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Sheila Pepe

Sheila Pepe is a maker, as she herself puts it, but the things she makes are frequently unmade. The ephemerality and shape-shifting propensities of her art may be one reason her thirty-year career is…

Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith's latest body of work centers on María Elena—a town of around six thousand inhabitants in the middle of Chile's Atacama Desert that was founded in 1926 by the Guggenheim brothers to…

Jack Smith

Jack Smith is known almost entirely for his playfully risqué film Flaming Creatures (1963); as noted in the pamphlet accompanying Artists Space's exhibition "Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis," the…

Patty Chang

Patty Chang's show at the Queens Museum, her most expansive to date, encompassed video, photography, glass sculpture, ephemera, and an artist's book. "The Wandering Lake, 2009–2017" took its name…

Nene Humphrey

Nene Humphrey became interested in the practice of Victorian mourning braiding—in which jewelry and keepsakes were made using the hair of departed loved ones—when coping with the death of her…

“Action!”

Artists have historically used action as a medium to create fleeting and expressive works, to disrupt typical social behaviors, and as a direct form of protest. 

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