Throw belongs to a group of paintings by Maggie Michael that explore the tension between destruction and repair, control and release. Using an array of action painting techniques (spray-painting, dripping, precision brushwork), Michael imbues her…
In his “Glass Microbiology” series, Luke Jerram contemplates the global impact of major diseases and considers how artificial coloring of scientific imagery affects public understanding of these phenomena. Here…
Since the mid-1980s, Lorna Simpson has made art that explores and challenges conventions about identity, gender, history, memory, and culture. Simpson’s conceptual photography often links images with text to create works that both intrigue and…
Linn Meyers works to structure each drawing around its most basic elements, fascinated by the surprising complexity of form and process that can arise in that effort. She began this ink drawing by making several tangential circles at the center of a…
Kei Ito is a Baltimore-based conceptual photographer and installation artist. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with an MFA in Photography. Ito has exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. Ito’s unique approach to…
Through large-scale, public, text-based installations such as the “How to Suffer Politely” series, as well as through publications and correlated public programming, Kameelah Janan Rasheed invokes pedagogical ideas of injustice, by presenting phrases…
Part of the “How to Suffer Politely (and Other Etiquette)” series
Through large-scale, public, text-based installations such as the “How to Suffer Politely” series, as well as through publications and correlated public programming, Kameelah Janan…