{"id":370382,"date":"2025-12-26T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370382\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:51:15","slug":"the-most-read-artist-profiles-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370382\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most-Read Artist Profiles of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artsy Editors<\/p>\n

Over the course of 2025, Artsy writers highlighted some of the most exciting artists working today. This year, we brought you closer to rising painters poised for major success as well as monumental artists whose recognition is long overdue. Nostalgic landscapes, energetic figuration, and boundary-breaking works that redefine painting are just a few of the themes that our readers were captivated by. Talking to artists is one of the privileges of writing about art: Their stories help draw back the curtain on how they create, bringing the magic of art closer to more people every day. <\/p>\n

Here, we round up some of the Artsy profiles of artists you loved the most this year. <\/p>\n

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Portrait of Isabella Ducrot in her studio. Photo by Claire de Virieu. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cDucrot\u2019s life story proves the maxim that it\u2019s never too late. The artist herself is a model of persistence. Over the past four decades, Ducrot has created a body of work that invites us to examine the world more closely: how it moves, recurs, and affects us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read our interview with Isabella Ducrot<\/a> to discover the painter\u2019s daily rituals. \"\"<\/p>\n

Portrait of Eva Helene Pade. Photo by Petra Kleis. Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the course of her ascendant career, she\u2019s earned a reputation for well-placed art-historic references, evoking the Expressionism<\/a> of German painter Otto Dix<\/a> and the golden haze of Vienna Secessionist Gustav Klimt<\/a> alike. \u2018Some of it is conscious, and some of it is unconscious,\u2019 Pade commented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Explore the artist\u2019s inspirations in our interview with Eva Helene Pade.<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n

Portrait of Olga de Amaral at Casa Amaral, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, 2013. Photo \u00a9 Diego Amaral. Courtesy of the Fondation Cartier.<\/p>\n

\u201cHandmade fiber, horsehair, plastic, and gold: The materials interlaced into Amaral\u2019s textiles testify to her meticulous, lifelong attention to texture and form. For six decades, her sculptural, often colossal work has challenged categorizations of \u2018craft\u2019 and \u2018art,\u2019 an approach that has also brought newfound recognition for contemporaries in textile art Sheila Hicks<\/a> and Magdalena Abakanowicz<\/a>. At 92, Amaral is now receiving recognition for her intricate textiles, such as the \u2018Brumas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about Olga de Amaral\u2019s career<\/a> in our interview. \"\"<\/p>\n

Portrait of Geoffroy Pithon by Thibault Royer for Artsy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe rarely begins with a blank page; sometimes the works begin with digital prints of rough sketches he produces on the computer, or hand-drawn pencil lines for guidance, and other times he searches the large-format works leftover from site-specific installations for \u201cthe most efficient parts,\u201d which he then cuts out and reworks. He compares this process to sampling with music, \u2018only instead of sampling from another artist, I am sampling from my own work,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read our interview with Geoffroy Pithon<\/a> to get a feel for the artist\u2019s process. \"\"<\/p>\n

Portrait of Mavis Pusey. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Archives, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough prolific in her work and well-connected, Pusey, like many other women artists of her time, was largely overlooked within art history. \u2018She was a woman artist, but she was also a Black woman artist working in abstraction; the art world has not been kind to Black women abstract artists.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Explore the legacy of this underrecognized Black woman artist in our interview with Mavis Pusey<\/a>.\"\"<\/p>\n

Portrait of Bianca Raffaella in TKE Studios, October 2024. Photo by Antonio Parente. Courtesy of Flowers.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is drawn to flowers in particular as a symbol of finite beauty in the world that is often undervalued. \u2018Sight is also finite, and we often don\u2019t appreciate different layers of vision. My work is a conversation between these two important subjects,\u2019 she said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dive into an unconventional practice through our interview with Bianca Raffaella.<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n

Portrait of Emil Sands by Giulia Fassina for Artsy.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, Sands obsessively paints bodies\u2014imagined, inspired by friends, or his own. These figures inhabit isolated, sometimes eerie, landscapes, often near water. The resulting impressionistic tableaux present an intimate study of the human form, where partially bare bodies are subject to the same attention that Sands gives himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more about these paintings of bodies and perception in our interview with Emil Sands<\/a>.\"\"<\/p>\n

Portrait of Christina Kimeze in her studio, 2024. Photo by Lily Bertrand-Webb. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor \u2018Between Wood and Wheel,\u2019 Kimeze has homed in on Black roller-skating groups in the U.K. and U.S. These paintings evoke ideas of flight, freedom, and movement. Her figures, shown in fragments of faces and torsos, appear lost in serene or elated action, soaked in bright purple, yellow, and orange.\u201d<\/p>\n

Explore this vibrant solo show through our interview with Christina Kimeze<\/a>.\"\"<\/p>\n

Portrait of Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis on the set of Anemone. Photo by Maria Lax \/ Focus Features. \u00a9 2025 Focus Features, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Focus Features.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of his paintings feature\u2026lustrous, dreamlike landscapes. This inspiration traces back to his childhood, particularly the months he spent in Marfa, Texas\u2014when his father filmed There Will Be Blood (2007)\u2014where the desert \u2018embedded itself\u2019 in his consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Discover how memory informs this painter\u2019s art in our interview with Ronan Day-Lewis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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