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  • Demetrius Oliver, Robert Pruitt, Joseph Havel, Dario Robleto, Trenton Doyle Hancock, David McGee, John T. Biggers, Jean Lacy, Mequitta Ahuja, and Dawolu Jabari Anderson

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Totem by Demetrius Oliver

Digital C-print, 48.4 x 32.1 inches.

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Prosthetic by Demetrius Oliver

Digital C-print, edition 5, 36 x 48 inches, 2005.

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America’s Most Wanted by Robert Pruitt

Rhinestones, prop gun, 3 1/2 x 5 x 1 inches, 2004.

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Glass Slippers by Robert Pruitt

Tennis shoes, broken glass, 6 x 10 x 4 1/2 inches, 2005

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One Star, 2008 by Joseph Havel

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A Defeated Soldier Wishes To Walk His Daughter Down The Wedding Aisle,2004 by Dario Robleto

Cast of a hand-carved wooden and iron leg that a wounded Civil War soldier constructed for himself, made from The Shirelles’ “Soldier Boy” melted vinyl record and femur bone dust, fitted inside a pair of WWI military cavalry boots made from Skeeter Davis’ “The End Of The World” melted vinyl record, oil can filled with homemade tincture (gun oil, rose oil, bacteria cultured from the grooves of Negro prison songs and prison choir records, worm wood, golden rod, aloe juice, resurrection plant, Apothecary’s Rose and bugleweed), brass, rust, dirt from various battlefields, ballistic gelatin, white rose petals, white rice. 80 x 21 x 20 inches, 203.2 x 53.3 x 50.8 cm.

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Vegans and Mounds in the Forest by Trenton Doyle Hancock

Production still from Ballet Austin’s “Cult of Color: Call to Color, 2008”, a collaboration by choreographer and Ballet Austin artistic director Stephen Mills, visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock and composer Graham Reynolds.

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The Homosexual by David McGee

1996, oil on canvas, 96 x 99 inches, 243.8 x 251.5 cm.

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Study for View from the Upper Room by John T. Biggers

Conté crayon and pastel on paper, 48 1/8 x 32 ½ inches, 1993–1994.

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The Gift of God Bar by Jean Lacy

Crayon, ink and photo-offset printing on collaged elements on illustration board, 29 5/8 x 20 inches, 1976.

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Off the Edge by Mequitta Ahuja

Oil on canvas, 96 x 72 inches, 2008.

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The Mysterious Madam Ethiopia by Dawolu Jabari Anderson

Latex, acrylic and ink on paper, 48 x 72 inches, 2005.

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