Tamy Ben-Tor

Born in 1975, Israel. Lives and works in New York Gewald, 2007, video, 9:44 minutes Tami Ben-Tor’s video and performance works feature the artist herself in the guise of various characters. Using simple devices such as a wig, a particular accent, a few gestures or mannerisms, Ben-Tor assumes transforms herself into a range of tragicomic figures characterized by pompous egos and an inability to critically reflect upon their own behavior. They are each trapped

Chiho Aoshima

Born in Tokyo, 1974. Lives and works in Tokyo. Japanese Apricot 3: Sinking in a World of Blue, 2007, color photograph, Plexiglas, aluminum Japanese Apricot 3: Twilight, 2007, color photograph, Plexiglas, aluminum Chiho Aoshima’s work transcends traditional techniques of representation. Aoshima uses computer software to create beautiful and erotic worlds populated by ghosts, demons, schoolgirls, and exquisite natural landscape, and her

Robert Longo

Born in New York, 1953. Lives and works in New York Untitled (Shark 10), 2008, charcoal on mounted paper Untitled (Damien), 2007, charcoal on paper In recent years, the artist Robert Longo has countered the American fantasy of a perfect dream world with several cycles of charcoal drawings depicting nightmarish scenarios including tsunami ocean waves, atomic bombs blasts, ammunition, and sharp-toothed sharks in the series Perfect Gods. Longo’s

Kent Henricksen

Born in New Haven, USA, 1974. Lives and works in New York Marvelous Possessions, 2007, silkscreen, embroidery thread and gold leaf on cotton For this series, Kent Henricksen used traditional printmaking techniques to create lithographs on linen, which he then elaborated upon by means of digital embroidery. His harrowing compositions build on the imagery of bourgeois tapestries while undermining their bucolic atmosphere, and transform decorative art into scenes haunted

Kehinde Wiley

Born in Los Angeles in 1977. Passing/Posing from Coronation of the Virgin, 2005, oil and enamel on canvas, frame Kehinde Wiley’s works incorporate a range of art-historical and vernacular styles ranging from French Rococo paintings to contemporary urban street art in compositions that cast young black men as somewhat heroic figures. His large-than-life subjects are depicted in poses that underscore their power and masculinity while pointing to a process of spiritual

Philip Rantzer

Born in Romania, 1956. Lives and works in Tel Aviv Untitled, 2007, mixed media Philip Rantzer endows mundane objects with a strange, alienating quality by dissociating them from their familiar context and transposing them into unreal spaces. Rantzer’s early works were defined by the dichotomy between estrangement and belonging and by allusions to the process of immigration. His more recent works feature assemblages of miscellaneous objects, which bespeak a

Adi Nes

Born in Israel,1966. Lives and works in Tel Aviv. Saul & Samuel, 2007, photograph Ruth & Naomi, 2007, photograph Jacob & Esau, 2007, photograph Adi Nes belongs to the generation of artists who came of age during the 1990s. The works of some of these artists are characterized by a post-Zionist stance that involves the deconstruction of Israeli cultural myths and “sacred cows,” such as issues related

Nelly Agassi

Born in Israel, 1973. Lives and works in Israel and US No Stepping Outside the Lines and No Touching the Floor, 1999, sculpture, wool The body is the arena in which Nelly Agassi operates, combining performance and choreography in both installations and video works. These variegated modes of artistic action all revolve around the points of intersection between the private and the social, the intimate and the public, a fluid, vulnerable interior and an unknown exterior.

Nigel Cooke

Born in Manchester, 1973. Lives and works in London Tree at Sunset, 2012, oil on linen Nigel Cooke’s most recent series of works is suspended between abstraction and representation, depth and surface, the micro and the macro. These works combine colorful, gestural brushstrokes, human figures and fantastic creatures. The viewer’s gaze moves from the highly-detailed, underlying layers of these compositions to their surfaces, which are composed of thick layers

Matthew Monahan

Born in Eureka, California, 1972. Lives and works in Los Angeles Scoria Pyre, 2012, patinated bronze and stainless steel Matthew Monahan’s work presents a sort of futurist archeology that combines painting with additional materials and bespeaks a variety of influences, ranging from modern art to ancient totems, ritual objects, and artifacts associates with esoteric cultures and popular culture. Monahan alludes to a contemporary form of spiritualism that brings