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From the series "Collective Memory"

In his series “Collective Memory,” Doug Keyes explores the experience of reading a physical book. With a background in graphic design, Keyes is highly attuned to processes of conveying and receiving information…

Jae Ko makes sculptures by twisting and contorting large spools of paper. She rolls and unrolls the spool and jiggles it to create space within the coil so that she can work the lines of paper into a three-dimensional drawing. Her process ends when…

Jenny Morgan begins her tensely psychological portraits by photographing her subjects, often people she knows, and painting them in painstaking detail. She then obliterates parts of the surface, sanding away and peeling back skins of paint until the…

Fear on Their Faces (page 7) is a work from Hunter Reynolds’s “Survival AIDS” series. Between 1989 and 1993, the artist clipped and archived articles he encountered concerning the LGBTQ community and, in particular, the topic of AIDS. To make this…

Jiha Moon makes paintings using Hanji (mulberry) paper, a traditional medium in Korean art. Moon exploits its capacity to soak up paint while holding dense layers of pigment stacked on top. Moon describes the effect of these materials as analogous to…

From the "Geolocation" series

Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman are photographers and art educators who met and began collaborating in 2007. Projects in their “Geolocation” series begin on Twitter, where the artists use publicly available…

From the "Traveler Series" Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi’s artwork focuses on issues of identity, exploring the “dualities of self” that the artist has encountered in her own experiences as an Iranian-American immigrant. In the “Traveler Series,” Ilchi…

Jeremy Dean explores the idea of ‘the American dream’ by deconstructing symbols of wealth, patriotism, and power. To make Economics, he took apart an American flag thread by thread. He then reassembled it by tying each strand to a needle superimposed…

Selin Balci, who earned her MFA in installation and mixed-media art at the University of Maryland in 2012 and a degree in forestry from the University of Istanbul in 2002, considers herself a bio-artist. She applies her training in scientific…

This artwork draws its title and subject matter from American author William Faulkner’s 1930 novel As I Lay Dying. Alice Attie made this ink drawing of a coffin by copying lines of Faulkner’s prose in a miniscule script. Depending on the spacing and…