Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1995)

James Garrett Faulkner
Egg Sculpture by Moonlight
1995
collage on paper
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
London
1995
C-print
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

John Walker
Untitled
1995
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Winston Roeth
Cicero
1995
tempera on canvas
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Frank Stella
Riallaro
1995
color etching, aquatint, collagraph, lithograph and screenprint
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Mary Pratt
Trifle in a Dark Room
1995
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Mary Beth McKenzie
Art Students
1995
oil on canvas
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Roy Lichtenstein
Composition
1995
screenprint
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Irving Penn
Philip Treacy Hat
1995
platinum palladium print
Art Institute of Chicago

Karen Carson
Birth, Death, Thank You
1995
vinyl appliqué on vinyl
Orange County Museum of Art,
Costa Mesa, California

Peter Alexander
Lucille
1995
color aquatint and etching
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Art Chantry
Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
1995
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Denver Art Museum

Becky Cohen
Allée in fog leading to the lost cascade, Marly-le-Roi
1995
gelatin silver print
San Diego Museum of Art, California

Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin
Subliminal Child
1995
C-print
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Gronk (Glugio Gronk Nicandro)
Post, Library, Muse
1995
oil on canvas
San Jose Museum of Art, California

Dana Hoey
Make-Up
1995
C-print
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

from Part One of The Age of Anxiety

Malin was thinking:
                                            No chimpanzee
     Thinks it thinks. Things are divisible,
     Creatures are not. In chaos all bodies
     Would differ in weight. Dogs can learn to 
     Fear the future. The faceless machine
     Lacks a surround. The laws of science have
     Never explained why novelty always 
     Arrives to enrich (though the wrong question
     Initiates nothing). Nature rewards
     Perilous leaps. The prudent atom
     Simply insists upon its safety now,
     Security at all costs; the calm plant
     Masters matter then submits to itself,
     Busy but not brave; the beast assures
     A stabler status to stolen flesh,
     Assists though it enslaves: singular then
     Is the human way; for the ego is a dream
     Till a neighbor's need by name create it;
     Man has no mean; his mirrors distort;
     His greenest arcadias have ghosts too;
     His utopias tempt to eternal youth,
     Or self-slaughter.

– W.H. Auden (1944-46)