Helena Almeida is a Portuguese multi-disciplinary artist best known for her performances regarding the body and its relationship to painting. Associated with the Body Art movement, Almeida’s performances confront the portrayal of women in art history, such as in her series For Study for Inner Improvement (1977). In a sequence of black-and-white photographs, the artist appears to eat Yves Klein blu

A.R. Penck was a German Neo-Expressionist whose paintings of figures and symbols nod to both German Expressionists like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Art Brut. Penck's Standart works, which employ a lexicon of pictograph-like marks the artist referred to as "building blocks", are essential in understanding both his process and ideology. Though often associated with the graffiti-based work of Keith Har

Robert “Kobi” Kobayashi was an American painter and sculptor. He began his career as an Abstract Expressionist during the late 1940s through the early 1960s. He later became known for paintings and three-dimensional work that employed  sheared and nailed pieces of tin, as well pointillist paintings inspired by folk and native art. Born in Honolulu, HI in 1925, when Hawaii was still a US territory,

Jane Freilicher was an American artist best known for her lushly painted floral still lifes, Manhattan skylines, and Southampton landscapes. An integral part of the New York School, she was friends with several painters and poets, including Fairfield Porter, Nell Blaine, Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, and Helen Frankenthaler. “To strain after innovation, to worry about being ‘on the cutting edge’—a

Helen Frankenthaler was an American painter and printmaker known for her unique method of staining canvas with thin veils of color. Her practice can be seen as a bridge between the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and the Color Field painters of the 1960s. The techniques employed in works such as Mountains and Sea (1952)—a pastel blend of oil paint and charcoal on unprimed canvas—were influent