Ashley Bickerton, "Nocturnes"

Along with Jeff Koons, Bickerton was one of the stars of the Neo-Geo wave of the mid-to-late 1980s. But while Koons went on to fully embrace the corporate creep within, Bickerton, whose works from the period (such as objects that looked like logo-covered survivalist floatation devices) evinced an early concern for global warming and rising sea levels, decamped for Bali. The sculptures and paintings he's made since suggest what might have happened had Brando's Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now been an artist