New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.
Works by American artist, writer, musician, and photographer Diana Davies, 1960s-70s, who documented many events related to social justice movements fighting for queer, women's, and workers' rights.
Paintings by London-based Indian artist Raqib Shaw, 2010s-20s, known for his complex depictions of fantasy worlds combining a range of influences - including decorative arts traditions and Western masters like Bosch and Holbein, as well as satirical elements.
Works by Inuk artist and illustrator Ningiukulu Teevee, 2000s-20s, known for her playful compositions incorporating imagery from both folklore and contemporary life.
Mixed media works by American artist Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, 2020s, whose multidisciplinary practice "seeks to bring physical form to the ideas and theories they have been struck by from Black feminist writers and visionaries."
Mixed media works by Palestinian artist Laila Shawa, 1980s-2010s, whose practice explored political and cultural themes drawn from her own experiences. In 1985 she founded the Rashad Shawa Cultural Center in her home city of Gaza, but it was targeted and destroyed by IDF bombing in 2023.
Photos from the "East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio" by American artist John Valadez, 1978-80, known for his murals and paintings exploring Chicano identity and culture.
Work by British-Singaporean artist Kara Chin, 2010s-20s, whose practice merges ceramics, animation, and installation in explorations of human relationships to technology and ongoing ecological disaster.
"Phantom of Surrealism" performance piece by British artist Sheila Legge, 1936, photographed by Claude Cahun. Dressed in a bridal gown and floral mask/headdress, Legge opened the London International Surrealist Exhibition by parading through Trafalgar Square.
Ceramic sculpture by Japanese artist Tsuboi Asuka, 2000s-20s, who founded the Women’s Association of Ceramic Arts in Kyoto in 1957, the first group of its kind for women potters.
I've featured her several times in other iterations of this account but today in the wake of Carl Andre's death I must honor Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta with a brief glimpse into her pioneering practice of the 1970s.
Paintings by UK-based artist and educator Michael Craig-Martin, 2000s, who as a teacher at Goldsmiths College mentored many of the Young British Artists group.
Textile works by Tokyo-based artist Lindzeanne, 2020s, who became a fiber artist after she began sewing her own clothes and was introduced to slow fashion and visible mending.
Paintings by Mozambique-born, US-based artist Cassi Namoda, 2010s-20s, whose work "transfigures the cultural mythologies and historical narratives of life in post-colonial Africa."
Prints by Japanese artist Shima Tamami, 1950s-60s, known for her integration of woodgrain textures into modernist-style compositions with nature themes.
Works by New York-based Palestinian artist Samia Halaby, 1980s-2010s, who has experimented with digital technologies in her abstractions, including programming kinetic paintings that combine action and sound.
Textile sculptures by Polish artist Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, 1970s-80s, whose work experimented with fiber media in large-scale abstractions and installations.
Works by multidisciplinary artist Margaret Raspé, 1970s-80s, known for her environmental performance and sculpture, as well as her invention of a "camera helmet" used to make her experimental early films.
Sculptural installations by Dutch artist Tanja Smeets, 2010s-20s, whose work uses a range of upcycled consumer materials to explore organic growth processes.
Paintings by self-taught American artist Horace Pippin, 1940s, who took up painting after injuring his arm fighting in WWI and became known for his works exploring daily life of Black Americans as well as pop culture and history. He became the first Black subject of an artist monograph in 1947, shortly after his death.
Works by American artist Rupy C Tut, 2020s, whose practice "expands, innovates, and reframes the traditions of Indian miniature painting," using handmade pigments on hemp paper and linen.
Paintings by French artist Raoul Dufy, 1920s-30s, who was associated with the Fauvist movement while also working as a commercial illustrator and textile designer.
Paintings by Palestinian American artist Saj Issa, 2020s, whose work explores the effects of globalization through merging of corporate logos and Islamic motifs.
Performative photography by American artist Nona Faustine, 2010s, whose "White Shoes" project confronts the legacy of slavery in New York, with the artist posing at sites relating to the slave trade and slave owners, wearing distinctive shoes representing colonialism and assimilation.
Works by multidisciplinary Korean American artist Jooyoung Choi, 2010s-20s, whose "Cosmic Womb" fantasy universe explores race, gender, and trauma while also pulling from her own history as an adopted infant taken from her parents without their knowledge.
Earthenware by Texas-based Mexican artist Gabo Martinez, 2010s-20s, whose carved terracotta works are inspired by indigenous Mexican and Native American art.
Portraits by Dutch artist Ernst Van Leyden, 1920s-30s, whose early works were largely destroyed and who moved into more abstract styles in the 50s and 60s, sometimes in collaboration with his wife, artist Karin Kluth.
Paintings by Polish artist and graphic designer Wojciech Fangor, 1960s, who became a major proponent of abstraction in Poland and other Eastern Bloc countries where Socialist Realism had been the dominant style.
Works by American artist, scholar, and curator Amalia Amaki, 1990s-2010s, whose practice incorporates found domestic objects like buttons, family photos, fabric, and beads in her explorations of African diaspora experience and culture.
Works by Japanese Fluxus artist Takako Saito, 1970s-2010s, known for her interactive sculptural objects and themed chess sets - including this noisemaking chess set for John Cage.
Works from the "Transforming the Suit - What Does a Lesbian Look Like" photo series by British artist, lecturer, and therapist Rosy Martin in collaboration with Jo Spence, 1987.
Mixed media works by Chicano artist and HIV advocacy activist Joey Terrill, 1990s-2020s. These tributes to friends and heroes who died of AIDS seek to "queer-ize and Mexican-ize" the Pop still life.
Sculpture by American artist and educator Selma Burke, 1950s-70s, who was active in the Harlem Renaissance and whose relief of FDR was the model used for his portrait on the dime coin.
Paintings by Brazilian artist Judith Lauand, 1950s-60s, a pioneering abstractionist and the only female member of the "Grupo Ruptura" Concrete Art group.
Works by Canadian photographer Laurence Philomene, 2010s-20s, whose practice explores their experiences with transition and nonbinary identity through color and documentary.
Posters for the Women’s Action Forum by Pakistani artist and activist Lala Rukh, 1980s, whose multidisciplinary practice pulled from her training in Islamic calligraphy and Southeast Asian music traditions, with messaging promoting women's rights and agency.
Mixed media works by Somalia-born, NY-based artist Uman, 2020s, whose "influences abound from memories of East African childhood, a rigorous education in traditional calligraphy and a fascination with kaleidoscopic color and design."
Drawings by Latvian artist Zanis Waldheims, 1960s-70s, who fled to Montreal after the Nazi and Soviet occupations, and developed a philosophy based on geometric abstract symbolism, believing that "psychology should be studied in geometrical form, and with mathematical objectivity."
Photos by American artist Amos Mac, 2010s-20s, known for his portraits of trans subjects. In 2009 he co-founded Original Plumbing, a magazine focusing on the lives and experiences of trans men.
Sculpture and video installation by American artist and filmmaker Ja'Tovia Gary, 2020s, whose work explores race, gender, representation, and violence, with a filmmaking approach merging experimental documentary tradition with what she calls a “radical Black femme gaze.”
Floral prints from "Plants and Their Ornamental Applications," produced under the supervision of French Art Nouveau poster artist Eugene Grasset, 1896, employing the "pochoir" process which used watercolors applied by stencil.
Artists: E. Hervegh, G.A. Bourgeot, Marcelle Gaudin, Anna Martin
Paintings by Welsh artist Gwen John, 1900s-10s, who after moving to Paris in 1904 worked as a model to support herself and studied under Whistler, and was known for her quiet portraits of women and reclusive, independent nature.
Watercolors by Palestinian artist, filmmaker, and inventor Vladimir Tamari, 2000s-10s. Though he lived in many other countries throughout his life, including Lebanon and Japan, his work often explored themes of Palestinian culture, diaspora, and liberation.
Paintings by Pakistani American artist Nadia Waheed, 2020s, known for her colorful, dreamlike images of women - often self-portraits - that explore identity, spirituality, and South Asian culture.
Paintings by Pintupi Aboriginal artist Walangkura Napanangka, 2000s, whose work mainly focused on Dreaming stories belonging to the women of the Gibson Desert.
Works by Berlin-based Czech artist Klára Hosnedlová, 2020s, whose mixed media sculpture often incorporates elements of performance and immersive installation.
Prints by Japanese artist Ay-O, 1970s, who was involved in the Demokrato and Fluxus art groups and became known for his rainbow installations and silkscreen works.
Paintings by American artist, author, and activist Faith Ringgold, 1960s, whose influential and multi-varied practice included paintings, sculpture, political posters, narrative quilt works, and children's books exploring Black American history and experience.
Earthworks by American artist Meg Webster, 1990s-2020s, whose indoor and outdoor installations incorporate natural materials like soil, moss, and native plants.
Paintings from the "Great Visionary Transcendence" series by Zheng Guogu, 2010s, whose work combines Chinese and Western imagery, often commenting on the effects of digital technologies on cultural and religious traditions.
Works by multidisciplinary Japanese artist Mariko Mori, 1990s, whose early performance photography addressed gender inequality and sexist stereotypes in Japanese society.
Assemblage sculptures with blown glass by British artist Gabriele Beveridge, 2010s-20s, who often incorporates commercial imagery and motifs associated with the beauty industry into her work.
Portraits by Malian photographer Seydou Keïta, 1940s-50s, whose studio captured the urbanization and modernization in Bamako during the late colonial period.
Collage works from the "Earthly Treasures" series by Egyptian artist Mohamed Abla, 2020s, exploring the spiritual and healing aspects of plants, especially cacti.
Mixed media works by Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert, 1900s-10s, whose symbolist compositions typically combined ink, watercolor, crayon, and gouache, with muted color schemes and solitary figures and oppressive settings.
Sculpture by Japanese artist Shigeko Kubota, 1970s-90s, a member of the Fluxus movement and a pioneer in the use of video, often combining tv screens with wood and metal structures in her experimental works.
Self-portraits by Filipina artist Wawi Navarroza, 2019-2023, in a series documenting and processing a period of changes in the artist's life - including a studio fire, becoming a mother, and moving from Manila to Istanbul.
Paintings by Palestinian artist Juliana Seraphim, 1960s-90s, who fled to Lebanon during the 1948 Nakba and worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East before studying painting.
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