#american contemporary art

[jareckiworld]

Mark Beck — "Beachfront Rooms" (acrylic on canvas, 2024)

[theartofdyingtogether]

Myself as a dead clown, Joel-Peter Witkin, 2007

[theaskew]

Danie Cansino (Mexican-American b. 1986, lives and works in Los Angeles), El Sol (#46), 2022. Oil on plywood, serape, 24 x 18 in.

[oncanvas]

The L Train at 14th Street, Richard Estes, 2015

Oil on board 16 x 12 in. (40.64 x 30.48 cm)

[disease]

"DIVINE @ THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM" PETER HUJAR | NYC, 1976 [gelatin silver print | U/D]

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jon Eric Riis

Hands of the Oracle

[marejadilla]

Gabriel Mark Lipper, "Martique", ("Alla Prima" series) Oil on panel. Born in Portland and lives in Ashland, Oregon.

[internationalemeteorologie]

M. C. Goodwin

How stars are made. 2022

[madeleineengland]

"The Black Cat beyond the Pink Curtain". 2024. Watercolor on paper. By Jan L. Waldron

[threeheadedtrinity]

Andrew Wyeth, Lovers (1981)

[uwmspeccoll]

Cannupa Hanska Luger, New Myth, Future Technologies, 2021

Dana Claxton, Headdress-Jeneen, 2018

Teresa Baker, Hidatsa Red, 2022

Raven Chacon, For Zitkala Sa Series, 2019

Caroline Monnet, Echoes from a near future, 2022

Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Calling Sky World), 2021

Anna Tsouhlarakis, The Native Guide Project, 2019

Meryl McMaster, Harbourage for a Song, 2019

Marie Watt, Companion Species (Calling Back, Calling Forward), 2021

Staff Pick of the Week

An Indigenous Present proposes that a book can be a space for community engagement through the transcultural gathering of more than sixty contemporary Indigenous and Native artists. Published by BIG NDN Press and Delmonico Books in 2023, An Indigenous Present was conceived of and edited by Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972) over the course of nearly two decades. 

In Gibson’s own words, “An Indigenous Present celebrates the work of visual artists, musicians, poets, choreographers, designers, filmmakers, performance artists, architects, collectives, and writers whose work offers fresh starting lines for Native and Indigenous art. But the book does not attempt comprehensiveness. Rather, those included here are makers I admire, have collaborated with or been inspired by, and who’ve challenged my thinking. . . . These artists and what they make will guide us to Indigenous futurities authored by us in unabashedly Indigenous ways.”  

An Indigenous Present features over 400 pages of color photographs, poetry, essays, and interviews resulting in a stunning visual experience for readers and a shift towards more inclusive art systems. The front cover art shown here is by Canadian artist Caroline Monnet entitled Indigenous Represent. 

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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[jareckiworld]

Kat Lyons — Lamentation of the Sky (oil on canvas, 2023)

[theartofdyingtogether]

So much Beauty it could make you Cry, Adrian Sibley, 2022

[theaskew]

Laura Rifka, Piggy Back, oil on canvas, 60 X 72 inches, 2019

[oncanvas]

Tour Bus, Richard Estes, 2012

Oil on panel 19 x 10 in. (48.3 x 25.4 cm)

[disease]

"I PICK ON EVERYONE DEAD OR ALIVE" LOUISE BOURGEOIS // 1999 [lead and steel | 21 x 31.1 x 1.3 cm.]