Artmuse NextGen: August Artist Radar

Acquaint yourself with the artists whose work has been our summer obsessions…

The work of these artists is priced up to $15,000— perfect for the aspiring collector or a veteran looking to electrify an existing collection with fresh voices and exciting talent.

Email samantharkohl@gmail.com to inquire about the artists below or for additional help collecting!

FEATURED ARTIST:

Asher Liftin

Last spring, Asher Liftin graduated from Yale with degrees in both Visual Art and Cognitive Science. His amazing work pulls from both of this fields: Liftin brilliantly explores perception and the human mind as he meditates upon how human beings unconsciously piece together disjoint fragments, which then create a cohesive perception of the world.

Pictured: Reconstructed Images, 2021 (detail of the installation, above) | courtesy of the artist

The artist (and cognitive scientist) writes in his artist statement, “My interest lies in awareness of how one sees as much as what one sees, and how something thrills, frustrates, disturbs, and brings joy.” Thus, his amazing work often entails shifting the resolution of an familiar figure or even total environment resulting in work that is endlessly interesting and beautiful.

Pictured: Curious Warping, 2018 (above) | courtesy of the artist

Liftin’s work is currently exhibited at the Yale undergraduate thesis show at MoCA Westport, curated by Max Teicher and Emily White of Gagosian, on display through August 21st. 

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Pictured: Rembrandt (above); Leonard Cohen (below) | courtesy of the artist

ARTIST RADAR

Vanessa Prager

Vanessa Prager (b. 1984) works with oil paint to create rich impasto surfaces that totally turn portraiture on its head. These amazingly tactile portraits emphasize the physical properties of Prager’s paint while still completely capturing her subjects: Prager thickly layers her oils until the physical painting becomes corporeal itself. 

ARTMUSE EXCLUSIVE: acquire Prager’s work through us now to get ArtMuse’s exclusive pricing as her work goes up, up, up in value…

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Pictured: In The Beginning, 2018 (above); Women I, 2018 (below) | courtesy of The Hole

Lala Abaddon

Lala Abaddon creates intricately-woven works that combine photography with geometry, resulting in unique and vivid tapestries. Abaddon’s process is painstaking, requiring her to photograph her subjects, cut the images up into strips, and then deliberately weave certain images together into complex and beautiful compositions. 

At first glance, one might mistake Abaddon’s work for a digital manipulation, but it is in the discovery of her amazing process that one finds endless awe and delight. 

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Pictured: Nothing Could Touch Me, 2016 (above); Crystalline Transcendance, 2017 (below) | courtesy of the artist

ASMA

A Mexico City-based artist duo made up by Matias Armendaris (Ecuador b. 1990) and Hanya Beliá (México b. 1994), ASMA creates work through a process of active collaboration that explore the connections and bounds between painting and sculpture. Creating “open narratives and architectural spaces,” their collaborative process is highly interactive as boundaries dissipative and things fuse together. 

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Pictured: Caress | courtesy of Mrs.

Victoria Dugger

Celebrating her New York debut with a show at Sargent’s Daughters, Victoria Dugger (b. 1991) straddles the abstract and the figurative with her paintings and soft sculptures that examine the body. Dugger’s own identity—one of a Black, disabled woman—is often explored as the artist creates playful yet emotional and intellectual works composed of an assemblage of materials, including nylon, acrylic nails, glitter and hair.

Dugger herself is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, and her work, though entirely complex, feel entirely fresh and exciting.

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Pictured: Blood Harmony, 2021 (above); The Space Between, 2021 (below) | courtesy of Sargent’s Daughter

Peter Waite

Peter Waite creates large-scale paintings of locations (sites visited during his own travels) that invite his viewer to reflect upon what it means to see or remember a public space.

Portraying familiar locations that are completely emptied out, these works feel eerie yet intimate as they trigger one’s own memory of a space. Waite’s work is often installed directly onto the wall and become site-specific and mural like as they masterfully represent architecture as well as human perception. 

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Pictured: Getty Museum Studies, 2020 (above); Museum Lobby LA, 2020 (below) | © Peter Waite, courtesy the artist and Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York

NEXT GEN AT THE GALLERIES:

Andie Dinkin at Voltz Clarke

Andie Dinkin has three paintings at Voltz Clarke’s summer show! We love the dreamy bacchanalia captured on her canvases…

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Pictured: Ladies Dancing at Dusk, 2021 (above); Ladies Lunch in Aphrodite’s Garden, 2021 (below)

Newsletter written by Samantha Kohl