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A simplified line drawing in ink and graphite of a woman's face in the later drawing style of Henri Matisse.

After Henri Matisse

An oil painting depicts an almost nude woman bent over in a standing embrace with a small child, both of whom look directly at the viewer and smile.

Self-Portrait with Esme

A series of 60 framed prints featuring collaged elements from popular Black culture magazines and hung in a tight grid of five rows.

DeLuxe

Ellen Gallagher

A sculpture comprised of a rectangular solid painted to appear as two figures standing side by side. Their faces appear on wooden boxes atop the structure: one as a long white triangular cone, one a naturalistic face painted on a flat circle.

Couple No. 1

A sculpture composed of red and blue fabric panels removed from an umbrella, some bright and some faded.

Untitled (Topanga, CA, Umbrella 17)

A full-length portrait painting of a nude pregnant woman with pale skin and eyes and short dark hair seated on a yellow chair with her arms at her sides, gazing at the viewer. A mirror in the top right of the painting shows her reflection from the back.

Margaret Evans Pregnant

A portrait painting of a seated woman with pale skin, long brown braided pigtails, and a short blue long-sleeved dress and knee socks gazing at the viewer. Her right arm is slung over the back of the wooden chair.

Vera Beckerhoff

A screenprint on aluminum shows three newspaper clippings reproduced in black paint of young white women in various, unrelated scenes and poses.

Untitled

An oil painting comprised of thick, energetic brightly colored brushwork in abstracted lines and shapes that repeats the word "fuchsia," misspelled as "fuchsia," in nonsensical pairings.

AKA Fuschia Ending

A film still shows a white woman with a jacket, neck scarf, a messy blond mullet, and unkempt blond hair and an enlarged red-tipped nose sitting in a room of flower arrangements on shelves.

NoNoseKnows (50 Kilos variant)

Mika Rottenberg

A sculpture of an abstracted, figurative head comprised of mixed materials and suspended upright on a display plinth.

Essential Head

A small, bronze sculpture of a conical spiral with arms and legs suspended from a wire hovering over a slate disk.

Spiral Woman

Louise Bourgeois

A wooden sculpture of a spiraling form atop a steel rod.

Spiral Woman

Louise Bourgeois

Charline von Heyl, Untitled, 2003

Untitled

Charline von Heyl

An installation photo cast in blue light of a large video screen showing a masked man in front of a map of Europe, opposite a curved wall-to-ceiling quarter pipe with lounge seating.

Liquidity Inc.

A photograph of an installation comprising black, life-size silhouettes on a brown ground acting out a series of scenes across three walls of a gallery.

The Nigger Huck Finn Pursues Happiness Beyond the Narrow Constraints of Your Overdetermined Thesis on Freedom–Drawn and Quartered by Mister Kara Walkerberry, with Condolences to the Authors

An installation of ochre- colored string attached in a regular pattern to a piece of grey painted plywood but tangling as they fall to the floor or are attached loosely to the adjacent wall.

Ennead

A sculpture made of steel and rubber in the shape of a cube with an open top to revealing an interior of spiky, organic looking black tubes interior.

Accession IV

A sculptural installation of books, a bronze sculpture, a rock, and other objects displayed on three wooden shelves.

Innerspace Bullshit

A tall, slender sculpture in white wood of an abstracted figure with carved rounded shapes at the top and a navel-like depression near the midpoint.

Untitled

Louise Bourgeois

A sculpture of two cube monitors on flight cases with video stills of a light-skinned woman with blond hair holding a rose.

Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry

A framed black-and-white photograph of bare feet walking on a dirty sidewalk with boots tied to the ankles, propped on a wooden floor and leaned against a white wall.

Road Works (Performance Stills)

A diptych of color portrait photographs of a young woman with pale skin and shoulder-length dark hair, one in a black tank top, one in military uniform.

Evgenya, Induction Center Tel Hashomer, Tel Hashomer, Israel, March 6, 2002; Evgenya, North Court Base, Pikud Tzafon, Israel, December 9, 2002

Rineke Dijkstra

An installation of crocheted, off-white yarn covers the walls and ceiling of a small dark room.

Crocheted Environment

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