Imagine the shock of entering a gallery to find a room full of nude models. You'd either thank your lucky stars for Postmodernism or shrink from the vulgarity of it all, but both reactions would undoubtedly be accompanied by a certain amount of intrigue. So what happens when these flesh-and-blood mod

Composed, Elegant, Political, Sexy

Thrust upon the art scene and the world at 21, Maya Lin is probably best known as the young upstart who, in 1981, amazingly snagged the commission to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. She was still an undergrad at Yale. As most everyone knows, her memorable achievement with the Washington D.C. la

Public art

Ray's primary thematic concerns center around containment, integration, isolation, and self-sufficiency. A leader in Conceptual Realism, Ray's best work offers a metaphor for the gap between the literal and the symbolic (or the known and the unknown). His art is compelling in its representation

Grotesque, Homoerotic, Minimal, Modern sculpture, Perverse, Phallic, Quirky, Surreal

Most of Pierson's work consists of smallish monochromes created with an oilstick on paper. "What You Take With You and What You Leave Behind" (1994) depicts a wooden folding chair with a short-sleeved, silk-print shirt dangling from its back, a coffee cup, and cigarette butts scattered around the flo

Dense, Dreamy, Homoerotic, Hypnotic, Scatter art, Sensual, Text art