During the course of his career, artist Nicholas Hlobo has developed a distinctive body of work stitching and weaving together disparate materials such as ribbon, rubber, gauze and leather to create seductively tactile sculptures and drawings. His works are richly layered, anchored in references to Xhosa culture and the experience of life in post-apartheid South Africa, while reflecting upon themes of language and communication, as well as gender and sexuality.

"Event Horizon" is one of two works Cvijanovic created in response to the structure in the exhibition "Low Country Babylon" that he and his students produced at SCAD for an intensive painting course themed "Painting a Memory Palace." The project was designed to evoke the ideas of individuals speaking their own language to create a collective story — a story of Savannah, Georgia — inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Tower of Babel" (1563).

The ever-complicated and intriguing relationships between fine art and design play an important role in Kendell Carter's practice. "Drip Painting #7" reveals media as an important crux in the artist's balance of these two creative practices.

Faith Ringgold is renowned for her colorful figurative works that address issues of gender and racial equality. While employing and ultimately elevating media associated with the domestic realm such as dolls and quilts, Ringgold has also exhibited large-scale paintings and written and illustrated numerous award-winning children's books. Her first and perhaps best-known book,"Tar Beach," tells the magical tale of a small girl in Harlem who discovers that through her imagination she is free to fly anywhere in the world.

During the 1940s surrealist painter Salvador Dalí moved to the United States, where he lived for eight years. During this period he began to explore religious and scientific themes that would continually reappear in his work for the rest of his extensive career. "Our Historical Heritage" is a series from the early 1970s consisting of 11 etchings that focus on events and historic figures portrayed in the Old Testament. In "Elijah and the Chariot," Dalí has interpreted the biblical scene in which the prophet Elijah ascends into heaven on a chariot of fire.

In the depiction of "Adam and Eve" from this series, Dalí presents Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden at the moment they are tempted to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge. In Dalí's depiction of the historic biblical event, both figures reach simultaneously for the bright red apple, which hangs from a spindly tree branch while the sly serpent wrapped around the trunk looks on.

The "Song of Songs of Solomon" is a series from the early 1970s consisting of 12 etchings that demonstrate Dalí's interest in religious themes and stories of the Old Testament. In this etching, Dalí focuses on the verse "The voice of my beloved! behold! he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills" (Song of Solomon 2:8, "King James Version." Creating a figurative interpretation of this text, Dalí uses circular and radiating lines to convey a sense of energy and holiness as the central Christ figure appears above a white mountain.

Photographer and video artist Abrie Fourie captures often overlooked and spare environments throughout the world that speak in subtle ways to universal sociopolitical and spiritual themes. In "Detail, Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, South Africa," rather than depict the grandeur of the Voortrekker monument, Fourie captures signage or sculptures noting the Afrikaner history it is meant to honor. However, Fourie's primary focus is on an otherwise insignificant interior corner in which the reflective surface of a floor meets the junction of two marbled walls.

Danny Simmons' abstract paintings and works on paper combine color, rhythm and line in an intricate and vibrant style. A departure from earlier work in the early 2000s in which Simmons depicted dense abstract environments, "Jump Start" reveals an investigation into the use of negative space as a more expansive field for carefully positioned abstract forms. Clusters of interlocking loosely geometric shapes fill the center of the composition over washes of yellows, grays and pinks.

Danny Simmons' abstract expressionist paintings and works on paper combine color, rhythm and line in an intricately vibrant style. "Mama, There's Three Duppy on da porch" reveals an investigation into the use of negative space as a more expansive field for visual exclamations of color. In this painting, three strands of interlocking, colorful and saturated geometric forms float in a buttery yellow ground.