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v24n1

Painting of an imagined version of Trubetskoy Palace's Dining Room in 1914, including a long, set table with one empty chair next to it and a wall of framed paintings

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v23n4

A drawing of multiple women looking over their shoulders, their bodies melding together.

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v23n3

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v23n2

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v23n1

Square oil painting in pastel shades. A peach and pink background featuring two birds, one nesting and the other on a tree branch, overlayed by a small blue square featuring two row houses, three blue squares featuring images of people, and a turquois square featuring three poses of the same person in overalls.

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v22n3

Two photopolymer images side-by-side, one featuring a view of a street with a pickup truck parked along the sidewalk and the other merely featuring a soft blue spore pattern. The images are overlayed with digitally printed mushrooms and a boldly patterned caution strip.

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v22n2

A copperplate etching featuring anthropomorphic quails running with colorfully striped beachballs on a teal background. The background is colored by aquatint and the beachball stripes are colored with chine-colle.

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v22n1

A felted wool sculpture of a coyote and a xoloitzcuintli surrounded by calendar iconography.

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