This exhibition includes recent photography by Helen Maurene Cooper and installation‐based work by Maria Gaspar. Each artist takes a critical and self‐reflexive investigative approach, using urban cultural detritus as material to explore identity, gender and history. Cooper explores the many worlds of nail art in both Chicago and Philadelphia. Her photographs depict friends, colleagues and students wearing acrylic nails, while posing and performing a related identity in front of airbrushed backdrops. Gaspar’s installations, on the other hand, are comprised of debris often associated with parades, festivals and celebrations that are essential to the lives of Latin American immigrants in the U.S. ...