Gary Simmons, "Fight Night"

This African-American artist is best known for chalkboard paintings featuring semi-erased images that include racist caricatures among other things more tangentially related to identity. He's had an ongoing interest in boxing, a sport dominated by black athletes, and for this show, he's created a massive mural installation, featuring plywood-backed paintings of promotional fight posters from history. The entire piece has been subjected to his erasure/blurring technique, putting Gerhard Richter, as it were, into the ring with Ali and other legends of the sweet science.