Mixing It Up: Painting Today

Ralph Rugoff
2021
This catalogue brings together 31 painters whose works combine elements from varied traditions, genres, image sources and formal approaches. Exploiting their medium’s potential for ambiguity and for creating correspondences between seemingly unrelated elements, these artists make the case that painting may be the most relevant technology for exploring our complex, image-saturated present.

Artists include: Tasha Amini, Hurvin Anderson, Alvaro Barrington, Lydia Blakeley, Gabriella Boyd, Lisa Brice, Gareth Cadwallader, Caroline Coon, Somaya Critchlow, Peter Doig, Jadé Fadojutimi, Denzil Forrester, Louise Giovanelli, Andrew Pierre Hart, Sophie von Hellermann, Lubaina Himid, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Merlin James, Rachel Jones, Allison Katz, Matthew Krishanu, Graham Little, Oscar Murillo, Mohammed Sami, Samara Scott, Daniel Sinsel, Caragh Thuring, Jonathan Wateridge, Issy Wood, Rose Wylie and Vivien Zhang.