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People and works, so far

This grows one entry at a time, honestly. There is no attempt here to look like a complete archive — only the people this site has actually written about.

People

  • Charcoal-style portrait drawing of Agnes Martin: short dark hair swept back, a level, searching look, an open collar.
    Agnes Martin1912–2004 · PaintingA hand-drawn grid at the scale of a standing body.Charcoal-style drawing made with AI.
  • Ink illustration of a figure wearing Atsuko Tanaka's Electric Dress, her face just visible among painted bulbs, tubes and trailing wires.
    Atsuko Tanaka1932–2005 · Painting, performanceWore two hundred bulbs, then painted the wiring for fifty years.Ink illustration made with AI, showing Atsuko Tanaka's Electric Dress (1956).
  • Chalk portrait of Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond, 1850.
    Charlotte Brontë1816–1855 · FictionCatalogued a room until it became a sentence about belonging.George Richmond, 1850, National Portrait Gallery, London. Public domain.
  • Portrait of Chiharu Shiota.
    Chiharu Shiotab. 1972 · InstallationRooms of thread holding objects that belonged to strangers.Photo: John-240, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Dorothea Rockburne photographed around 2002–2005.
    Dorothea Rockburneb. 1929 · Painting, drawingRan Robert Rauschenberg's studio for five years while building her own mathematics after hours.Photo: George Quasha, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
  • Ink illustration portrait of Eva Hesse: long dark hair parted in the middle, a slight smile.
    Eva Hesse1936–1970 · SculptureNineteen attempts at one form, in materials that agree to age.Ink illustration made with AI.
  • Line drawing portrait of Fielding Dawson: short swept hair, a serious look, in a buttoned shirt with a breast pocket.
    Fielding Dawson1930–2002 · Writing, paintingWrote forty-seven years of extraordinary prose, remembered as a witness to other people's fame.Line drawing made with AI.
  • Gertrude Stein photographed against an American flag backdrop, January 1935.
    Gertrude Stein1874–1946 · Poetry, proseSaid the noun four times so it would come loose.Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress. Public domain.
  • Louise Bourgeois photographed in New York, 1996.
    Louise Bourgeois1911–2010 · Sculpture, installation, drawingRooms built from salvaged doors, which protect and trap with one wall.Photo: Oliver Mark, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Charcoal portrait drawing of Pat Passlof on grey paper: tousled dark hair, a direct, slightly raised look, a crew-neck shirt.
    Pat Passlof1928–2011 · PaintingRan the room so well that nobody thought to ask what she was making in it.Charcoal drawing made with AI.
  • Ray Johnson photographed in February 1984.
    Ray Johnson1927–1995 · Collage, mail artMailed his art directly into the world, then mailed himself out of the art world too.Photo: Charles D. Welch, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Charcoal-style portrait drawing of Ruth Asawa: dark hair with straight-cut bangs, a steady direct look, a knitted collar.
    Ruth Asawa1926–2013 · Sculpture, arts educationOne looped wire, until the boundary and the opening are the same act.Charcoal-style drawing made with AI.
  • Yayoi Kusama photographed in Copenhagen, 2015.
    Yayoi Kusamab. 1929 · Painting, sculpture, installationRepetition used until the self loses its edge.Photo: Susanne Nilsson, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.