Video, installation and performance artist Pipilotti Rist has been experimenting with new media since 1986. Rist uses multimedia to create enveloping sensory experiences for viewers. Her approach to making resonates with her multi-valent view of art. Rist told Frieze Magazine, "Art’s task is to c

Feminist, Kaleidoscopic, Sensual, Technology

The artist to represent Canada in the 2007 Venice Biennial, Altmejd's large-scale sculptures are crystalline, hairy, decomposing, holy-hollow and pastel-painted. Often an important component of the sculptures are low lying plinth like supports, which give a museum-type feel to the werewolves, birds,

Architectural, Fantastic, Geometric, Grotesque, Kaleidoscopic, Modern sculpture, Phallic, Sprawling

Natalia Goncharova was born in Nagaevo village near Tula, Russia in 1881. She studied sculpture at the Moscow Academy of Art, but turned to painting in 1904. She was deeply inspired by the primitive aspects of Russian folk art and attempted to emulate it in her own work while incorporating elements o

Feminine, Geometric, Kaleidoscopic, Pioneering

Four headless figures -- a man, a woman, and two children -- stand at attention as if in a drawing room, perhaps: they're hard to situate. Their clothes' colorful fabric clashes violently with a laced-up style. In "Nuclear Family" (1999), Yinka Shonibare has fashioned African batik prints into the Vi

Bright, Deconstructive, Eclectic, Ironic, Kaleidoscopic, Young british artists