have you ever had a book which you visit at the bookstore? a book which you could buy if you wanted but for whatever reason you prefer to just go and flip through it periodically instead of bringing it home? presently i find i’ve been visiting phaidon’s vitamin d. new perspectives in drawing book a lot. (companion to vitamin p which i already have sitting here beside me.) it’s a gorgeous book focussed on what has been widely referred to in the last couple of years as the “resurgence of drawing.” perhaps a resurgence in marketability is more like it but why quibble? since i’ve been digging them i figured you might need some vitamin d too. (see below)
first off i ought to note that though each of these artists is featured in vitamin d not all of the work below will actually be drawing in the stricktest sense. some won’t be drawing at all. i’ve just used the book as a jumping off point. enjoy-
marcel dzama
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for more of marcel’s work see here, here, and here.
mark lombardi
for an explanation of what exactly lombardi is up to with these and some more examples see here and here.
arturo herrera
for more of arturo’s work see here and here.
frank magnotta
for some more of frank’s work see here and here.
amy cutler
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for more of amy’s work see here, here, and here.
ernesto caivano
(full size here)
(full size here)
(full size here)
for more of ernesto’s kick ass work see here and here. for a bit of explaination see here.
paul noble
for more of paul’s work see here, here, here, and here.
scott teplin
for more of scott’s work look no further than his own site which offers a huge amount of his work for your oggling pleasure.
some other artists you might like to check out who are featured in the book are:
yun-fei ji (more here)
simon evans
Kerstin Kartscher (more here and here)
and matt greene
though they are all represented in the book i did not include the work of matthew ritchie, Shahzia Sikander, Zak Smith, John Currin, or Julie Mehretu since i’ve posted on all of them here in the past.
if you’d like to explore further here is the full list of vitamin d artists.
D-L Alvarez, Francis Alÿs, Ryoko Aoki, Kaoru Arima, Silvia Bächli, Devendra Banhart, Anna Barriball, Shannon Bool, Michaël Borremans, Andrea Bowers, Jesse Bransford, Fernando Bryce, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ernesto Caivano, Los Carpinteros, Raimond Chaves, Sandra Cinto, Russell Crotty, Roberto Cuoghi, John Currin, Amy Cutler, Jeff Davis, Tacita Dean, Trisha Donnelly, Marlene Dumas, Sam Durant, Marcel Dzama, Memed Erdener, Simon Evans, Simon Faithfull, Spencer Finch, Urs Fischer, Roland Flexner, Ellen Gallagher, Matt Greene, Joseph Grigely, Anna Sigmond Gudmundsdottir, Daniel Guzman, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Björn Hegardt, Arturo Herrera, Nobuya Hoki, Christian Holstad, Huang Yong Ping, Dean Hughes, Gareth James, Yun-Fei Ji, Chris Johanson, Kerstin Kartscher, William Kentridge, Toba Khedoori, Dr. Lakra, Michael Landy, Ricardo Lanzarini, Graham Little, Mark Lombardi, Mindaugas Lukosaitis, Marco Maggi, Frank Magnotta, Mark Manders,Yuri Masnyj, Dominic McGill, Julie Mehretu, Jean-François Moriceau and Petra Mrzyk, Claudia and Julia Müller, Dave Muller,Vik Muniz, David Musgrave, Wangechi Mutu, Yoshitomo Nara, Paul Noble, Jockum Nordström, Glexis Novoa, Roman Ondák, Robyn O’Neil, Gabriel Orozco, Pavel Pepperstein, Peter Peri, Dan Perjovschi, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Chloe Piene, Fernando Renes, Robin Rhode, Matthew Ritchie, Frances Richardson, Serse, Silke Schatz, Anne-Marie Schneider, Steven Shearer, David Shrigley, Simone Shubuck, James Siena, Shahzia Sikander, Lucy Skaer, Torsten Slama, Josh Smith, Zak Smith, Nedko Solakov, Hayley Tompkins, Susan Turcot, Banks Violette, Amelie von Wulffen, Kara Walker, Olav Westphalen, Richard Wright, Katharina Wulff, Daniel Zeller
hope you found something you liked.