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East Durham Love- Soon as I get Home I, 2019 Kennedi Carter (American, b. 1998) Archival Pigment Print 38.25 x 33.875 in Gift of Jessica Ruhle '02 East Durham Love captures an incredibly intimate moment between two figures. In a darkly lit room with only the light from the window shining in, the woman figure, dressed in a simple white lacey dress with a decorative, shiny headpiece cradles the male figure. The male figure sits shirtless below her with his head to her stomach. The windows thick drapery gives a pattern to the background, but also significantly blocks light from...

Carlos Rolon (Puerto Rican, b. 1970)First Place, 201328 x 28 inArchival pigment inks Out of the many pieces available this year for selection through our dorm room art program ArtMate, one piece in particular caught my eye. It’s larger than some of the other pieces, it's surrounded by, and printed in a square layout, another element of the piece which made it stand out. I stood before the piece, and hoped it would be the artwork I took home – or, in this case, to my dorm room, which has become my short-term replacement for it. By the time my...

Vivian Beer (American, b. 1977)Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9, 2017Stainless steel, steel and automotive finishGift of Joseph P. Logan '77 My first reaction when I spotted this work was surprise: amidst the green, wooded landscape is an unnatural pop of shiny red. My logical, order-based brain immediately noticed this eye-catching mystery and alerted me that something was quite obviously different here. In fact, that ‘difference’ is Vivian Beer’s Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9, and its odd-one-out nature seems to be, in itself, the whole point.  A sculptor and furniture designer from Bar Harbor, ME, Vivian Beer (b. 1977)...