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Rina Banerjee, commerce out of the Earth
Using found objects, Rina Banerjee illuminates the obscured histories of Black and South Asian populations in New Orleans.
Marilyn Spoon, Bandolier Bag
This bandolier bag is the first of its kind from the Sac and Fox tribe in more than 20 years
Richard Zane Smith, Wyandotte Feast Pot
Smith uses historic Wyandotte forms to create this contemporary pot, bringing his Indigenous traditions into the present and future
Shan Goshorn, Sealed Fate: Treaty of New Echota Protest Basket
Goshorn weaves stories about forced removal from homelands and protest in this basket made of printed archival documents
Ellen Gallagher: Cutting
Gallagher's work often appears abstract and minimal, but upon closer inspection details reveal complex narratives that borrow from maritime history, science fiction, popular culture, and the experiences of African Americans.
Assemblage
Assemblage, a practice of art production that combines disparate everyday objects and materials to create new meanings and forms, rose to popularity among American artists following World War II.
Lorna Simpson – ‘Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire’
Old sports photographs and hair commercials provide inspiration for American artist Lorna Simpson.
Artist interview with Lee Bul about Willing To Be Vulnerable
Artist Lee Bul reveals her thinking and inspiration behind her site-specific installation at the Turbine Hall of the Industrial Precinct on Cockatoo Island, titled 'Willing To Be Vulnerable' (2015–16) for the Embassy of the Real.
Who is Rachel Whiteread?
Using industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space, Rachel Whiteread evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental.
Artist Profile: Sopheap Pich on Rattan, Sculpture, and Abstraction
Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich describes the centrality of childhood memory to his work and its move from painting to sculpture.
Rebecca Belmore on Rising to the Occasion
Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabekwe) discuses symbolism within her work "Rising to the Occasion"
Jesús Rafael Soto, Houston Penetrable
Jesús Rafael Soto's final and most ambitious work, a site-specific installation intended to be touched, handled, and waded through, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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