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A video still of a medium-skinned person with glasses and short hair, shown from the torso up, facing the viewer against a green background.

Profile

A sculpture mounted on the wall and composed of a cluster of colorful housedresses.

Phasing (Ebb)

Two side-by-side video stills show artist Nari Ward from behind as he pushes a large, towering sculpture on wheels down a crowded street wearing a suit and hat.

Pushing Savior

A sculpture made of various objects piled on top of a metal shopping cart, tightly wrapped and bound with twisted red and black plastic, culminating in a simple folding chair at the very top.

Savior

A small ceramic sculpture comprises a shiny black base partially covered by a curling thin green layer and, to the far right, a vertical light purple leaf-like structure.

Faberge Leg

A sculpture of a large, wooden cabinet with open glass doors displaying a variety of found objects including bottles and buoys.

New Bedford Cabinet

A sculpture of several dozen identical green plaster casts of a woman’s head and torso arranged in rows in a rectangular, vertically-oriented architectural frieze.

Dr. Melissa Doft, Plastic Surgeon 1

A color photograph shows a pale older woman holding a dog and a plastic bag of various materials, standing next to a pale school-age boy in a red jacket and black patterned knit hat who smiles directly at the viewer.

Untitled, from the series Case History

Boris Mikhailov

A color photograph depicts a full portrait of a light-skinned man in dirty, ragged clothing standing in the open doors of a school bus as he looks directly at the viewer.

Discarded #5, Near Brawley, California

Anthony Hernandez

An elaborate mixed media installation occupying the corner of a white room and consisting of peeling white material, various yellow and orange materials, and a yellow metal tripod.

Hidden Relief

A black-and-white photograph of a person wearing a full-body costume of an antique press camera on a photo set with only their pale exposed legs visible.

Walking Camera (Jimmy the Camera / Gift to Jimmy from Laurie), from The Walking Series

An oil painting depicts an abstracted scene of two children in colorful clothing playing on a sandy beach as an enormous dark wave filled with drowning figures approaches the shore.

Big Wave

Woman with X-Patterned Dress (After Bill Traylor)

A depicts a pixelated, colorful pink, blue, and brown collage of a framed painting overlaid with pink pixel-like geometric shapes and a Garfield cartoon panel.

Untitled

A long narrow, horizontal painting with white clouds, blue and purple birds, and brushstrokes evenly distributed across the canvas.

Untitled

A color photograph shows a collage of a woman’s face with light projected on it and four white line drawings of an insect, flora, and airplanes in the four corners.

With My Hands I Give ECSTASY

A color photograph shows a collage of three figures: a standing human figure, the projected face of a woman in a headscarf gazing directly at the viewer, and a human skull.

When the Living Can No Longer Fight—the Dead Will

A color photograph shows a collage of three figures in white in various poses overlaying an enlarged image of a woman's face projected with light and directly facing the viewer.

The Two Americas—That Is I

A color photograph shows a collage of several children and embryonic shapes in white against an outline of a human brain and a projected image of a woman's mouth and nose in tight close up.

The Rebellion of the Dead Will Be the War of the Landscapes

A color photograph shows a collage of three standing figures in white to the right of a larger human face shrouded in a cloth printed with a blue and green world map.

My Speech Is Silence, My Song the Scream of the World

A color photograph shows a collage of two white figures crouching together holding long sticks in the bottom left of a horizontal image with the face of a woman overlaid with the projection of a world map in the center background.

My Hope Is the Last Breath. My Hope Is the First Battle

A color photograph shows a collage of three standing figures in white to the left of a larger human face shrouded in a cloth printed with a blue and green world map.

I—That Is Africa I—That Is Asia

A color photograph depicts a collaged scene of two x-rayed figures on either side of a white outline of a human brain, all is superimposed over a color image of the back of a woman.

I Am the Angel of Despair

A still from an animated drawing showing black outlines of assorted abstracted figures in an active, dynamic scene resembling a parade or circular gathering.

Penelope

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