Julie Mehretu makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint. Mehretu’s work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place and a collapse of art historical re

Abstract, Abstract expressionism, Abstract painting, Collage, Layered, Monumental, Smart

Richard Galpin’s complex art works are derived from the artist's own photographs of chaotic cityscapes. Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collagi

Abstract, Architectural, Baroque, Bauhaus architecture, Clean, Deconstructive, Hallucinatory, Layered, Russian constructivism

Absurd, Anal, Architectural, Charming, Clean, Clever, Composed, Contemplative, Dissonant, Ebullient, Eclectic, Enigmatic, Experimental, Flux, Geometric, Industrial, Layered, Machinistic, Mathematical, Minimal, Organic, Quirky, Repetition, Spare, Surface, Whimsical

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