Paper Tigers…from a whisper to a scream

The Breaks reflects Capistran’s interests in sampling and fusing different cultural, social, and historical sources...

Long Long Live (2013) takes the viewer to the setting of the Oasis Villa on Green Island, once a reform and re-education prison to house political prisoners during Taiwan’s martial law period...

Vallance’s Rocket is a vibrant picture in which masses of color and collage coalesce into a central vehicle, yet the whole surface seems lit with the roar of space travel...

Memory Mistake of the Eldridge Cleaver Pants was created for the show Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life Part 1 , held at California College of the Arts’s Wattis Institute in 2008 and curated by McCarthy himself...

In his video work Beyond Geography , Li dramatizes the role of the artist-as-imitator to the point of sheer parody...

MUM , the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication...

The four-channel video installation Same Old Crowd departs from the documentation of an unknown city and takes place in an ambiguous temporal and spatial frame...

To make Mickey Mouse (2010), Paul McCarthy altered a found photograph—not of the iconic cartoon, but of a man costumed as Mickey...

For his series of digital collages Excerpt (Sealed)… Rhodes appropriated multiple images from mass media and then sprayed an X on top of their glass and frame...

Iron Sorrows (1990) brings together what are for Alexis Smith common motifs and materials such as scavenged and repurposed metal, and street signage...

This work presents the image of an immolated monk engraved on a baseball bat...

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

Douglas Gordon’s single-channel video The Left Hand Can’t See That The Right Hand is Blind, captures an unfolding scene between two hands in leather gloves—at first seemingly comfortable to be entwined, and later, engaged in a struggle...

Apartment on Cardboard (2000) is an exterior view of an abstracted apartment building...

In Made In Heaven , we are face to face with a sculptural apparition, a divine visitation in the artist’s studio...

The artist describes the work as “very performative video-pieces but they take on a more sculptural feel...

McCarthy’s Mother Pig performance at Shushi Gallery in 1983 was the first time he used a set, a practice which came to characterize his later works...

Unlike many of his earlier films which often present poignant critiques of mass media and its deleterious effects on American culture, EASTER MORNING , Conner’s final video work before his death in 2008, constitutes a far more meditative filmic essay in which a limited amount of images turn into compelling, almost hypnotic visual experience...

To make his series Shadows (1980), Gaines subjected 20 potted plants to a uniform procedure...

Will Rogan’s video Eraser (2014) shows a hearse parked in a clearing amidst leaf barren trees...