This is a list of artists who create contemporary art, i.e., those whose peak of activity can be situated somewhere between the 1970s (the advent of postmodernism) and the present day.Artists on this list meet the following criteria: The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by his/her peers or successors. Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s presents a focused look at painting from this decade with works drawn entirely from the Museum’s collection. In the 1980s, painting recaptured the imagination of the contemporary art world against a backdrop of expansive change. An unprecedented number of.

As theorized by film critic Laura Mulvey, in her essay, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' (1973 published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal 'Screen') 'the gaze' is a point-of-view that is gendered as male and defined as the subject, in images film (also in photography, painting, etc.). Though the gaze may not necessarily be 'male,' it does establish a position of power over the object of the gaze, which is often associated with patriarchy. The gaze as structured through representations, paintings, like photographs, films, subjugates 'the Other' through the very act of looking, examining, etc.

Thereby reinforces society's dominant power relationships. The gaze can be internalized psychologically, and can make one act as Other, even in the absence of an actual gazer. Starting in the late 20th century, white and black female artists dealt specifically with the psychological relationships as established through the Gaze: e.g.: Sherman, Rosler, Simpson, Weems.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • Background [ ] Founded in 1994 by Akin Adams, the earliest Byzar recordings were long-form textural soundscapes made with a 4-track cassette recording of multiple layers of heavily processed guitars, found objects and a badly damaged organ. Adams played guitar in an experimental rock trio called, worked as an engineer in a hip-hop and dancehall studio called 'Midimation' with artists such as and, and co-hosted a weekly event called 'The Abstrakt Lounge' featuring, aka at the '3 of Cups' basement lounge in New York's East Village in 1993.

Lived in the nearby, a former gas station turned into a renegade sculpture garden in, and began hosting multimedia events called 'Molecular', which attracted artists from the burgeoning Brooklyn dub scenes, DJ's, performance artists and installation designers, who would have free rein to transform the space with inflatables, video projections and various artistic efforts. Adams would provide sound equipment and organization help, and would often create electronic guitar soundscapes at one end of the garage space while Spooky mixed raw breakbeats at the other end. Abstrakt Lounge and Molecular were part of a network of happenings and events, including the Abstrakt Wave, founded by Tim Sweet in a performance lounge called the RV on NYC's Lower East Side, where Adams began performing as an 'ambient DJ', playing the byzar soundscapes layered with other records and rudimentary beats. Other musicians, Including Hector Becerra, a noted NYC session drummer who played on Taylor Dayne's tour, and Manny Oquendo, who had been a Midimation client with the LES group 'Hallucination Station', began jamming with Adams during his sets, and Byzar began to grow into a fluid collective.