This list features 27 artists who all share a commitment to pushing their work into uncomfortable, sometimes revelatory, and deeply engaged places.
The artist is a proponent of what he calls “Material Realism”: when an image becomes inseparable from the substance that
Curators can’t get enough of the artist’s whirring, lively contraptions, which can include materials ranging from dust to plants and
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