“Smiley”, Oil on linen, 1999, Lisa Yuskavage

Will Barras

Absence Presents, Spray Paint on Mirror, 42” x 42”, 2008

Chris Duncan

Ethan Hayes-Chute

Matthias Wischer

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville’s enormous paintings of the human body are meant to focus attention to physical appearance and the general idea of what we consider grotesque.

Mark Ryden

Gordon Terry

A Refusal of the Materialist Insistence on Surface and Plane, 2006

acrylic on acrylic panel

Dusk Accelerator, 2008

Jacob Feige

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has just opened an interesting new exhibit that examines the “Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures”. 

“Kain”, 1965, Oil on canvas on fiberboard, Wolfgang Mattheuer