Megan Lewis (b. 1989) is a figurative multidisciplinary artist, creating paintings and murals that tell stories with a critical view on contemporary cultural issues. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland and studied at Ringling College of Art and…
Line Up 1 and Line Up 4 are two photographs from Martine Gutierrez’s “Line Up” series. The series comprises scenes meticulously staged and constructed by Gutierrez to deceive her audience. Gutierrez appears in these…
Line Up 1 and Line Up 4 are two photographs from Martine Gutierrez’s “Line Up” series. The series comprises scenes meticulously staged and constructed by Gutierrez to deceive her audience. Gutierrez appears in these…
In Difficult Ordinary Happiness (with thanks to Adrienne Rich), Margaret Boozer uses her expertise in ceramics to create an abstract image out of locally-sourced earth and minerals in what she calls a Rammed-Earth Painting. Boozer makes the…
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…