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con.Text: Portraits by Bryan Ida
Bryan Ida, Protester, 2019, ink on panel. Image courtesy of the artist.
In con.Text, an ongoing series of ink on panel portraits, artist Bryan Ida utilizes the words of government policies, declarations, and other communications to create his life-sized portraits.
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Rotating Images: Fletcher Benton, Going Around the Corner with X, 2008, painted steel, Gift of the artist, with assistance from Paula Kirkeby, in honor of William Rewak, S.J., 2013.4.1. Monica Lundy, Ladies of the Barbary Coast, 2014, 22 kt. gold, 16 kt. gold, 11 kt. gold, white gold, pulverized charcoal, mica flake, coffee, gouache, acrylic medium on Arches paper mounted on panel, 61 x 82 x 2 in., Courtesy of the Nancy Toomey Fine Arts. Class visit to the museum's collections storage vault with Professor Karen Fraser. Photo courtesy Chuck Barry.