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Meret Oppenheim

• Fur Breakfast or Breakfast in Fur is an artwork created by Meret of a fur covered teacup, saucer and spoon.
• This is showing things presented in an unexpected way.
• She is known for her painting, sculpture, and poetry.
• https://womennart.com/2018/03/14/le-dejeuner-en-fourrure-by-meret-oppenheim/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ret_Oppenheim

Donald Lipski

• His work is mostly sculptures.  He does a lot of sculpting of combining objects that wouldn’t normally go together.
• He has lately been working on creating large-scale works for public spaces.
• Some of his most famous works include The Yearling, The Public Art Fund, Sirshasana, and F.I.S.H.
• http://www.donaldlipski.net/about

Louise Bourgeois

• She grew up sewing and around textiles her whole childhood.  She is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art and also painted and did printmaking.
• In one of her works, she has the themes of masculinity and femininity, body and mind, creativity and inertia, and the unceasing cycle of life and death.
• Her work called “Les têtes bleues et les femmes rouges” is heads and figures covered in fabric sewn together.
• https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-heads-and-bodies-xavier-hufkens-presents-late-works-by-louise-bourgeois
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois

Rebecca Horn

• She is a German visual artist best known for her installation art, film directing, and body modifications.
• One of her most famous body modifications is called Einhorn (Unicorn) which is a body suit with a very large horn projecting from the headpiece, vertically. It was meant to be a pun on her name.
• Another body extension piece she made was called Pencil Mask. It was made up of 6 straps running horizontally and 3 straps vertically and there is a pencil where the straps intersect.  When she moves her face back and forth near a wall, the pencil marks that are made corresponds with her movements.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Horn#Body_sculptures

Pat Oleszko

• Her work includes elaborate costumes, props and inflatables.  Her work goes into solo performances, film, and installations.
• Her work can sometimes be political or personal but it is mostly always humorous.
• Oleszko’s work can be found on the streets, parties, parades, stages, films, the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center.
• https://www.patoleszko.com/bio

Anida Yoeu Ali

• Her work includes span performances, installation, videos, images, public encounters, and political encounters.  Her work often includes ideas of Buddhism.
• Her work often investigates displacement and identity through humor and performance.
• She transforms herself into different things in many of her artwork.
• http://www.anidaali.com/biography/

Chris Gilmour

• Cardboard Artist
• Mostly includes geometric shapes
• His work usually consists of popular manufactured goods that are recognizable
• He uses colored cardboard or paint to complete the pieces

James Morrison

• Uses paper mache to create ink drawings that explode into 3D
• The sculptures show scenes of nature and animal behavior
• The sculptures are small but very complex
• A popular one, Colour Green, a bird hides behind branches while a big-eared predator is lurking nearby

Alexander Milov

• Sculptor from Ukraine
• His most popular work is called Love
• It is two wire-frame adults sitting back to back and inside them are two children standing trying to reach each other
• Its as if their true selves/inner child is trapped inside them while their outer self is suffering

Louise Bourgeois

• She is best known for her large-scale sculptures and installation art, and was also a painter and printmaker.  Her work included many themes including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, death and the unconscious.  They all connect with her childhood.
• In the late 90’s she began to use the spider as a central focus in her art.  Maman is a steel and marble sculpture that looks like a spider.  It is more than 9 meters high.
• Another one of her works is called Empty Houses.  This sculpture is made of parallel metallic structures supporting a simple tray.  She found that an anxious child will draw a tall narrow house with no base.  That is her reasoning for making this sculpture the way it was.

Mark Manders

• His work consists of installations, drawings, sculptures and short films.  His work is typically arrangements of random objects like tables, chairs, light bulbs, blankets and dead animals.  He is best known for his rough-hewn clay sculptures.
• Self-portrait as a Building is a series of fictional architectural plans where the plan is drawn on the floor of the gallery using pencils, crayons and other markers.  The fictional building represents a fictional artist, “Mark Manders,” who is an alter-ego of the artist.  Each of the exhibitions includes an evolving floor plan of the self-portrait building along with various art works.
• For his sculptures, he uses a combination of found materials including household furniture, archaeological fragments, raw wood, and architectural pieces.

Rachel Kneebone

• She is a famous sculptor whose work is figurative and shows a seductive line between beauty, ecstasy, and death.  She tends to express movement and fluidity in a medium that is usually associated with stillness.
• 399 Days is her largest sculpture that she has produced at 5 meters high.  From every angle, body parts merge and multiply all over.
• She mostly works in porcelain.  Some names of her other works include, Triptych, Roll, Caryatid XI, Raft of Medusa, and Ovid in Exile.

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