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From the series "Lovely Pink"For this series, Wafaa Bilal reproduced a dozen of the most recognizable sculptures in Western art history—here you see replicas of Michelangelo’s David (1501–1504) and Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa…

Ellington Robinson, who earned his MFA in painting and mixed media at the University of Maryland in 2008, repurposes once-functional objects to explore ongoing histories of global imperialism. His work makes palpable connections between contemporary…

From the series LimbicworkIn 2005, Susan Rankaitis created Limbicwork, a public installation at an open-air museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Working with a group of young, local artists, Rankaitis suspended brightly colored plastic tubing from trees in…

From the series "The real story of the Superheroes"

Dulce Pinzón challenges negative stereotypes about immigrants in the United States with her project, “The real story of the Superheroes.” Pinzón set out to capture images of those she considers…

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…

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…

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…

From the "Glass Microbiology" series

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…

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 series "Game Changing"Derrick Adams’s Game Changing transforms familiar “face cards” from a standard deck of playing cards into images of black royalty. They remix and interrogate the symbolic codes underlying coats of arms and other…