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Yasumasa Morimura, (Japanese, b. 1951) An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Gift 2), 2001 Chromogenic Print 46.5x37 inches Gift of John Andrew MacMahon '95 An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo is a series of photographs by the renowned Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura. This series of works pay homage to the life and work of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, bringing her to life in iconic self-portraits with an imaginative and thought-provoking twist. In this print, we can see the artist himself dress up as Frida Kahlo. He is standing, looking straight at the audience, and holding hands with a hand...

Derrick Adams (American, 1970-) Style Variation 4 (Beard), 2020 Screen print, archival inkjet, and acrylic gloss varnish on Somerset museum eag eadiant white paper 27 x 20 in Gallery Purchase Derrick Adams is a multimedia and multi-disciplinary artist working out of Brooklyn, NY. He is known for working in a broad spectrum of mediums such as painting, collage, and sculpture, as well performance, video, and sound installations. Common epithets in his work are geometric characters with swaths of flat color, like in Style Variation 4 (Beard). Themes of Black Americans at leisure and in joyful states are also common, as...

Jacolby Satterwhite, (American, b. 1986) Avenue B, 2018-19 2- channel HD color video and 3D animation with sound RT: 20:38 Jacolby Satterwhite's Avenue B, now on display in the Smith Gallery, is a part of his Birds in Paradise suite. This work may be considered a posthumous collaboration with his mother, Patricia, who used creative practices such as drawing and singing to cope with her schizophrenia. As a part of the Bird in Paradise suite, much of the imagery in Avenue B is derived from these drawings. Purple is a reoccurring color in Satterwhite's work, as a presentation of womanism...

Allison Janae Hamilton (American, b. 1984)Floridawater II, 2019 24 x 36 inArchival pigment print, AP 1/2Gallery Purchase from the Dr. Joan Huntley Art Acquisition Fund Floridawater II captures a murky, underwater scene in Florida's Wacissa River. A woman — Hamilton herself — occupies the center of the photograph, draped in a white dress that the sunlight beams down upon into the water. In the pockets of fabric where the sun bleeds through, her dress appears pinky-orange in comparison to the cool tones surrounding her, like she is a source of light. The flowing white dress and its pseudo-supernatural light emission...