Site-specific installations by Los Angeles-based artist Darel Carey, 2010s, whose abstract tape compositions create geometric optical illusions.
Site-specific installations by Los Angeles-based artist Darel Carey, 2010s, whose abstract tape compositions create geometric optical illusions.
Paintings by Japanese artist Tomona Matsukawa, 2010s-20s, known for her photorealistic depictions of everyday moments and domestic still lifes.
Works by Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata, 1970s-80s, whose imagery often incorporates Kufic script embedded in geometric compositions, with themes relating to displacement and cultural identity.
Paintings by American artist Whitney Bedford, 2020s, who reinterprets European landscapes by artists like Van Gogh, Munch, and Turner.
Photo assemblages by American artist Todd Gray, 2010s-20s, whose photographic practice "aims to provoke reconsiderations of long-accepted norms and beliefs surrounding the medium", exploring themes of African diaspora, colonialism, and societal power structures.
Works by Luxembourgish artist Sali Muller, 2010s-20s, known for her use of reflective materials and light.
Paintings by Serbian artist, illustrator, and poet Milena Pavlović Barili, 1930s-40s, who was associated with the Surrealist movement and became a fashion illustrator and society portrait painter after moving to America in 1939.
Prints by English artist Elisabeth Frink, 1960s-70s.
Works by American photographer Tyler Mitchell, 2010s-20s, whose imagery seeks "to visualize what a Black utopia looks like or could look like."
Sculpture by London-based French artist Marguerite Humeau, 2010s-20s, whose practice explores evolution, biology, and relationships between humans, animals, and plants.
Paintings by Italian artist Felice Casorati, 1920s.
Fair Park Lagoon landscaping project by American artist Patricia Johanson, 1981-86, who reinvigorated a dying swamp in Dallas into an ecologically rich habitat with indigenous plants and sculptural coral walkways, using art as a form of bioremediation.
Beaded compositions by South African artist Ntombephi Ntobela, 2010s-20s.
Paintings by Brooklyn-based Iranian brothers Saman and Sasan Oskouei, also known as Icy & Sot, 2020s.
Works by American artist Emma Hapner, 2020s.
Works by Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková, 1970s-80s, who documented life in Czechoslovakia during the repressive "normalization" period, including the queer community.
Paintings on wood and linen by American artist Zach Harris, 2010s-20s.
Paintings by transnational (ethnically Chinese, born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, now based in Britain) artist KV Duong, 2020s, whose acrylic and latex works explore Vietnamese queer identity, migration, and cultural assimilation.
Paintings by Danish Surrealist Rita Kernn-Larsen, 1930s-40s, who was the focus of the first Surrealist exhibition curated by Peggy Guggenheim in London in 1938.
Sculpture and installation by Lingít and Unangax̂ artist Nicholas Galanin, 2010s-20s, whose practice "aims to redress the widespread misappropriation of Indigenous visual culture, the impact of colonialism, as well as collective amnesia."
Paintings by American artist John Sonsini, 2000s-20s, known for his expressive portraits of Latino laborers in California.
Sculpture and installation by NY-based Chinese artist Ming Fay, 1980s-2010s, known for his realistic large-scale fruit and plant forms.
Paintings by Berlin-based Polish artist Aneta Kajzer, 2020s.
Paintings by American artist Zoe Hawk, 2010s-20s, whose work explores adolescent anxieties and girls' coming-of-age.
Textile works by Iranian artist Alireza Asbahi Sisi (aka "CC"), 2020s, who learned how to sew from his tailor father and works as a taxi driver to support his art.
Vessels by Finnish potter Maija Grotell, 1940s-50s.
just realized my last two posts were off-thread, oops.
Paintings by Saudi Arabian artist Alia Ahmad, 2020s.
Paintings by American artist Bruce Cohen, 1980s-2020s.
Works by German artist Hans Bellmer, 1930s, who photographed his own doll constructions in strange, often violent tableaux and was eventually labeled "Degenerate" by the Nazis. He fled to France, joining the Surrealists and the French Resistance.
Woven textiles by Diné artist Melissa Cody, 2010s-20s, whose imagery combines Indigenous motifs, pop culture iconography, and personal experiences.
Paintings by Chinese artist Yu Hong, 2010s, who came of age at the end of the Cultural Revolution, among the "New Generation" of artists in China exploring new modes of creative expression.
Works by Italian artist Bice Lazzari, 1950s-70s.
Sculpture by Venezuelan American Pop artist Marisol, 1960s, known for her distinctive assemblage figures often incorporating her own image. She would have celebrated a birthday today.
Woodcuts by Japanese artist Inagaki Tomoo, 1950s-60s.
Paintings by English artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan, 2020s, whose large-scale botanical paintings incorporate motifs inspired by Blackness, queerness, femininity, healing rituals, and carnival culture.
Works by Ukrainian photographer Daria Svertilova, 2020s, who documents her people's experiences under war and occupation.
Drawings by self-taught American artist Timothy Wehrle, 2010s-20s, whose dense, intricate compositions pull from a range of visual sources including Persian miniatures, comic books, mandalas, quilting, and the works of Adolph Wölfli.
Paintings by American artist Dorothy Hood, 1970s-80s, who lived in Mexico for 20 years and associated with artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and later became a major figure in the Texas avant-garde.
Sculpture by LA-based Canadian artist David Altmejd, 2010s-20s, whose practice "explores the constitution and disintegration of the self" through a range of materials. The artist says, "A perfect object for me is something that is extremely seductive and extremely repulsive at the same time."
Paintings by Seoul-born, Montréal-based artist GaHee Park, 2020s, whose compositions often incorporate human figures, fruit, and seafood - the latter inspired by her grandma's fish market in Korea.
Sculptural decor by Dutch artist Paul Heijnen, 2010s-20s.
Paintings by Polish artist Michalina Janoszanka, 1920s, whose "reverse paintings" were made of layers of pigment built up behind a pane of glass, a technique typically used in religious folk art. Sadly, in her time she was more known as the muse and model of symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski.
Photo tableaux by queer American counterculture pioneer Steven Arnold, 1970s-80s, whose films and artworks were known for their maximalist costumes and sets exploring mysticism, psychedelia, sexuality, and gender.
Paintings by self-taught Kenyan artist Nedia Were, 2020s.
San Francisco gig posters by American artist Wes Wilson, 1960s, known for his swirling typography and psychedelic style influenced by Art Nouveau.
Works by American artist Lisa Oppenheim, 2010s-20s, whose practice "appropriates photographs from diverse sources such as government files and online photographic archives to investigate collective memory, loss, and forgetting."
Works by English artist Sena Shah, 2020s, who composes geometric abstractions with felt and sometimes incorporates mirrored material to create optical lenticular effects.
Drawings by multidisciplinary American artist and activist Andrea Bowers, 2010s, based on photos the artist took documenting political protests in Los Angeles.
Paintings by American artist, curator, and professor Vivian Browne, 1970s, who moved into abstraction after spending time in West Africa in 1971. She was involved in several women's groups and activist movements, advocating for representation for Black woman artists.
Oil on linen paintings by American artist Mary Henderson, 2020s, whose hyperrealistic works capture "impromptu portraits of people in public spaces, seen in unguarded instances of personal connection or synchronicity."
Sculpture by American artist Sommer Roman, 2010s-20s, made with post-consumer textile discards.
Works by multidisciplinary American artist Dindga McCannon, 1970s-2020s, an activist within the Black Arts Movement who fuses fine art forms with traditional craft techniques. In 1971 she co-founded the collective Where We At Black Women Artists, Inc.
Works by American artist Mariah Robertson, 2020s, created using photosensitive papers exposed to various chemicals and exposure processes.
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Works by British photographer Ajamu X, 1990s, whose practice explores gay Black love and desire.