image making - portraiture and power, painting/photography

 Alice Neel

http://www.aliceneel.com/

 Barbara Kruger
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/barbara-kruger

Cindy Sherman
http://www.cindysherman.com/

 Agnes martin

http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=3787

Diane Arbus

http://diane-arbus-photography.com/

 Francis Bacon
http://www.francis-bacon.com/

Lucian Freud
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lucian-freud-1120

Marlene Dumas
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=7521

Nan Goldin
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=7532

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/4424
Rineke Dijkstra