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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…

Ingrid Weyland’s Topographies of Fragility series emerged from the artist’s journey from the south of Argentina to Greenland’s ice sheets. These untouched, unspoiled, surreal, immense landscapes inspired Weyland to try to encapsulate their mood and…

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…

From the series "American Typologies"

Jeff Brouws scrutinizes the American built environment looking for simple structures that multiply across the landscape—strip malls, tract housing, parking lots. His “Signs Without Signification” portfolio…

Jefferson Pinder, who earned his MFA in video and performance art at the University of Maryland in 2003 and taught in the Department of Art for nearly a decade, is interested in the interaction between artwork and viewer. His video installation Juke…

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…

Jenny Wu constructs her paintings through a complex process which involves pouring thick coats of latex paint onto a glass surface, one color at a time, and waiting for each layer to dry before moving on to the next. The dried paint is then cut to…

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…

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 series "Paper Quilt and Collage"In his “Paper Quilt and Collage” series, John Paradiso explores “growing old as a gay man.” He combines techniques of quilting, inspired in part by the AIDS Memorial Quilt, with seductive images of the male…