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 his evocative Landscape Paintings, McMillian uses second-hand bedsheets, sourced from thrift shops, as his starting point...

Like many of Pascal Shirley’s photographs, Oakland Girls aestheticizes a dingy rooftop and a cloudy sky...

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

In this work the artist stages a humorously violent “intervention” against male-dominated cultures of art production in present-day China...

Gypsy shows an ambivalent scene, in which broken blinds and its unsmiling subject are balanced with the stilllife plentitude of watermelon slices and the beautifully lit nudity of the sitter...

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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....

The Last Post was inspired by Sikander’s ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China...

The five drawings included in the 101 Collection are representative of Pettibon’s characteristic cartoonish style...

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

#17 Pink is a photogram, a photographic image produced without the use of a camera...

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...

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

In Up All Night, Waiting for the Chelsea Hotel Magic to Spark My Creativity Mario García Torres constructs and documents a hypothetical scene, situating himself within a lineage of artists and creatives that used to congregate at the historic hotel...

Ongoing Time Stabbed with a Dagger was Farmer’s first kinetic sculpture that added a cinematic character to an “ever-reconfiguring play presented in real time.” The assembly of various objects and props on top of a large platform constitutes not only a work, but, to a certain extent, a show in itself...

In 1970, Ruscha began a series of paintings made from stains...

Untitled #242 is part of Houck’s Aggregates Series, which uses digital tools to manipulate chosen sets and pairs of colors, creating colorful index sheets, bathed in colors and lines...

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