Stealing an idea from Greenpoint blogger Art Soldier, I have been looking at the online image database at Artists Space, which is free of charge and open to artists and curators.
Looking at art this way is not ideal, of course - it's like flipping through a magazine but worse, because it benefits only work that looks good in a small jpeg file. That said, it's quite addictive, and the easiest way I've come across to see large quantities of not-yet-mainstream art.
The first artist to catch my eye was Charlotte Nicholson, a young Brooklyn artist. (I think "young Brooklyn artist" probably applies to most of them.) Using oil paint and sometimes gold leaf, Nicholson applies tiny brush marks to build up an impressionistic atmosphere over fairly large canvases.
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