Contemporary painting

Joan Cox discusses how intimate scenes of queer love are fueling her momentum, from international prizes to a spot in NOT REAL ART’s ‘Modern Love’ exh...

Austin-based artist Malti B Lee discusses how motherhood, migration, and city streets inspire her architectural paintings and shape her sense of home.

Emerging painter Rylee Nelson mines her childhood for memories that now feel foggy and untethered from the isolated rural landscape where she grew up.

Public health researcher Isabel Lu explores complex ideas surrounding medicine, nutrition, and identity through their luscious, large-scale self-portr...

Our fifth exhibition of 2025, Ones to Watch, showcases nine emerging artists whose work consistently pushes boundaries and challenges conventional nor...

Painter Edie Nadelhaft's magnified iris portraits subvert the male gaze, recontextualizing intimacy, identity, and observational roles in the digital...

Portrait painter Jess Broze uses color as the emotional core of her work, exploring the complexities of identity and experience in a rapidly changing...

Hikaru Cho's hyperreal body paintings transcend traditional art forms, inviting audiences to question the boundaries of perception through optical ill...

Our final exhibition of 2024, The After Party, offers a window into the quiet, sober moments that sink in once the party’s over and everyone’s gone ho...

Lesbian painter Joan Cox joins us to discuss her two-year whirlwind of residencies, exhibitions, and awards since winning our biennial grant for artis...

Canadian pop surrealist Troy Brooks presents 'BLOOM,' a new series of oil paintings that catch women in moments of growth, reflection, or transformati...

Painted with pop colors, Caitlin Carcerano’s semi-autobiographical portraits invite curious onlookers into private spaces where healing rituals occur.