The Artsy Vanguard 2025 artists are breaking new ground with original work and gaining momentum through acclaimed solo shows, prestigious institutional exhibitions, representation with tastemaking galleries, and bold art fair presentations, among other art world accolades. Like past Vanguard artists, they’re ones to watch. Laís is included as is Emily.
#laisamaral
John Yau at Hyperallergic has thoughts on how David has taken appropriation art, which often consists of commonplace acts of citation, quotation, and parody, and set it in a new direction.
#davidbaker
Hyperallergic brings our attention to the Mulvane Art Museum in Topeka, Kansas, and “Women of Abstract Expressionism” as well as Rita’s practice and life (in the show paintings and drawings by Rita are featured alongside works by Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell).
#ritablitt
like Leika Felizia’s work gets a nod from Artsy for (posthumous) inclusion at Frieze London. The first blog I ever wrote (about Julie) in October of 2018… was in the context of Frieze.
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#felizabursztyn
Jason says Gaby is concerned with the raw material of lived experience and the digital frequency that we personally stream. The writer (also a painter) and subject artist discuss further.
#gabycollinsfernandez
recently left us after an amazing career that included the ground-breaking Pixilation from 1970. Artforum allowed Rebekah Rutkoff’s 2016 essay Painting by Numbers out from behind the Paywall briefly (which recounts a pretty wild encounter with Dali).
#lillianschwartz
For Burnaway’s series CRUSH, Michelle Santiago Cortés details the dance-drawings and improvisational mark-making of Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Throughout her decades-long career, Sterling-Duprey has paid close attention to how movement appears in painting and how dance lends itself to its own kind of painterly gesture. She has distilled elements of both disciplines to their constituent parts, which can be broken down into kinds of information: visual, spatial, tactile, sonic, and so on.
#awildasterlingduprey
curious collaborations with AI in In the Beginning at Spy Projects are (according to Hyperallergic) one of 10 Art shows to see in LA this October.
#davidlloyd
Alex wrote for Hyperallergic about Brooklin A. Soumahoro’s luminous paintings, which he says are filled with moments of alchemy, transforming shape into line and discipline into grace.
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#brooklinsoumahoro
In “Up and Down,” Icelandic artist Guðmundur Thoroddsen presents Rorschach-like paintings that segue back and forth from micro to macro. Lichen, fungus or rot simultaneously appear as precipice, gorge or stream. Although Thoroddsen attempts to disassociate himself with the baggage of landscape in western thought and imagination, the matter-like pigment and scumbled voids are still subjected to our emotional and spiritual experience of them. More
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Painting After Art is Dead 