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Today we bring to you 11 Visual Artists you NEED to know— not only for their talent and unique styles, but for their themes of diversity, feminism, body positivity, and gender deconstruction. We can't wait to see what this coming year has in store for all these amazing talents! We will definitely be keeping an eye on them. Check these babes out and let us know who your favorite artists are in the comments below! 1. Gill Button Instagram: buttonfruit 2. Maria Herreros Instagram: mariaherrer

Framed oil on panel painting. Frame dimensions 11 x 11 in.

Ben Quilty’s painting is not polite. Smeared, smudged, caked and slapped onto the picture plane with bold virtuosity, his rich impasto works challenge assumptions. Using bold and unsettling subjects, Quilty explores the problematic relationship between the personal and the cultural.

Nice illustrations by Daniel Zalkus. You can find more of his work on his website here .

Pittore, illustratore, fumettista, viaggiatore, Lorenzo Mattotti è un artista eclettico. Fin dagli anni settanta, quando ha esordito nel fumetto rivoluzionandolo, ha esplorato e sperimentato numerose tecniche usate per diverse destinazioni: illustrazioni per libri, riviste, quotidiani e manifesti per importanti festival. Una mostra in provincia di Udine celebra la carriera dell’artista. Leggi

PRINTS Fine art prints available for sale at Slow Galerie and Galerie Un jour une illustration. Illustration for the collective exhibition “Bloom”, Slow Galerie – Paris, 2022

In a new show, two decades of work from the Australian illustrator-painter Shaun Tan are offered, spanning both his child-oriented characters and more mature narratives. “Untold Tales,” kicking off at Beinart Gallery on March 9 and running through the end of the month. Tan's survey includes oil paintings, colored pencil and pen, pastel, and more.

Ann Gale is a leading American figurative painter living in Seattle. Her portraits were shown alongside other leading painters of the figure such as Lucian Freud, Nathan Oliveira and Alex Kanevsky in the 2011 exhibition "HEADS" curated by Peter Selz at her San Francisco Dolby Chadwick Gallery. The JSS in Civita, (Civita Castellana, Italy) recently announced that Ann Gale will be the 2015 JSS in Civita Master Class Guest-of–Honor. Ms. Gale will be in residence July 13th to August 3th. Here is a link for more information on her workshop in Italy. In a January 2013 review for Visual Art Source DeWitt Cheng wrote: “...Gale’s paintings, which require months and even years to complete, are aggregations of thousands of brushstrokes (Cézanne’s colored oil-paint patches and Giacometti’s feathery, tremulous graphite contours come to mind) that alternate, depending on the viewer’s distance, angle of view and degree of focus, between heavily textured natural surfaces (bark, lichen) and sharply observed studies of atmosphere and anatomy. Look very closely, and a myriad of tiny abstractions spring into view, with every square inch graphically charged with energy.” Another review in Art ltd. magazine by Richard Speer writes: “...Gale paints the kind of visages and physiognomies you might expect to see beneath Seattle’s heavy gray skies: ashen, Zoloft-ready men and women hunched before muted, putty-colored backgrounds—and yet the artist enlivens her subjects via twinkly, impressionistic brushstrokes that pop and recede with Hofmann-like push/pull. This is Gale’s viewpoint and paradox: a scintillating technique deployed in the service of an enervating sense of desolation.” ...When the painting is finished, the images do not always resemble their subjects in the standard realist sense—which suits the artist just fine. "Likeness doesn’t drive the work at this point; accuracy does," she explains. "But it’s not accuracy to the model; it’s accuracy to my perception, and that’s a very different thing."

Wolfgang Betke

Rebecca Morgan is from central Pennsylvania, and her paintings, drawings, and ceramics emanate from stereotypes of rural Appalachia. Humorous, benevolent, and savage at turns, her characters touch on truths about poverty, addiction, and off-the-grid living, as well as idealizations of uncultured country life. Stylistically, Morgan embraces hyper-detailed naturalism, influenced by Dutch painters such as Memling, Brueghel, and Van Eyck, as well as absurd, repulsive caricature suggestive of underground cartoonists like R.Crumb. As an on-and-off-again New Yorker, Morgan represents the ultimate insider/outsider point-of view, embracing and critically distancing herself from her origins. In "Hunter or Hipster" Morgan plays with the idea that young, middle class youth culture centers around portraying themselves ironically as far from their origins, in this case, a hunter from Appalachia. Rebecca Morgan received a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Pratt Institute, NY. Press for her work includes Time Out New York, VICE Magazine, ARTnews, Whitehot Magazine, Beautiful Decay, Artslant, Juxtapoz Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Berlin's Lodown Magazine, among others. She is the recipient of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Residency, a Vermont Studio Center full fellowship, and the George Rickey Residency at Yaddo. Exhibitions include Invisible Exports, NY, Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, Arts KC, MO, Booth Gallery, NY, Gasser Grunert Gallery, NY, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, and Spring/Break, New York, NY, among others.