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In her studio, Ryan observed fruit as it rots in an effort to perfect her simulacra in amethyst, rose quartz & amazonite. It is a comment on worldly excess, with the most rotten, most alive pieces of fruit reserved from the more expensive, naturally occurring gemstones.
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Kathleen Ryan “Bad Lemon (Tart)” 2020, Citrine, amber, agate, turquoise, fluorite, prehnite, magnesite, Ching Hai jade, quartz, amethyst, garnet, labradorite, white lip shell, serpentine, sesame jasper, zebra jasper, grey feldspar, marble, glass, steel pins on coated polystyrene.

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“I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.” - Fred Wilson
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Fred Wilson’s work has included extensive work in museum archives. Beginning in the late 80s, Wilson used his talents to create "Rooms with a View", a series of "mock museums" that address how museums consciously reinforce racist beliefs and behaviors.
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Fred Wilson is an American artist based in the Bronx, New York whose work encompasses sculpture, painting, photography, collage, printmaking, & installation. He is known for using his work as a way of confronting history, culture, race, & conventions of artistic display.
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“Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland, 69° 4’51.58N 49°28’24.41W, April 29th, 2017” ⠀
Zaria Foreman, 2018, soft pastel on paper, 108 3/8 x 68 inches.
This piece uses subtle colors & textures inspired by a visit to Antarctica & Patagonia’s southern ice fields.
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Zaria Forman’s large-scale, photorealistic pastel drawings document the regions of the planet’s vast & varied landscapes she has experienced firsthand. As a child, Forman traveled extensively with her family to arctic regions.
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Aaron Gilbert. The New One, 2007. Oil on canvas, 38 x 43 x 2 1/4 in.
Gilbert notably utilizes a combination of bright, self-aware subjects, which he portrays with raw honesty, in order to create a distinctly unsettling & otherworldly atmosphere.
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Aaron Gilbert is a Cuban-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY who utilizes paintings & prints to depict symbolic & psychological narratives stemming from his own personal history as a lover, husband & father.
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Willie Cole, “American Domestic” (2016).
Cole alters perceptions of household objects using his own African-American heritage creating work that celebrates African art & culture & simultaneously confronts viewers with the painful history of slavery in America.
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Willie Cole is a contemporary American sculptor, printer, conceptual/visual artist, & perceptual engineer that lives & works in New Jersey.⠀
His work often references postmodern eclecticism & cultural appropriation using taking ordinary household objects.
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If February is Black History Month & March is Women’s History Month, what happens the rest of the year? The Girls claim, ‘African Americans & women always get art shows in February and March’, criticizing this fact as ‘another form of tokenism’.
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Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist, female artists out of NYC worked to expose discrimination, corruption, sexism, & racism by employing culture jamming in the form of posters, books, billboards, & public appearances.
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“Smoky Eye Tutorial” (2014) & “Who Has Braces”, 2014, Gina Beavers, Acrylic & wood on canvas.⠀
To create her three-dimensional canvases, Beavers often works closely from photographs & Google image searches, reproducing even the smallest of details.
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Gina Beavers is an American artist, born in Athens, Greece, & currently living & working in Newark, New Jersey ⠀
She is best known for creating bas-relief paintings & installations from photos derived from the Internet & social media & rendered in high Acrylic relief
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Author @rgay, who loves art but dislikes the art world, has some advice for galleries: "Stop being terrible."

Hear what she has to say about navigating the art world, the pressures placed on creatives of color, Seth Rogen’s ceramics, and more: https://t.co/v6qzACdj9m

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In “Lick and Lather”, Antoni produced 14 busts, 7 cast from chocolate & the other 7 from soap. She then "re-sculpted" them by eating the chocolate busts & bathing herself with the soap busts.

What are your thoughts on this technique?
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Janine Antoni is a Bahamian–born American artist who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture & photography. Her work is known to blur the distinction between performance art & sculpture, often utilizing her body in her pieces.
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What are your thoughts on Heimer’s work? Comment below 👇

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Nude figures resembling characters that border medieval manuscripts cavort, fight, and shriek across Heimer’s paintings. For the self-taught artist, who was adopted as an infant, the narratives they enact represent personal origin myths. https://t.co/Q3ikCJHSQR