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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

An oil painting depicts a man seated in a subway car holding the subway pole in his left hand and embracing a white dog with a red cone around its head in his right hand.

Violet

Sanya Kantarovsky

A color photograph depicts two open books and one closed book with illusionistic square holes painted on their surfaces and laid on top of creased paper supports to appear as though a still life in a flat or two-dimensional plane.

Petals and Interleaves

An entirely red oil painting depicts two documents side by side with typed text, hand-written notes, and censored notations.

Enclosure (Deep Red)

A large-scale, colorful sculpture of bronze and steel resembling a tree or flower.

Trace

An embroidered square textile composed of a grid of bold, colorful letters.

Oggi il settimo giorno del settimo mese dell’anno millenovecento ottantotto…per Giampaolo Prearo editore (Today on the Seventh Day of the Seventh Month of the Year Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Eight…for Giampaolo Prearo Editor)

Alighiero e Boetti

An all-white painting of bust-length silhouettes that fills the entire space to form a crowd.

Crowd

An acrylic painting shows a Black man and two younger Black figures standing one behind the other against a bright pink background and looking directly at the viewer.

i’m yours

A spherical sculpture made of golden artificial straw and decorated with straw ornaments and artificial plants.

The Intermediate – Inceptive Sphere

A color photograph composed of 24 square images depicting various color and black-and-white scenes from film stills and fashion advertisements against a black background.

The Principle of Superimposition 2

Sara VanDerBeek

A color photograph of a square diamond composed of diagonally spliced colored strips against a white background.

Continuum Blue

Sara VanDerBeek

A sculpture of a scalloped form of speckled gold and green linoleum resembling a vest, draped over a dressmaker's work stand.

Vest (Scalloped)

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