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robert longo

I would love to go to work and pull people around with ropes and throw tennis balls at them...but I would not love to spend another 1000 hours doing life drawing. Maybe that explains why I have never directed a New Order Music Video, or one of many terrible Keanu Reeves Films, and I don't have my artwork hanging in the Met, but a girl can dream.

Whenever my passion runs out my boss sometimes fills it up by recommending me artists I don't know of. I like that. x

Internationally exhibiting visual artist based in New York City. Represented by Metro Pictures, NYC, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.

robert longo - charcoal on paper

above: Robert Longo's charcoal drawing from the 80's and right, his new shot for Bottega Veneta It was virtually impossible to live through the 1980's without knowing at least one person who had a poster of Robert Longo's twisted and contorted urban hipsters adorning their wall. Along with the likes of Patrick Nagel, Longo's graphic art was a staple in poster shops, contemporary art galleries and trendy restaurants. Now, the artist/photographer/director brings those images back to life in…

A gallery of images of the women depicted in Robert Longo’s “Men in the Cities” series, including Cindy Sherman.

Robert Longo Untitled IV (from Men in Cities IV) at LAMA

Richard Kern has shone a light on New York’s underbelly since he first gained notoriety in the city’s thriving East Village art scene in the 1980s.

Barbara Ess, pinhole photograph

John Fekner is a street and multimedia artist, who created hundreds of environmental, social, political and conceptual works consisting of stenciled words, symbols, dates and icons spray painted outdoors in the United States, Sweden, Canada, England and Germany.

barbara ess

“visual pollution” by john fekner

12 WTF People Flushing Their Head in Toilet Seat.