Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers,

Death, Excessive, Hallucinatory, Lyrical, Perverse, Profane, Queer, Rebel, Sensual, Tragic, Visceral

Errol Morris may be always be known as the man who inspired director Warner Herzog to eat his own shoe, but the storied career of the Academy Award winning documentarian has done its own part to establish him as an artist who can surely walk on his own two feet.

Born in New York in 1948, M

Absurd, Angry, Beautiful , Catastrophe, Clever, Collage, Conceptual, Contemplative, Dark, Death, Deconstructive, Dense, Distorted, Dramatic, Dreamy, Eclectic, Enigmatic, Excessive, Expansive, Experimental, Functional, Grand, Gritty, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Improvised, Intense, Ironic, Layered, Manic, Melancholy, Moody, Neurotic, Perceptual, Perverse, Pioneering, Political, Power, Primal, Profane, Psychological, Quirky, Rebel, Rough, Serial, Severe, Smart, Sophisticated, Tense, Tragic, Urban, Violent, Witty

Tacita Dean is best known for her work in 16mm film, although she utilises a variety of media including drawing, photography and sound. Her films often employ long takes and steady camera angles to create a contemplative atmosphere. Her anamorphic films are shot by cinematographers John Adderley and

Contemplative, Nostalgic, Tragic

Shannon Benine is an internationally exhibited interdisciplinary artist working within the mediums of photography, video and instillation. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and she currently teaches photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Conceptual, Conceptual photography, Contemplative, Dark, Documentary photography, Domestic, Intense, Political, Sincere, Smart, Tragic, Violent