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A color photograph of a young light-skinned girl with short brown hair in a blouse, vest, plaid skirt, and dress shoes sitting on a red chair with her feet not touching the ground, positioned at an angle and gazing at the viewer.

Almerisa, Asylum Seekers’ Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, March 14, 1994

Rineke Dijkstra

A screenprint of an electric chair in the left corner of an empty room is layered over with red, orange, and yellow colors.

Electric Chair

Steve McQueen, "Ashes," 2002-15

Ashes

A color photograph depicts two plaster casts of the wings of the sculpture the Nike of Samothrace.

Grieving Mothers (Attachment)

An installation of a row of six rope nets hanging on a wall, with two longer lengths of rope hanging vertically on either side.

Untitled

A black-and-white photograph of an installation of brown rope knotted in a grid and hung on a white gallery wall, with the top right corner detached and hanging down.

Untitled

A framed panel of plywood with several gold painted leaf-shaped forms across its surface.

Untitled (Gold Knot: 6)

A shiny bronze replica of Marcel Duchamp's 1917 "Fountain," a commercially manufactured urinal.

Fountain (Buddha)

The seat of a wooden chair painted in navy, blue, and green vertical stripes and hung vertically on a wall.

Chair Seat: 7

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.

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