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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…

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From the series "An Indian from India"

In this series, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew explores ethnicity, immigration, and the colonial gaze. Each panel juxtaposes two images: a late-nineteenth photograph of Native Americans and a reenactment of that…

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From the series "An Indian from India"

In this series, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew explores ethnicity, immigration, and the colonial gaze. Each panel juxtaposes two images: a late-nineteenth photograph of Native Americans and a reenactment of that…

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From the series "An Indian from India"

In this series, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew explores ethnicity, immigration, and the colonial gaze. Each panel juxtaposes two images: a late-nineteenth photograph of Native Americans and a reenactment of that…

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From the series "Mines"

Edward Burtynsky’s work explores the theme of nature transformed through industry. He travels internationally to make vibrant photographs of places generally unfamiliar to the public—quarries, refineries, recycling yards,…

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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…

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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…

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From the series "Projects (1997-2001)"

In this acclaimed series of work, Nikki S. Lee pictures herself posing as a member of various social scenes and cultural groups—hip-hop artists, senior citizens, skateboarders, yuppies, punks, exotic dancers,…

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From the series "Projects (1997-2001)"

In this acclaimed series of work, Nikki S. Lee pictures herself posing as a member of various social scenes and cultural groups—hip-hop artists, senior citizens, skateboarders, yuppies, punks, exotic dancers,…

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From the Series "Until the Kingdom Comes"

In his ongoing series “Until the Kingdom Comes,” to which this monumental portrait of a llama belongs, Simen Johan probes the boundaries between nature and artifice, reality and illusion, fantasy and…
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