1982.345.FA Egg of Brahman (Svayambhu Lingam)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
1982.34 Cup
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
While Japanese ceramics do not have the range and technical virtuosity of Chinese works, they are miracles of subtle design. This 17th-century cup from Nabeshima kilns has a most elegant oval, curving form, referred to as a "Chinese bell flower" shape.
1996.190, Linda Ridgway, Harvest Line, 1995, bronze
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Linda Ridgway's delicate, gestural forms are cast from bronze, an inflexible, weighted material. Harvest Line, a double line of green grapes cascading down the gallery wall, combines natural, pliable subject matter with the hardness of industrial process.
2008.100.a-e, Annette Lawrence, Free Paper 12/05, 2006-2008, mixed media
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
For thirteen months, following the lunar calendar, Denton-based artist Annette Lawrence collected and repurposed her junk mail as a record of the time's passage and an archive of her existence through the lens of capitalism.
2006.46, Isa Genzken, Door (Tur), 1988, concrete and steel
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In Tür Isa Genzken utilizes scale and infrastructure to elevate what appears to be a ruin or accident to monumental status.
2009.23, Frances Bagley, Tiny Dancer, 2008, mixed media
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In Tiny Dancer, Dallas artist Frances Bagley suggests the human body through semi-abstract forms that she shrouds with an opaque membrane reminiscent of skin or clothing.
1992.45, Heide Fasnacht, Witness, 1990, rubber laminate and steel
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Two decades after Eva Hesse created Model for Augment and Aught (1968), Heide Fasnacht spoke of her admiration for Hesse's use of materials and their ability to bypass thought, triggering instead a visceral, physical response.
1982.9.FA Vajravarahi
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Vajravarahi is one of the wrathful deities of Tantric Buddhism, and like other dakini (celestial female divinities) she possesses supernatural wisdom and power.
1982.8.McD Head of a Heavenly King (Lokapala)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This lokapala (heavenly guardian) sculpture consists only of the head from a full-length wooden guardian figure designed to be placed by the entrance to a shrine or temple.
2016.29.a-h, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Tunisian Americans, 2012
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Following the United States' six-month-long campaign in Tunisia during World War II, nearly 3,000 US soldiers were buried there in an American military graveyard. Seventy-five years later, the fallen soldiers have rested considerably longer in Tunisia than they lived in America.