Born 1930 in San Francisco in a family of Swedish immigrants, Robert Nelson studied painting at San Francisco State University and the California School of Fine Arts – where he was introduced to a circle of Bay Area artists that converged into the California Funk Art movement of the 1960s. “This

Experimental, Funny, Layered, Open-ended, Pioneering, Representational, Sensual, Smart, Witty

Atmospheric, Baroque, Beautiful , Chance, Classic hollywood, Classical, Clever, Composed, Conceptual, Contemplative, Dense, Dissonant, Dreamy, Ethereal, Experimental, Fleeting, Functional, Funny, Geometric, Hi-tech, Hypnotic, Illusive, Improvised, Intense, Intimate, Lush, Lyrical, Melancholy, Minimal, Open-ended, Organic, Paranoid, Playful, Pop, Quiet, Self-reflection, Sensual, Serene, Serial, Sincere, Smart, Sophisticated, Spare, Spectral, Sprawling, Sublime, Subtle, Visceral

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's best-known work is currently out of print. Cha was murdered in 1982, and while foundations and archives preserve her work, and critics continue to trace out her multiple influences, this writer and multimedia Performance artist can only be explored by the average person throug

Avant-garde film, Eclectic, Improvised, Intimate, Open-ended, Organic, Post-colonial literature, Postmodern fiction, Power, Repetition, Saturated, Visceral

Trained as a filmmaker Lafia's work is informed by a joyous engagement with the formal qualities of artistic practice. In his own words, his "work is an exploration of how discourse constructs itself." His early experimental films -- "Auto-re-tour" and "Fini La Guerre" -- investigate the tensions be

Avant-garde film, Chance, Collage, Ebullient, Excessive, Loose, Net art, Open-ended, Playful, Sprawling, Wise assy