Q2 Project Artist Pages

(Pronounced Soo You - Sheen) Su Yu-Xin was born in Taiwan in 1991. She is very interested in the way the way paint is made from both natural and synthetic materials, and spends time studying where the materials she uses come from. If you visit her website, you can see pictures of her crushing and grinding different plants and minerals to make her own paint! A Landscape of Crafting White, 2018-2021 Superficial Time, Rush Hours, 2020 The Sound of Cloud , 2021 More about Yu-xin here: Su Yu-xin

 Tafy LaPlance is an Afro-Latina portrait artist. She was born in New York, but has recently moved to Georgia. She believes that portraits can be a way to tell a story about the people she paints. Ou Pi Bon Ne (You Better Knot) Mi Gente Dulce (My Sweet People) Shoop Shoop Shoop, 2022 More about LaPlanche here: Tafy LaPlanche

 Khari Turner (born in 1991) is an American artist that is living and working in New York. “Metaphorically, I see Black people as personifications of the magic that is the ocean. My paintings and drawings combine abstraction with realistic renderings of Black noses and lips to rejuvenate the relationship of my history to my ancestor’s history with water." Cover art created for Black Thought album “Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Able”  Mother of the Wind , 2020 More about Turner here: Khari Turner

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. Many of his paintings were based on images from comic strips and advertisements and painted in a style that mimicked the colored dots that were a side effect of the early printing process. He was born in 1923 and died in 1997. Drowning Girl, 1963 Still Life with Green Vase, 1972 More about Lichtenstein here: Who is Roy Lichtenstein?

 Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist and photographer. He is known for his use of unusual materials including chocolate syrup, tomato sauce, toys, junk, and dust. He uses his popularity as an artist to bring attention to social issues that are important to him, and has even used his own money to open a preschool in his home town. He was born in 1961 and splits his time living in working between Brazil and New York. Orphan Girl At The Cemetery (After Eugene Delacroix), 2007 Day Dreamer, 2010 After Warhol: Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly ), 1999 More about Muniz here: Vik Muniz "Waste Land" Trash Art

 Liu Xiaodong is a contemporary Chinese artist. He paints images from snapshots of friends, family, and everyday life. He was born in 1963 and still lives in China. Li Wu Works the Night Shift and Still Can’t Sleep by Day , 2010 Relaxing in Spring , 1993 Liu Wa and Yu Hong under Flowering Trees , 2020 More about Xiaodong here: Liu Xiaodong Biography

 Luc Tuymans is a Belgian visual artist best known for his paintings which explore people's relationship with history and confront their ability to ignore it. World War II is a recurring theme in his work. He was born in 1958 and still lives in Belgium. The Rabbit, 1994 Silent Music,  1992 Fingers , 1995 More about Tuymans here: Luc Tuymans Bio and Art

 Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He is known for blurring the line between "fine art" (the kind of paintings you usually see in museums) and "low art" (less traditionally appreciated kinds of art like cartoons, anime, and graffiti). Murakami has called his specific style of art Superflat, which includes bold cartoony outlines and flat colors without shading or depth. He was born in 1962 and still lives in Japan. More about Murakami here: Takashi Murakami Bio and Art

 Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist. She is known for her "infinity nets" which are huge paintings or sculptures covered in small dots and lines. Kusama has said, "Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity." She was born in 1929 and still lives in Japan. I Want to Live at the Far End of the Universe, 2016 Pumpkin and Fruits, 1993 Give me Love , 2015 Find more about Kusama here: Yayoi Kusama Bio and Art

 Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism." She lived from 1887 to 1986. Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 , 1932   2 Yellow Leaves (Yellow Leaves) , 1928 Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills , 1935 More about O'Keeffe here: About Georgia O'Keeffe More O'Keeffe Paintings

 Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream, has become one of Western art's most iconic images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, the death of his mother and sister, and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family, and this emotional stress can be seen in many of his paintings. He lived from 1863 to 1944. The Scream, 1910 - one of five versions of this picture that Munch made Despair, 1982 Young Woman on the Beach, 1986 Melancholy , 1894-96 More about Munch here: Edvard Munch Bio and Art

 Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist often credited with inventing the photo collage. Dada was an artistic movement formed after World War I which rejected monarchy, militarism, and conservatism and was often considered "anti-art." Dadaists felt that art should have no boundaries or restrictions and that it can be whimsical and playful. Höch lived from 1889 to 1978. Over the Water , 1943 Für Ein Fest Gemacht (Made for a Party) , 1936 Strauss , 1929-1965 More about Höch here: Hannah Höch Biography and Art

 Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related topics. He was born in 1930 in Georgia and currently lives in Connecticut. Three Flags, 1958 Savarin, 1982 Racing Thoughts, 1983 More about Jasper Johns here: 7 Works to Know

  Joan Miró is pronounced Won Mee-roh. Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, like many of the Surrealist artists. He lived from 1893 to 1983. Untitled, 1949 Dutch Interior I, 1928 The Harlequin’s Carnival , 1925 More about Miro here: 10 Miro paintings with background information

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. He lived from 1866 to 1944. Ernst - Spass, 1930 Stars, 1938 The Singer, 1903 Transverse Line, 1923 More about Kadinsky here: 50 Kadinsky paintings and how much they sold for Short Kadinsky Biography  

 Ernest Howard Shepard was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. He lived from 1879 to 1976. More about E. H. Shepard here: E. H. Shepard Wikipedia Smaller Drawings/Illustrations