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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Homosocial, a multimedia project created by Brian Van Camerik, celebrates same-gendered couples and queer individuals of the past by transforming found, vintage photographs into objects which represent queer gender and sexuality. Processing Gender…

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Heeseop Yoon is a Korean-American artist whose large-scale, site-specific installations and drawings engage deeply with the themes of memory, perception, and spatial disorientation. Yoon constructs intricate compositions that depict cluttered…

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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…
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