Jilly Traganou is an architect, author and Assistant Professor in Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design. Her work examines space and architecture in intersection with the fields of cultural, media and design studies, currently focusing on design’s role in the configuration of national

Architectural, Citational, Conceptual, Layered, Political

In the mid-1980s, Wang Guangyi espoused a humanist vision of art for post-Mao China. His series of paintings entitled "Frozen North Pole" sought to evoke, in the artist's words, "a kind of beauty of sublime reason which contains constant, harmonious feelings of humanity." Abstract human figures place

Bright, Chinese grey humor, Citational, Collage, Parody, Playful, Political, Political pop, Pop

"It's very interesting because in my own life, I'm very private and low-key. For my work it's just the opposite; I want to be involved with the audience and society. My work, actually, is not art for art's sake; it's more on the cultural side and the way you talk about culture can extend to politics,

Citational, Deconstructive, Eclectic, Expatriate or third space artists, Religious

Much has been made about Fiona Rae and her fellow British New-Wavers. Rae is both celebrated and criticized for her habit of copping the trademarks of American Abstractionists and Pop artists, but at the heart of her second-generation appropriation is an analytical concern for technique. Her canvases

Abstract painting, Citational, Ebullient, Fleeting, Improvised, Young british artists