One of the foremost exponents of Minimalism, Carl Andre (b.1935, Quincy, MA, and d. 2024, New York) revolutionized sculpture with his arrangements of elemental units of matter, such as wood or metal, in simple, often geometric configurations. Andre is celebrated for his floor-bound works that depart from the traditional sculptural principles of verticality and monumentality to engage architectural space. Andre’s work has been shown extensively in important one-person and retrospective exhibitions, most recently at the Daegu Art Museum, Korea, from September 26 through December 31, 2023, which travelled to the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Japan, in March 2024. His work can be found in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Tauba Auerbach’s work (b. 1981, San Francisco, CA) contemplates structure and connectivity on the microscopic to the universal scale. Building on crafts in many disciplines, Auerbach often invents tools and techniques for inducing material behaviors. The artist’s hand is recognizable in work across a wide variety of media including painting, weaving, glass sculpture, photography, video, calligraphy and musical instrument design. Auerbach’s work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Pompidou, among others. In 2021, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented S v Z — a 17-year survey of Auerbach’s work. In 2023, the Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany presented TIDE, a one-person exhibition which closed in January 2024.

By the mid-1970s, Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941, Long Beach, CA, d. 2022, New York) had emerged as a leading American artist of her time—particularly following the landmark presentation at Paula Cooper Gallery of Rhapsody (1976), Bartlett’s masterpiece, now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bartlett’s first survey exhibition was held in 1985 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Philadelphia, among others. Bartlett’s works can be found in numerous public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Naoshima Museum, Japan; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Tate Gallery, UK.

Sarah Charlesworth (b. 1947, East Orange, NJ, d. 2013, Falls Village, CT) is known for her conceptually-driven and visually alluring photo-based works. Through her exacting forms, assiduous process, and subjective interventions, Charlesworth aimed to subvert and deconstruct cultural imagery. Charlesworth’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at a number of institutions, including the major survey, “Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld,” at the New Museum, New York (2015), which traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017); and a retrospective organized by SITE Santa Fe (1997), which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1998); the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (1998); and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (1999). Her work is in important public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Eric N. Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, MD) uses fabric and other found objects to create richly textured compositions that collapse the boundaries between fine art, fashion, and architecture. The artist identifies as a painter due to his preoccupation with surface, light, and material, although his works frequently move away from the walls to merge painting with sculpture. Mack received his BFA from The Cooper Union, NY and his MFA from Yale University, CT. He is the recipient of prestigious awards and residencies including the Chinati Foundation’s Artists in Residence Program (2023); the Rome Prize (2021-2022); and the Studio Museum in Harlem Residency (2014-2015). Mack’s work is in the permanent collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Mack’s site-specific installation Sarong was on display at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, from March 2023 to January 2024 as part of the group exhibition Chronorama Redux.

For nearly 40 years, Christian Marclay (b. 1955, San Rafael, CA) has been exploring the connections between vision and sound, creating works in which these two sensibilities enrich and challenge one another. Techniques of montage and collage characterize much of Marclay’s practice across video, sculpture, and works on paper, creating a remarkable sense of cohesion from disparate appropriated sources. Marclay garnered international acclaim at the 54th Venice Biennale for his masterpiece video work, The Clock, for which he received the prestigious Golden Lion award. A one-person exhibition of Marclay’s work was presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, in 2021–2022, and a retrospective took place at the Centre Pompidou in 2022–2023. His work is in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among others.