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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)

A black-and-white photograph depicts an abstract composition of etched and torn surfaces and textures over a flat matte grey and speckled white background.

A Ground in the Air

A color photograph of a large, grey plasticine sphere on a dirty grate in the middle of a paved street. The sphere shows indentations from the grate.

Yielding Stone Image

Elizabeth

A sculpture made of an orthopedic walker and various salvaged metal works with a rolled up American flag wrapped in plastic laying across it.

Objectification Process

A small ceramic sculpture comprises a rectangular slab with two protruding, crossed, leg-like forms, a shiny black puddle that oozes down the sides, and a red flower-like tuft.

Boston Scrambler

A grainy color photograph shows three light-skinned people in a hallway next to a wall of pinned-up images of nudes: a woman made up like a movie starlet and coyly posed, and two men in open collared shirts, one with a T-shirt underneath, holding theatrical masks and looking directly at the viewer.

“Nymph-O-Maniac” Promo Still Spectacular Studios

A black-and-white photograph of a bedroom with an inverted projection of two houses on the wall behind the bed.

Camera Obscura: Houses Across the Street in Our Bedroom, Quincy, Massachusetts

Abelardo Morell

A color photograph depicts a snapshot of a Black man standing in a yard lying, on top of a page from a textbook showing a photo of Walter Cronkite next to a map of South America, displayed flat on a wooden floor.

Riffs on Real Time (3 of 10), from the series Riffs on Real Time

A painting featuring two sheets of lined penmanship paper surrounded by clusters of small eyes.

Untitled

Ellen Gallagher

A black-and-white photograph shows the artist, a Black woman, standing shoulder to shoulder with her mother before floral-patterned wallpaper. They are wearing white tank tops and casual bottoms and gaze directly at the viewer.

Momme Portrait Series (Floral Comforter), from the series The Notion of Family

LaToya Ruby Frazier

A black-and-white photograph shows the artist, a Black woman, and her mother in lounge wear and hair caps reflected in a mirror resting on a gas radiator.

Mom Making an Image of Me, from the series The Notion of Family

LaToya Ruby Frazier

A black-and-white photograph shows the artist, a Black woman, gazing directly at the viewer with the reflection of her mother visible in a mirror behind her. She is wearing a T-shirt with the cast of the Cosby Show on it.

Huxtables, Mom and Me, from the series The Notion of Family

LaToya Ruby Frazier

A color photograph of a sandy dune with plants obscured by a cloudy, black form with the words "yes Tomorrow no Tomorrow" scratched into it.

Yes Tomorrow, No Tomorrow

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