Fresh Collection Galleries

John Baldessari (1931–2020) was a founder and innovator of conceptual art. From the mid-1960s, he tested the structures of art, images, and language within a radical, conceptual framework. Baldessari used photographs, text, and color as starting points to uncover the visual and ideological mechanics of sight and thought, believing that one of the purposes of art is “to keep us perceptually off balance.”

Since the mid-1970s, Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) has serially photographed herself. Her photographs are not self-portraits; rather, Sherman becomes a wide cast of characters in the work, reflecting on the role of images in the formation of identity, stereotype, and representation.

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) was a leading figure of Pop art, bringing the imagery and techniques of mass commercialism into the visual arts. Warhol used existing images sourced from mass media, often cropping, repeating, and changing their colors in his paintings. His work drew on themes of celebrity, death, disaster, and commodity, often read as a metaphor for American culture.

Since the 1980s, Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) has used texts and images from sources including literature, political events, and comedy in his work. Across paintings, prints, and sculptures, he coaxes complex, often contradictory meanings from words and passages, especially in relation to identity and race. His work examines the complications of representation, the intricacies of the self, and the parallel senses of insider and outsider in us all.

Swiss artist Urs Fischer (b. 1973) approaches the everyday as fluid and ever-changing. Across sculptures and installations made from materials including wax, aluminum, clay, and food, familiar subjects are stretched and warped beyond their expected forms. Presenting objects caught between one state and another, Fischer’s work occupies a space between the recognizable and the uncanny.

Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood (b. 1977) paints scenes drawn from domestic interiors, landscapes, and everyday life. His paintings often begin with personal photographs, which he reworks using flattened space, vibrant colors, and pattern. Wood frequently blends recognizable forms and objects, such as memories of his childhood home or the exterior of his studio, to explore the altered perspective of a memory or our own reality.