Absentia

Poised with tool in hand, Jeffry Mitchell’s The Carpenter (2012) reaches forward, toward his workbench...

In Man and Pet (2012), two benign ceramic figures smile sweetly upward...

In One Must , an image of a pair of scissors, accompanied by the words of work’s title, poses an ominous question about the relationship between the image and the text...

Retired Pillar represents the death and deterioration of legacy of colonial Shanghai...

Sign #1 , Sign #2 , Sign #3 were included in “Found Object Assembly”, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco...

Towhead n’Ganga, enclosed in darkness, lorded over by the sexualized folded high priestless form reflects many of Kelley’s works, in both its compositional and semantic qualities...

Houck’s Peg and John was made as part of a series of photographic works that capture objects from the artist’s childhood...

Choke documents the artist filming a wrestler “choking out” his teammate until he is unconscious...

In his composition, Chocolate Bars, Eggs, Milk, Lassry’s subjects are mirrored in their surroundings (both figuratively, through the chocolate colored backdrop and the brown frame; and literally, in the milky white, polished surface of the table), as the artist plays with color, shape, and the conventions of representational art both within and outside of the photographic tradition...

The fashion designer is selling off all the art inside his West Village townhouse at Sotheby’s New York to make way for a new collection....

Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...

Reflection Paper No...

In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...

Arms & Legs (Specif...

Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...

Human Quarry is a large work on paper by Leslie Shows made of a combination of acrylic paint and collage...

San Pedro is a seaside city, part of the Los Angeles Harbor, sitting on the edge of a channel...

Mario Garcia Torres films a game of Charades among professional actors guessing the former North Korean dictator’s favorite Hollywood films...

There are several elements to Subject, Silver, Prism ...

In establishing a deliberate distance between viewer and subject, Lassry raises questions about representation itself and how all portraits are, in effect, fully constructed objects that only gain meaning once we ascribe them with our own personal associations and emotions...