One of the youngest artists and brightest stars in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Aurel Schmidt describes herself as "a drawer, socialite, and erotic photographer." Best known for her meticulous Goth drawings of figures and faces made from cigarette butts, maggots, condom-covered fruits and vegetables, and rolled-up dollar bills, Schmidt is a nonconformist who would rather start her own movement than join the trendy pack. Born and raised in Kamloops, Canada, which she recalls as "a white-trash small town, where everyone did crystal meth and everyone was a 'wigger,'" the self-taught artist has quickly turned herself into a creator worthy of attention.
Read the full feature and view images of Schmidt's work »
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One of Spain's most celebrated contemporary artists, Manolo Valdés has been honored with exhibitions of his monumental sculptures in Beijing, Miami, Monaco, San Francisco, and St. Petersburg. He got his start in the political-art collective Equipo Crónica, which used irony and art-historical appropriation to comment on the Fascist regime of Francisco Franco. When his last remaining colleague in the collective died and Spain returned to democratic rule, Valdés turned his attention to aesthetic pleasures, while still mining the past for content to transform — as witnessed in his concurrent public-art shows on the avenues of New York and The Hague and at the Château de Chambord in France.
Keep reading and view a gallery of Valdés' public sculptures »
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