2017.10 Joan Semmel, Purple Diagonal
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Joan Semmel is one of the original and most influential participants in the feminist art movement of the 1970s.
2017.11.A-F Julie Mehretu, Epigraph, Damascus
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Epigraph, Damascus by Julie Mehretu is a monumental six-part print that showcases her mastery of the medium, incorporating a variety of techniques. Architectural drawings of buildings located in Damascus, the capital of Syria, underlie the composition.
2015.50 Not Vital, Lotus Flowers (Lotus Blumen)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Not Vital’s body of work includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, and buildings, but all his pieces are defined by a pursuit to emulate the beauty of nature. This work celebrates the already sculptural beauty of a lotus bud.
2018.22 Jonas Wood, Snowscape with Barn
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Snowscape with Barn is marked by a complex geometric composition and dense patterning, evidence of Jonas Wood’s unique process of image creation.
2017.16, Theaster Gates, Ground rules. Red square for floor hockey and nigger sports
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Theaster Gates collapses art and life in his work as a sculptor and urban planner. His expansive practice is underpinned by a belief in social transformation through direct spatial intervention.
2017.39 Adriana Varejão, Vigário Geral Jerked-Beef Ruin
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Vigário Geral Jerked-Beef Ruin is a virtuosic simulation of a tile wall that upon closer inspection is bursting at the seams with flesh and guts.
2017.40.A-D, Gary Hume, RA
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Gary Hume is known for his colorful abstractions that draw from visual media and advertisements.
2014.3 Wyatt Kahn, Anni
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Wyatt Khan’s works exist somewhere between painting and sculpture. The artist arranges raw canvases of unusual but complementary shapes and sizes, and affixes them to each other to create the semblance of a single panel.
2014.7.A-T Ugo Rondinone, frail foggy fairytale
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This exaggerated, monolithic door is oppressively real and heavy, but also feels imagined, as if pulled from a child’s fantasy. With thick wood, sealed windows, and permanently closed locks, it cartoonishly exemplifies everything one would expect to find in a medieval castle.