Richard Deacon

Detail of "Slippery When Wet," Richard Deacon. Ash and stainless steel. 2004.

Artist's Site

Txomin Badiola

Txomin Badiola. From the series Family Plot, 2004.

Essay in The Courage to Be Alone by Lorand Hegyi

Pedro Cabrita Reis

"Unframed #3" Pedro Cabrita Reis. Aluminum, double glasses, wood, fluorescent lights and electrical cable. 275 x 422 x 17 cm. 2008.

Reis works in several mediums, including painting, sculpture and drawing. He also creates installations.

Artist's Site

essay in The Courage to be Alone by Lorand Hegyi

Jake and Dinos Chapman

image by Jake and Dinos Chapman.

Also works in miniature and creates videos, check it out below.

Video "Fucking Hell" by Jake and Dinos Chapman

Interview from The Journal of Contemporary Art

Tony Cragg

"Stack," Tony Cragg. 1975.

Artist's Site

One of his older pieces, but I like it. His stuff is mostly made out of recycled materials.

Javier Marín

"Cabeza Roja (Red Head)," Javier Marín. Bronze, 192 x 93 x 75 in. 1997.

Artist's Site

Rineke Dijkstra

Left - "Abigail, Herzliya, Israel, April 10", Chromogenic print, 1999.
Right - "Abigail, Palmahim Israeli Air Force Base, December 18", Chromogenic print, 2000.

She does the most beautiful portraits.

Alessandra Sanguinetti

From series "On the Sixth Day." Alessandra Sanguinetti.

Artist's Site

I think it's hard to judge her work on a single piece, I just particularly enjoyed the composition of this one. Check out her site to see the rest of the series "On the Sixth Day."

Belinda Eaton

"Face VI." Belinda Eaton, acrylic painting, 2008.

Artist's Site

Her full figures are also incredible.

Kehinde Wiley

"Prince Tommaso Francesco of Savoy - Carignano." Kehinde Wiley, oil painting, 2006.

Artist's Site

Kehinde Wiley is incredible - his pieces are satirical and politically pertinent.

Richard Serra

"Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres." Richard Serra, Steel, 1996-2000.

Richard Serra's work is a huge and obvious influence on my own metal sculpture. He has a natural talent for transforming cold steel sheets into intimate spaces.

Jasper Johns

"Flag." Jasper Johns, encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood (three panels), 42 1/4 x 60 5/8", 1954-1955.

Artist Biography

Jenny Saville

"Reverse." Jenny Saville, oil on canvas, 84 x 96 in, 2003.

She's a painter's painter, and I love her painterly surfaces.

To do, last edited 9/10

Anish Kapoor
Matthew Barney
Catherine Opie
Sarah Lucas
Gerhardt Richter
Janine Antoni
Tim Hawkinson
Catherine Chalmers
Mark Manders
Arnold Mescher

from wikipedia "young british artists"
Steve McQueen
Chris Ofili*
Fiona Banner
Christine Borland
Angela Bulloch
Simon Callery
Adam Chodzko
Mat Collishaw
Ian Davenport
Tracey Emin
Angus Fairhurst
Anya Gallaccio
Liam Gillick
Douglas Gordon
Marcus Harvey
Damien Hirst*
Gary Hume
Michael Landy
Abigail Lane
Lala Meredith-Vula
Sarah Lucas
Martin Maloney
Stephen Park
Cornelia Parker
Richard Patterson
Simon Patterson
Marc Quinn
Fiona Rae
Yinka Shonibare
Georgina Starr
Sam Taylor-Wood
Gavin Turk
Gillian Wearing
Mark Wallinger
Rachel Whiteread*
Wilson Sisters

from sculpture class:
Michael Condry (sp)
Theo Jansen
Peter Hallei(y?)
Terry Winters
Mark Dion
Clement Greenberg
Eric Cameron
Mark Lombardi (book by Robert Hobbs)
Keith Tyson
Ron Leax
Stephen J. Gould
Brendan Jameson

Book: The Courage to Be Alone by Lorand Hegyi
Gilbert & George
Ilya Kabakov
Roman Opalka
Giulio Paolini
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Anna and Patrick Poirier
Sarkis
Nahum Tevet
Franz West

from book "The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations: Mapping Art + Science"
Wim Delvoye
Kate Ericson + Mel Ziegler
Nine Katchadourian
Joyce Kozloff
John McQueen
Matthew Ritchie
Lordy Rodriguez
Ed Ruscha
Denis Wood

Classic:
Van Gogh
Rembrandt
Manet
Monet