Favorite Contemporary Artists?

[dreamlife_trinity]

As in alive and still working

Obviously most of yall know Takashi Murakami

Then one of my new favorites is Luke Murphy
hes kind of small right now but I love his newer neon/digital sculptures?

His other work is pretty decent too

Zhou Fan is also a big fave of mine

I cant imagine the amount of time gone into stuff like this

Alejandro Acosta

I really dig his expressive technique
I’m no where near the level that these people are at but I try to take a more expressionist approach when painting at the moment so I love to see stuff like this

Fiona Rae… her stuff kind of reminds me of Murakami’s

Nobuyoshi Araki is a really good photographer but its super erotic
Hes been in some controversy recently though, I wouldnt call it controversy so much as him just being a shitty human.

Daido Moriyama is a much more interesting photographer and not a scumbag as far as I know
he covers way more than just erotic photography

If yall want to talk about what artist you guys enjoy… I feel like theres a ton of great 21st century artist out there that, I wouldn’t have found out about any of these people on here hadn’t it been for instagram and my art instructors

[criminiminal]

I’d have to say Matthew Barney. just untouchable, really.

[CosmEffect]

JR Slattum has so many eye-pleasing, mythical pieces, which altogether create their own world or universe and makes one wonder both what else could be out there externally and what’s going on internally.

(jrslattum.com, @jrslattum.com)

[nuclerose]

don’t mind a bit of barbara kruger myself

[Ak.re]

Really into Gianni Caravaggio atm

Really hope I can see his work irl soon

[DAICON]

You’ve got excellent taste my guy, would love to learn more about some of this stuff.

As for me, I’d have to give a shout to Wolfgang Tillmans

I’d really love to have a copy of one of his remain posters, especially with that slogan. The campaign failed, but the sentiment is still valid.

[GnowH]

Thanks for introducing me to some of these artists @dreamlife_trinity, i especially like the works you’ve shared of Alejandro Acosta and Daido Moriyama!

One of my favourites at the moment is David Rappeneau. I find his style and way of foreshortening and distorting the proportions to be incredibly enthralling. I also really enjoy the subject matter, though it is a bit “tumblr-esque”. you can find his instagram here

Another artist I really enjoy is this Korean artist called Hongmin Lee, or freezm1 on instagram which is where I discovered him.
His works are so surreal and expressive, I wish I could see them in real life…
It would be incredibly cool if he somehow animated his work into a film or something, as the paintings are already filled with such motion and energy.

[dreamlife_trinity]

I enjoy those David Rappeneau ones quite alot
Super stylized way of doing paintings. I dont mind that theyre tumblr ish
Never really been my crowd but I can see how they could be annoying to someone
The shadow techniques and style remind me alot of aeon flux

[S.A]

Lost track of so many since I stopped looking at Instagram!

CANADA has a lot of great artists. I like Katherine Bradford, especially the swimming ones:

I remember Michael Williams had some great paintings there, although he’s at a different gallery now:

Used to really like SWOON, although it seemed she was mainly doing activism things these days: