Artist, Jaune Quick-to-see Smith: My name is Jaune Quick-to-see Smith. The title of this work is Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World (With Ensembles Contributed by the U.S. Government). These paper ...

Narrator: The American artist Suzanne Jackson made Wind and Water in 1975, using acrylic paint and pencil on canvas. The painting is a diptych, meaning there are two canvases hung side-by-side. Each ...

Curator, Lanka Tattersall: In this gallery, we see artists who are interested in forms that oftentimes look very abstract, but reference physical states. In Maren Hassinger’s Leaning, you see these ...

Writer, Juliet Jacques: There’s a lot of power and resistance in refusing to use the body entirely in the way that Cahun does in their photomontages. I’m Juliet Jacques. I am a writer and filmmaker ...

Artist, P Staff: My name is P Staff. I’m an artist and fan of Greer Lankton. In this moving image work from Greer, you can see that she is thinking about movement, dance, anatomy, joints, the way the ...

Artist, Lorna Simpson: I’m thinking about language and image and construction of self. My name is Lorna Simpson. You are looking at my untitled work from 1992. The top row consists of black boxes with ...

Artist, Harmony Hammond: Working with fabric and sewing techniques, it was just in the air at the time. And there were many of us doing it because of their gendered associations. Hi, I’m Harmony ...

Artist, Lenore Tawney: Why do I want to be in New York? I want to be near the water. Someone said, well, I know somebody who has this building right on the river. And when I saw this enormous space in ...

I was privileged to have this big studio space that I could just really break out and paint. I could even dance while I was painting. I think there’s a great deal of movement in the paintings with the ...

Curator, Lanka Tattersall: What is it like to have a body? How do you feel in your body? What is it like to move through the world in your body? These are questions that I think artists have been ...

Artist, Senga Nengudi: I was fascinated in how resilient the body was and I really wanted to somehow duplicate that experience. Curatorial Assistant, Margarita Lizcano Hernandez: Senga Nengudi made ...