Eyedrops

Georges Liautaud (Haitian) - Goats (recycled metal, 1970-1980)

In this painting, the serpent form references Ayda-Weddo, a spirit (loa) derived from Vodún traditions in Benin, West Africa, and brought by enslaved peoples to Haiti as Vodou and New Orleans as Voodoo. Ayda-Weddo forms a tignon, a head covering once worn by Creole women of African descent in Louisiana. Tignons resulted from a 1786 law that required Creole women of African descent to wear head coverings in public. As a form of resistance, Black women transformed their tignons into elaborately adorned fashion statements and vibrant markers of cultural pride.

In this painting, Lien Truong takes objectified female figures from 18th and 19th century "Orientalist" paintings made in the Western image and transforms them into figures of power and agency. The artist thinks of these works as "a type of Asian futurism, born from the violent histories descended from Orientalist ideologies." By subverting the aesthetics that feed into the subjugation of Asian women, Truong reveals a transformation and future that transcends colonial stereotypes.

Noah Davis (American, 1983-2015), Untitled (Blue Figure), 2010. Oil on canvas, 127 x 81.3 cm

Oil on canvas 32 x 50 in. (81.3 x 127 cm)

Painting for my Dad pictures a lone man on the precipice between this world and the next.

Winter Night in the Mountains (Harald Sohlberg, 1914)

Sixteen-Pointed Star (Anonymous, c. 1780)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jacques de Fornazeris - Civetta

Austin Osman Spare - Portrait of the Artist

Nwanyi Oma [beautiful women] mask, boys initiation, Elugu, Nkporo-Igbo culture, 1930s. Photo: G. I. Jones.

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Wilhelmina Proos (Dutch, 1888-1972) - Stadsgezicht van Delft bij Nacht (City View of Delft by Night)

"Time Softens – On Slipping and Holding 1" by artist Astri Styrkestad Haukaas

André Derain - 1906

Margaret Clarke (Irish, 1888-1961) - Ann with Cat (ca. 1924)