Barbara Kruger
After thinking for a good while about the ideas you outlined for your next assignment, I thought of the work of Barbara Kruger. You should check her out. She generally doesn't paint; working with collage and prints instead. However, I think you might like her sensibility and the way she uses the combination of appropriated imagery and text to make a statement about moral, philosophical, and gender-based injustices that she sees in the world. Additionally, look at the final image below. This is how she chose to display one of her series, by hanging them from the ceiling in a long row in a department store. (How she got permission to do this, I have no idea.)
Fernando Bryce
Fernando Bryce is the artist I mentioned to you in class on Friday. He does these small-scale ink drawings on paper in which he complete re-creates (BY HAND!) newspaper articles, advertisements, pamphlets, etc. from the past that infuriate him to look at now. Because of his repetition of scale and visual language, he usually displays the work as you see in the bottom two images: in big groups arranged on the walls in grid-like patters. Check him out. You may dig what he's all about.
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