Appropriation: when artists borrow known imagery and make it their own. Associated with a sly patricianism, distancing, critical intent. Lineage: Duchamp through Cindy Sherman through Richard Prince. Or so we thought we knew. But imagery is, happily, a strange place, full of the neglected unknown knowns. And so is Saatchi Online. One artist's apparently earnest newspaper clippings cumulate in odd poetry. For a painter, China's anti-vice campaign provides the occasion to re-master internet images; whether they're drawn from soft porn or the news of its eradication is now unknowable. Another leverages the orderly documentary style of interior photography - associated with anthropological ironists like Candida Hoefer - to showcase his oil paintings. These artists expand our idea of what appropriation might mean, and remind us of its capacity to blow our minds. Further, they raise the question: what does it mean to declare yourself?
Antonio Roybal
Bill Jackson
Caitlin Karolczak
David Hendrickx
Michael Markham
Peter Kilb
Shabnam Anand
Sundus Abdul Hadi
Terry Aley
Zhang Haiying
18-24 August
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SAATCHI ONLINE TOP 10 CHOSEN BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
During the summer, nature's impressive beauty is an obvious source for creative inspiration. But these ten artists see natural splendor on a much larger scale, and so they create supreme images of the sublime (on earth and beyond) all year around.
Allie Biswas
Belle Mary Hithersay
Eliahu Diner
Kathryn Hewitt
Matt Elson
Pat Belson
Patrick Nilsson
Samantha Keely Smith
Scott Pick
Willem And Madeleine Hyperborea
11 August - 17 August
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SAATCHI ONLINE TOP 10 CHOSEN BY REBECCA WILSON
Saatchi Online magazine's editor Rebecca Wilson chooses 10 artists registered on Saatchi Online and STUART.
Ali Richards
Charlie Day
Damien Flood
Joss Mckinley
laura Pannack
Margot Sanders
Paul Kusserow
Petros Chrisostomou
Philip Caramazza
Sarah Lederman
4 - 10 August 2008
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SAATCHI ONLINE TOP 10 CHOSEN BY LUPE NUNEZ-FERNANDEZ
London- and Madrid-based writer Lupe Nunez-Fernandez selects 10 of her favourite artists registered on Saatchi Online.
Ali Richards
An Hoang
Bara Kristinsdottir
David Wilcox
Joe Clark
R Sahota
Robynne Limoges
Ruth Hommelsheim
Silke Hase
Slaven Gabric
28 July - 3 August 2008
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STUART TOP 10 CHOSEN BY REBECCA WILSON
Ten emerging artists registered on Saatchi Online's site for students, chosen by the editor of Saatchi Online's magazine.
Al Pritchard
Amy Napper
Ceal Warnants
edward coyle
Jason Rouse
Leela Clarke
mike hunter
Rosie Morris
Sam Marsh
Tim Roberts
21 - 27 July 2008
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SAATCHI ONLINE TOP 10 CHOSEN BY ANA FINEL HONIGMAN
With Nu-rave and neon creating eye-popping sights on Europe's streets and catwalks, it is not surprising that beaming bright colors are also beaming off artists' palettes. These ten artists prove that punchy colors can make an powerful, yet also subtle and complex, impact.
Abstract Artist A
Angelo Nogara
Claudia Lazzarini
inez andrucyk
Joanne Klein
Josema Carrasco
Robert Naish
Totte Mannes
Zdenko Radovanić
zhou yu
14 - 20 July 2008
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SAATCHI ONLINE TOP 10 CHOSEN BY REBECCA WILSON
The editor of Saatchi Online's magazine selects 10 of her current favourite artists registered on Saatchi Online.
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