Carol Bove, 36, Multimedia Artist
After an intellectual flirtation with postwar subjects (Playboy models, mostly) in her barely there ink-wash drawings, the Switzerland-born Bove has now set out to create her own historical register of a bygone era. She stocks vintage bookshelves with the artifacts—mostly lowbrow—that helped define her subjects’ lives.

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