West Coast
Storm Tharp is a Portland artist...I think. Everything is in ink and fabric dye and stunning in person. 
Carla Schwartz (Oakland CA). (Click on these! They get bigger and they're rad!)
I know Mark Gonzalez is huge and skateboard art is huge and I wish I could find a better example. But his acrylics are refreshing...caught between being 'painterly' and all that hyperflat-acrylic-graphic-trendy-blah-blah-blah. Two artists that stood out in NYC last time I was there:
Florian Sussmayr. Giant monochromatic photo-sourced oil and the subject matter is all 1980's and 90's (euro?) punk scene.
And Pawel Althamer. Mud and grass and shitmix sculptures. The little girl was amazingly creepy. She made it on my banner.
Now time to make a zine.
