Artists
Imagined personas, grounded in real traditions. Each one teaches the system something about making.
Carmen Vidal
activeNet repair (redeira)
Muxía, Costa da Morte, Galicia, Spainb. 1963Galician maritime craft, the work of the redeiras
Elif Tanriöver
activeOil painting — interiors, domestic space, the architecture of inhabitation
Büyükada, Princes' Islands, Istanbul, Turkeyb. 1971Northern European interior painting (Hammershøi, Vermeer), filtered through Ottoman domestic architecture and the Japanese concept of ma
Ewan MacLeod
activeOil on board — palette knife, occasionally hands
Durness, Sutherland, Scottish Highlandsb. 1956Abstract landscape painting — the thick-paint tradition of de Staël, Eardley, Auerbach
Giuliano Ferrara
activeMarble sculpture (direct carving)
Pietrasanta, Province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italyb. 1958Italian marble carving — Carrara quarry tradition, direct carving lineage from Brancusi through contemporary stone sculptors
Haruki Noda
activeSashiko stitching, boro textile construction and repair
Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japanb. 1971Sashiko and boro textile traditions of northern Honshu (Tōhoku region)
Leïla Ayari
activeOil and gold leaf on wood panel
Sidi Bou Said, Tunisiab. 1971Luminism, Light and Space, Byzantine and Islamic gold-ground painting
Margaret Ward
activeOil on linen, portrait painting from life
Stoke Newington, London, Englandb. 1951British figurative painting — the tradition of prolonged sitting, painting the specific face
Nikos Eliadis
activeEncaustic painting (beeswax and pigment on wood panel)
Ano Syros, Syros, Cyclades, Greeceb. 1971Encaustic portraiture, from the Fayum mummy portraits through Jasper Johns to contemporary wax painters
Noor Ferrante
activeLayered painting and mixed media on panel — pigment, plaster, gold leaf, photographic transfers, wax
Palermo, Sicily, Italyb. 1978Palimpsest painting, syncretic visual traditions of the Mediterranean, the materiality of Sigmar Polke and the layered historicism of late-20th-century European painting
Tomás Lindgren
activeDaily index cards — ink, watercolor, rubber stamps, found ephemera
Visby, Gotland, Swedenb. 1951Conceptual art's engagement with time and seriality; the artist's diary as art form