Carroll Dunham draws from the traditions of early American Modernism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, and has added the varied influences of Philip Guston, Mayan art, and pup culture to his work. Often rendered in eye-popping color, his caricatures of men and women engage in a slapstick war of the sexes.

Susan Rothenberg has mined the depths of painting to explore the relationship between subject matter and the painted ground of the canvas since the early 1970s. Recreating the life around her, Rothenberg's thickly textured oil paintings depict figures, nervous tension with one another on the picture plane.