Adrian Piper

In her younger years, still in high school, she created paintings that were discovered later on in life and became known works. For instance "Alice Down the Rabbit Hole". They are considered Adrian's LSD paintings. She began to understand the principle of Conceptual art. The media she chooses to use is painting, sculpture, drawing, performance, video, installation, sound works and photo documentation.
    Having it being her first generation as a conceptual artists she began to introduce herself into yoga and meditation. This was something she wanted to achieve personally. Her goal was to explore her consciousness, perception, and infinite permutation using maps, diagrams, photographs, and descriptive language. After this she went onto exploring Minimalism.
"Alice Down the Rabbit Hole" created on canvas board.

"Art for the Artworld Surface Pattern"created in 1976. 152.4 x 152.4 x 213.3 cm

"Self Portrat Exaggerating My Negroid Features" created in 1981. Pencil on Paper.

Tracey Emin

       Tracey as a variety of skills such as mono prints, painting, photography, fabric, neon lights, found objects, installations, films, books and sculpture. She didn't really become known by the public until she ended up on television in 1997. She appeared on T.V. pretending to be drunk. Swearing and insulting panel members. Her next big piece is titled "My Bed". This piece included sheets that were stained yellow on certain parts. There were items on the floor such as used condoms, cigarette packs that were empty and a pair of slippers.

"My Bed"

Duane Hanson

    Duane Hanson is famously known for his realistic works of people. These works of people were usually made out of the materials that include, polyester resin, fiberglass, Bondo and bronze. In the beginning Duane Hanson would cast his figures in fiberglass and vinyl.  He would tend to create scenes or tableaux that focused on brutal and violent subjects.
    For example "Hanson's Abortion" which was created in 1966 and was thought about after the horrors of a backroom procedure. All of his works are casted from actual people , where were sculpted out of fiberglass and then painted them to make their skin look detailed and realistic. Duane then would cloth these subjects and then arrange them in the way he finds appropriate. He varies his scale in size with his sculptures varying from realistic human size to sculptures that are bigger then a human subject. With the larger ones he wanted to inhabit the audience and viewers space, to make them feel close.
"Hanson's Abortion"



"Queeni II"



"Man on a Bench"

Ron Mueck

    Ron Mueck is known for is realistic human subjects.Ron began to make photo realistic props and animatronics for advertising. Ron's earlier works were created from fiberglass. Then began to use silicone due to its extreme flexibility and is easier to shaping the human body.  His sculptures were designed sculptures were highly detailed to be photographed. Ron Mueck wanted to create realistic sculptures that look perfect from all angles. In 1996 Ron Mueck had made the decision to start working in fine art, while working with his mother-in-law.
    "Dead Dad" was created out of silicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of his father shrunk about 2/3 of its scale. With this finished product he decided to use his own hair. All of Mueck's sculptures have been focused on the detail of the human body. The only difference is the scale of the sculpture. The scale size is incredibly large.

"Mask Two"

"Big Man"

Ernesto Neto

    People have began do describe Neto's work as beyond abstract minimalism. Neto tends to use soft natural and organic shapes. He takes these forms and puts them in an environment where they look inviting. The scale he works with includes large installations that are usually soft, and biomorphic. His works invite the audience and viewer's to touch, poke, and even sometimes walk on or through. He creates an environment that is somewhat comforting for the viewer and allows viewers to sometimes crawl and put their bodies through his works. They are usually made white and of stretchy like material. Such thin materials as nylon and cotton. He then will take styrofoam pellets and stuff them. On occasion he would add in aromatic spices.

Jeff Koons

    This contemporary artist is has become one of the most well known artists of the 20th century. He is also known for his reproductions of balloon animals produced from stainless steel with a mirror finished surface. His work has sold for the highest price sold for a work. The art is titled " Ballon Flower". There are many different views on how people feel about this artist. Some enjoy his work others laugh at it. He ended up setting up a factory where he hired over 30 assistants that helped reproduced his ideas faster. Each assistant was assigned a differed aspect of producing Koons works.
    Jeff Koons early works came in the form of conceptual sculpture. An example of this is the Equilibrium series that was created in 1985. He has had photos taken and put into advertisements for an international art magazine. From here he began to sculpt his pieces larger and larger. Other materials he would use include porcelain. Another famous works of Jeff Koons is "Puppy". This work was commissioned in 1992 for an art gallery exhibition is Germany. "Puppy" is 43 ft tall and covered in a variety of flowers on a steel structure.
"Balloon Flower"

"Puppy"

"Balloon Dog"

Evelyn Floret

Evelyn Floret begins her work with creating her sculpture out of clay. The piece she sculpted comes from a real setting. Then casts her pieces in bronze. She has also used other materials for sculpting such as marble.  Evelyn specializes in sculpture, bronze, torsos, clay and photography. She is actually a distinguished editorial photographer and has been published in people, Sports Illustrated, Time, Fortune and Avenue magazines. She has been awarded many awards and is very well known.

"Bronze Sculpture"
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"Goddess"

" Hydrocal Relief"