
Untitled (Water)
Both the sea and the color blue are often described as serene and tranquil, which might be one’s first thoughts when looking at this illuminated

Both the sea and the color blue are often described as serene and tranquil, which might be one’s first thoughts when looking at this illuminated

Transforming objects culled from flea markets, garage sales, and family collections, Betye Saar weds mysticism, craft, and personal history to create works that explore experiences

This image belongs to a series of works that Simmons titles Sundown, a word she takes from the phrase “sundown towns.” Throughout the United States,


As a sign or measure, an index points our thinking from one thing to another. In her ongoing series, Index/Composition, Simmons constructs collections of found

Whether the rocky terrain of a desert or the lush foliage of the tropics, markers of place are critical to Simmons’s thinking. In her early

David belongs to an ongoing series of portraits that focus exclusively on Latino day workers living in Los Angeles, CA. Sonsini paints from the model

Although most viewers interpret this image as immigrants arriving in New York, the scene actually depicts men and women traveling in the lower-class section of

Game Boys Advanced looks straightforward on initial viewing: one boy, named Ollie, plays intently with a hand-held video game, while his identical companion Solly looks

Although this painting feels like pure abstraction, it has profound ties to the world. Inspired by the writing of Chuang Tzu, an early Daoist who

Dead Amanita No. 2 is from a series of rotting plants and fungi that suggests the passage of time. Paine carefully studies his subjects at

The figures on the edges of this composition—a potbellied man wearing a hat, a man sitting in a lounge chair, and a woman rummaging in