Tim Hawkinson
http://www.pbs.org/art21/
Art 21 (the link above) is a great place to see contemporary artists--and a great place to read short bits on their work (not too heady or theoretical, yet smart).
I love TH's work, in that it is playful yet ambitious. Felix and I got to see his "uberorgan" at MassMOCA years back:http://www.massmoca.org/
-- we walked through this huge mass of palstic tubes while our movements tripped sounds for the organ. His work has a lot to do with systems and the body. He is a Christian- not talked about a lot in the art world (there are not many of us, it seems) but you can see some themes running through his Pentecost piece.
Gerhard Richter
http://www.gerhard-richter.
and a super cool video of him making a painting:
http://www.nowness.com/day/
Painter, ambivalent, he is known for his use of photographic imaging in art--like to paint the "blur" that happens when a camera takes in image in motion. Super smart, wrestling with the demons of Germany and the ambivalence and guilt of his generation. Defected from East Germany into Berlin. VERY influential in my airplanes work, and I am seeing his hand in my newest works in my show for next month too.
Luc Tuymans
http://www.davidzwirner.com/
His work is vivid realism without being chained to any photographic reference.
I SO want to go to Belgium with Bieke and Micah this summer to see his studio and work. He's got shows here, but it'd be so nice to see where he makes. He makes paitnings that seem ambivalent, like Richter, yet they are so "now" and comtemporary. He supposedly makes work really quickly, like a painting a day or a week. MoMA has a portrait he did of Condoleeza Rice that stopped me in my tracks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Robert Ryman
http://www.pbs.org/art21/
Yes, of THAT Ryman in Nashville.
This guy is a major "East Coast Minimalist", and his works have made my cry. So simple, and just enough. His white works have spurred a whole slew of backlashes of "black" and "grey" works.
http://www.moma.org/
His work is akin to the woman artist, one of my favorites, Agnes Martin (but perhaps hers have more feeling, I dunno).
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