8 More Artists to Watch and Collect This Summer

For the past 35 years, Art Business News (ABN) has brought cutting-edge talent to the forefront. In a recent blog post, ABN featured its current obsessions—14 artists with curated collections on our Online Art Marketplace. We featured the first six last month. Now take a look at the other eight artists you should consider collecting this year.

Strewn with waggish details of high society, the collages and dog sculptures that spring from the imagination of Jackie Fuchs invite the viewer, with a series of visual winks, to momentarily delight in the absurdity and artifice of the blue-chip contemporary art world. Everyone knows what she is referencing. Her scenes are glamorous but, somehow, not entirely fun—like a fancy party you would go to just to snoop through the big house. The figures, too, seem to occupy the space as art objects. Fuchs’ images, if taken seriously, offer a kind of Hirstian dystopia of the contemporary art community. Hers is an all-too-familiar world in which art is, like an Hermés bag, a symbol of wealth, status, and a certain kind of cultural literacy—something to be hung above a mid-century lamp, gazed from behind Chanel sunglasses, and Instagrammed. Her work is definitely recognizable and relatable and collected.

“We all come to our day, events, appointments, choirs, relationships—actually everything—with a history of stories we tell ourselves over and over again. We make these ‘stories’ the truth, regardless of reality. My intention is to help people change their thoughts by empowering them and allowing a new story to unfold, which becomes proof of an abundant experience. With practice, the old projections of negative stories dissipate.”

Mixed media artist Janet Bothne has been “weaving” with paint for over three decades. Although her focus shifts from time to time, her signature of vibrant color remains. Bothne has been passionate about the power of color throughout her life. Her work has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the U.S., and her collectors span the globe. She currently resides in New Mexico and works out of her studio in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque.
“My artistic practice is an exchange between myself and paint,” she says. “The more challenges it presents, the more I engage. It’s about being present and responsive—and realizing there’s no perfection to be achieved, just a hard-earned accord. I’m sometimes painting ‘backward,’ with some idea of an elusive end result that I purposefully push back from in the early layers. Getting toward resolving a piece, plans have usually gone awry because the paint has shown me what it would rather do. After having given up the need to control my work, I have found my center and learned the satisfaction of letting paint be paint. It’s shown me the beauty in things that arrive on their own terms. I’m simply the conduit for these colors that play and trick the eye, with their shy or bold personalities, revealing themselves or not, depending on the light—their mischievous accomplice.”

Growing up as a child in Hawaii, Luis Kaiulani describes his influence as a mixture of culture, nature, geography, and philosophy. His upbringing involved absorbing all of the wonders of the Hawaiian forests, playing in the sands on secluded beaches, meditating on mountaintops, and diving into one of the world’s most amazing bodies of water, the Pacific Ocean. Although he credits his affinity toward nature to this idyllic time, there is another side of Kaiulani that is fiery, passionate, and aching for excitement. He attributes this to his Latin American heritage. For the past 20 years, Kaiulani’s attention to fluidity, mindfulness, and color dimension brings his artworks into a realm all of their own. Kaiulani creates abstract works that draw from his Hawaiian and Venezuelan backgrounds and are expressed via his sculptures, paintings, and art objects. For the onlooker, his work simultaneously feels strong and imaginary, much like the archipelago he hails from. His focus on color brings to life his work’s objective.

“My art is a metaphor for nature’s constant quest for growth through learning, experience, and contribution,” he says. “My goal is to keep moving forward, to keep making works of art; I’m focused on making many more paintings and sculptures.”

As a self-taught photographer, Maddi Ring has traveled extensively to over 80 countries, exploring remote parts of the world and seeking out unusual images of people, still life, landscape, and architecture. Her focus is often on remote areas, though there are more popular travel destinations, including her home city of New York, in her collection. She uses both color and monochromatic tonal ranges to reproduce the scene and set the mood. Then, working in an image transfer process, she creates a completely different watercolor effect. She also uses digital manipulation on select images to produce tinted black-and-white images as well as fanciful color abstracts.

“The far reaches of the world have always intrigued me,” she says. “The farther away from McDonald’s the better. These images are my impressions and creations from my own neighborhood to the depths of the third world.”

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