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Sue Williams has lived and worked in New York since the mid-1980s. In her early career, she became known to a wider audience with her highly narrative painting. In taboo-like visual stories that seem like comics and caricatures, scenes of domestic violence and sexual obscenity, the artist expresses her rage over the enduring acceptance of sexism in society.[...]

Under the title Spagotzen, a neologism coined by the artist, Daniel Richter’s most recent exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac comprises fifteen works showing mysterious figures bathed in an artificial light typical of Richter, against a sometimes seismographically linear background.

On the occasion of the centenary of Max Weiler’s birthday, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman dedicates an extensive exhibition to the doyen of Austrian landscape painting that will primarily consist of rarely seen masterpieces. The spectrum will reach from the representational earlyworks of the nineteen-forties via the milestones of painterly abstraction of the sixties and the lyrically reduced works of the seventies all the way to the brightly coloured,impulsive late works.

Michel Majerus (1967-2002) used everything from art historical references, popular culture, video games, television and corporate logos to construct his paintings. He was born in Esch, Luxembourg but worked in Berlin until his untimely death in an airplane crash in 2002.

Sebastián Vallejo’s paintings are inspired by the light and colors of the Caribbean, where organic and inorganic forms collide and transpose each other creating a visually engaging display of light and form.[...]

What a week! Photography, sculpture, performance and today finally painting makes the cut for our series Sexual Deployment: The Body as Method for Discourse. Through these different mediums, we have seen how women use their bodies as a sculptural object, but also as a metaphor for larger political and social issues. Mexican artist Ana Teresa Fernández also utilizes the body in her performance-based work to explore issues related to women and sexuality.[...]

Enoc Pérez works using a unique method in which he transfers paint onto canvas via an intermediary layer of paper. He builds the composition by hand in 10 or more individually-applied layers of oil paint, color by color.[...]

For nearly thirty years, Carroll Dunham has eschewed the conventions of abstract and figurative painting, instead choosing to work within their margins. It is in the space between the two where Dunham has established a trademark style and vast body of work that is both deeply original and enormously influential.[...]

The Goldmine Shithouse (GMSH) is an artist collaborative that was started by artists David Hochbaum, Travis Lindquist and Colin Burns. The collective has met on a weekly basis since its creation in early 2003. Its participating artists have a common sensibility with opposing visions, balancing out the finished work.[...]

Kees Goudzwaard creates his paintings by transferring paper models, compositions he applies to the canvas using sheets of paper and tape.[...]