Kaikai Kiki" artists, and creator of that brilliantly trippy animated piece "City Glow" that played on five monitors simultaneously at MOCA's "Ecstasy" show.

Next Ida Applebroog -- Paintings documenting the social and psychological deviations of daily life. Other images can be seen at PafA and at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.

Next Bill Barminski -- Contemporary artist Bill Barminski's mixed media art and shockwave animations .

Next Ray Beldner -- A sculptor who makes art from money, and who very thoughtfully recruited me for NextMonet.com many years ago...

Next Sandow Birk -- Creator of a pseudo-historical series documenting the "The Great War of the Californias", in which Los Angeles and San Francisco wage all-out war for water rights and cultural domination

Next Braldt Bralds -- Dutch-American painter and illustrator of many familiar book and magazine covers.

Next Karen Carson -- Mixed media art incorporating a visual language borrowed from the artist's daily life.

Next Enrique Martinez Celaya -- Art which examines the gray area between experience and its representation, as well as the relationship between fragmentation and wholeness, not to mention the tension between a thing and the absence of that thing.

Next Jennifer Celio -- Intricate graphite drawings of contemporary landscapes revealing layers of history and meaning.

Next Francesco Clemente -- An Artchive.com page devoted to Clemente with links to selected images

Next Cassius Marcellus Coolidge -- Self-taught painter of dogs playing poker.

Next Henry Darger -- Reclusive janitor and visionary outsider artist, creator of the 15,000 page, 12 volume, single-spaced, typewritten epic entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, as caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.

Next David Duncan -- Contemporary realist paintings with interesting shallow-focus effects, for example, this image.

Next Richard Ehrlich -- Beautiful photographs of derelict houses overtaken by sand.

Next Echo Eggebrecht -- Funky cool paintings of outdoor scenes

Next Carol Es -- Mixed media art interwoven with the fabric of personal experience

Next Inka Essenhigh -- Morphing, swirling quasi-surreal paintings incorporating figurative, abstract and cartoon-like elements. A short interview in Bomb Magazine here.

Next Carlee Fernandez -- Taxidermic luggage, sculpture and performance art. Artist interview here. An LA Weekly review is here.

Next Llyn Foulkes -- Review of the Laguna Museum of Art's retrospective.

Next Renee A. Fox -- Biomorphic and botanical abstractions charged with symbolic content.

Next Zhenya Gershman -- Large yet intimate and vividly expressive figure paintings

Next April Gornik -- Beautifully dark and moody landscape paintings, drawings, prints.

Next Betty Green -- Complex mixed-media paintings by a Santa Monica artist.

Next James Jean -- Fine pictorial convention and representation.

Next Moire Hahn -- Densely imaginative contemporary art inspired by Persian miniatures, Tibetan Thanka paintings, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, Indian animal drawings, and Chinese guardian figures. Bio on uniteddivas.com.

Next Lynn Hanson -- Personal expressions of the artist's intense relationship with the natural world.

Next Eberhard Havekost -- Quotidian images that are abstracted into a kind of mannerism of the everyday. Artnet.com review and images can be found here and here

Next Julie Heffernan -- "Dream-work[s] of transformational processes within a landscape of rococo exuberance."

Next Gottfried Helnwein -- Versatile and tireless artist, creator of this iconic poster image of James Dean as well as this campy Hopper spoof. More recent and provocative works mix Nazi and religious imagery.

Next Randall Hufbauer -- Remembering our lost friend Randall...

Next Kerry Kate -- Macabre and amusing art dolls, effigies, paintings, and more.

Next Josh Keyes -- Diagrammatic paintings and drawings that comment on the isolating impact of technology and our culture of consumption.

Next Tom Knechtel -- Contemporary painting overflowing "with the stuff of literature and language: metaphor, rhymes, narrative, character."

Next Ashley Macomber -- Beautifully freaky animorphic paintings. (Click on each of the detail images to get the complete picture.)

Next M. Caren McCaleb -- Textured and distorted faces rendered with gesso, ink and emulsion on paper

Next Suzanne McClelland -- Compelling abstractions

Next Bobbie Moline-Kramer -- "Fooling the eye, with love."

Next Moonlight Glass -- Hand-blown glass art by John Mooney

Next Shiri Mordechay -- Disturbing grotesqueries constructed in watercolor/pastel/collage. Better images were posted here (scroll way down), but they may not remain on this site indefinitely.

Next Robin Palanker -- Creator of dream-like and incogruous interior scenes

Next Robert ParkeHarrison -- Moody yet whimsical photographs, also at Bonni Benrubi Gallery.

Next Polly Pitsker -- Auto-biographical photographs and digital images

Next PROJECT inSECT -- An educational traveling exhibit of large insect paintings, along with live performances and educational materials.

Next Sabrina Raaf -- Art-generating machines and extra tall photos of floating humans in domestic situations

Next Gerhardt Richter -- NY Times article about the SFMOMA retrospective.

Next Holly Roberts -- Psychological dramas rendered in paint over photographs

Next Robert Russell -- Figurative, photo-based images of gardeners, skaters and anonymous strangers in a variety of media

Next Mark Ryden -- An eclectic fusion of bees, meat, tikis, religious emblems, alchemy symbols, old toys, and Abraham Lincoln.

Next Jenny Saville -- Brilliant painter of larger-than-life women. An unofficial Saville web site can be found here.

Next Michael Sokolis -- Painter of dreamlike urban high-wire crossings.

Next David Trulli -- Noir retro-futurist scratchboard works and lensless photography

Next Luc Tuymans -- It's a mystery

Next Miller Updegraff -- Paintings of complex, non-repeating patterns that explore how the eye learns, over time, to construct pathways and perceive structure when confronted with visual randomness.

Next Alexandra Wiesenfeld -- "The Look of Love," images of stuffed animal erotica. Also, a zingmagazine review of her show at the Dactyl Foundation.

Next Holly Williams-Brock -- Photorealist landscapes based on the idea of the photograph as a medium of manipulation, a veil that obscures truth, while painting becomes the medium of authenticity.

Next Jim Woodring -- Creator of compellingly surreal cartoon worlds.

Next Peter Zokosky -- Paintings of brooding monkeys, skeletons picking oranges, Abe Lincoln diving for lobsters, flayed animals, etc.

Blogs

Next abLA -- art.blogging.la by Caryn Coleman of sixspace gallery

Next artbusiness.com -- Coverage of SF art openings with many photos

Next Artopia -- John Perreault's Art Diary

Next Anna L. Conti -- Working artist's journal

Next From the Floor --

Next esart.com -- Carol's blog-o-rama

Next Mat Gleason -- Mat's LiveJournal

Next JMG Art Blog -- Jeff Green's art blog

Next Modern Art Notes -- Tyler Green's modern and contemporary art blog

Next my love for you -- Meighan O'Toole's brilliant art blog

Next Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's artblog -- Art reviews, deep thoughts, and gossip from Philadelphia and beyond

Next The OC Art Blog -- Contemporary art behind the curtain

Next Studio notebook -- Carolyn Zick's studio notebook on art and studio time in the Pacific NW.

Next theartweblog -- Contemporary art musings

Reciprocal links:

Next Monica Araoz -- Contemporary abstract artist. A mix of abstract expressionism and minimalism.

Next ArtPromote.com -- Compilation of art links

Next ArtsrepubliK -- "Artists of the world unite!"

Next dart.fine-art.com -- The Internet Art Database

Next Deborah Batt -- Stylishly modern abstract, landscape, figure and still life paintings

Next Silvana Brunotti - Paintings of Rome, horses, flowers, and other marvels

Next Michael Crawford and Tom Hanus -- Photos of landscapes, still lives, groovey patterns and textures.

Next David Culbertson -- Acrylic artworks

Next Cliff Finity -- Contemporary surrealist painter.

Next Keith Garrow -- Unique and original abstract oil paintings by British artist Keith Garrow. Purchase artworks direct from the artist.

Next Tara Hutton -- Decorative paintings, drawings, graphics

Next Isabel Gallery -- Lifelike dog portraits, oil reproductions, jewelry, and more...

Next Kumiko S. McKee -- Paintings of meticulously rendered figures and intricate patterns, mixing Western and Japanese traditions

Next Lou Patrou -- Pastels, paintings, large DuraFlex prints

Next Kho Sante -- Abstract art from a contemporary italian painter

Other links

Next Artist-A-Day -- Add this gadget to your iGoogle or Facebook page and get a new featured artist each day

Next Art Murmur Gallery -- Contemporary fine art in downtown Los Angeles

Next artsnet.org -- Resources for the Arts in technology, funding, development and communications.

Next Bandini Art Gallery -- A contemporary art gallery emphasizing the unique vision of the most current artists in all media

Next Dick Blick -- Art supply bargains abound at Dick Blick

Next L.A. Theater Works -- The play's the thing...

Next Laurel Page -- Talented actress, voice-over artist, author, and experienced art consultant

Next Left Coast Galleries -- The artist-collector connection

Next Life drawing -- Uninstructed figure drawing workshop

Next McLean Fine Art -- Art advisory, consulting, and curatorial services

Next Modern Masters Fine Art -- Gallery featuring the work of modern and contemporary artists in the heart of Palm Desert's lively art scene.

Next myspace.com -- Paul Pitsker on myspace

Next NetLibrary -- Downloadable audio books for late-working artist insomniacs

Next Shadow -- The supersonic furball finally gets his own page

Next The Shampoo Lounge -- Need a haircut, color, trim, or highlights?

Next SpyMart -- Tour artist studios without leaving the safety of your bedroom or den, by visiting SpyMart, the virtual studio visit superstore

Next blogspot.com -- News from the art cave

Next Webcam -- Some grainy stills from my studio webcam

Next Wickerfish -- Dim shapes lost in the fog of time

Identity art -- More on identity