100 Painters of Tomorrow / Book Launch & Exhibition | Nov 6 – Dec 6, 2014

100 Painters of Tomorrow / Book Launch & Exhibition | Nov 6 – Dec 6, 2014

Opening reception: Thursday, Nov 6, 2014.

To celebrate the release of ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ – a project that has been 2 years in the making – Kurt Beers and the entire team at Beers Contemporary is thrilled to be collaborating with these talented and internationally-based painters in two coinciding exhibitions in London and New York. Entitled, ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ (London/New York) these two unique exhibitions will showcase a cross-section of selected work by the majority of artists included in the publication.

100 Painters of Tomorrow hits New York City! The official book launch for the acclaimed, book comes to the Big Apple. 100 Painters of Tomorrow is authored by Kurt Beers and published by Thames & Hudson and has been critically praised as the intelligent, concise guide to the formative painters of the future.

Painting is enjoying a remarkable creative renaissance in the 21st century. Many of the world’s leading artists now work in this most enduring and seductive of media. ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’ authored by Kurt Beers, Director of Beers London and published by Thames & Hudson, was the result of a major project undertaken in 2014 to find the 100 most exciting, up-and-coming painters at work today. This publication introduces and presents the work of a global cast of painters selected by an international panel featuring some of the most prominent names in contemporary art (including the painter Cecily Brown, curators Tony Godfrey, Yuko Hasegawa and Gregor Muir, and writer-critics Suzanne Hudson, Barry Schwabsky and Philip Tinari) offering an intelligent snapshot of the best new talent in painting from across the world, gathered through an open call for submission that drew over 4,300 entries. Their work spans an extraordinary range of styles and techniques, from abstraction to figuration, minimalism to magical realism, and straight oil-on-canvas to mixed-media and installation based painting. The book features high-quality reproductions of each artist’s work, plus short texts including biographical information and quotations from the artists themselves that provide personal insights into their thinking and practice. Complete with resources including a global listing of further artists to watch, this is the definitive book on the outstanding painters of the future.