Zak Smith
An artist friend of our who recently stayed with this thought Zak Smith was a little lazy in technique, bolstered above the artistic dredges by his Yale MFA, and probably surrounded with more hype than necessary -- but his work is still pretty fucking compelling. He's currently working on a collaborative effort where artists do an interpretation of every page of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian," but he's got a similar project for Gravity's Rainbow already online, along with his collection, 100 Girls and 100 Octopuses. Did I mention the guy had a brief stint in porn, the profits from which he donates to Food Not Bombs?