Van de Griff's sixth annual realism invitational show presents works by more than 30 artists including photorealism pioneers Don Eddy and Gottfried Helnwein as well as Alessandro Papetti, Janine Stern, Richard Thomas Davis, Deborah Deichler, Dan Griggs, Tony Ryder and Woody Gwyn. ...

... companies: Among others, Joel-Peter Witkin's repugnant, prosthetic-clad Dominatrice, from 1988, is here, as is Gottfried Helnwein's barbaric 1987 Self-Portrait, depicting his own torture with surgical tools. By exploring the simpler technique ... ...

Apokalypse is also the title of a show which brings one of Austria's most controversial figures back to his home country. Gottfried Helnwein's work will be featured in his first solo exhibit in Austria in the past ten years. ...

According to the theory that to find good young artists you should ask older artists what they think, Exit Art has organized this show: 24 artists, most of them novices to the scene (Charles Clough is the exception), were picked by 13 artists. The international selectors included Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood, Nari Ward, Gottfried Helnwein, Ronald Jones, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith.
The results aren't bad. Among what's notable are Iris Andraschek's creepy fish-tank concoctions, picked by Gottfried Helnwein... ...

Art viewers who consider themselves shockproof should take a look at German painter Gottfried Helnwein's show... ...

The eyes are plucked out because they are no longer needed, is the first thought the Gottfried Helnwein exhibition creates. Helnwein's most widely known work is probably the self-portrait made for the 1982 Scorpions record cover. In it recurs the same subject matter which Helnwein had put to use in dozens of works. ...

"My works are questions, not answers", says the Austrian, Gottfried Helnwein, time and time again focusing on the most sore points of contemporary, general and private history. ...

The child has grown into a world famous artist. But he has carried his questions with him. Today opens a large retrospective exhibition of Helnwein's art in Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art in Turku. The exhibition contains aquarels, oil paintings, drawings and photographs. They have often caused controversies by dealing with subjects that are all too sensitive. ...

The "Sehnsucht" cover, designed by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, shows ashen-faced band members bound, poked and disfigured by painful looking clamps and wires. The band's publicity photos are just as grisly ...

Logan, a 53-year-old investment banker, leads a tour of his house in the Marin County town of Tiburon, perched above the San Francisco Bay. The eclectically furnished, art-packed living room sets the tone. On one side of the room, Untitled (Venus/The Great Circle) by Jean-Michel Basquiat hangs catercorner to David Park's brooding canvas The Bathers. Across the way, Andy Warhol's Double Jackie faces off against The Room, a whimsical Philip Guston. There's a ravishing, newly purchased early Hockney, Seated Woman Being Served Tea, in the dining room, and looming above a stairwell is Gottfried Helnwein's powerful Untitled (Child). ...