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Portrait (P. Fries)

A color photograph depicts a single-story storage facility with a row of orange doors at a distance amid an overgrown, weedy field, rendered in soft purples, blues, and grays.

Upstate

An illuminated film slide made up of vertically oriented strips of film showing silhouettes of insects, and letters spelling "END” among translucent pinks, blues, and blacks."

Number 9

A sculpture of a wall aluminum lightbox with the word "APPLAUSE" in white slanted lettering on a red background and a white cord hanging down from the right side, mounted on a white wall.

Applause

A color photograph of a gradient, ambient sky of pastel blues darkening into pastel oranges along the bottom frame.

Untitled (Reaper Drone)

A black-and-white photograph of a man asleep under thick blankets in a home hospital bed, surrounded by an IV and other hospital equipment.

George Gannett, from the series People with AIDS

A bronze sculpture of a man in robes and a turban, looking at his hands, seated on the wooden floor of a gallery.

Portrait of a Turkish Man

A color photograph depicts a scene of two Asian peasants, one played by the artist, posing with weapons in an open, devastated field as a red nuclear mushroom cloud blooms in the horizon.

Brothers (A Late Autumn Prayer)

Yasumasa Morimura

A sculptural installation of two identical pairs of chairs, one yellow and one blue chair. One pair is hung on the wall, one is on the floor.

Use/Used (two chairs I bought in New Bedford while visiting the Bloomberg/Farrell family)

Charles, LeDray Clothesline, 1994

Clothesline

A drawing of ink, gouache, and pastel on paper depicts an abstracted scene of pink flowers blooming against a dark landscape, with various colorful geometric shapes circling them.

A Flower (No. 14)

A video still shows the artist, a white man, in a bathtub, wearing headphones, and plays the guitar, and apparently nude.

The Visitors

Ragnar Kjartansson

A video still shows musician Pinetop Perkins, an older Black man, playing an upright piano in an open field before a wooden house.

The Man

Ragnar Kjartansson

A sculpture made of bundles of yellow-colored linen and wool thread piled on a large white platform.

Banisteriopsis II

Leslie Hewitt "Untitled (Square)," from the "Blue Skies, Warm Sunlight" series, 2011

Untitled (Square), from the series Blue Skies, Warm Sunlight

A mixed- media collage of various abstracted geometric designs in black and white and in color.

Untitled

A video still shows a medium-dark-skinned young woman speaking into a microphone and looking at her interviewer, whose back is to the viewer.

Ricerche: three

A sculpture made of very thick, beige rope or cordwoven together to resemble an abstracted inchworm on a concrete floor.

Inchworm

Françoise Grossen

Gilbert & George, Sky Blue World, 1989

Sky Blue World, from the series 25 Worlds

Gilbert and George

Momme

LaToya Ruby Frazier

A textile sculpture composed of woven, sewn, and crocheted fibers stretched on a wooden garden trellis leaning against a wall.

Untitled

A color photograph of an industrial yard covered in debris with a dilapidated building in the background.

Factory III

A color photograph of an abandoned, red car on the side of a dark road at night.

Suspicious Vehicle

A video still of crudely-rendered clay figures caught mid-action in a dark, ambiguous space.

Bang your little drums

Nathalie Djurberg ,Hans Berg

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