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1910 Philippines

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ashlyn spring 2023

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Kyle Maclachlan and Linda Evangelista for Steven Meisel’s witty 1992 campaign for Barneys New York

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By Thomas Lohr for Many of Them Magazine February 2024

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Adot Gak by Raen Badua for Blanc Magazine Online , June 2021

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Aaron Philip by Myles Loftin for Submission Beauty Online , May 2021

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Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys)

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Julia Pacha by David Gomez Maestre for Vogue Spain May 2022

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Artist Simone Leigh Embodies Self-Determination in the Historic ‘Sovereignty’ at the Venice Biennale

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“’To be sovereign is to not be subject to another’s authority, another’s desires, or another’s gaze but rather to be the author of one’s own history.’ This conviction founds Simone Leigh: Sovereignty, the artist’s new body of work created for the U.S. Pavilion of the 2022 Venice Biennale. Leigh is the first Black woman to be awarded the prestigious commission.

Comprised of towering bronze works and ceramics, the exhibition continues Leigh’s questions about self-determination, historical erasure, and Black femme subjectivity. She explores both interiority and what it means for Black women, who she’s repeatedly described as her primary audience, to move through the world.”

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Wolfgang Tillmans

In this series, Swimming Towards Freedom, Wolfgang Tillmans creates thin blushes using different light sources, such as flashlights and lasers. In Art on Paper these blushes have been referenced to gestural abstract painting, but Tillmans has always been interested in the self-reflexivity of the art medium. As he states, “This exploration of the image surface, of the very nature of what constitutes an image, has always been of great fascination to me.” As the art critic Nathan Kernan states, he’s painting with light. To read the interview from Art on Paper and to see more of Tillmans’s work, click here. 

- Lee

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Annelie Bruijn, Bo. 

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Deadheads, Kerry James Marshall, 2019

Acrylic on PVC panel 36 ½ x 30 ½ in. (92.71 x 77.47 cm)

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Tender Embroidered Portraits by Ruth Miller Are Tinged with Expressive Colors

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萩原 卓哉／Hagihara Takuya

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from “madonna inn: my point of view”, 2002. 325pp.