Object Notes

Working between the disciplines of sound, sculpture, and performance, Kevin Beasley explores identity and repre­sentation through objects in the broader context of their cultural production. His sculptures function as narrative vessels embedded with cultural, personal, and political significance.

Throughout his practice, Haim Steinbach has engaged with concepts of presentation and display and questioned the nature of the object in its social and cultural context.

In her sculptural installations, Nina Canell explores systems of interconnectivity. Working with the physical phenomena of electricity, infrasound, and time, Canell creates material and linguistic associations that draw relationships between them.

In Diptych (Roses, Stripe, Morning Glory), 2010, Ann Craven revitalizes the floral still life, which had been histor­ically marginalized as a subgenre, seen as little more than the byproduct of a charming amateurism, and minor art making.

Joan Semmel is one of the original and most influential participants in the feminist art movement of the 1970s.

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.

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.

Snowscape with Barn is marked by a complex geometric composition and dense patterning, evidence of Jonas Wood’s unique process of image creation.

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.