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From the series "The Outliers"“The Outliers” series began when photographer Elle Pérez visited a “Faerie” sanctuary in rural Tennessee for seekers of radical queer community. Pérez was inspired there by people freely embracing identities between and…

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…

This artwork draws its title and subject matter from American author William Faulkner’s 1930 novel As I Lay Dying. Alice Attie made this ink drawing of a coffin by copying lines of Faulkner’s prose in a miniscule script. Depending on the spacing and…

Selin Balci, who earned her MFA in installation and mixed-media art at the University of Maryland in 2012 and a degree in forestry from the University of Istanbul in 2002, considers herself a bio-artist. She applies her training in scientific…

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…

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 "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…

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…

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…

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…