Below, we’ve rounded up five artists that stood out from the crowd, all working in their own unique figurative style ... of both representation and gestural abstraction, the artist’s work ...

Amy Sillman is an influential contemporary American painter whose practice conflates the abstract and the figurative into large-scale, gestural oil paintings. View Amy Sillman’s 184 artworks on artnet ...

7 Contemporary Black Women Painters To Watch ... Interdisciplinary artist Jamilla Okubo is celebrated for her striking figurative paintings that explore the nuances of her identity as an ...

Amy Sillman is an influential contemporary American painter whose practice conflates the abstract and the figurative into large-scale, gestural oil paintings. View Amy Sillman’s 183 artworks on artnet ...

Her process involves compiling internet- and magazine-sourced portrait fragments, which she layers and combines with hand-painted details to create striking figurative amalgams ... forthcoming solo ...

Her work stands apart from the other artists in the movement, if only for her figurative approach ... in the vein of British German painter and contemporary of Freud, Frank Auerbach.

The Whitney Museum's annual exhibition of contemporary American art, on view in Manhattan last week, included one picture each by 145 painters. Nine out of ten exhibitors, many of them formerly ...

New York is a city that quickly cycles through artistic trends, so it's been surprising that figurative painting has hung on for the better part of a decade. But now, there are signs that ...

In this Keeping It Z column piece, writer Daria Harper rounds up Black women painters who should be on everyone’s radar. Though it’s taken time for the industry to begin acknowledging, Black ...