Using her own photography as the primary source imagery for her most recent works, Carla Klein's dynamic compositions depict unpopulated terrain, shot by the artist during her travels. In a palette of near-black, inky blue, soft gray and cold white, Klein captures the essence of these uninhabited ter

Architectural, Atmospheric, Dystopic, Figurative painting, Monumental

Kara Walker uses the silhouette, that old parlor craft practiced by bonneted ladies, to create installations, prints, and paintings that stir intense controversy. The body of her work focuses on the antebellum South and the iconography and stereotypes surrounding African Americans, especially the ima

Figurative painting, Parody, Political, Severe, Violent

Dark, Distorted, Event, Figurative painting, Grotesque, Melancholy, School of london, Violent, Visceral

The famously disheveled self-portrait -- chest hairs threatening to tickle his chin, two eyebrows merging into one atop dark-rimmed glasses, an emphatically bulbous nose and its own unkempt follicles protruding beneath -- could not be further at odds with the obsessively methodical, every-last-millim

Clean, Figurative painting, Huge, Intimate, Photo-realism