Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville is a personal favorite of mine. Her work is very much concerned with the ways in which women--particularly plus-sized women--view their bodies and, as a result, their self-worth. She has an uncanny ability to capture flesh in paint that rivals that of the great masters of old.
Claes Oldenburg (Drawings)
You may know Claes Oldenburg already as the famous Pop-era craftsman of large-scale sculptures of everyday items constructed out of soft materials. What you may be less familiar with are his drawings, which are superb. This man was a master draftsman whose drawings (most of which were illustrations accompanying proposals for sculptures) are deceptively simple.
Chuck Close
Chuck close was an early pioneer of the Photorealism movement. After a tragic accident in the early 80s which left him mostly paralyzed, his attention shifted to large scale portraits that focus on the use of the grid and take advantage of the limited motion he has in his hand. All of his work, even to this day, is mainly concerned with the ways in which photography, though perceived as a reproduction of "reality," are actually a means of abstraction.
Fernando Bryce
Fernando Bryce is a Brazilian artist whose small-scale drawings are all based on photographs, pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines from by-gone eras. Through his particular process of translating these images into ink drawings, Bryce attempts to bring to the forefront the issues of racism, nationalism, and political division that plagued the world in the past and still do in the present.
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl is an interesting guy. His paintings are enigmatic. His subject, for the most part, seems to be white, suburban, middle-class Americans doing things in private that they would never admit to in public. I've never actually read an artist's statement by Fischl, so I'm not entirely certain what his goal is with these paintings, but their sense of humor and moral ambiguities fascinate me.
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