Seminar task 1 - List of 30 living, contemporary practitioners. (week 1)

Identify 30 (living) contemporary practitioners within your own field of practice (Fine Art).

01
Name: Jan Dibbets
Media/ materials used: Painting, drawing, photography, print, collage.
Themes/ context of work: Perspectives, perception of surroundings, light, view points.
Source: Book: Jan Dibbets 'interior light'
R. H. Fuchs, 1991. Jan Dibbets - Interior Light. First Edition. Rizzoli, New York.

02
Name: David Claerbout
Media/ materials used: Film, photography, video.
Themes/ context of work: Perception, movement, time, manipulation. "The artists main concern is to question our conventional ideas of time and narrative processes".
Source: Book: David Claerbout (book published for the occasion of four international exhibitions) ISBN: 3-88375-880-9
David Claerbout, 2005. David Claerbout (German Edition). Bilingual Edition. Walther Konig, Koln.

03
Name: Anri Sala
Media/ materials used: Film, performance.
Themes/ context of work: He explores the relationship between sound and image in film works about the history of a site or place.
Source: Frieze magazine 149 september 2012

04
Name: Dexter Darlwood
Media/ materials used: Painting, collage.
Themes/ context of work: Unconventional/ surreal landscapes, interiors, imagination, fragmentation.
Source: Frieze magazine 149 september 2012

05
Name: Luc Tuymans
Media/ materials used: Painting (oil).
Themes/ context of work: Abstraction through representation, visceral depictions of cultural taboos that confront the viewer. still lifes, interiors, landscapes, portraiture.
Source: Defining contemporary art - 25 years in 200 pivotal artworks.

06
Name: Cecilia Edefalk
Media/ materials used: Painting (oil, tempera), Sculpture (casting)
Themes/ context of work: Mutability, Time, progression, memory, comparison.
Source: Parasol unit - Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wahlstrand 'Time and Memory'.

07
Name: Michael Readecker
Media/ materials used: Painting and embroidery.
Themes/ context of work: landscape, painterly abstraction, urban life, banality, emotion + colour.
Source: Volume, Hauser and Wirth gallery London.

08
Name: Eberhard Havekost
Media/ materials used: Painting (oil on canvas)
Themes/ context of work: Mechanical distortion of colour and perspective, cinematic techniques, illumination/ brightness, "democratic light". Urban landscapes.
Source: Online interview: Havekost, E. (2010) Dematerialized Seeing: A conversation with Eberhard Havekost, Interview by Hortense Pisano, ArtMag, 15 january, [online] http://db-artmag.com/en/59/feature/dematerialized-seeing-a-conversation-with-eberhard-havekost/ [accessed 3 october 2012]

09
Name: Wilhelm Sasnal
Media/ materials used: Painting.
Themes/ context of work: Society, observation of capitalist culture, mass media, predominately black and white palette. "It strives to define personal experience of an impersonal world".
Source: Kai Althoff, 2006. Saatchi Gallery: The Triumph of Painting. Edition. Walther Konig, Koln.

10
Name: Pennie Elfick
Media/ materials used: Painting and print. (abstract)
Themes/ context of work: Juxtapositions. rhythms. transient nature of light. representational elements suggesting changes in spaces or landscapes. minimalism.
Source: Somerset arts week - artist open studios. Dove studios.

11
Name: Thomas Demand
Media/ materials used: Sculpture, photography, documentation.
Themes/ context of work: historic places of reference, deceptions of scale. banal and mundane scenes. He creates accurate, scale paper models of interior scenes and photographs them to create a realistic illusion.
Source: Daniel Birnbaum, 2011. Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks. Edition. Phaidon Press.

12
Name: Vija Celmins
Media/ materials used: Painting (oil on linen), Drawing (graphite).
Themes/ context of work: Time, timelessness, materiality of painting, 'all over' painting. Morality.
Source: Daniel Birnbaum, 2011. Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks. Edition. Phaidon Press.

13
Name: Rod Maclachlan
Media/ materials used: Sculpture, photography, light projection.
Themes/ context of work: Investigates visual perception. tensions between physical and virtual spaces. Observation and imagination. Physicality.
Source: Spike Island studios 'like being'. http://rodmaclachlan.co.uk

14
Name: Albert oehlen
Media/ materials used: Painting (Post-non-representational)
Themes/ context of work: engagement with the history of painting, challenges traditional abstraction. provocation, representation through abstraction.
Source: Saatchi online artist profile.

15
Name: Christopher Wool
Media/ materials used: Spray paint, screen printing, digital media, photography.
Themes/ context of work: Reinterpretation, methodical procedures, depersonalising the act of painting, repetition, obscuring, deconstruction, recomposition.
Source: Christopher Wool exhibition at Musee D' Art Moderne - 30 march/ 19 august

16
Name: Martin Creed
Media/ materials used: Installation, sculpture, painting.
Themes/ context of work: Simplified choices of two elements (not being able to choose), embracing two opposites, order, 'things'.
Source: Daniel Birnbaum, 2011. Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks. Edition. Phaidon Press.

17
Name: Tim Head
Media/ materials used:
Computer programming, drawing, painting, digital prints, installation, photography.
Themes/ context of work: Abstract artist whose work exposes the digital mediums physical, and basic form of pixels and hyper real codes.
Source: The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from 1960's - now. Tate St Ives

18
Name: Callum Innes
Media/ materials used: Painting (oil and turpentine), watercolour.
Themes/ context of work: Explores the possibilities of paint on canvas, also the process of removal, 'unpainting', abstract painting techniques involving additive and subtractive processes.
Source: www.calluminnes.com

19
Name: Thomas Schütte
Media/ materials used: Sculpture (Bronze, ceramic, fimo, fabric)
Themes/ context of work: Figurative, politics, emotional states, elusiveness.
Source: The Guardian article. Thomas Schütte: Faces and figures, Serpentine Gallery.

20
Name: Stuart Duffin
Media/ materials used: Painting, Printing (etching with mezzotint), Digital art
Themes/ context of work:
Source: Featured artist in Scottish Royal Academy: Annual Exhibition. April - June 2011

21
Name: George Shaw
Media/ materials used: Enamel paint on MDF
Themes/ context of work: semi- realist, nostalgic, highly detailed suburb subjects, eerie atmospheres.
Source: Vitamin P - new perspectives in painting.

22.
Name: Carla Klien
Media/ materials used: Painting (oil / enamel on canvas)
Themes/ context of work: Spacial rendering, broad, mono tone, containment, liminal/ transitional terrains, momentary spaces that you pass through, devoid of figures, ambiguous.
Source: Barry Schwabsky, 2004. Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting. Edition. Phaidon Press.

23.
Name: Toba Khedoori
Media/ materials used: Oil and wax on paper
Themes/ context of work: Identifiable isolated forms, transitional time and states, architectural forms, in-between elements, integrated functions of inhabited spaces, solitude.
Source: Barry Schwabsky, 2004. Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting. Edition. Phaidon Press.

24.
Name: Julie Mehretu
Media/ materials used: Paint (acrylic), pencil, ink
Themes/ context of work: conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place and a collapse of art historical references. Imagined narratives, abstracted cities.
Source: White Cube, (2012), Artists: Julie Mehretu, http://whitecube.com/artists/julie_mehretu/ [accessed 3 october 2012]

25.
Name: Dan Graham
Media/ materials used: Public Sculpture, performance, video based installation or text.
Themes/ context of work: Social/ psychological subjectivity, viewer interactive, spectating, observation, illusion, uncertainty, temporality, binary structures/ forms.
Source: Hauser and Wirth (2012), Hauser and Wirth- Artists- Dan Graham- press. Available from: http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/9/dan-graham/press [accessed 12/10/12]

26.
Name: Bruce Nauman
Media/ materials used: Sculpture, drawing, site-specific installation, sound pieces, neon, photography, film, video, performance and text/language.
Themes/ context of work: Spatial and bodily encounters, the passage of time, constructed environments, systems of language, psychology, ever-changing place, self awareness.
Source: Institute of Contemporary Arts (2012), ICA, Bruce Nauman: Days. Available from: http://www.ica.org.uk/days [accessed 12/10/12]

27.
Name: Pierre Soulages
Media/ Materials used: Oil paint, printing, drawing.
Themes/ context of work:  Black, linear, gestural, visual tension, physical processes in painting, Tachisme (abstract expressionism), visual effects of light.
Source: Editors of Phaidon Press, 1999. The 20th Century Art Book. Edition. Phaidon Press.

28.
Name: Donald Judd
Media/ materials used: Sculpture, industrial, machine based processes, Painting
Themes/ context of work: Minimalism, where design and sculpture meet, removing the artist from physical equation, simplistic forms that have a unity of their own.
Source: Editors of Phaidon Press, 1999. The 20th Century Art Book. Edition. Phaidon Press.

29.
Name: Cezary Bodzianowski
Media/ materials used: Installation, Video,
Themes/ context of work: Alienation, removal of objects from original contexts, alternate circumstances, displacements, familiarity, re-appropriation.
Source: Aesthetica (2011), The Alienation Effect | Savage presents Jean Michel Jarre and Cezary Bodzianowski's Tea Back | Spike Island | Bristol, Available from: http://aestheticamagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/alienation-effect-savage-presents-jean.html [accessed 11/10/12].

30.
Name: Mary Martin
Media/ materials used: Painting, sculpture, reliefs and drawings
Themes/ context of work: English constructive artist 1950s - 60s, geometric and mathematical work involving colour, line and form. abstraction, unfolding and evolving forms, modern architecture, distortion.
Source: Art Daily (2007), Kenneth Martin & Mary Martin: Constructed Works, Available from: http://artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=21992&int_modo=1 [accessed 11/10/12]