The simplicity and clean lines of Julian Opie’s works gives them a universal appeal. His paintings and sculptures can be found in major museums and public venues around the world.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales recently commissioned Takashi Murakami to create a work for its permanent collection. The work is made up of 502 individual silkscreens and was purchased by the gallery for an undisclosed seven-figure amount and is the centerpiece of the gallery’s current exhibit, “Japan Supernatural”.
Punyet Miro manages his grandfather’s estate, assists the foundations that preserve and further Miro’s work and has spent own his adult life researching and writing about his grandfather’s life and work.
Frank Stella began creating prints in earnest at Ken Tyler’s workshop in Los Angeles in 1967. When Tyler opened Tyler Graphics, Limited in New York, the two men began a collaboration that continued until Tyler closed up shop in 2000.
In 1962, New York gallery owner, Leo Castelli, chose to represent Roy Lichtenstein. He had seen the works of Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, and considered representing one of them, but it was Lichtenstein who made the cut.
Carlos Rolón created street art and abstract paintings early on in his career, but was drawn to Kustom Kulture, a uniquely American way of customizing cars, hair, fashion … anything that can be made glitzy and kitsch.
Frankenthaler’s unique diluted oils technique produced intriguing, water color-like, diaphanous sweeps of color that carried with them little evidence of a brush stroke.