Short Six young people play basketball together. One of the players leaps upward with the ball toward the hoop, which is turned ninety degrees from its usual orientation.
Short Photograph of a green park with a a baren tree in the foreground, a gray rectangular path receding into the distance, and orange building site in the background
Short A conical sculpture with three round humps at the widest end lies on its side. The middle of the object is brown and smooth, and both ends are covered with tiny spherical beads: black on the narrow end and red, white, and black on the wide end.
Short A photograph of a book open to a page featuring a close-up of Judy Garland. A magenta page flag marks the page and several others poke out from additional pages.
Short A multidimensional, strangely textured surface covers the walls of a room, with four small black spheres hanging from the ceiling. Those familiar with audio recording would recognize it as an anechoic chamber.
Short A gradient of colors transitioning from black to light blue is centered on a tall white wall. In the background of the photo, another gradient of red tones is similarly centered.
Short A sculpture that appears to be made of light blue, tan, gray, mauve, and white clay. It is shaped into animal-like forms like paws and tails, but remains abstract.
Short A chaotic, multicolor collage on a dark background with men in various states of undress, rainbow-colored cicadas pulling at a white ribbon, a wreath of kitten heads, and more
Short A large box with three horizontal bands of light covering one side sits in the center of a large gallery. The white lights glow brightly in the otherwise dark room.
Long In the middle of a large gallery a large box-like structure has been built. It is large enough to enter. The far end that faces you is made of three flowing white panels. The light is so bright that it throws a hard glare off of the polished concrete floor.
Short A series of four square images appear in a horizontal line on a white wall. They depict black-and-white targets hanging from white string with different amounts and locations of puncture holes.
Short A yellowed dictionary page partly obscured by black paper roughly cut and assembled to depict a man walking, hunched over, and carrying an enormous load on his back
Short A photograph depicts a table covered in a white tablecloth that is stained with a pastel pink color. The table holds clear glassware and a delicate white cake.
Short In this painting, a woman painter holds a paint palette in front of a paint-by-numbers portrait. Her skin is as black as the as the solid black background; she stares confidently into our eyes.
Long This painted portrait depicts a young woman with jet-black skin holding a long, thin paintbrush up to a colorful, messy painter’s palette. She is shown in a three-quarter pose, gazing directly at the viewer. Her face, which is central to the square composition, stands out against a large, white, canvas, almost blending into the pitch-black background to her right. Closer inspection reveals, however, that her skin is subtly rendered, with various shades of contours and highlights. She wears two large hoop earrings, three small hoop earrings, and an oversized, boxy, high-collared jacket made of stiff fabric. Her voluminous hair—black with an ochre sheen—rises in thick coils on top of her head. The canvas to her left shows a partly finished paint-by-number self-portrait; in it, her likeness is broken up into smaller segments with pale-blue outlines and numbers. She has outlined many of the segments and filled them in with colors from her palette: orange, blue, yellow, pink, brown, and a few shades of green. The paint-by-number canvas does not accurately represent the color and pattern of the jacket she wears, which features mustard yellow sleeves and collar and deep blue and maroon and light yellow stripes.
Short Black-and-white drawings on separate pieces of square and rectangular paper are pinned to the wall to create the illusion of a wire mobile suspending a tree stump and an intricate wooden sculpture.
Short Four 2-by-4 pieces of wood lie parallel on the ground, equidistant from one another. A square wool fabric covers the wood, with four dyed brown strips of wool overlying the pieces of wood exactly.
Short A poster with two frames, a grid of thirty-six black-and-white oval portraits of men, two rows of fifteen smaller portraits of babies and kids, and the title "Sixtieth Senate Legislature, 1967"
Short A poster with two frames, a grid of thirty-six black-and-white oval portraits of men, two rows of fifteen smaller portraits of babies and kids, and the title "Sixty-second Senate Legislature"
Short A photo shows five differently sized drill bits extending upward from a small piece of wood, which rests on a colorful green and yellow background.
Short In this photo, a light-skinned person's arms are visible against a blue background. Stretched between their fingers like the game cat's cradle is a densely woven brown material.
Short A colorful photo shows a pair of light-skinned hands either cleaning or applying a product to a set of three large red letters spelling out the word "HOT."
Short A sculpture resembling an irregular trellis leans against a white wall. The sculpture is covered in string or yarn in shades of green, blue, white, red, and orange, as if encased in colorful spiderwebs.
Short A visually busy vertical canvas is covered with an array of different materials including floral wallpaper, tin foil, and black geometric shapes.
Short The horizontal black-and-white photograph captures a night view of a high-rise, church, and vacant lot.
Long In the horizontal black-and-white photograph taken at night, a high-rise building cropped by the image frame dwarfs a church to its right. An empty lot fills the foreground of the deserted neighborhood, drawing attention to bright starbursts from the streetlights. The spare high-rise with rectangular windows contrasts with the traditional church and steeple topped by a cross. The dark sky and white buildings and ground create the impression of a photographic negative.
Short Black-and-white street-level photograph of a cityscape with office buildings surrounding a round spiraling structure brightly illuminated from within
Short Black-and-white photograph taken at night of a modern house with translucent walls illuminated from the inside and with a ground level porch supported by rectangular columns
Short A cluster of strands of white fabric hang from the wall tied with knots that suspend four elongated glass forms that resemble heavy hanging water balloons.
Short A white image, likely a book cover, reads "SEVEN PRODUCTS TWENTY-FIVE APARTMENTS THREE PALM TREES SIX ROOFTOPS AND ONE AERIAL VIEW." The bottom of the image reads "ED RUSCHA PHOTOGRAPHS."
Short An abstract image consists of many colored squares, as if pixelated. The squares are mostly blue, with one distinguishing four-square area of yellows.
Short A teenage girl wearing a tank top and blue jeans stands beside a house and next to a tree with ripe oranges and a chain-link fence. She spits water at the camera and the mist makes a rainbow.
Short Three yellow sculptures of abstract human figures stand as if communicating with each other outdoors in an urban setting.
Long Three yellow and white forms are installed on an outdoor terrace. The forms resemble human bodies, yet they have no faces. The heads of the forms are created from coiled, hard textured material and the bodies are similarly constructed of coiled material, arranged into torsos, arms and legs. The scale of the figures is about double the size of an average person and the are arranged about a half of a figure length apart from each other. The figure on the left appears to have its head tilted to the sky, while the center figure faces to the right, where the third figure bends lightly towards the ground, hand upraised. The bright color of the figures contrasts with urban scene in the background: behind the figures a black fence, green leafy trees and tall gray buildings are visible. The sky is bright blue and the bright light of mid-day casts sharp shadows below the figures.
Short A series of objects including a barrel, trash can, jug, and funnel sit on a simple table made of light-colored wood. A propane tank sits on the ground next to the table. All objects except for the table are painted a stark, matte white.
Short A body-sized sculpture made out of flat black metal bars is centered around two parallel bars that extend straight up perpendicular to the floor, curve back at shoulder height, and extend straight back down to the floor, with white mesh stretched between them from chest height to shoulder height.
Short In this photograph, a woman on the phone works at a cluttered desk. Trees, high-rises, and a man doing a backflip are visible through the room's floor-to-ceiling window.
Short A light-skinned, teen boy wearing gym shorts, gym shoes, and red matching tank top and fingerless gloves stands next to a red balloon tacked to a wall divided into rectangular orange, brown, and white panels.
Short Rectangular photograph of a museum gallery with people and gathered around the Pergamon Altar: a U-shaped, white stone colonnade with a frieze carved with human and animal forms
Short Installation view of mixed media sculpture made with a grid of strings running the length of the gallery and converging in a corner with small objects and bright light bulbs in an otherwise dimly lit room
Short A diagrammatic drawing on white paper of a three-columned chart connected by thin grey lines to geometric collage on the right. The chart contains rows each with one colored circle and handwritten letters and numbers, which seem to correspond to the overlapping yellow, orange, and grey scalene triangles.
Short Illustration of scattered yellow and orange circles of different sizes connected by thin, black, crisscrossed lines above a black-and-white chart with five columns and twenty-three rows of handwritten text
Short An upside-down piece of paper marked like a ruler is taped parallel to and below a wide rectangle of vertical stripes in different shades of grey and white. An orange see-through cutout is collaged over top and squares of various sizes and colors are scattered on the page below as though falling through air.
Short Collage of six halved photographed girls arranged in three misaligned portraits, a black line map, two lined columns with text, and a column of colored, alternating bars
Short A painting of reds, oranges, greens, and purples that overlap and bleed into one another, creating arches that form an irregular circle in the center.
Short A young, dark-haired child in a white shirt looks into the camera against a grey background. The skin around the child's eyes seems a slightly rougher texture than that on the rest of its face.
Short Two different textures vertically split this image. The left is a glassy gray-purple, and the right a darker hair-like textured mauve. The two textures meet in an irregular line, resembling an aerial view of a beach or shoreline.
Short Solid and streaky bright yellow shapes are interwoven with arched rows of black, crisp-edged triangles, overlapping smeared burgundy paint with feathered edges and a few scattered handprints on a white background.
