Janaina Tschape

Janaina Tschape (two dots over the a)

Janaina Tschape creates photographs, videos, performances, and paintings. She paints journeys, romanticism, and dream states.

She uses color, line work, and overlapping shapes to create depth. Drips of paint remind viewers of the surface. She often works with cut paper.

video

Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman speaks of painting as a physicality, like an extension of her arm. She believes honesty is the most important quality in a painting.

She uses richly complicated textures and colors (although with limited palettes). She uses gesture, color, and drawing-based procedures to imply femininity, performativity, and humor.

Karin Davie

Karin Davie

In Out In Out #5 and #6 (diptych), 1992, oil on canvas

Slip-Up, 1998, oil on canvas

Karin Davie is known for her Modernist striped and looping hyperbolic abstractions. Her process can be viewed in context with painting as performance.

Her paintings are constructed from repetitive physical movements. She works in large scale with bright colors.  Line and color are strongly emphasized.

She has been linked to/compared to Pop art, Op art, and Abstract Expressionism.

Merlin Carpenter

Merlin Carpenter

from The Opening, 2009

Nigel, 2003

Merlin Carpenter uses a critical appropriation of painting strategies to challenge the history of late Modernism. He also challenges figure vs ground relationships with his disconnected backgrounds.
Some of his early work features abstract gestural figures - women standing in front of non representational backgrounds.
Actually his works vary quite a bit which makes his style hard to classify. (see huge variety in examples above) I am mostly interested in his most recent works like The Opening, in which he did all the "paintings" at the opening reception.

He is pretty involved in the DIY scene and started his own self-financing collective artist-run space in London.