Great Chinese artist from Mainland China who is living in exile in Paris.

Clean, Composed, Contemporary realism, Elegant, Figurative, Figurative painting, Sublime, Subtle

Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid 1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy. In the mid-80s, she studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts

Composed, Contemporary realism, Figurative painting, Lyrical, Moody, Quirky, Sensual

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

Jonah Criswell received his BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from Pennsylvania State University. He has exhibited in New York, Kansas City, Pennsylvania and Germany. His work is concerned with contemporary domestic spaces as a metaphor for how we construct, on a subconscious level, our

20th-century music, 80s synthpop, Anxiety, Architectural, Atmospheric, Baroque art, Beautiful , Collage, Complex, Contemporary realism, Existentialist literature, Existentialist theory, Figurative, Figurative painting, Flash fiction, Fleeting