Katja Farin: Nothing Is What It Seems
Katja Farin was born in Los Angeles in 1996 and currently lives and works in London.
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Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 15
The painters in this chapter approach the human figure from radically different directions. Some construct intimate domestic worlds, others invent fictional identities.
Patricia Treib's Quiet Revolution
There are artists who use abstraction as a way of distancing themselves from reality.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 14
Many contemporary painters have shifted that relationship. Rather than beginning with an image, they begin with the material itself. Pigment, texture, gravity, gesture, transparency, density.
Inside Erin Armstrong's Mind
Some artists use painting to depict the world as they see it.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 13
The artists in this chapter approach ecology from remarkably different perspectives. Some dissolve the boundaries between humans and plants, others investigate the materiality of the landscape
Emma Kohlmann's Garden
Emma Kohlmann (b.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 12
The artists in this chapter examine the built world from different perspectives. Some focus on the psychological dimensions of interiors, others on urban transformation, social history, or architectur
Nothing Is Normal in Julie Curtiss's World
Born in Paris in 1982 and now based in New York, Julie Curtiss has become one of the most distinctive painters of her generation.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 11
In this chapter, we explore artists whose work is deeply concerned with memory, disappearance, erosion, and the traces left behind by history.
Martynas Auž: The Artist Blurring the Line Between the Digital and the Real
Martynas Auž is one of the most compelling Lithuanian artists of his generation, a creator who has moved seamlessly between urban art, contemporary painting, and emerging technologies.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 10
In this chapter, we enter a different territory, one where painting becomes a vehicle for myth, fiction, symbolism, and psychological projection.
Nina Hartmann and the Aesthetics of Digital Paranoia
Nina Hartmann belongs to a generation of artists shaped by the internet, information overload, and a deep mistrust of traditional systems of authority.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 9
These painters use abstraction not as escape, but as a way of thinking through sensation, time, and perception itself.
Louisa Gagliardi: Painting After the Screen
Born in Sion, Switzerland, in 1989, Louisa Gagliardi belongs to a generation of artists who grew up simultaneously between the physical and the digital world.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 8
These painters are concerned with attention, proximity, and the emotional charge of ordinary life. Rather than chasing spectacle, they return to interiors, familiar faces and domestic objects.
Colleen Barry: beauty and discomfort
Colleen Barry is an American artist and illustrator whose work moves fluidly between painting, editorial illustration, and contemporary visual culture.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 7
Screens, archives, feeds, algorithmic visibility—images are no longer singular objects but flows. In this context, painting does not disappear; it slows, resists, distorts, and re-materializes
Ana Benaroya: Strength, Color, and Unapologetic Femininity
Ana Benaroya (born in 1986 in New Jersey) is an American artist whose work exists at the intersection of contemporary painting, visual culture, and a critical re-reading of art history.
Faces of Contemporary Art – Chapter 6
In this chapter, painting moves closer to the body. Not as representation alone, but as gesture, force, repetition, and physical presence.
Louis Fratino: Intimacy, Desire, and Contemporary Painting
Louis Fratino (Maryland, 1993) is one of the most compelling painters of his generation working within contemporary figuration.