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Feral Son,

Untitled (Cadmium),

Jean Michel Basquiat began his short but prolific career as a graffiti artist in the streets of New York. He adopted a deliberately street smart and seemingly naïve style, yet his art also contained sophisticated references to contemporary culture and art history. Basquiat drew his cryptic visual vocabulary from numerous sources ranging from ancient Egyptian […]

She Mistook Kindness for Weakness (SMKFW),

Laden with personal symbols and obscure historical references, She Mistook Kindness for Weakness belongs to a series of paintings on velvet Schnabel made in the mid to late 1980s. His use of black velvet evokes the popular vernacular form of painting on velvet sold to tourists in Mexican border towns, including Brownsville, Texas, Schnabel’s hometown. […]

Picture This,

Title page from the Ten Common (Hawaiian Household) Objects portfolio,

From Graz to Nimes,

(not entered),

Volcano,

A principal strategy in Artschwager’s work is what he calls “the truncation of the senses”—a means of refocusing the viewer’s attention on specific aspects of an image by purposefully concealing or obfuscating others. Volcano is an example of this approach, as one’s attention is almost entirely directed to the small spot of orange at the […]

Dark Face,

AIDS,