Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art. Iva Gueorguieva heeds Hugo's words, fashioning wall-sized paintings laden with thickly rendered, sickly hued detail. Gueorguieva's works embody the hybridized and occasionally terr

Architectural, Cartoonish, Ecstatic, Euphoric, Expansive, Fantastic, Kinetic, Layered, Monumental

Andreas Gursky's hyper-real images take photography just about as far from the narrative tradition as is possible without entering abstraction. Although his pictures are devoid of romance -- what you see is what you get -- and he employs a camera with a large depth of focus, rendering even the most r

Composed, Documentary photography, Hypnotic, Intense, Monumental, Saturated

Thomas Scheibitz's brand of quirky abstraction presents a futuristic vision of opulence, where even the most pedestrian subject matter is reinvented as a product of high design. Described as 'post-cubist', Scheibitz's pictorial breakdown of flowers, suburban houses and ski resorts doesn't create actu

Architectural, Deconstructive, Figurative, Figurative painting, Monumental, Superflat

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