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An oil painting of nude, buxom, light-skinned blonde woman standing against a pastel background.

Motherfucking Rock

A black-and-white photograph of a woman leaning her head against a wall, holding a fish spine in front of her own exposed back.

Untitled, New York

Francesca Woodman

A color photograph of the corner of an empty room with a gold mirror, pink curtains, and decorative pink wallpaper.

Aunt Anna’s House—Stripped: The Pink Study

Shellburne Thurber

A drawing in brown, blue, red, and black gouache and ink depicts a two-headed, two-legged female figure, blurry as if in movement, with blood spewing from the foreheads, mouths, breasts, and genital areas.

Female Bomb

A brown watercolor depicting a dark, shaded scene of a small nude figure holding an infant above their head.

Birth

A dark red wall sculpture of a lumpy ball form connected by a coiled and looped string to a disembodied forearm and hand.

From Heart to Hand

Two black-and-white photographs with black backgrounds, one of a section of dark, curly hair with a placard reading “identify” and one a portrait of a Black woman in a scoop-neck black top shown from the back with a placard reading “identity” affixed to the bare skin of her upper back.

ID

An oil painting of abstracted views of two landscapes stacked on top of one another and separated by a sky-blue band.

Unearth

A color photograph of artist Cindy Sherman, a white woman, posed as Marilyn Monroe with blond hair and parted red lips, seated on the floor in jeans, boots, and a pale blouse.

Untitled

A black-and-white photograph of the artist in a dress, dark coat, dark ankle boots, and hair in a 1960s hairstyle, posed on an empty stairwell lined with tall concrete pillars and glass.

Untitled Film Still #63

A black-and-white photograph of the artist on a very dark urban street, with blond hair and a dress skirt and blouse under a trench coat that she pulls closed around her neck.

Untitled Film Still #54

A black-and-white photograph of the artist with blond hair, a white blouse, and a calf-length plaid skirt standing on the side of an open road in a hilly evening landscape, her back turned to the viewer and a suitcase by her side on the ground.

Untitled Film Still #48

A black-and-white photograph of the artist, a white woman, posed on the empty outdoor platform of the Flagstaff train station and captured from across the tracks under a partly cloudy sky.

Untitled Film Still #44

An oil painting of two figures embraced in an erotic, intimate position, shown from above. The figure on top is painted bright green with blue hair; the figure on the bottom is painted pink, tan, and dark grey.

Green Heart

An oil painting of a young blonde figure against a lime green background sneezing into their open hands with visible expulsion and expressive brushstrokes illustrating the forcefulness of the sneeze.

Sneeze

A sculpture consisting of a wooden armoire filled with smoothly finished grey-white concrete.

Untitled

A sculpture consisting of a wooden chair almost completely within an unfinished block of cement and rebar.

Untitled

An installation of women's shoes embedded in five narrow cavities in a white wall covered by a translucent, tinted skins.

Atrabiliarios

A sculpture of thin, wispy gold wire loosely shaped into two wedding ring shapes.

Wedding Ring Drawing (Circumference of a Living Room)

Cornelia Parker

A suspended sculpture of charred, broken pieces of charcoal arranged densely at the bottom and sparsely at the top, as though rising from ashes.

Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson)

Cornelia Parker

Two long horizontal oil paintings on wood hang one below the other. The top depicts a sunset over water, the bottom an underwater scene of an orange fish. Each scene is disrupted by a solid red rectangle, and each painting is draped with green fabric along the top edge.

Regional Piece

Six color photographs in two rows of three show a figure rendered in various ways including as a line drawing in dirt, in blood or red pigment on cloth and in sand, and in sticks in an architectural hollow.

Silueta Works in Mexico

A color photograph depicts two labels tacked to the wall alongside a sheet of Andy Warhol's "70 S & H Green Stamps." The text “Mo Tu We Th Fr” spans the bottom margin.

Untitled

A sculpture depicts a rectangular white pole leaning against a white wall with black text reading, "I'm nobody! Who are you?" vertically down one side.

Key and Cue, No. 288

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