SARAH LUCAS, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH FRIED EGGS, 1996
Sarah Lucas’s portrayals of the body have a strong sense of humour and they challenge sexual stereotypes and conventional morals. In Self Portrait with Fried Eggs, Sarah Lucas looks back at the viewer with a confrontational stare...
TARRAH KRAJNAK, MASTER RITUALS II: WESTON'S NUDES, 2020
Deconstructing Edward Weston’s Nudes in the form of self-portraits, the artist Tarrah Krajnak inserts herself as both author and subject into Weston’s original work…
JOY GREGORY, OBJECTS OF BEAUTY, 1992 – 1995
Who can deny the power of a pair of hairdresser’s scissors, or the bewitching effect of a set of dark false eyelashes? These images raise questions about women’s pursuit of changing ideals of beauty and the meanings we attach to the objects themselves…
FEMALE SENSIBILITY, LYNDA BENGLIS, 1973,
Two women, faces framed in tight focus, kiss and caress. Their interaction is silent, muted by Benglis' superimposition of a noisy, distracting soundtrack of appropriated AM radio…
MARIA KHEIRKHAH, I THINK THEREFORE I QUESTION, 2002-3
For me self-representation is always about self-reflection, self-agency. It is also a signal, a reminder of erasure and misrepresentation. Speaking back to this erasure becomes about claiming one's own history, claiming one's past, present and future self…
FRANCESCA WOODMAN, SELECTED WORKS
THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS, THROUGH A LENS DARKLY, 2014
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost…
DOUBLE BLIND (NO SEX LAST NIGHT), SOPHIE CALLE, 1996
In her premiere video project, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle joins with Gregory Shephard to create a voyeuristic tour de force…
STEPH FOSTER, THE EYES BENEATH THE OAK,
One of the most pernicious aspects of our prison system is how it renders people invisible and inaudible so that their stories are hidden from our collective understanding. This allows the perpetuation of exploitative and abusive systems that disproportionately affect people of color, as their experiences are systematically hidden from view…
SALLY MANN, AT TWELVE, PORTRAITS OF YOUNG WOMEN, 1988
At Twelve is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood…
RAYMOND THOMPSON JR, THE TRAUMA OF WHITE LIGHT
The trauma of white light features appropriated photographs created by the Farm Security Administration photographers in the 1930s. These images are reprinted on living tobacco leaves using the chlorophyll printing technique…
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, LEATHER PICTURES
He treated a man clad in leather or latex with the same grace that he captured a flower: like a modern Midas with a camera, everything he touched turned to black-and-white beauty…
MARK MCKNIGHT, IN THIS TEMPORARILY PREVAILING LANDSCAPE, 2018 - PRESENT
Landscapes and queer bodies appear in flux as McKnight blurs a multitude of formal and figurative boundaries: earth and flesh, self and subject, artist and documentarian…
FRANCES STARK, NOTHING IS ENOUGH, 2012
Nothing is Enough consists of documented text fragments from Frances Stark’s online chat with a young Italian man, ranging from contemplative, self-reflective discussions to cybersex…
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, 2022
Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras’s career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival…
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, THE VISITORS, 2012
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s nine-screen installation The Visitors was filmed at the historic Rokeby farm in upstate New York. Kjartansson invited a group of friends to stay with him for a week at the ethereal, yet decrepit estate, culminating in the ambitious performance…
SHARON HAYES, RICERCHE: TWO, 2020
Ricerche is a 5 part video series that steps off Pier Paolo Pasolini’s brilliant 1963 film, Comizi d’Amore, to stage a contemporary inquiry into the “sexual problem” in the United States…
SHAKA MCGLOTTEN, BLACK DATA, 2014
Shaka McGlotten employs the notion of “black data” to explore how black queers trouble the invisible or taken-for-granted operations of states and corporations that seek to acquire and store detailed dossiers of citizen-consumers…
COLLIER SCHORR, WRESTLERS
I like devastation. I like exhaustion. I really like seeing someone that I know can’t barely get up…
ANNE NOGGLE, WORLD WAR II WOMEN PILOTS
With black and white photography, Anne Noggle (1922–2005) confronts themes of gender equality and aging through portraits of World War II women pilots in the United States and the Soviet Union…