Artist Spotlight: Best of Art, 2012

For more on Frederic Leighton, go here.

For more on Kevin Wada, go here.

For more on Polly Guo, go here.

For more on Joel Otterson, go here.

For more on George Stavrinos, go here.

For more on Jansson Stegner, go here.

For more on Ryan Grant Long and his series about the history of gay love, go here.

For more on Martin-Jan van Santen, go here.

For more on Henry Scott Tuke, go here.

For more on Robert Sherer, go here.

For more on Robert de Michiell, go here.

For more on Claudio Bindella, go here.

For more on Laurie Lipton, go here.

For more on Glyn Warren Philpot, go here.

For more on Mel Odom, go here.

For more on Michael Petry, go here.

"...I asked men and women on the Web to send me images of their anuses to form the basis of a portrait. Initially I took a piece of leather in the color of the fetish they were most interested in (as in the glass works) and then hand-sewed it into a portrait as similar to the image sent to me. As the originals images were photographs, these objects were also then photographed to form their final state. In all the Web Portraits, the images sent to me were confidential and destroyed after use. Equally, there was no way to verify if the image sent was from the person claiming that identity, so the resultant portrait was a Web Portrait of who they identified with in the virtual world." — M.P.

For more on Ron Griswold, go here.