She moved from Kenya to NYC in order to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union. After that she got her MFA in sculpture from Yale. Her paintings/collages are made on Mylar, incorporating collage and ink to create idealized female figures our of fragmented parts. Her work is read as racial

Collage, Modern sculpture, New image, Post-painterly abstraction, Social realism

A painter and former graffiti artist, Barnaby was born in Philidelphia and then traveled to NYC to study at the School of Visual Arts where he earned his BFA. In 2000 he received an MFA from Columbia. He is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, and Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London.

Contemporary realism, Political art, Post-painterly abstraction

Kate Shepherd was born in New York City in 1961. Her paintings have been shown in galleries and museums since 1996. She superimposes a matrix of delicate lines on vibrant fields of color to depict the planar structure of interior or exterior spaces. The paintings are pared-down and bold in compositio

Architectural, Conceptual, Cool, Minimalist art, Polychromatic, Post-painterly abstraction

The spiritual, the sublime, infinity itself: all seem to hover beneath the translucent surfaces of Mark Rothko's blurred and veil-like rectangles. The brilliantly colored blocks of his best-known works, distillations of all that this Lithuanian-born immigrant had learned during his first 15 years of

Abstract expressionism, Abstract painting, Dense, Depressive, Monochromatic, Post-painterly abstraction, Saturated, Silence