Pictures from NASA "are so amazing but are only shared on science-y, techno-fetishy blogs. I wanted to put the romanticism back in the images."

The artist adopted his surname from the Indigenous Pankararu people to acknowledge "an ancestral legacy that must be well cared for."

"I love architectural creatures, forms that exist as spaces rather than just objects," the artist said.

"Whenever people are scared, interesting things happen in culture," Allen says.

A second-generation British citizen with family in Jamaica, the artist often draws from her correspondence with the Caribbean, and critiques the sociopolitical ceilings inherited with diasporic…

Coumba Samba's painted canvases and found objects speak to her interest in colonial powers.

Atairu echoes calls for the repatriation of Benin bronzes. But rather than simply reiterating critique, she offers a gesture of repair.

In his paintings, tits and ass become spherical studies; fishnets echo masonry.

"A big part of my work is time as a character," said Magallanes Martinez, who splits her time between LA and Syracuse, New York.

The Dallas-based artist has a show at the Clark Art Institute through January.