Mikael Owunna

Mikael Owunna

Mikael Owunna Responding to pervasive media images of violence against Black people, Mikael Owunna BME ’12 sought to recast the Black body as eternal in his photo series “Infinite Essence.” Each of the titles in the series is grounded in a specific African myth. To...
Victor Salmones

Victor Salmones

Victor Salmones In the 1980s, Victor Salmones (1937-1984) was among the most famous sculptors working in Mexico, and Nello L. Teer III and his wife Janet were introduced to his work at exhibitions in Acapulco and Mexico City, where they traveled frequently from their...
Brendan Monroe

Brendan Monroe

Brendan Monroe “Forming Clouds” alludes to the history of modern information exchange, from early punched tape telegraphy to the 1s and 0s of computer code—and nods to the engineers who work to advance and secure cloud computing. The endless transitions between...
George Hart

George Hart

George Hart Upon winning the Nemmers Prize for her work in theoretical signal processing, Ingrid Daubechies, the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, knew exactly what to do with the prize money: she commissioned artwork from...
Anthony Poon

Anthony Poon

Anthony Poon Optical artist Anthony Poon was at the vanguard of Singapore’s modernist art movement. He experimented with unusually shaped canvases and highly systematic approaches to color in his quest to portray non-traditional subjects like frequency waves....
James Hendricks

James Hendricks

James Hendricks Time Magazine featured one of Hendricks’s photorealistic paintings of the moon for its Aug. 9, 1971 cover. Though Hendricks would soon abandon that early style in favor of abstract expressionism, it’s clear from the title of this painting...