100 Painters of Tomorrow Publication Critiques Market's 'Crapstraction' Trend

The book '100 Painters of Tomorrow,' published in 2014, highlights a selection of emerging artists chosen through an open call evaluated by a panel that included Yuko Hasegawa, Philip Tinari, Cecily Brown, and Barry Schwabsky. These judges voiced their weariness with the decorative abstract style dominating the art scene, a view shared by critic Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine that same year. Saltz criticized the prevalence of pale, insipid abstract pieces at fairs like Independent in New York and Liste in Basel, calling them reflections of buyer preferences. The featured artists predominantly embrace figurative art or complex abstraction. Among them are Ivana de Vivanco from Leipzig and Wong Xiang Yi from Hong Kong, both known for psychosexual scenes, as well as Shahryar Hatami from Tehran and Sze Yang Boo from Singapore, who draw on apocalyptic sci-fi themes. London artists Oliver Osborne and Shaan Syed offer conceptually engaging pieces. This richly illustrated publication appeared in the Autumn & Winter 2014 edition of ArtReview Asia.