Jose Bedia

"Companero de viaje" 2011

(Mixed Media on canvas)

"Isla Esperando" 2006

(Acrylic on Canvas)

"Mujer de Frutos Diversos" 2001

(Acrylic on canvas)

"Untitled (Mi Coballende) 1997

(Oil on Canvas)

"Con el Espirtu en Alto" 2011

(oil on canvas)

Jose Beida is a powerful graphic artist that uses mixed-media drawings, paintings and site specific installations captivate viewers in a glance. He was born in Havana, Cuba in 1959 and majority of his artwork resembles his Cuban native and heritage of Hispanic, Native american, African, Afro-Cuban and European. His work has a lot of flow from his internalization of ideas with his different background's view points. He studied at the School of Art of San Alefandro in 1976 and the Superior Institute of Art, in Havana 1981. He then immigrated to Mexico in 1991 and In 1993 he moved to United States where his artwork became popular to us. Above are some of his famous and recent artwork.

Robert Gober

Untitled
2003-2005
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Matthew Marks Gallery, 2005

Untitled ,1992
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1992
Untitled leg
1989-1990
Beeswax, cotton, wood, leather, human hair
11 3/8 x 7 3/4 x 20 inches; 29.5 x 20 x 51 cm
Distorted Playpen
1986
Painted wood
26 x 66 x 42 3/4 inches; 66 x 168 x 109 cm
Untitled
2003-2005
Dimensions variable
Detail, Matthew Marks Gallery, 2005

Robert Gober is an American sculptor who has an uncanny ability to place random everyday appliances into works of art. Examples such as plumbing fixtures, urinal, sinks and doors all incorporated into a somewhat theatrical scene. Personally, what caught my eye, was the half man torso sculptures and foot sculptures because they represented such realism that it was sort of eerie.

Xenobia Bailey

Xenobia Bailey

Mothership 1: Sistah Paradise's Great Walls of Fire Revival Tent, 2002. Cotton and acrylic yarn, metal frame, electrical tape, shells, 10 x 5 x 5 ft. (304.9 x 152.4 x 152.4 cm).

Inspiration Vibration Station, Number 1, 201

One Nation Under a Groove, Bit by Bit, Little by Little at Logan Airport's Terminal A through January 2010

Paradise Under Reconstruction in the Aesthetic of Funk, 2000

Meditation Prayer Rug (Year: Unknown)

Xenobia Bailey was born in Seattle, Washington.  She studies Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington.  She later became interested in craftsmanship and sounds of culture dealing with Africa and Asia.  Xenobia soon after created mask for Black Arts West which was an African American community theater.  She then applied to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1974 and was accepted.  Xenobia graduated and received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Industrial Design.  She soon learned how to crochet by her teacher Bernadette Sonona.  Xenobia Bailey began to make and sell colorful crotched hats, prayer rugs, and other items and continues to do so til this day.

Sources:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/sistah_paradise/


http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Xenobia_Bailey.html


http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/xenobia-bailey/

Maurizio Cattelan

"A perfect Day"
1999
color photography, plexiglass, aluminum

"We are the revolution"
2000
polyester resin, wax, pigment, felt suit, metal coat rack

"Ave Maria"
2007
polyurethane, steel, clothes, paint

"Bidibidobidiboo"
1996
taxidermized squirrel, ceramic formica, wood, paint, steel

"L.O.V.E"
2011
white Carrara, marble, roman travertine

"We"
2010
Wood, fiberglass, polyurethane rubber, fabric

"Stephanie"
2003
Wax dummy, synthetic hair, metal

"Frank & Jamie"
2002
Wax dummy, clothes, shoes

Maurizio Cattelan was born in Padua Italy, in 1960. He currently works in New York and Milan. He did not attend art school, he decided to teach himself the foundations of art and worked various jobs outside of the art field. His art mainly consists of the combination of sculpture and performance, he bases many of his pieces off humor and irony. "Best known for his facetious art productions, which are as surprising as they are unsettling, Maurizio Cattelan is the ultimate side liner artist, poking holes in art, art history, monumentality, and nationalism"


http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/maurizio-cattelan/

Mariko Mori

"Dream Temple" - 1999

Installation; 3-D projection and Dichroic Glass,

"Entropy of Love" - 1998

Color Photograph on Glass

"Burning Desire" - 1998

Color Photograph on Glass


"Mirror of Water" - 1998
Color Photograph on Glass

"Pureland" - 1998

Color Photograph on Glass

Marijo Mori has been described as, "arguablely the most visible Japanese artist in the West today". Mori is a Japanese video and photographic artist. She was born in 1967 in Tokyo, Japan.

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/itoi/itoi11-20-01.asp