VITAMIN D includes an introduction by Emma Dexter who isCurator of Contemporary Art at Tats Modern in London. In 2005she curated Frida Kahlo, while other recent shows include aretrospective of Luc Tuymans, Pin Up: Contemporary Collage andDrawing, and a special installation by Bruce Naumen in TateModern's Turbine Hall as part of the museum's ongoing UnileverSeries. She was also co-curator in 2003 of Tate's first majorphotography exhibition Cruel and Tender: The Real in theTwentieth Century Photograph.

Drawing has recently experienced a renewal of importance in the art world and has rarely been as widely represented in biennials, art fairs, and exhibitions as it is now.Similar in concept, scope, and structure to Phaidon's success-ful volume Vitamin P, VITAMIN O presents, in A to Z order, the work of 109 artists who have emerged internationally since 1990.All use drawing as a primary medium. Whether representational or abstract, small or large in scale, using only one line or rich in colors and pattern, drawings have a highly descriptive and meticulously detailed quality that is being explored by an increasing number of contemporary artists. Extending beyond images traditionally associated with this medium,VITAMIN D illustrate the complexity, variety, and relevance of the practice of drawing today.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

BY EMMA DEXTER

D-L ALAREZ

FRANCIS ALYS

RYOKO AOKI

KAORU ARIMA

SILVIA BACHLI

DEVENDRA BANHART

ANNA BARRIBALL

SHANNON BOOL

MICHAEL BORREMANS

ANDREA BOWERS

JESSE BRANSFORD

FERNANDO BRYCE

CAI GUO-QIANG

ERNESTO CATVANO

LOS CARPINTEROS

RAIMOND CHAVES

SANDRA CINTO

RUSSELL CROTTY

ROBERTO CUOGHI

JOHN CURRIN

AMY CUTLER

JEFF DAVIS

TACITA DEAN

TRISHA DONNELLY

MARLENE DUMAS

SAM DURANT

MARCEL DZAMA

MEMED ERDENER

SIMON EVANS

SIMON FAITHFULL

SPENCER FINCH

URS FISCHER

ROLAND FLEXNER

ELLEN GALLAGHER

MATT GREENE

JOSEPH GRIGELY

ANNA SIGMOND

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