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Chinoiserie, a painting by Miyoko Ito, layers together colorful ribbons in a vibrant composition

Miyoko Ito
Chinoiserie, 1970
The Highlands, a 1999 work by Mary Lou Zelazny, dazzles with pearls and silky fabrics against the backdrop of a traditional landscape.

Mary Lou Zelazny
The Highlands, 1999
Enchantment Looms is a 2001 mixed media artwork by Chicago-based artist Phyllis Bramson, featuring a collage style intrinsic to her work.

Phyllis Bramson
Enchantment Looms, 2001
Spiraling Blue Tiles HFP2, a painting by Susan Frankel, features tile-like geometric shapes repeating in serpentine patterns across the work.

Susan Frankel
Spiraling Blue Tiles HFP2, 2009
Green Hat HFP3, a painting by Susan Frankel features spiraling yellow geometric shapes on a light background.

Susan Frankel
Green Hat HFP3, 2009
Faust, a 2010 painting by Frank Trankina, features a disembodied head and arm emerging from a brown background. The head looks up at a crumpled piece of paper in the air.

Frank Trankina
Faust, 2010
Arbitrary Approach, a 1983 painting by Ray Yoshida, centers on a woman in a pink dress and a man in a bright green space suit..

Ray Yoshida
Arbitrary Approach, 1983
Ice Pick Nick Fisherman, a sculpture by Karl Wirsum, depicts two painted wooden figures facing one another with ice picks in their backs.

Karl Wirsum
Ice Pick Nick Fisherman, 1979
Pieta, a 1957 painting by the art critic Franz Schulze, is his modern interpretation of one of Western art's most famous pieces.

Franz Schulze
Pieta, 1957
Shep Step II, a 1973 painting by Barbara Rossi, uses acrylic paints on plexiglass to give the colors an almost iridescent quality.

Barbara Rossi
Shep Step II, 1973
Double Hesitation, a painting by Christina Ramberg, features heavy brown and bronze tones in its abstract depiction of a human torso.

Christina Ramberg
Double Hesitation, 1977
Herb’s Texaco III, an oil painting by Sandra Jorgensen, uses the artist's signature geometric lines and bright colors to depict a Texaco gas station.

Sandra Jorgensen
Herb’s Texaco III, 1983
In Vertical Shade, a painting by Gladys Nilsson, uses cool purple, blue and green watercolors to depict characters wearing dark, menacing masks.

Gladys Nilsson
In Vertical Shade, 1984
See Seven Cities, a 1971 painting by Roger Brown features seven small cityscapes on rolling green hills, with two silhouetted cannons in a town square in the foreground.

Roger Brown
See Seven Cities, 1971
Click, a 1971 painting by Karl Wirsum, is a comic-style portrait of a woman in shocking bright yellow clicking her black heeled shoes together.

Karl Wirsum
Click, 1971
Troubled Sleep, a 1974 painting by Art Green, features a window frame with drawn curtains, revealing four shattered layers of elemental motifs such as fire and blue mountains.

Art Green
Troubled Sleep, 1974
Cobmaster, by Ed Paschke, a 1975 painting that shows a performer with a bright blue face and large teeth.

Ed Paschke
Cobmaster, 1975
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