Lyle Ashton Harris’s photographs challenge generally accepted assumptions about gender and race, forcing viewers to confront the faulty nature of those rigid preconceptions. His work also explores the anthropology of images in recalling the past uses of collage as a form of social commentary.

Blow-Up II (Armory) is an example of Ashton Harris’s most recent work, which utilizes collage to connect the disparate elements of a person’s concept of self – a construct that Ashton Harris believes has been fragmented by our globalized, contemporary world.