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alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Paintings by American artist Stuart Walker, 1930s, a member of the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico - artists who combined various philosophies and spiritual beliefs in lyrical abstractions that they hoped would tap into a "collective unconscious" - an emotional visual language understood by anyone.
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Abstract painting in coral, blue, and cream with rounded forms in the center resembling a landscape
Abstract painting with swirling shapes and loops in yellow, soft blue, and pale purple
Abstract painting with swirling pointed shapes and radiating circles in pink, blue, and purple

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Mixed media works by American artist Nicole Dixon, 2010s-20s, whose cathartic, healing practice references her personal experiences as a Black woman, incorporating ancestral history, spirituality, and reverence for nature.
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A Black woman drawn in charcoal wearing a bright green patterned top, looking at the viewer directly. Wood panel on the left and birds flying in the sky behind her.
A Black woman in charcoal, in profile with eyes closed, her head and body mostly covered by a patterned textile in pastel colors. Soft blue sky behind her, her right finger pointing towards branches dangling seed pods
A Black woman in charcoal with braided hair, wearing a light blue top, looking down at a hummingbird flying near her hand. There is a metallic geometric pattern in the sky behind her and a few more birds collaged in, with a suburban skyline on the low horizon.

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

"Trapunto" works by Filipino artist Pacita Abad, 1980s-90s, who pulled together various cultural influences from her travels through Indonesia, Korea, Sudan, and her native Philippines, among other places, for these large-scale quilts with mask motifs, embellished with shells, buttons, beads, mirrors, and other objects collected while traveling.
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semi-abstract patterned quilt with a stylized mask design, in yellow, blue, green, and red
semi-abstract patterned quilt with a stylized mask design, in pink, green, purple, and orange
semi-abstract patterned quilt with a stylized mask design, in yellow, white, gold, and red

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Works by London-based photographer Nadine Ijewere, 2010s-20s, known for her portraits and fashion shoots centering non-traditional models that the artist typically casts herself, as well as series that explore her Nigerian and Jamaican roots.
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Photo of two Black men wearing rainbow stripe suits, partially submerged in water
Photo of a young Black woman with blue and purple hair, wearing a colorful sequin dress and large jeweled earrings, looking down at the viewer. There is a palm tree and some powerlines behind her.
Photo of a young person with long dark hair and thick eyebrows, wearing a blue suit and large floral earrings

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Paintings by British artist Sahara Longe, 2020s, known for her large-scale portraits often highlighting social interactions.
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Painting of two women of color standing close together and looking at the viewer with unreadable expressions, in a palette of bright red, mint, purple, and dark green
Painting of a Black woman standing alone against a blue background, wearing a long wide-sleeved dress in a lively purple and tan pattern
Painting of 3 Black figures at a (presumed) cocktail party holding wine glasses, against an abstract red background

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Paintings by German multidisciplinary artist Otto Piene, 1970s, whose experimental process incorporated smoke and fire. He was also an important innovator in the realm of kinetic and technology-based artwork.
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Abstract painting by Otto Piene
Abstract painting by Otto Piene
Abstract painting by Otto Piene

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Sculpture by Italian artist
Massimiliano Pelletti, 2010s-20s, who re-interprets Classical sculpture busts with a focus on material and texture.
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Bust of a Classical woman in a pink-tinted stone with the head split open revealing the texture within
Bust of a Classical figure with curly hair and headpiece, in a dark, mottled stone with a crack splitting the face slightly apart
Bust of a Classical figure that's half carved out of blue and white mottled stone, the other out of opalescent white stone

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Works by Jewish photographer Gertrudes Altschul, 1950s, who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for São Paolo. She joined the modernist photographer group Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante as one of its few women members. She also made floral decorations for the hat factory her husband managed.
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Black and white photo of several tall buildings seen from below, looking up into a triangular empty space formed between them
Black and white photo of leaves layered over each other in an abstract composition
Black and white photo of two large concrete circles sitting in a barren dirt field with cloudy sky behind them

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Mixed media works by Spanish artist and illustrator Sonia Alins, 2010s-20s, whose work often takes inspiration from the ocean, using vellum, tulle, and yarn to create underwater effects for her ink and paint swimmer figures.
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Mixed media artwork of a large group of nude women of different ethnicities swimming together in a calm ocean
Mixed media artwork of two pale-skinned women with blue hair and floral bathing suits swimming around a coral reef
Mixed media artwork of a pale-skinned woman with dark hair and a long white dress, floating in the water above bundles of sea foliage

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Works from the "Girl Pictures" series by American photographer Justine Kurland, 1997 -2002, for which the artist traveled around the US in a van, collaborating with local teen girls in towns where she stopped to create intimate, dreamy images of teen runaways.
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Photo of two teens play-fighting in the middle-ground, with another in the foreground sitting on a rock blowing a big bubblegum bubble. The setting is a grassy field with suspended train tracks in the far background.
A group of white teen girls in casual fall clothes in a woodsy environment of dead leaves and empty tree branches, clustered around one girl in the center holding an armadillo by the tail, while another girl starts digging a hole with an old shovel
Three white teens standing in a field all stand with their heads leaning back throwing candy in the air and trying to catch it in their mouths

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Works by Hong Kong artist and animator Kongkee, 2010s-20s, whose comic, film, and illustration work blends cyberpunk settings and aesthetics with ancient Chinese history, creating alternate timelines and imagined futures.
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Vividly colored city scene with signs in English and Chinese characters, and a tall tram car coming towards the viewer
A figure with straight dark blue hair submerged in water up to their eyes with one eye open crying yellow tears. The background is a collage-like array of squares, rays, rocks, and a door, in vivid pink and yellow hues.
A woman in a 60s-style high-necked pink dress pulling her face off to reveal a yellow orb inside, backed by large green leaves and a red wall

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

"Mother's Day Off" series by British photojournalist, painter, and teacher Grace Robertson, 1954, documenting a day trip to Margate undertaken by a group of women friends. Robertson was a pioneering photographer who shot for Picture Post and Life Magazine, often showcasing women-centric subjects.
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Black and white photo of a group of women in dresses and hats, in a park dancing in a line holding each other by the waists and smiling
Black and white photo of women in dresses and hats, dancing and singing in a park
Black and white photo of 4 women standing in front of a bar, one is ducking her head in the window to peek inside

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Sculpture by Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere, 2010s-20s.
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Sculpture of sickly tree branch-like forms
Sculpture of an abstract form seated in a structure of wood and wire supports
Installation view of three shrouded figure sculptures in the center of a gallery and abstract works on the walls

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Landscapes by American artist and educator Louis B Sloan, 1970s-90s, known for his impressionistic plein-air paintings depicting nature scenes primarily inspired by trips around Pennsylvania and New York. He became the first Black full professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Landscape painting of a field of colorful flowers, with a pink lake, blue trees, and pink-clouded sky in the background
Painting of a cloudy sky over a rounded-hill island in the middle of a body of water with some rocks in the foreground
Painting of a Black man picking flowers in a large green field, blue sky above with scattered white clouds

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Mixed media sculpture by American artist Catalina Ouyang, 2010s-20s, whose tactile, assembled work explores themes of subjugation, literature, longing, gender, and race through a mixture of found materials and objects accumulated since their childhood.
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Sculpture of a tall narrow table structure made of wood sharpened at both edges like a pencil, with a small lumpy round form sitting atop it resembling an upside down head
Sculpture of various materials and shapes, the central form being a wooden chair with sharpened foot and a humanoid leg coming out of one end
A barstool form with two fantasy animal heads laying on it, one green with long drooping ears and the other orange with a fox-like face. Both have third eyes etched into their foreheads.

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Embroidered works by Ömie (Papua New Guinea) artist Ilma Savari, 2010s-20s, whose primary canvas is tapa cloth or bark cloth, made from the inner bark of a mulberry or fig tree, often used ceremonially as well as domestically. She incorporates natural materials in her appliqué technique, including leaves, fruit pulp, and volcanic ash.
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Black and white abstract composition with bold black lines radiating out from a central rounded rectangle
Abstract composition in red, orange,a nd yellow, with a sun in the center surrounded by repeated triangular patterns
Abstract composition in red and blue-black

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Paintings by American artist Ridley Howard, 2010s.
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Painting of a Black woman wearing white-framed sunglasses and a striped coral and black dress, against a soft background of trees and water
Portrait of a white male-presenting figure with blue eyes and short brown hair, wearing a bright yellow shirt that blends into the bright yellow background
Portrait of a feminine figure with dark hair, blue eyeshadow, and red lipstick lying down with eyes closed, seemingly against another figure's chest, with a semi-abstract background of a dark field, soft grey mountains, and rosy sky

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Airbrush works by Japanese commercial illustrator and artist Pater (Yoshinori) Sato, 1970s-80s.
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Semi-abstract portrait of a woman whose facial features are floating in a blue and black space, surrounded by geometric forms
Airbrush portrait of a white femme figure wearing a pink headcovering with large red hearts on her forehead and shoulder, and heavy pink and purple makeup
Image of two femme figures with heavy colorful makeup, their heads bisected by diagonal lines and a black and white circular background

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Paintings by American artist Beverly Fishman, 2010s-20s, whose distinctive abstract works on wood take their color palettes and forms from the advertising schemes of medical and pharmaceutical industries.
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Assortment of abstract, oblong shapes in subdued soft colors packed closely next to each other in a group of 5
Assortment of abstract, oblong shapes in bright colors packed closely next to each other in a group of 5
Two oblong grey shapes with open centers outlined in bright green and orange, stacked vertically

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Sculpture by multidisciplinary American artist and teacher Peter Grippe, 1940s-50s, who incorporated Cubist and Surrealist motifs into his work.
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Abstract cubist terracotta sculpture
Abstract cubist terracotta sculpture
Abstract sculpture with broken wheels, in (I believe) bronze

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Works by American artist Dana Chandler, 1960s-70s, a Black Power activist who believed in using art as a tool for change. His most known work is "Fred Hampton's Door" (1970, remade in 1974), which boldly recreates the apartment entryway after it was shot through with dozens of bullets in the FBI raid that murdered the 21-year-old Black Panther Party deputy chairman.
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Sculpture of a green and red door covered in bullet holes, with the name "Fred Hampton" inscribed in small print on the lower section
Black and white lithograph of a Black person's fist punching through a white egg
Drawing of a Black man in a jail cell holding the bars of the door and looking pained, surrounded by a simplified american flag design. The text at the bottom says "What Amerika Means to the Black Man circa 1775-1970. Free All Political Prisoners... Today!"

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Paintings by American artist Rachael Tarravechia, 2020s, known for her detailed, dreamlike interiors that combine elements of kitsch, retro, and horror aesthetics.
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Blue-tiled bathroom with pink towels, a rubber duckie, and a large knife on the floor
Red and pink tiled bathroom with a chainsaw lying next to the sink
Colorful studio room with art supplies and packaged food arranged around the walls, a flower rug over a checkered floor, and several disco balls hanging from the ceiling

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Works by Jewish American artist (now based in Sweden) Martha Edelheit, 1960s-70s, whose erotic, boundary-pushing work explores cis female sexuality and the body. She became an anti-censorship activist in the 70s along with several other women artists.
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Painting of two nude women on vespa-style scooters, arranged diagonally and forming mirror images of each other
Painting of a nude white woman with long black hair leaning over so her body forms a U shape. Her body is covered in tattoos. The setting is a nondescript grass field with blue sky
Lithograph showing a collage-like composition of Classical fountains with female figures, and a large semi-obscured seated nude figure seen from the back whose body is almost white, resembling marble.

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Sculpture by American artist Vincent Fecteau, 2010s.
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Abstract sculpture in teal and purple, with a mix of shapes turned in on one another
Abstract sculpture in pale purple and rust, with a mix of shapes and textures turned in on one another and a bell hanging from a rope in the center
Abstract sculpture in pale yellow, black and grey-green, with a mix of shapes and textures turned in on one another

alexxkittle, 1 year ago

Paintings by French artist and tattooist Julien Jaca, 2020s.
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Painting of a two-handled ancient Greek jug with a cartoon sun and the text "Sons of Sun Heaven"
Painting of a two-handled ancient Greek jug with an image of two figures in profile in thick black lines and the text "Eden"
Painting of a two-handled ancient Greek jug with an image of a topless woman figure and the text "The best healers have lots of sexual energy"