She makes pop-surrealist style paintings. Essenhigh’s work has been shown widely at galleries and museums around the world including SMAK in Belgium, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bienal de São Paulo, SITE Santa Fe, MOMA in New York, and The Royal Academy in London. Her work is feat
Sigmar Polke was born in 1941 in Silesia, then part of East Germany and now present-day Poland. At the age of twelve his family left the Socialist East and moved to Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland, where he grew up in the increasingly affluent society of former West Germany. He studied art at the Staat
Karl Gerstner is one of Switzerland's Stellar graphic designers. He was part of the second wave of Swiss typography. Gerstner studied under Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann. Hofmann proceeded Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Basel School of Design. One would consider Karl Gerstner's