Using found objects, Rina Banerjee illuminates the obscured histories of Black and South Asian populations in New Orleans.
assemblage and materiality
This bandolier bag is the first of its kind from the Sac and Fox tribe in more than 20 years
Marilyn Spoon, Bandolier Bag
Smith uses historic Wyandotte forms to create this contemporary pot, bringing his Indigenous traditions into the present and future
Richard Zane Smith, Wyandotte Feast Pot
Goshorn weaves stories about forced removal from homelands and protest in this basket made of printed archival documents
Shan Goshorn, Sealed Fate: Treaty of New ...
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.
Ellen Gallagher: Cutting
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.
Assemblage
Old sports photographs and hair commercials provide inspiration for American artist Lorna Simpson.
Lorna Simpson – ‘Everything I Do Comes ...
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.
Artist interview with Lee Bul about Willing ...
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.
Who is Rachel Whiteread?
Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich describes the centrality of childhood memory to his work and its move from painting to sculpture.
Artist Profile: Sopheap Pich on Rattan, Sculpture, ...
Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabekwe) discuses symbolism within her work "Rising to the Occasion"
Rebecca Belmore on Rising to the Occasion
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
Jesús Rafael Soto, Houston Penetrable
Zineb Sedira was born in Paris to Algerian parents, and her works are often autobiographical, addressing issues of cultural identity and the personal consequences of migration.
Zineb Sedira – ‘The Personal is Political’
Mona Hatoum creates a challenging vision of our world, exposing its contradictions and complexities.
Mona Hatoum – ‘Nothing Is a Finished ...
ppropriating curatorial methods and strategies, Fred Wilson creates new contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections, along with wall labels, sound, lighting, and non-traditional pairings of objects.
Fred Wilson: Beauty & Ugliness
"Memory Mirror" is an immersive installation that invites visitors to explore their relationship with memory through animation, dioramas, and interactive storytelling.
Lares Feliciano, Memory Mirror installation
A taxidermy deer covered with crystals changes the way we look at reality
Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Deer#24
Odundo's pottery draws on traditions from around the world and reveals the relationship of clay to the body
Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo, Symmetrical Reduced Black ...
Ogawa Machiko's artistic connection to raw natural beauty is linked to her time living abroad with her anthropologist husband as well as to the seaside landscape of her hometown of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido.
An interview with artist Ogawa Machiko
I Look for the Sky consists of two site-specific commissions that manipulate light and space, shifting our perspective of the ever-changing world.
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