2024 Ten Next Generation Artists Issue
2024 Ten Next Generation Artists Issue
At the start of every year, we aim to spotlight emerging artists who deserve to be on everyone's radar. We're excited to introduce this year's most anticipated artists.
Devon De Jardin
Portrait of a Guardian / Chamuel
Devon De Jardin’s paintings and sculptures are of dimensional, geometric figures that become the guardians of a constructed universe. De Jardin’s confidence is particularly impressive as he is a self-taught artist with a distinct vision, bold understanding of color and powerful compositions. Particular reason to watch De Jardin as he will have a solo exhibition at Albertz Benda gallery this Spring.
Rugiyatou Jallow
Grateful, 2023
Rugiyatou Jallow, is a Swedish- Gambian artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. In her mixed media paintings, Jalllow depicts bi-racial women like herself, occupied in leisure activities like reading or surfing and the artist is particularly interested in representing subjects who act as her avatars connecting her own heritage to the present through use of thread she imbeds in the acrylic paint. Jallow is just coming off a solo show aim New York and is currently the artist in residence at the Mack Foundation, Brooklyn.
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
El Tropico Salta Y Su Chorro Invade Mi Cabeza
Havana-born, Miami-based artist Piñeiro Bello focuses his practice on the Caribbean diaspora, Cuba, and the surrounding island nations’ cultural identities, imagery, and history. He paints the sociocultural mystic splendor of the Caribbean’s culture using traditional materials, such as oil on raw linen or burlap, and works with a strong color palette to create images that capture the region’s fecundity.
Piñeiro Bello is currently the artist in residence at the Rubbell Museum.
Melissa Rios
“Love Theme”
Tiffany & Co’s New York Flagship store went through an amazing renovation, integrating 40 unique artworks from artists such as Daniel Arsham, Jenny Holzer and Rashid Johnson. The works share a commonality as they all integrate Tiffany Blue®.
Leo Park
Exhibited at NADA, New York with The Hole 2023
The Swedish artist Leo Park’s innate sense of humor and whimsy is coupled with his deep knowledge of art history and art historical movements from ancient classicism to cubism. His subjects live in radiant, sun-drenched environments, where gender is always ambiguous and disorientation is practiced with gusto. The viewer is always amused and enthralled.
Andrae Green
DIVERS XI
Born in Jamaica and based on Massachusetts, Andrae Green is infectious in his optimism both as a man and an artist and his vibrant, dynamic and beautifully rendered paintings have such a strong presence that one practically hears music emanating from within. At first glance narrative, the paintings serve more as allegories of humanity, freedom and hope and his first museum exhibition, focused on water and his memories of growing up in Jamaica, currently on view at the Art Complex Museum, Doxburry, MA, is actually titled “Palindrome: Back to Hope”.
Laura Berger
WRAP ME IN LIGHT
Laura Berger is an artist based in Chicago. Centered around themes of interdependence and self-understanding, her fluid images focus on figurative archetypes, intuitive and subtle color palettes and dreamlike minimalistic environments. Initially approaching painting as a therapeutic practice, Berger’s work takes the viewer into surreal environments that recall forgotten memories and spiritual experiences just out of reach of practical logic. In the last year her work has enjoyed recognition and much attention at her international galleries and at art fairs.
Moffat Takadiwa
Three little witches, 2021
Moffat Takadiwa lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Takadiwa’s dimensional wall sculptures are readily recognizable for their use of bold color juxtapositions and use of found and discarded objects from toothbrushes to computer keys that embody the complexities of contemporaryZimbabwean politics, culture, and reference to his Korekore heritage.s. He dissects the language of western art history into the visual vocabulary and feel of his own people. What seem at first like quilted abstractions rely on well-known cornerstones of western figuration. Takadiwa has long sought to use his art as a community platform, building a sustainable microeconomy around the sourcing of materials and production of his labor-intensive tapestries, as well as providing studio space and instruction to local youth via his Mbare Art Project. In 2023, he had his work shown at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and coming up in 2024 will represent Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennalle.
Heather Guertin
New Shell, 2022
Based in NY, Heather Guertin’s practice engages the relationship between observation and imaginative expression. Her paintings seem to relish mark-making as an expressive language, both color-saturated and emotional. She uses abstraction in her work as a passageway to better understand form. Guertin’s gestural mark-making ties different fragments of imagery together and transforms it into a new whole. Perhaps beginning their transformative journey in representation, her works create their own illusionistic space between flatness of pure color and a painterliness and physicality of the medium itself. The tension created within is what gives Guertin’s paintings their hypnotic vitality.
Katie Stout
Olympia, Installation View
New York based designer and sculptor Katie Stout has just had a solo exhibition at Nina Johnson gallery in Miami. "Drawing inspiration from personal developments in her life—including the artist’s move from New York City to the countryside upstate, and the birth of her first daughter, Olympia—the works in the exhibition encompassed bronze, glass, and ceramic pieces produced at an unprecedented scale, alongside a body of never-before-seen watercolors. Stout is renowned for her singular aesthetic, often characterized by bold floral patterns and peopled with life-sized clay female figures holding lampshades above their heads. Her work as an artist and designer toes the line between the utilitarian and the abstract, and wryly investigates themes of form, function, and what is traditionally considered female."
Newsletter written by Sophia Schlesinger.
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