High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Stuckist art group was started in London in 1999 to promote figurative painting and oppose conceptual art. This was mentioned in US media, but the first Stuckist presence in the United States was not until the following year, when former installation artist, Susan Constanse, founded a Pittsburgh chapter. In 2001, a Seattle branch staged a demonstration against a "tacky" city art project; and Jeffrey Scott Holland, a Kentucky artist, organized a traveling show of Stuckist paintings. In 2002, Jesse Richards and others founded a Stuckist gallery in New Haven, and staged a protest against the Iraq War.