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Its dual visage questions our respect for civilizations threatened and plundered by both brute and subtle forces, including stereotyping and propaganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1599244571195-Y73XV5ND88JE5L4ID2XH/WORN+%28turban%29.jpg WORK - WORN 2013 Cultured marble, sanded paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1599245258752-7TRUW5X52SF6JYMW1762/Red+Beard_pp.jpg WORK - RED BEARD 2014 Ink on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1599245498671-2K8COEOOCMV30EOATZW2/Red+Beard+close+up_pp.jpg WORK - RED BEARD 2014 Ink on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1599246086291-YILNVWZRMYJ92IPXL06X/scribbles+book+death+.jpg WORK - SCRIBBLES 2010 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper. Scribbles is a series of digital collages that deals with missing information, an elision in both subject matter (bones absent flesh) and execution, as the bones form the basis of an absent Islamic pattern. The implied spatial relationships are contradicted in part by the varying scale of the bones that are woven. Like yanking a cloth from a laden table and leaving the plate settings intact, removing the underlying template leaves the bones aligned to a design that is no longer seen directly. The remaining tracery of this impossible skeletal structure alludes to a vanished whole. The viewer glimpses an unattainable perfection that only exists in memory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526663030691-H1J393MCL6QTK1G2ZD26/Choroegraphy_lighter+web.jpg WORK - CHOREOGRAPHY 2009 Marble and cultured marble, 72x132 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461003779692-MNYF8HRHA6OH50V5EYDG/Choroegraphy.jpg WORK - CHOREOGRAPHY 2009, Marble and cultured marble, 72x120 inches Installed at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002369214-IMS90Z9WV725A5E962PQ/Choreography_side1.jpg WORK - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002462164-ISQPZPO9NV1WRH60H19X/Choreography+detail+web.jpg WORK - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002542545-JFQRWIG6I957L1RAOYS4/Choreography_single_banana-web.jpg WORK - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461267472351-OI80FUDF5PW5NZPEZI5N/choreorgaphy+2_montgomery_web+brighter.jpg WORK - CHOREOGRAPHY 2009 Marble and cultured marble, 72x132 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002987831-5ITBV51Q8SB0HF3RKTIO/Choreography_single1.jpg WORK - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461267785482-UGWSYFP6W1Y89BYYGGGJ/choroegraphy+detail_mont_web_light.jpg WORK - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268776168-ICNCRKP9XATA977DU0B8/Return+to+Sender+Install+3+web.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER, 2015 Cast cultured granite, cement and metal boxes, variable dimensions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268922919-32Z6S8U969EPWPV7QCP4/Altitude+I+%28full%29%2C+2015%2C+metal%2C+cultured+black+granite%2C+concrete%2C+10.5x12.5x10in+closed%2C+19.25in+open.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER I, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 10.5x12.5x10 inches closed/19.25 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268928232-FFGINYMEDN5FAXP78PH4/Return+to+Sender+I.jpg WORK - Detail: RETURN TO SENDER I, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268925372-NIDF9BEJPZ8GJLXYN2XH/Return+to+Sender+II+copy.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER II, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 10.25 x 12.5 x 9.5 inches closed/ 19 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268919163-JK4QLNPAMBXBXZN9WWVC/Altitude+III_duo+3.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER III: Altitude, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box, 14.75x17x17 inches each compartment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268921156-C6ZP7BTMODNIH9EO0W9C/Altitude+III_duo.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER III: Altitude, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box, 14.75x17x17 inches each compartment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268927008-TZEITCYRJU74O8AJXDC4/Return+to+Sender+IV_cool.jpg WORK - ETURN TO SENDER IV, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 10.5 x 12.5 x 10 inches closed / 19.25 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268922714-0PCVPEDQ88YV9P2W54JW/Return+to+Sender++V_verso%2C12x8.5x12in.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER V, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 12 x 8.5 x 12 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268928270-MYZGR3AY7XE2BLTE57SO/Return+to+Sender+V%2C12x8.5x12in.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER V, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 12 x 8.5 x 12inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268929625-EPG4CC0L9YNKT7N5K71J/Return+to+Sender+VI%2C11x12x9.5+in+closed%2C+22+open.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER VI, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 11 x 12 x 9.5 inches closed, 22 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268929424-7GMUFRQ2FO226895522O/Return+to+Sender+VI-Lateral%2C11x12x9.5+in+closed%2C+22+open.jpg WORK - RETURN TO SENDER VI, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 11 x 12 x 9.5 inches closed / 22 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461202832944-VZ1LXSAC9U2TQ9UN4YDB/Verge+big+set+2015.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461202832875-U62LY99KQF0IFIRZICB0/Verge_aerial+group+2015.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461202819916-U3RH0JLYQA4NCGRXKHQZ/Kaiser+pan.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461202820662-FKQWKC4DVY1R2M96A544/Kaiser+helm+2.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461202823590-O2RW9WGGUKEHVGQI1YDS/Verge_single+web.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465228823735-XYR6XEG21OEF7BHRREK3/VERGE_horiz_web.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205256406-55VY3YST4BB0GLUL4L8B/Avert+flat.jpg WORK - Avert, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205259033-L0LO2MWZE6JX8LVGD2EX/Early+mourning+flat.jpg WORK - Early Mourning, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205258947-6WVFCOA78YTEBVQ9SELY/Envelop+flat.jpg WORK - Envelop, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205259807-PTSL0PO7AZUMJ3R4GOPB/Extract.jpg WORK - Extract, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205260945-S2I1231FO5F4O6GTKHOK/G%27s+Virgin+Stiffed.jpg WORK - G's Virgin Stiffed, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205262860-BE65W2YRL11R0H2PWOHT/Half+of+mourning+flat.jpg WORK - Half of Mourning, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205263959-IHTT6QCVLW3XDX836MKA/Paled.jpg WORK - Paled, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205263764-185JPF1BBGF1QL9BZB2S/Part+whole.jpg WORK - Part Whole, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205267400-UIW4XXPDWBMJXG0LT52D/Rub.jpg WORK - Rub, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205269112-Z1WA47AXB43B86GQ8XJV/Stave.jpg WORK - Stave, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205274176-AZVKOZR5ZEBTSJTBSZCA/Stiffed.jpg WORK - Stiffed, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666652770-ASN645PHSEHAXWJS1G8I/Praying+Hands_Son%2C+2014%2Cblack+granite%2C+7+x+7+x+15+inches.jpg WORK - PRAYING HANDS (SON) 2014 Black granite, 7 x 7 x 15 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666240086-I1JUA74Y636OM43RRVXL/Clasped+Hands.jpg WORK - CLASPED HANDS, 2013? Graphite, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666363265-D7UYG7GJPMQZQ3WPKW10/Praying+Hands_Mother.jpg WORK - PRAYING HANDS (MOTHER) 2013 Ink on paper, 24 x 18 inches, 30” x 23” framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206182448-VGVHZPSFV8O2YVIZ7YL2/Johnson_Handmaidens.jpg WORK - Handmaidens, 2015, painted chalkware and hand grenades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1639334277032-FB8DMPE5ZWCSNCGTPGU5/Johnson_Profile%2C+2014%2C+plaster%2C+19x10x8+%28right+side%29.jpg WORK - PROFILE 2014 Plaster, 19 x 10 x 8 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206361409-4X4J7DWJFVGO9O5ELZHP/Johnson_Eagle+Eyes_5MB.jpg WORK - RAPT, 2014 alabaster with acrylic eagle eyes and wax, 22x14x13 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206653486-5QBYR555DDVA6ZF3A4C2/alabaster+eagle+woman+detail+1920.jpg WORK - Detail of RAPT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526665201753-RDVI0ZE85W1HH2LDXNQS/Spurious%2C2-18%2C+gouache%2C+wax%2C+ink%2C+graphite%2C+and+digital+print+on+paper%2C+43.5+x+65.75+in.jpg WORK - SPURIOUS 2018 Gouache, wax, ink, graphite, and digital print on paper, 43.5 x 65.75 inches. Published in Hyperallergic, March 3, 2018 SPURIOUS Just as Achilles, swift of foot though absent spear: “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.” —US President Donald John Trump Just as Hermes, winged sandaled interpreter translates: “I think he was just stating that as a leader, he would have stepped in and hopefully been able to help.” —White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Discrepancies are aesthetic: “You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed color. Became very red […] it’s just not my thing.” —US President Donald John Trump It’s a bone spur kind of thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206281690-6VL3ZCV3RCLJEF7M0IZ6/Achilles%27+dove+%28foot+prosthetic%292014+10+x+13+x+6.jpg WORK - Achilles’ Dove, 2014, painted chalkware and articulated prosthetic, 10x13x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206364238-W333FL73U75NXYLZUP73/Sam+I+Am+1200.jpg WORK - Sam I Am, 2014, hydrocal, 19x10x12 inches The devolution of democracy, alluding to Ted Cruz’ 2013 marathon faux filibuster reading of Green Eggs and Ham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206362162-NW395D8IRVKIJG5GBZ9U/Sam+I+Am+raw+left+1200.jpg WORK - Sam I Am, 2014, hydrocal, 19x10x12 inches The devolution of democracy, alluding to Ted Cruz’ 2013 marathon faux filibuster reading of Green Eggs and Ham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265006332-R0P703R1SA32DKFSNLNC/Myth+of+Might+Double+pp.jpg WORK - Myth of Might, 2013, cast marble, gilded plastic, 16x8x7 Gilded eaglets emerge from the fists of superhero Hulk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265006231-QWDXACQ02COYJX003SKB/Myth+of+Might+Single_pp.jpg WORK - Myth of Might, 2013, cast marble, gilded plastic, 16x8x7 Gilded eaglet emerges from the fist of superhero Hulk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206361389-4G9NK74DEOVNVBVQJ64W/iron+eagle+front+1200.jpg WORK - Biting the Wing, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206714333-TBCAWN5RN9SVA9ZUCMTI/Biting+the+Wing_iron+eagle+bits+own+wing+1200.jpg WORK - Biting the Wing, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461264691429-KAF7IGR2RVTLEI2AFK0E/Golden+Calf+front.jpg WORK - Golden Calf, 2014, gilded prosthetic leg and plaster, 22x15x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461264691429-VG5JJXIATCWWAXS0O2C9/Golden+Calf+side.jpg WORK - Golden Calf, 2014, gilded prosthetic leg and plaster, 22x15x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461264889796-V00XMQUEYM0GBTD5QZTJ/Golden+Calf+verso.jpg WORK - Golden Calf, 2014, gilded prosthetic leg and plaster, 22x15x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265006963-4W1P3P4LLG6TGP8LMWVI/PULL_pp.jpg WORK - Pull, 2013 Inkjet print of sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1639334269809-XQV9T15M1LYJTW62O486/left+underware+bookend+lion+raw.jpg WORK - LEFT LION BOOKEND 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1639334506697-98PQE6U8ZJQRRI83Q8WN/right+underware+lion+raw.jpg WORK - RIGHT LION BOOKEND 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265006974-T6GY1A2NGCEL2SI7CCQN/WORN+%28turban%29.jpg WORK - WORN, 2013, painted cultured marble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466386143703-5OSSTD42XRHA477U9F0S/Wall-eyed%2C+2016%2C+18x8.5x8.5_web.jpg WORK - PERIPHERAL, 2015 Altered plaster bust, prosthetic human eyes, 18h x 8.5w x 8.5d inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1492628925475-OJ50V01OZCJLZRJKG19Y/cross+eyed+athlete+detail+1920.jpg WORK - Detail of PERIPHERAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465236894089-SIFTQXNI28Q78C0T9B6O/crossed+eyed+athlete+w+ped+det+tight.jpg WORK - Detail of PERIPHERAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1759262207708-ISL3XPEEOS7EV9SK58F8/Deposition+3+eggshell+skull.png WORK - DEPOSITION 2014 Replica of human skull with Victory wax and egg shell, 8h x 6w x 8d inches As of September 30, 2025, the phrase "no more stepping on eggshells" is a policy implemented in the U.S. military by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1759262410918-3UZNXXGO3881PFIU0PA7/Deposition+LOWER%2C+2014%2C+replica+of+human+skull%2C+eggshells%2Cegg+shell+skull%2C+8x5.5x8in.jpg WORK - DEPOSITION 2014, replica of human skull with Victory wax and egg shell, 8h x 6w x 8d inches Deposition: • a testifying especially before a court • out-of-court testimony made under oath and recorded by an authorized officer for later use in court • an act or process of laying someone or something down or letting something fall • an act of removing from a position of authority As of September 30, 2025, the phrase "no more stepping on eggshells" is a policy implemented in the U.S. military by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1586025866075-A84RWO6NDEXB7M4JY0GP/Parthenon+Claw%2C+2016%2C+plaster+model%2C+cast+resin+hawk+claw%2C+4.75x4.25x3.jpg WORK - SEIZE 2016, plaster model, cast resin raptor claw, 4.75 x 4.25 x 3 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1484775793734-OXR2J7GCY2Z27WZL0QJU/FULCRUM_square.jpg WORK - FULCRUM 2013 Cast marble, glass and human hair, 24 x 16 x 6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268312455-FDWNZV6TQRJNFC4E87MQ/Fulcrum+closest+bright.jpg WORK - Fulcrum, 2013, cast marble, glass and human hair, 24x16x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265838875-WKKQD0OTK3H88UOGAKF7/ABANDON+sleep+of+justice_34x13.5x13.5+in.jpg WORK - Abandon: Sleep of Justice, 2013, cultured black marble and black iron, 34x13.5x13.5 inches An homage to Goya’s Los Caprichos, and their condemnation of human folly, specifically the work, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. The sleep of justice is more than a folly, as experienced by too many unarmed civilians at the hands of law enforcement and neighborhood vigilantes. (For Trayvon Martin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461266129695-912KJ6EWTU4LXD578BMT/anniversary+%28marble+travon%29.jpg WORK - UNREST (HYPNOS), 2014 Cultured marble and iron wing, 22 wide x 13 deep x 9 height https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265909742-9L6BO9DIHU05GK6Q470S/David+Slingshot+1920.jpg WORK - DAVID'S SLING (Magic Wand), 2014, plastic skull, bone and rubber bands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265839659-4MR0GJFO7F13LM5PH22C/Measure+for+Measure.jpg WORK - Measure for Measure, 2013, iron shovel blade, glass and plastic letter beads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265839604-C8TBUR08HRKTCX9TBSH2/HEED_pp.jpg WORK - Heed, 2013, iron shovel blade, cast marble, plastic and metal letter beads, 19x9x16 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1492629236261-39Q3WSW7YXL2UY9JBHJC/Charge_Redefining+Genocide.jpg WORK - CHARGE: REDEFINING GENOCIDE, 1999 altered bugle, black flag (with optional marble sarcophagus lid, 60" x 24" x 6") http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/charge.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017673073-TC287YKZZNT30OZB9IB3/Johnson_EternalFlame_beak_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017673973-FJTI2Y7QQUP94854IAET/Johnson_EternalFlames_osama_nostrils_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017674023-3VNIGB01QN16HN1LXR5O/Johnson_EternalFlames_eagle_deflated_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017674396-BB0H8H4U7YOT55CVAO7X/Johnson_EternalFlames_osama_tower_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES IV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017674552-KBRNY4V66GFEU02JOMTB/Johnson_EternalFlames_turban_twist_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES V https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017675711-BZ1NTHMR1YIMQN5R2OOS/Johnson_EternalFlamesXX_rocket_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES VI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017675302-S2FV5LKOX0L7QL9EUUZZ/Johnson_EternalFlamesV_eagle_slumped_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES VII https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017674976-LR03J3EG45M8I1IZU265/Johnson_EternalFlames-mashed_nose_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES VIII https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017675038-7B81E1ZXU9O3HFWX2ZNF/Johnson_EternalFlames-eagle_pp.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES IX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017836974-41E8RH3E3MQIUWI8QGLP/Johnson_EternalFlames_eagle+flickering.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES IX verso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017898645-VIMW8Y0X9DDUPFSTU6DL/Osama_grimace_cropped.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES X https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461018543234-KKG88J33S9CAJQNHDZMP/Johnson_EternalFlames_turban_twist.jpg WORK - ETERNAL FLAMES V https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461271629855-91TP3TL001W13VHCCJAP/Infant+Justice_glass+rattles_pp.jpg WORK - Inheritance, 2004, glass baby rattles filled with stones In Infant Justice, two somber cribs provide a dialectical foil for a delicate medium, using its material qualities to work with, and not against, its stereotypical associations. Here, glass remains fragile, beautiful, precious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461272010356-GQGU6O4GBW3WODK36WE8/Inheritance_shekels.jpg WORK - Inheritance , 2004, glass baby barbell rattles filled with stones surrounded by a group of twelve BCE stone shekel weights Infant Justice is immanent, as well as present, and lives, as do we, with the discrepancies between the seen (frozen, utopic) and the known (active, chaotic). We know the ideals of our judicial system to be illusory; transparent gavels cast condescending and often cryptic shadows over our heads. The promise and image of impartiality is, in practice, easily broken, splintered through selective prosecution at home and shattered through blatant inequities in our foreign policy. Pleas for justice are muted, not pacified. Rattles of resistance unshaken, are not resigned. The stones' cries contained, at great cost, for this moment. *** Installed at The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University for Objects in/and Visual Culture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461275833938-O5U65Y6Y680PP1DY0R6W/Crib-02.jpg WORK - INFANT JUSTICE, 2002 two cribs with mobile consisting of nine glass gavels Be quiet. Good night. Don't let the bedbugs bite, but when they do don't cry. Be quiet. For God's sake, Be quiet. for my sake, Be quiet. for truth for justice for the American way just Be quiet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461275833409-RF3W64LD405P085RIF3J/Crib-03.jpg WORK - Detail of INFANT JUSTICE, 2002 crib with mobile consisting of nine glass gavels Installed at Pittsburgh Glass Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694777143-32LKWJ43Z1G4HTKK7T2W/Early+2+in.jpg WORK - INCONCEIVABLE: Early, 2013, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694777139-4UAXWK5JR33EZY6E05GD/Inconceivable_Yva+2+in.jpg WORK - INCONCEIVABLE: Yva, 2013, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694799142-GJ4BLNU5J6DF2I6X805F/Ryder_web.jpg WORK - INCONCEIVABLE: Ryder, 2015, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694798708-4QVJBE2SUJA6FSULX13G/TAJ.jpg WORK - INCONCEIVABLE: Taj, 2015, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461695147289-EFG69RL56ZD30NW3SL4L/Lucien_web.jpg WORK - INCONCEIVABLE: Lucien, 2013, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700883216-NJE0V68LLI6MT2RNZ8KE/5+o%27clock+somewhere.jpg WORK - 5 O'clock Somewhere https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700881526-N31R1IJ9J3PTPJ72009X/Proverbs-+Bare+Standard_3MB.jpg WORK - Bare Standard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700882178-YJJTI4L7NDXSTW3IZW11/Proverbs-Promised+World_3MB.jpg WORK - Promised World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700883693-UK3UHSJ79BQY484V620O/salted+pearls.jpg WORK - Salted Pearls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700887357-LVK5CIOBPLG41QJOELWW/cotton+seed+in+the+sun.jpg WORK - Cotton Seed in the Sun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700891809-YH1J5UMTE1GMA812ONSS/stone+%26+an+apple.jpg WORK - Stone and an Apple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700893467-5ZIUVWRFD73FUTZJUNM2/assorted+flavors.jpg WORK - Assorted Flavors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700894806-PDG9B478WMGRWR7Z9N1T/stronger+argument.jpg WORK - Stronger Argument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700894934-7NHISRKV8X751TQ6N4O8/if+a+peg.jpg WORK - If a Peg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700896283-XPJHSPL1A3EXN5D4EC5I/dwell+in+cities.jpg WORK - Dwell in Cities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700896514-PZSDFZSU8H7A3GXPTEIG/bare+standard.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700897973-45P4V3GV57DSEXLWIJE2/party+with+tap+water.jpg WORK - Party with Tap Water https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700898355-1HPF45VLCNLE6MSKXQYF/a+friend%27s+stone.jpg WORK - A Friend's Stone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700899382-3NM69SY4750SWG5CKD9C/one+hand.jpg WORK - One Hand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700900401-BZ1MRWNG0VRPKY14L9V1/promised+world.jpg WORK - Promised World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700900717-RTN6Z8VAZ6QB1WIVPJ9A/wait+your+turn.jpg WORK - Wait Your Turn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700902890-8W5YR0TFNGZ324QWHNXG/Empty+walnut%27s+song.jpg WORK - Empty Walnut's Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700902963-2O4ZKJG05RI3DD7ZQTBO/worms+won%27t+eat.jpg WORK - Worms Won't Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700904634-8ZC283L3BCZXCOVCBGI7/other%27s+honey.jpg WORK - Other's Honey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700904920-BM4ILV658SAUK32VW1E4/two+mellons.jpg WORK - Two Melons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700906456-S1DPCD2L1TL8411D4286/tie+your+truck.jpg WORK - Tie Your Truck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700906553-O3CBBTZGVBGI98APPAE0/stop+passing.jpg WORK - Stop Passing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700908103-567X8KAC8OREDZ7R8AND/locked+door.jpg WORK - Locked Door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700908246-SANEGUJBPA99CMMBOZG9/how+to+dance.jpg WORK - How to Dance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702510390-BW5L80UOER8R5GLQZXER/02_Johnson_Share_print+set+of+6.jpg WORK - SHARE, 2010, Haitian mud, smidgeon of margarine, smidgeon of salt, elite granite, absent fork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702511622-SC4PCQTDS99737AVWRNQ/Johnson_SHARE_single+tray.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702512476-EWDN60P44CC1WDSLWVE6/Share_text+spread+flat.jpg WORK - Publication version of SHARE, 2010, Haitian mud, smidgeon of margarine, smidgeon of salt, elite granite, absent fork, page 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702514366-QO7KRE81RUFWMDL3FZX6/03_Johnson_SHARE_duo.jpg WORK - Publication version of SHARE, 2010, Haitian mud, smidgeon of margarine, smidgeon of salt, elite granite, absent fork, page 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666014798-EQ8J150DWC4LNX5CKPXU/Liberalization+and+Regulation%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+21.5x11.5_2MB.jpg WORK - Liberalization and Regulation 2015, ink on paper, 21.5 x 11.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462307781043-XF3LRTJ1H5Z8J27VJFRD/Left+spine%2C+2015%2C+ink+22+x+11.33.jpg WORK - Left Spine 2015, ink on paper, 22 x 11.33 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462307739470-X6KF36TL23BHAA0K0ORA/Black+gut%2C+2015%2C+ink+22+x+11.33.jpg WORK - Black Gut 2015, ink on paper, 22 x 11.33 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462310562888-QE6R0ONZ503R9TPAM2MJ/2.The+Imperial+Right%2C+2013%2C+ink%2C+18+x+24+in.jpg WORK - The Imperial Right 2013, ink on paper, 18 x 24 inches Collection of Claire Stigliani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462310397403-90QK4KZ81XMNCLL73W7I/The+Imperial+Right%2C+2013%2C+detail_pp+alt.jpg WORK - The Imperial Right 2013, Ink on paper, 18 x 24 inches Collection of Claire STigliani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462310655912-DRX5P7YI5VT5OKQTSH4A/1.Uprising%2C+2013%2C+ink%2C+18+x+24+in.jpg WORK - Uprising 2013, ink on paper, 18 x 24 inches Collection of Ayanah Moor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462310486613-BSR0YHALVU4PT2YPGEPJ/Uprising_5MB.jpg WORK - Uprising (detail) 2013, ink on paper, 18 x 24 inches Collection of Ayanah Moor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526665791116-X93WH7LJIWSBIS2EJNK6/Johnson_Fulfillment_2013%2Cink%2C11.5x21.5in_pp.jpg WORK - FULFILLMENT 2013 Ink, ,11.5 x 21.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526665941322-4LDUJ20M948IAS3J38JM/Lion+Eating+Wing.jpg WORK - LION EATING WING Ink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666085714-FMCHEWU2FR4WZOAAL38B/Tightrope.jpg WORK - Tightrope, 2013 Ink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308117529-O09NO1PA7YVUU3G0RH56/Swathe+1.jpg WORK - Swathe I 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308116752-O8F0Q6VXJ6EK39DKDKOC/Swathe+2.jpg WORK - Swathe II 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308113726-9DSCRQZWPC1CBA45BGA3/Swathe+3.jpg WORK - Swathe III 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308109280-491ZB9Z2L6PTXQO97MO2/Swathe+4.jpg WORK - Swathe IV 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308109679-JTX0J3HMGKRP54W240W6/Swathe+5.jpg WORK - Swathe V 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309174698-FIHKQQ70XG3251RBL9ME/Sarcophagus+2014+mixed+media_29x21in_pp.jpg WORK - SARCOPHAGUS 2014 mixed media on paper, 29 x 20 inches, 36.5” x 27” framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309176662-O5PYGE3YDX3ALQBRZG48/Sarcophagus_Head+detail+2_pp.jpg WORK - Detail of SARCOPHAGUS (head) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309174107-IQ7HY8FUYFVDYQD5ORTK/Baby+2014%2C+wax%2C+mixed+media%2C+23+x+16.5in_pp.jpg WORK - RELEASED 2014, wax, mixed media, 23 x 16.5inches, 30.5 x 23.5” framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309172746-Y7FG6AH3DW4MLPMERJ11/Baby+2014%2C+wax+head+detail_pp.jpg WORK - Detail of RELEASED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309171997-JIQ9SK86JBE5PKJ130Z0/Baby+2014+wax+feet+detail_pp.jpg WORK - Detail of RELEASED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309170022-ET0M19CKOFPZIMST4JWO/Baby+%28one+arm+raised%29+2014%2C+mixed+media+29x21in_pp.jpg WORK - RELEASED II 2014, mixed media 29 x21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309170071-G7F6WQQTW1XI6B54QR7B/Baby+%28one+arm+raised%29+head+detail_pp.jpg WORK - 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PIT 2010 Gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465170114255-K2QR2OLDIV2YV0HGL9BO/pit+32+1284.jpg WORK - PIT 2010 Gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465170114568-DNRYLVYOOEA5LJ0IGQT0/pit+33+1284.jpg WORK - PIT 2010 Gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465170114649-E8G9N1E5PCC0N55EB4SJ/pit+34+1284.jpg WORK - PIT 2010 Gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465170115209-AZF9NHR5792IUDL7SUFR/pit+35+1284.jpg WORK - PIT 2010 Gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465170115206-IYFVATH6VPD8ML2KDBZA/pit+36+1284.jpg WORK - PIT 2010 Gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173900989-PE1EDYFMD2J683CISY44/Massacre+of+the+Innocents+web.jpg WORK - MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS 2015 Massacre of the Innocents was created as an elegy to Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot by police in Cleveland in 2014. Though the caller who instigated the police dispatch reported that Tamir was probably a juvenile and that the gun he was pointing at a recreation center was probably fake, police fired on him within two seconds of their arrival on the scene. Neither of the two responding officers administered first aid and Tamir Rice died the next day. This incident represents, in effect, a summary execution, an extrajudicial act of authority. The toy objects and sounds rotating throughout the video are from different developmental stages of childhood, from teething rings and Tinker Toys to marbles, miniature police cars and remote controls. Toys designed to teach the alphabet breathe the letter H and spell out N.R.A. while others play mechanized ditties such as The Yellow Rose of Texas. Projected onto or behind these objects of innocence are target practice diagrams so that the objects spiral around their bulls’ eyes. These target sheets are seen from behind so that we can imagine being in the cross hairs and crossfire. Bullets are aimed at us, rather than at some other innocent. Authority is capricious, exerted with bias and—too often—fatal results. The related sculpture, Rehearsal, alludes to “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” representing the adamant refusal to face the facts on gun violence. Human ears, cast in marble, are plugged with live bullets that have not yet punctured the absence they flank, a silent emptiness that may represent incomprehension or denial, or those departed – whether by suicide or homicide. It consists of metal bookends, cast cultured marble, and live bullets, 5 x 5 x 4.625 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173135110-OSODGAUGQHT7BTHTMGE1/web+3.jpg WORK - Massacre of the Innocents Installation in UNLOADED at SPACE, Pittsburgh, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173134314-MOIH63TR6EZ64Z29K5KL/web+1.jpg WORK - Massacre of the Innocents Video installation in UNLOADED at SPACE, Pittsburgh, 2015 Passages on Massacre of the Innocents from the catalogue for UNLOADED, a traveling exhibition that premiered at SPACE in Pittsburgh in 2015: Johnson’s video Massacre of the Innocents further reflects the consequences of our ignorance, indifference, fear or inaction. Target practice sheets appear in succession, but from their reverse sides. We imagine the bullets coming at us, not fired away from us, as in typical first shooter positions so popular in films and gaming. Objects of innocence revolve around the bull’s eyes, caught in the crossfire. The work is a stark pronouncement: it is our own safety that is compromised and threatened by guns. ...Johnson’s video Massacre of the Innocents presents the backsides of firing range targets; the viewers are the implied marks. Toys for children who are no more circulate in slow motion, sometimes aligning with the bull’s eyes, suggesting who and what is endangered – cops and criminals, adults and children alike. According to the FBI and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, guns kill more preschool-age children (about 80 a year) than police officers (about 50), despite the existence of old and new technologies that could reduce those numbers. One can no longer buy the childproof Smith & Wesson handguns manufactured in the 1880s. New smart guns that can be fired only by authorized users (using fingerprint recognition) could prevent accidental or criminal use, but the NRA resists them, claiming they are unreliable and may become mandatory. Gun rights lobbies consistently oppose gun safety proposals, such as California Senate Bill 199. Seeking to visibly distinguish pellet, toy and airguns from real guns, a diluted version of the bill passed, requiring only two short colored adhesive stripes. Federal law requires only that replica guns have an orange mark on the tips of their barrels; children remove or paint over them easily. Colorful or not, most states have no age limits for purchase of airguns that share the risks inherent to carrying real guns. A 2009 University of Pennsylvania epidemiological study found that those with firearms were about 4.5 times more likely to be shot than those who did not carry. Successful defensive gun use is rare, despite the persistent and prevalent notion that guns protect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173134337-5W1EWDZ1SNYEPG0BWPJ3/web+2.jpg WORK - Massacre of the Innocents Video installation in UNLOADED at SPACE, Pittsburgh, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173968592-1QYZ4GA10HAE70EW5PZE/Rehearal_cropped.jpg WORK - Rehearsal (detail), 2014 Rehearsal, alludes to “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” representing the adamant refusal to face the facts on gun violence. Human ears, cast in marble, are plugged with live bullets that have not yet punctured the absence they flank, a silent emptiness that may represent incomprehension or denial, or those departed – whether by suicide or homicide. It consists of metal bookends, cast cultured marble, and live bullets, 5 x 5 x 4.625 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465174125572-R9TOE0K664MGDTOC7RI7/Rehearsal_2.jpg WORK - Rehearsal, 2014 Metal bookends, cast cultured marble, bullets, 5 x 5 x 4.625 in   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465174126903-AVP3AKQ40V8WVFLWO6IT/Rehearsal_Handwerker.jpg WORK - Rehearsal, 2014 Metal bookends, cast cultured marble, bullets, 5 x 5 x 4.625 in https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465229429263-X0HG0WS1F3C2DYD1SNEE/Quench+1.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465229429198-0DVADLQBJUITVZQ4UTM8/QUENCH+2.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465229430091-LUVH9A2VIOFWQVQEWGD4/QUENCH+3.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465229524978-3TRJ3IPG0VE2BEAHU8H2/QUENCH+I+%280.12.38.21%29.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465229525504-ZSNXQTBO79AYUYS6ULQJ/QUENCH.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465232965111-PP83LKWIJ3KFNWEX2IMM/Johnson_STREWN_still+double+chomp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465232966015-P4IR5XZXYKUDXZ5FG8Y5/Strewn+still+front+Carter.png WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465232966458-QRCZOZNIH914S2Z4EQ0M/Strewn+still+teats+flies_pp.png WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465232967713-3VTXXSCXQ772999P9Q8T/Strewn+still+tilt.png WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465233025224-EKA9TIJRRYP92N97XBN2/Strewn+still+dirty+book+snout.png WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465233025309-LYO1C6H8XAEQCAJFNO5C/Strewn+still+fast+entrance.png WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465233028502-4ZVDKNO2B9MO9HJVAKNV/Strewn+still+final+step.png WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465233028937-CU855830A5V68OIZ2YQJ/Strewn+still+linguistic.png WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465233030271-JIG3RE049SLX3AY9HL4A/Strewn+still+snout+hoof.png WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465233092190-ZJ0B4NKILIX99WRJQ5E7/STREWN_production+still+field.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465238498307-BKN4AS3YZIGYGWR6PPER/SUSPENSION+still+%280%3B04%3B20%3B21%29.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465238473453-HTMGDMDRASGGN8TSNS5W/8.35.29+PM_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465238473500-HCECRC44HXCYJVW26DJ1/left+foot_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465238474570-TYOLWCW05RJN6CG9A592/SUSPENSION_+pale+foot_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465238474566-ZUEM5NFXDUZB55FCE26H/Suspension_22.20_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465238477500-T7F4UZDOWCCJFRQD7HDQ/Suspension_Still_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465238498089-E2IXT59E3IEDA8FE5RB6/SUSPENSION+still+%280%3B00%3B45%3B10%29.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466386602857-JLBU30DGTHRZ1FMRR3QK/anniversary+%28marble+travon%29.jpg WORK - UNREST (Hypnos) 2014 Cultured marble and iron wing, 22 w x 13 d x 9 h inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466386651637-ZI4G1A15DY2BQXMQ8FM8/ABANDON+sleep+of+justice_34x13.5x13.5+in.jpg WORK - Abandon: Sleep of Justice, 2013 (For Trayvon Martin), 2013, cultured black marble and black iron, 34 x 13.5 x 13.5 inches An homage to Goya’s Los Caprichos, and their condemnation of human folly, specifically the work, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. The sleep of justice is more than a folly, as experienced by too many unarmed civilians at the hands of law enforcement and neighborhood vigilantes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466387093893-GQVPSP91GR93TQT7MQUJ/Hermes+with+broken+Wing%2C+2014%2C+cultured+black+marble%2C+11.5+x+9.5+x+7.5+inches_web.jpg WORK - Hermes with Broken Wing, 2014 cultured black marble, 11.5 x 9.5 x 7.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466393139312-X18UN2LL0EPFXFA7LUHS/The+Pen+I_2013_17x25in_5MB.jpg WORK - The Pen I, 2013 ink on Arches, 17x25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466393138926-JHLT3LUB04I3BA6MA70M/The+Pen+I_detail_web.jpg WORK - The Pen I (detail) 2014 ink on Arches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466393176498-D145AFEN4F5K4IZJJZWU/The+Pen+II_2013_23.25x28_pp.jpg WORK - The Pen II, 2013 ink on paper, 23.25 x 28 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466393229244-UYHLV08T69UZL8D2JD1N/The+Pen+II_detail_web.jpg WORK - THE PEN II, 2013 Ink on paper, 23.25 x 28 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466393271073-KR22Z7TUJ4BOPBDOGZLE/The+Pen+III_detail_web.jpg WORK - The Pen III, 2013 (detail) ink on paper, 21.75 x 28.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466393271353-ZA7CBYRSETX48ZB0USI3/The+Pen+III_2013_21.75x28.5_web.jpg WORK - The Pen III, 2013 ink on paper, 21.75 x 28.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466393307427-CPKEUY1XCGG81747Q927/The+Pen+IV_pp.jpg WORK - The Pen IV, 2013 ink/Arches, 21 x 29.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466391785257-DGWFF3BG1E7OIS6JBJTO/The+Pen+%28Two+Pigs%29%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+29+x+21+inches_7MB.jpg WORK - The Pen V, 2016 ink on paper, 29 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466391830850-T6V29F30G6Q3664AMYPX/Pigs+on+Library+Stairs%2C+2016_detail.jpg WORK - The Pen V (detail), 2016 ink on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466391785013-OO8WO0E2KZ1M5USGMD3A/Pigs+on+Library+Stairs%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+29+x+21.5+inches_web+.jpg WORK - The Pen VI, 2016 ink on paper, 29 x 21.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486244558512-W7IBUIOF62C0ILCYMIPD/The+Pen+VII%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+BFK+Rives%2C+21.5+x+29+inches.jpg WORK - The Pen VII 2015, ink on BFK Rives, 21.5 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483312345760-EF171GX3R1MJQUORHQ9J/Until+Human+%2714+COLLECTION+flat+15+5116_10MB.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 Earth, glue, insufficient rain, ink, blood, dust, spit and muck on paper, 42” x 31” each ‘Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever… (Herman Melville) ...but what place hath reflection ‘in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is’ (Psalms 63:1) Until Human Voices Wake Us is a drawing cycle of individual life vests drawn in blood and ink on fields of cracked earth. Deserts and other arid lands are often conducive to the visionary. Visions of promises, of unobtainable assistance or elusive rescue, are all overwhelmed by the insistence and physicality of dried mud. mirage, salvage, dust projections of assistance, liberation, fulfillment buoy the disconsolate, oppressed, parched flailing in the sun proclamations of remedy, re-stabilization, 40 acres and a mule entice the weary and unwary alike, clutching to believe ­­ provisions of austerity measures, the short term before the long haul, financial undertow reward the buried with all they can eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310935131-UNPJ3RXECK3N7YMBD4TO/Until+Human+%2714+17_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 ‘Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever… (Herman Melville) ...but what place hath reflection ‘in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is’ (Psalms 63:1) Until Human Voices Wake Us is a drawing cycle of individual life vests drawn in blood and ink on fields of cracked earth. Deserts and other arid lands are often conducive to the visionary. Visions of promises, of unobtainable assistance or elusive rescue, are all overwhelmed by the insistence and physicality of dried mud. mirage, salvage, dust projections of assistance, liberation, fulfillment buoy the disconsolate, oppressed, parched flailing in the sun proclamations of remedy, re-stabilization, 40 acres and a mule entice the weary and unwary alike, clutching to believe ­­ provisions of austerity measures, the short term before the long haul, financial undertow reward the buried with all they can eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310911093-GWDZP7FVJ0ZSLMG7SLI9/Until+Human+%2714+1_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310910881-P9SZMGCWK3JN4LLNTK2U/Until+Human+%2714+2_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310913600-DQ1F33OIHQO9DNK9VN34/Until+Human+%2714+3_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310914151-TSNF5FUSJEV1JBQS29K8/Until+Human+%2714+4_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310915931-K6VFHJI9U06KXAUIWAE8/Until+Human+%2714+5_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310918733-Y2PCE106QRJJKTD0QU91/Until+Human+%2714+6_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310919460-Y4G4PV1IMELP4J77Z5CA/Until+Human+%2714+7_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310922602-XAZM81FKBWMUWRT7EL6K/Until+Human+%2714+8_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310922993-P9YEUF5AQ18DLPIW2ERC/Until+Human+%2714+9_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310925821-LI9YF2PL3ETIBWYKJ68Y/Until+Human+%2714+10_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310926103-SBTIDBNA35C90PNIPKT0/Until+Human+%2714+11_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310928994-5NOVAKT4V28EBYUE4AN2/Until+Human+%2714+12_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310929091-A52KK54T0TQSHV3UX9PV/Until+Human+%2714+13_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310932451-10MLI9ZKE27BN8YJVZUP/Until+Human+%2714+14_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310932363-FZ5YZYXVTAGVNMHTEL94/Until+Human+%2714+15_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310934944-J7OVWJ15AZDDGP4YOO3M/Until+Human+%2714+16_pp.jpg WORK - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483313235342-WOEPB91N9DAJJME1O84Q/RESORT+1+%280.00.01.19%29.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483313238124-FGPN07CYKI4B5MLQO3L4/RESORT+2+%280.04.49.10%29.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483313244865-TT93OAQ9SVPH4IKQE3BG/RESORT+3+%280.03.12.16%29.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483313245370-ZMAMK761NUHLAVB4ATBX/RESORT+4+%280.04.16.07%29.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314532975-9VG7PMGTBM8ZXFK7WNQ4/cow+eye+touch.jpg WORK - HIND 2016, HD VIDEO, 13.50 Excerpt: https://vimeo.com/195357054 Full video: https://vimeo.com/183420465 (Contact artist for password) HIND is a single channel video set in a cow barn at night. An unseen herd is stationary until dawn. Bovine eyes, chewing cud, earth, shit and hay punctuated by visits to the trough ground this tale that is based on traditional Korean Gumiho ghost stories whose nine-tail fox spirits take on the form of young girls. The Gumiho is a malevolent spirit, an eater of living livers to secure its seducing human shape. Formally the work is a temporal contemplation shot imperceptibly in reverse -- Kronos chasing his beastly children from behind. Atemporal prehistoric flies alight on fur and flesh alike, beat wings that make all shudder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314534697-8WO4OGTUF5UIDA3RE3HM/fly+eye.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314536743-TYAWWDWBFACWQVTUNN3H/gas+pump+liver+text.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314532968-POOVRHSLTVDRY7DIXRMR/cows+turn.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314539707-8OJZTI08LQM21LE4044X/gumiho+hand+mouth.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314537347-LOZFFW8O6D5JISB44ENP/girl+saited.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314539969-VDK5SIHJK3TES0SCDI6L/herd+no+more.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314542789-EQRZBT16JCDHFY5H7JZT/master%27s+mouth.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314543418-50AQSTHJWQIDNWXJO0UQ/testament+cowboy+eyes.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314535394-TO790JGFJX0Q4ZA964UL/fresh+oil+made+do.jpg WORK - STILL FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483314540549-5B3FW7LICOKXTRYFCCIU/HIND+title.jpg WORK - TITLE FRAME FROM HIND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577603029-OVC9CTE0RLYISSDCCDXA/p.34+%28Ha%E2%80%99%29+Insulation_pp.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p.34 (Ha’) Insulation 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 22.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577598352-XVD4WADAV2ZJHYYS979U/p.28+%28Djim%29+Metal+_pp.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p.28 (Djim) Metal 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 22.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577600559-8H9E0R36NS7TCX9DD08B/p.+32+%28Ba%E2%80%99%29+Carpet.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p. 32 (Ba’) Carpet 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577582244-RH2K5IK6LIYB79K2BDAJ/p.+30+%28Lam%2C+Miim%2C+Noun%2C+Ha%E2%80%99%2C+La%E2%80%99%29+Plywood_pp.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p. 30 (Lam, Miim, Noun, Ha’, La’) Plywood 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577584599-97WA1DY5R09BC1UJ6ZO8/p.+32+%28Ba%E2%80%99%29+Aluminum_pp.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p. 32 (Ba’) Aluminum 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 9.125 x 12.125 inches; 19.5 x 17 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577590331-QRTB7GFKZI99RPYV7YHP/p.25+%28Ayn%29+Pipe_pp.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p.25 (Ayn) Pipe 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 9.125 x 12.125 inches; 19.5 x 17 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577604267-ZFNACRFKV4FMU8CHE9SO/p.41+%28Sin%2C+Ha%E2%80%99%2C+Fa%E2%80%99%29+Wallpaper.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p.41 (Sin, Ha’, Fa’) Wallpaper 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 9.125 x 12.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577582053-D50E73G0EA6UIYFL8O2L/p.+27+%28Ha%E2%80%99%2C+Wa%29+Bucket_pp.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p. 27 (Ha’, Wa) Bucket 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577602000-CEJOYFWHEFDJF5SVWRHK/p.30+%28Lam%2C+Miim%2C+Noun%2C+Ha%E2%80%99%2C+La%E2%80%99%29+Glass_pp.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p.30 (Lam, Miim, Noun, Ha’, La’) Glass 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577588122-MZD91POD1A8O6TYBDX8U/p.24+%28Dal%2C+Sin%29+I-Beam_pp.jpg WORK - Formal Graffiti: p.24 (Dal, Sin) I-Beam 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577596176-CX77DYC0YGW035QALBE2/p.26+%28Ha%E2%80%99%29+Angle+Iron_half.jpg WORK - 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Holding One's Nose, 2017 Chalk pastel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495479393370-DOG4PCKDQXBD3WIP3UPI/CHOKE+2017_black.jpg WORK - CHOKE: WITNES FOR PEACE 2017 Wood bat, epoxy filler, glass eyes, 33 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495479404686-G8GGHIZJINTBE0O5777D/CHOKE+2017.jpg WORK - CHOKE:WITNESS FOR PEACE 2017 Wood bat, epoxy filler, glass eyes, 33 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495479412390-L09I473MTEMJNHQRIAP7/CHOKE+detail+2017.jpg WORK - Detail CHOKE:WITNESS FOR PEACE 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611592587083-57CUW3DCHOUJ442UM1D5/Johnson+OYG+Gazette_CHOKE+and+CLUTCH.jpg WORK - CHOKE and CLUTCH From OYG Gazette created for Bad as I Wanna Be, curated by Joshua Bienko, August 24 – September 22, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499914046287-CUJA7LPFSW62GZR4BHG2/Steine+I%2C+2015_glass_beer+stein+and+shot+glass%2C12.5x5.5x3.5inches.jpg WORK - STEINE I, 2015 Archival inkjet print, 18.75 x 12.5 inches A toast to economic restructuring. (German glass stein with Greek Parthenon shot glass) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499913672431-18NW61Y7NRY24PXPW469/Steine+II%2C+2015_stone_beer+stein+and+espresso+cup%2C+10x5x3.75inches.jpg WORK - STEINE II, 2015 Archival inkjet print, 18.75 x 12.5 inches A toast to economic restructuring. (German beer stein with Greek Parthenon souvenir) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499907607693-C6YTN7EYPC7L88J1Y7R0/Rocking+Horses+%281%29.jpg WORK - ROCKING HORSES, 2017 Archival inkjet print, 33.5 x 33.5 inches Cover of July 15, 2015 Counterpunch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499907822764-QO6FKDPGBSGC9F4E5LGL/Johnson_Net+Gains_HI.jpg WORK - NET GAINS, 2009 Archival inkjet print, 20 x 20 inches NET GAINS s portrays the fragility of the economic web. A metallic eagle, its flight arrested, is stationed on a US quarter, a gleaming ersatz moon. Stoic, the raptor proudly peers from above, clenching arms and offerings, relinquishing nothing. The price of security proudly rises high, being both Icarus and the fly.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499907766194-2RFLTZANQCMEXP1W4W37/Toward+the+First+World_HI.jpg WORK - TOWARD THE FIRST WORLD 1997, oil on Belgian linen, 10 x 22 inches On those who carry the burden, wondering at the rot. Not all slippage is hermeneutic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499954243426-J7TAZE4P8C6X9I4CWVVL/Market+Mop+Up+duo+web+site2.jpg WORK - JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP, 1999-2001 Detail, Acrylic and tarnished copper on plastic, fiberglass, drywall, 18’ x 40’ x 10’ (dimensions variable). With optional 14 min. sound loop. An installation in which predator and prey, beneficence and need conflate. Painting cloaks the sculptural, yet the physical can not be denied. The material flees deception, yet illusion chases on. Ruse carrots and corn, rabbits and ravens, are stratagems of confrontational, consumptive sharks and piranhas. JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP critiques what many consider the natural order, the conditions and consequences of capitalism and international economic policies. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/Market_Mop_up.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499954820191-Y6J20G1U9QSO8I0F3S1L/MarketMopUp_Haynes.jpg WORK - JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP, 1999-2001 Acrylic and tarnished copper on plastic, fiberglass, drywall, 18’ x 40’ x 10’ (dimensions variable). With optional 14 min. sound loop. Installation at John and June Allcott Gallery at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000 An installation in which predator and prey, beneficence and need conflate. Painting cloaks the sculptural, yet the physical can not be denied. The material flees deception, yet illusion chases on. Ruse carrots and corn, rabbits and ravens, are stratagems of confrontational, consumptive sharks and piranhas. JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP critiques what many consider the natural order, the conditions and consequences of capitalism and international economic policies. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/Market_Mop_up.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499954847342-A8NFUNLWQKZ3QFGG7WIO/Market+Mop+Up+left.jpg WORK - JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP, 1999-2001 Detail, Acrylic and tarnished copper on plastic JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP critiques what many consider the natural order, the conditions and consequences of capitalism and international economic policies. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/Market_Mop_up.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499955242772-8S65T4OSIKTNNE0BICPA/Market+Mop+Up+right.jpg WORK - JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP, 1999-2001 Detail, Acrylic and tarnished copper on plastic JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP critiques what many consider the natural order, the conditions and consequences of capitalism and international economic policies. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/Market_Mop_up.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499914587913-131TI842IISTQPINWIU2/Wishing+Well.jpg WORK - WISHING WELL, 2000 Industrial mop bucket, copper patina, foreign and domestic coins. 14 min. sound loop optional. Foreign and domestic coins are strewn in the empty bucket with the U.S. currency occupying the upper tier of the bucket (though not for long). A CD sound loop is an optional accompaniment. It plays the sound of the gallery being mopped and coins plunking into water. The sounds are heard backwards and forwards continuously, referring to economic policies that result in reverse financial flow, with the investment of first world countries in developing countries returning to its origin. Can be shown alone or as part of JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957555707-8NEKZZEDZOMM776HL9RH/8.Basic+conditionalities.jpg WORK - Basic Conditionalities or the Assumption of Burden: Stalking the Countryside, 1998 Oil, ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957532786-FLYGV7URSQ5VXE0NM3A2/Subjugated+Squirrels_7M.jpg WORK - Post-colonial Shift to Greater Dependency: Subjugated Squirrels, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957528374-RVHWN4NVPNA0VDE7E3UP/split+nut_pp.jpg WORK - Detail from Post-colonial Shift to Greater Dependency: Subjugated Squirrels, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957700197-ATGCRUNLQ2IUTWGBBXH7/squirrels_detail_pp.jpg WORK - Detail from Post-colonial Shift to Greater Dependency: Subjugated Squirrels, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957532427-JKYJOZK1MJJ6IPX3ARIL/Clamorous+Cats_6M.jpg WORK - Vassals and Tributaries: Clamorous Cats, Lifting of Foreign Investment Restriction & Hope, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957529026-P8ESGJF9A3G2HY6F2HBB/cropped+fish_pp.jpg WORK - Detail, Vassals and Tributaries: Clamorous Cats, Lifting of Foreign Investment Restriction & Hope, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957852990-Y58F2P0TRSTZFOZCR2T2/11.DelusionalDogs.jpg WORK - Vassals and Tributaries: Delusional Dogs, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches Collection of Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957462339-ZNFMDYIMP1F3MIZ4G99N/Maniacal+Monkeys_pp.jpg WORK - Vassals and Tributaries: Maniacal Monkeys, 1998 Ink and gouache/paper, 21 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514514-TSTYCXMZPEAGX9B0M213/16.fish+balloon.jpg WORK - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come, 2000 Ink wash on weather balloon, 36 inch diameter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514610-X2J50UCRRONWG9IEMCOZ/17.Trans+balloon.jpg WORK - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come, 2000 Ink wash on weather balloon, 36 inch dimater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514133-7NYH2Y7OSN88VN8TQNEY/15.blackballoon_pp.jpg WORK - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come, 2000 Ink wash on weather balloon, 36 inch diameter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514209-HD7V3YEYOHZKLCQ3EOKI/squirrel+test_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514804-F28CZJO1IW1ZT9F3GVQZ/18.bust+squirrels.jpg WORK - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come, 2000 Ink wash on collapsed weather balloon, pin, 19 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957515120-X74O3IFKN2Q2F5NYAO1I/bust+squirrelsdet.jpg WORK - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come (Detail), 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499958032824-KY4JQ1L9T3JW54RSVJ9E/marriage_of_hope_and_debt.jpg WORK - The Mating of Hope and Debt, 2000 Ink on paper, 14 x 11 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502118586953-36H0YUAN5L9S4Q9BWNOA/PACE+1920x1120+still+1.jpg WORK - PACE, 2012, still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502118587827-G3SK9OHYXOQJZFIPXLA6/PACE+1920+still+7_pp.jpg WORK - PACE, 2012, still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502118589548-9G5T99IHNI32F0MRUKF5/PACE+1920+still+10.jpg WORK - PACE, 2012, still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611535420782-4MG7455TZ4GGXVUR5VAH/Over+There+copy.jpg WORK - OVER THERE 2011 Archival digital print on Hahnemühle paper, 72” x 27” OVER THERE responds to historical and contemporary notions of liberty--here and “over there,” especially in light of revolutionary movements during the Arab Spring of 2011. Connections between Egypt and America exist in the history of the Statue of Liberty, a noted symbol of freedom. Originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World," the statue was proposed by the French historian Edouard de Laboulaye to commemorate the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution. Its sculptor, Frédéric Bartholdi, began developing plans for a colossal female figure as a beacon, proposed to Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt. The plan was to build a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said. The figure was based on Bartholdi’s 1856 drawings that used Egyptian women as models. The Egyptian beacon was never built, but the Statue of Liberty’s 1870-71 design evolved from this earlier version. Informed by a photograph of the statue's display at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in New York, the torch in “Over There” has slipped from Liberty’s hand. The torch is an instrument of human agency, so its fall or absence might ask how abstract and ideal notions of “freedom” become realities. Who truly bears the torch of freedom today and how is liberty won? ————————————————————————————————- OVER THERE was included in Sites of Passage: Egypt and the U.S. at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh in September of 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611535436508-56R595DQ4M5DKECQ5P8X/Over+There+detail_sq.jpg WORK - OVER THERE 2011 Detail from Liberty’s hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502294869160-NQ9WTTZSCIBJATFA4MVG/Johnson_Futures_HI_web.jpg WORK - FUTURES 2005-09, acrylic on five panels, 80 x 180 inches total https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502295676605-H9LUSVZ3DZU8QQN01MVC/Futures_child+detail_web.jpg WORK - FUTURES, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792806896-FG8CVELR12GTI103JE05/child+head+good+det.jpg WORK - Detail of Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792825821-ZFLZJV9RG0BV79LZUYQ7/Futures_belly+detail.jpg WORK - Detail of Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792819721-MQVS8LCEZ2CKZMF87WAY/ear+good+det.jpg WORK - Detail of Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792833203-R5HPVRTABP5UY206WLDC/Futures_head+detail.jpg WORK - Detail of Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792893567-09BH8NM6YXZA42KPHGXM/Market.jpg WORK - Market, 1999, 27” x 39”, acrylic/Wall St. Journal Market uses the financial pages as a backdrop for ironic economic icons. The little piggy “who went to Market” dwarfs its handler, who is either taken for a ride or left behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502295050788-FSZ9SQCDVISJ5A24YUQ0/Futures+Study+BW+2011%2C+15.75x35.25in_web.jpg WORK - MARKET, 2011 ink on paper, 15.75 x 35.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525720306092-TMVMIV1O5ACZ18LQCAIE/CAPITAL+FLIGHT+single.jpg WORK - CAPITAL FLIGHT, 1999 Acrylic on newspaper, 27 x 19 inches Capital Flight is the apparition of an angel, a winged herald who, when scrutinized, tears the wings off a squawking fowl. The ‘flight’ of capital is a ruse; it never leaves home, but ever more are without it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296118998-U15JRZNMPB8WA8BLZGJB/Finished+individ+panels+74%2522+x+40%2522+ea_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017, ink on paper, three 70 x 44 inch panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296431973-D0C65R5DF8IHX50E9I6C/center+asides_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296520882-VHCKPNI5UEZW3GUQKPQH/center+beseeching+barrel+after+Uccello.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Beseeching barrel, after Uccello https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296219715-WH9LOW7AK3HP3TBS4L9F/center+absent+laborer_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO Detail center panel, Absent Laborer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296325387-B1RA8GOUY1617AIIA115/center+an+opening+guilletin+bench_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Guillotine opening https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296635866-9WIXGO6BR1ZE8373D75P/center+broken+cup+ink+bottles+horse_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296716730-MV8TV3ULZRO4K1EYGUAR/center+brushes+w+fate_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, brushes with Fate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296754281-S4W94RAOAZN2XTZJDGFL/center+central+plane_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296872266-K2GL5TYLY07BYDZPEZ6W/center+dancer+w+mirror.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Dancer with Mirror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296876069-GR2QZKLWB90GZO12TWRE/center+deluge+pin+up+after+Uccello_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, pin up of Uccello's Deluge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296911601-WR9ND8IO3YIAKPYFVOFD/center+dismount_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Dismount https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297044266-K1MTLWOQ4LJPWRE9BM3D/center+plea+castration+club+after+Uccello_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, plea castration club after Uccello https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297480690-JY49BGD386T26ZGWNHIA/center+point+line+bleed_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Point Line Bleed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297578137-IREINDC6DKGRYEN5JH3E/center+prone+lion+pigweb.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Prone Lion and Pig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297695782-XCGVDEYZRTJ8G0NY1MK1/center+short+hand+%28skull%29_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, short hand (skull) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297800298-QC3YLBEV7CENGXREXTQL/center+sketch+of+freedom_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Sketch of Freedom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297873316-RAC46VQC3S1GWZV0L8UZ/center+tales+of+purity_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Tales of Purity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502298049292-9HJ3ZN4Z3CVZUJ1CJ68R/center+uplifting+%28guillotine%29_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Uplifting (guillotine) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502298397598-1HGGW2S8C2EEYCVI1OZN/left+13th+labour+%28Hercules%27+laundry%29_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 20117 Detail left panel, 13th labour (Hercules' laundry) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502298504274-8NCB8R4VLETKWIEK42DW/left+anamorphic+ebola+stretcher_web.jpg WORK - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO Detail left panel, Anamorphic Ebola Stretcher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306177104-NJA9FPB9Q3QYB6X7U19Y/Revelry+whole.jpg WORK - REVELRY Gouache and ink on Arches 50.25 x 115.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598321202990-IEUSZQCGOUME50KI0L0M/gallop+pole.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Ajax and Blackjack and Black Bess and Brown Roan, Butler and Bucephalus and Captain and Dixie. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306199741-FR872NHI23LLDSXIU5MD/licking+hoof.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Dixie and Fire Eater and Firefly and Fleeter, Fleetfoot and Fly-By-Night and Hero and Highfly. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306221901-TPLQKIXX27FH7HDWKE85/maternity+foal.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Lightning and Jeff Davis and Jinny and King Philip, Little Sorrel and Lucy Long and Milroy and My Maryland. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306248802-2LDAA2VLJETC8AQXO4FO/Red+Eye.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Nellie Gray and Pocohontas and Red Eye and Red Pepper, Richmond and Rifle and Roderick and Shiloh. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306262470-J3TJT3IM4ORH8F2CJMZ0/grit.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Skylark and Tom Telegraph, Traveller, Virginia and Warren. They were sired and sold, traded and slaughtered. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598321936318-7AFK65LO6P2TYZUGA2EX/monumental.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee and John Hunt Morgan and Wade Hampton, Sterling Price and Edward Porter Alexander and Patrick Cleburne and Albert Sidney Johnston. But do you recall They were presidents and governors Engineers and executives and authors? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598320725958-61GJBZLCDDLF0ZBIULW4/stoic+nuzzeling.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Robert E. Rodes and Belle Boyd and Walter Herron Taylor and James Longstreet J.E.B. Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Bell Hood and Isaac R. Trimble. But do you recall They were actors and bankers and lawyers Insurance and real estate brokers and superintendents? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598320737471-CUPE7UO2YDITIZ1K3PGF/helix+horizontal.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Stonewall Jackson and John B. Gordon and Fitzhugh Lee and George H. Stuart Richard Brooke Garnett, Patrick Ronayne Cleburne and Richard Stoddert Ewell, Daniel Rugles, Turner Ashley Jr. and Brian Grimes. But do you recall They were politicians and executives and diplomats? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598322222066-1WZWQSO033EQM2UPD4MC/Reveille.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 These white supremacists, rapists, enslavers, and Grand Wizards Created and maintained, as do we, Forced labor camps, disenfranchisement, and caste inequity. Precluding education, working wages, and possibilities, Denying housing, child and health care and security, Silencing, terrorizing, torturing and killing with impunity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598320749183-5GH1CRFRNYN546KZTYOK/V+for+Victory+vertical.jpg WORK - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 We’ll go down in infamy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323895139-W5IX2XMHZJX4QX10UIO9/Blue+revelry%2C+2020%2C+42.5+x+91+Inches.jpg WORK - RELEASE 2020 Gouache, 42.5 x 91 Inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323075405-JYAJZV9X3ITYGEKBAQQ2/Blue+grin.jpg WORK - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Blue grin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323097673-JIUKHBBPMS4IZ6QDC3Q1/blue+outlook.jpg WORK - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Blue outlook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323113830-D79MOM2TRR028Y06ZN74/perspective+from+the+ground.jpg WORK - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Perspective on the ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323131404-AE7AYHIHYUQD273SISW7/blue+revelry+tale+icon.jpg WORK - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Tangled tail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323147039-XQWAPEW0CJO2KXWWIPYO/blue+solidarity.jpg WORK - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Blue solidarity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323334410-T3SAYCGZP4L1N0QL7EUN/hither.jpg WORK - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Hither https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287293035-RLOSNZ5EAKAVYYHDIV8W/Q%2526A%252C%2B2020%252C%2Bink%2Bon%2Bcold%2Bpressed%2Barches%252C%2B50%2Bx%2B105%2Binches.jpg WORK - Q&A, 2020 Ink on cold pressed arches, 50 x 105 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287153802-ZMZ7GO0KLQWVSHRI1O7R/Boy+with+drum+detail.jpg WORK - Q&A, 2020 Detail of police shields and boy with drum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287162488-J67G95N9SAS41FE0SJ16/Face+Shields+detail.jpg WORK - Q&A, 2020 Detail of police face shields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287180671-1U9V9LLX6N4NCVF5VFT1/Headphones+detail.jpg WORK - Q&A, 2020 Detail of child with headphones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287555878-UA4AEVKK8OZP1JJW9G4A/Shield+detail.jpg WORK - Q&A, 2020 Detail of police shields and gear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319997198-V5UVIEARTMSUZWBKAPY3/1+tiki+2+tiki+whole+75x42%2522+ink+charcoal.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Ink and charcoal, 75 x 42 inches In his third press conference following the Charlottesville riot, President Trump argued: "So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? But they were there to protest -- excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. President Trump, August 15, 2017 at Trump Tower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319544079-SOJ9935PL7PAAURH4P3W/1+tiki+2+tiki+det.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319575032-S715F594JGPNG7QLMHML/child+skeleton+reflection.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, Child skeleton reflection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319575950-J9IW6BZVNKXC2X8IBFJB/child+skeleton+torso.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, Child torso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319563905-CAHZAG6J5WIV1X4KYM9V/1+tiki+reflection.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, Tiki reflection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319586364-YIRC2C33V5EDAR5LPGSO/mirror.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, mirror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319586301-ZBNHF07TD5W295VEDGA2/gorilla+skull.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, gorilla skull https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319595188-QBXZQZ1DOISP28QURQ5G/washington+jefferson+reflection.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail: Washington and Jefferson reflection "So this week it's Robert E. Lee," Trump told reporters. "I notice that Stonewall Jackson's coming down," he added, referring to another famous Confederate commander. "I wonder: Is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?" Trump said. "You know, you really do have to ask yourself — where does it stop?" President Trump, August 15, 2017 at Trump Tower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319600846-VHZB3AW2HD9BRBAF8QFQ/washington+reflection.jpg WORK - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail: Washington relfection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961033850-BVLIDMSHFATTW7Z21D5I/I+Come+from+Alabama.jpg WORK - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Ink on paper, 40 x 27 inches. This ink drawing responds to the contentious legacy of the Stephen Foster public sculpture, first erected in 1900 in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park and now situated on Schenley Plaza near the Stephen Foster Memorial on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The bronze sculpture features the American composer seated, gazing outward, with a shoeless banjo player at his feet — identified as “Uncle Ned.” Created by Giuseppe Moretti, the sculpture was actually designed by a committee that included banker Andrew W. Mellon, the director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, a railroad mogul and a parks director among others. 50,000 Pittsburghers lined the parade route for its dedication and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Director led 3,000 school children in song at its unveiling. During the Great Depression, ‘Uncle’ Ned’s banjo and Foster’s pen were repeatedly stolen and presumably sold as scrap metal. The monument depicts the writing of the song “Uncle Ned” about an enslaved person recently deceased. His fingers were long like de cane in de brake, He had no eyes for to see. The drawing's title, I Come From Alabama With A Banjo Round My Neck, is a modification of a lyric in Foster’s popular Oh! Susanna, a minstrel song considered one of the top 100 western songs of all time. Not content with transcribing Ned’s music, Foster is depicted taking his banjo, too. The transference, however, puts Foster in the enslaved’s shoeless state, with no eyes ‘for to see’ and dangling from the banjo’s extended strings. His toes are now rubbed for ‘good luck’ while a ghost of child labor sits still shining shoes. How does it feel –does it tickle? Links to related stories: Tony Norman: Monuments and their discontents What to do with a Stephen Foster statue with a black man at his feet? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961044218-XCH0DVQN2NYAB1X8EGX5/Stephen+Foster+vampire.jpg WORK - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Detail of Stephen Foster Vampire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961047503-Y41L1YT1LRS6FVY4HLTQ/Stephen+Foster+w+strings+attached.jpg WORK - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Detail, Stephen Foster with strings attached https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961032788-4XAALM74KVF97D6PD98G/Banjo+round+my+neck+%28detail%29.jpg WORK - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Detail, Banjo round my neck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961041452-BTUE84BZFI6IWDTVSHRV/Shine+On+%28det%29.jpg WORK - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Detail, shine on https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319895302-GQQPJID366OHXIFLT8F9/On+All+Sides+whole+75x42%2522+ink+charcoal.jpg WORK - RECRUIT, 2017 Ink and charcoal, 75 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318771596-BCASI81BFX5JM9MQ2SEC/cat+skeleton+reflection.jpg WORK - RECRUIT detail, 2017 Cat skeleton detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318772600-45BV7UE7C7M2R04APWUS/cat+skeleton.jpg WORK - RECRUIT detail, 2017 Cat skeleton detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318783527-FG10M9AW7FRDO5ZW55F5/eagle+icon.jpg WORK - RECRUIT detail 2017 Eagle detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318788478-48ZOKXWZTFA1RIN8FBOZ/regressive+reflections.jpg WORK - RECRUIT detail 2017 Detail, Regressive Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318793872-YN9XSKXDCU5C5XRZ74LQ/salute+reflection.jpg WORK - RECRUIT detail 2017 Detail, Salute Reflection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504320309670-GJLHF8UKJ6I8YJM4NM9U/tall+tails%2C+74%2522+x+42%2522%28whole%29.jpg WORK - TALL TAILS, 2017 Ink, 75 x 42 inches In his third press conference following the Charlottesville riot, President Trump argued: "So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? But they were there to protest -- excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee." President Trump, August 15, 2017 at Trump Tower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504320307696-I4NHN3LN471Z524LYIPA/tall+tails+%28smoke+trail+detail%29.jpg WORK - TALL TAILS, 2017 Detail: smoke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504320299005-SVYN71L8XXI66OFI5BMI/tall+tails+%28bust+detail%29.jpg WORK - TALL TAILS, 2017 Detail: Jefferson's pony tail In his third press conference following the Charlottesville riot, President Trump argued: "So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? But they were there to protest -- excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee." President Trump, August 15, 2017 at Trump Tower   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526830524089-ET4ADND6NASPMCYUYX4L/2+elephants.jpg WORK - SOME KIND OF JUSTICE, 2018 Ink, charcoal, graphite, 42 x 84 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526830531396-X31RH9V15QOZRLQL8IRI/P1030179.jpg WORK - Detail SOME KIND OF JUSTICE, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526830639749-DMNSDDQYPUEM52TVN7FG/P1030180.jpg WORK - Detail SOME KIND OF JUSTICE, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504321356234-IJDPZQLCBIIXEJUOEPMC/standard+fare+40%2522+x27.5%2522.jpg WORK - STANDARD FARE, 2017 Mixed media, 40 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1612890068252-CCSYYUBHVCSK3HZLI7QC/PHRENOLOGICAL+PERFECTION%2C+2018%2C+Wax%2C+ink+and+charcoal+on+paper%2C+43+x+39+inches+%28with+Molotov+turnip%29+brighter.jpg WORK - PHRENOLOGICAL PERFECTION 2018 Wax, ink and charcoal on paper, 43 x 39 inches (with Molotov turnip) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1612890080635-LOI1S7ULGNMEMN69S0NP/phenological+perfection+det.jpg WORK - PHRENOLOGICAL PERFECTION 2018 Detail Wax, ink and charcoal on paper, 43 x 39 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1612890348978-EG6ZDB8N1TQLERN8B9MZ/scales+justice+lions+rats+straight.jpg WORK - SCALES WITH LIONS AND RATS 2018 Charcoal on paper, 43 x 31 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1612890355853-XKJGWLAG48P8DP1HD2YD/skirt+of+justice+adj.jpg WORK - SCALES WITH LIONS AND RATS 2018 Detail of skirt of justice Charcoal on paper, 43 x 31 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504324597582-EWPANEJG4EPXYL7XBSD6/all+things+equal+21.5%2522+x+29.5%2522.jpg WORK - ALL THINGS EQUAL, 2017 Ink, 21.5 x 29.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504321712883-ZQCFLZ2VMWPSHKHG4SR9/ride.jpg WORK - RIDE, 2017 Ink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364156569-MC78AB5WM1MHLPZB2IDV/small+hot+pink+bib_pp.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364463380-6WM9CZHJE2U8ZC6WGE04/retribution_stains_wall.jpg WORK - Retribution Stains, 1998 Installation in Silenced Voices: an Affirmation of Human Rights, SPACES, Cleveland, OH, June 5 – July 30, 1999 22 hand-painted bibs In the spring of 1998, the first twenty-two Rwandan Hutus convicted of participating in the slaughter of 1994 were wearing white bibs with black squares painted to locate the sternum. They were executed by firing squad in public at a one-meter range. The United Nations, which set up its own court in Tanzania to judge those suspected of genocide, has yet to deliver a single verdict.* The minority Tutsis, backed by the West, led a repressive government for decades before their overthrow which led to the genocide. The black squared bibs here serve as the remembrance of myriad moral stains we nightly (take to) table. *Alfonso Rojo in Kigali from a Manchester Guardian Weekly article of May 3, 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364154652-2JFYS7P3419R7SXQ7S5E/Johnson_Retribution+Stains_Violet+Bib.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364150243-PTPL427X96OP7YV3LBIG/Johnson_Retribution+Stains_Small+blue+bib.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364155947-E5JT6I3HVYK100Z5JORR/Red+rectangular+bib.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364148972-MNLZ3WNCNKP9G1GTI8ZB/Angel+wings+bib.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364159212-A6YI6DSE43MZTH7ZXWBK/small+aqua+bib.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364161230-A6203UG3NTW2ZCT8Z2RT/Sun+bib.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594687392576-IXI7HSU7Z7GCHVUGQ3VK/Jackson+Reins%2C+2020%2C+Gouache%2C+dry+pigment+and+gum+arabic+on+paper%2C+114+x+57+inches.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 Gouache, dry pigment and gum arabic on two pieces of paper, 114 x 114 inches. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend (also known as Tohopeka, Cholocco Litabixbee, or The Horseshoe), was fought during the War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory, now central Alabama. On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under Major General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe who opposed American expansion, effectively ending the Creek War. After the battle, Jackson's troops made bridle reins from skin taken from Indian corpses, conducted a body count by cutting off the tips of their noses, and sent their clothing as souvenirs to the "ladies of Tennessee." * Jackson was also known as a “would-be-king” for his abuse of presidential powers during his “reign.” * Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror, (Little, Brown 1993), p. 85 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594686606373-E7OMV5QM7TMXOYUK7IYV/portrait.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of bridle. After the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson's troops made bridle reins from skin taken from Indian corpses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594752736362-CAMQ6G2HI50OH6MJA0CN/nose+straps.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of nose straps. Trump has said Jackson, who led the systematic removal of native Americans two centuries ago, is a personal hero. From June 2020: "Last night we stopped an attack on a great monument of Andrew Jackson and Lafayette Park," Trump told reporters, adding that "numerous people" are already in jail and more are going "today." Trump and Jackson share punitive and repressive impulses. As the United States expanded, Jackson opposed policies that would have outlawed slavery in western territories. And when abolitionists attempted to send anti-slavery tracts to the South during his presidency, Jackson helped ban their delivery and called the anti-slavery advocates monsters who should “atone for this wicked attempt with their lives.” Records show that Jackson beat his enslaved workers, including doling out a brutal public whipping to a woman he felt had been “putting on airs.” And when any of them ran away, he pursued them and put them in chains when they were recovered. In an 1804 newspaper advertisement for a 30-year-old runaway named Tom, he offered an extra $10 for every 100 lashes doled out to the escapee. In response to people protesting against racist monuments, Trump has threatened:"We are looking at long term jail sentences for these vandals, hoodlums, anarchists and agitators. Some people don't like that language, but that's what they are: Bad people. They don't love our country, and they're not taking down our monuments," he said. "I just want that to be clear." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685568811-HTVK9MPZBFHOQ7M6QB7L/jackson%27s+train.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of Jackson’s train… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594686557789-F03JGFS2TRVYYHGD25EK/crest+and+leaves+horizontal.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of an invented (and originally unregistered) coat-of-arms used to lend prestige to Trump’s golf resort in Aberdeen, Scotland. It features a shield with an eagle clutching three golf balls and the slogan Numquam concedere, which translates to “never give up” or “never concede.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594686306559-JA0W8PRSTV0NOZ6SULW2/King_Andrew_the_First_%28political_cartoon_of_President_Andrew_Jackson%29.jpg WORK - KING ANDREW THE FIRST circa 1832 King Andrew the First is a cartoon depicting Andrew Jackson, the 7th United States president, as a “would-be-king” because opposers often viewed him as an abuser of his presidential powers. The creator of the cartoon is unknown. It was used to support presidential campaigns opposing Jackson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594689351689-CO1QN16UNMX7OK01ICWJ/peace+%26+friendship+medalion.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS Detail of Peace and Friendship Medallion “In March 1814, Jackson tracked the Red Sticks to Horseshoe Bend, a peninsula formed by the Tallapoosa River in what is now Alabama, and launched a frontal assault on their breastworks. His troops might have been repulsed had the Cherokees not crossed the river and attacked from the rear. Caught between two attacking forces, the Red Sticks lost nearly 900 warriors in what proved to be the decisive battle of the war. That day, a Cherokee named Junaluska saved Jackson from an attacker, prompting the Tennessean to declare, “As long as the sun shines and the grass grows, there shall be friendship between us.” But in the peace treaty he negotiated with the Creeks, Jackson confiscated 23 million acres of land in Alabama and Georgia—some of which belonged to the Cherokees.” By Brian Hicks, Smithsonian Magazine, March 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685684487-80N6HW9GPUHKGL2DSBEE/molly%27s+curse+%28parrot%29.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of Poll, an African grey parrot given to Andrew Jackson’s wife Rachel. Jackson became its caretaker after her death. The bird apparently spewed foul language and curses learned from Jackson. According to Rev. William Menefee Norment, who presided at Jackson’s funeral, “before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.”* *Volume 3 of Samuel G. Heiskell’s Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685648297-530X2XZU465X89BHGDBS/stirrup+w+snake.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of stirrup with snake motif. Jackson spoke with a forked tongue in his genocidal treatment of Native Americans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685706678-T53JT7V97OCBQFJDHV9W/buckles.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of buckle and embossed button. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685763609-LVKPDOEKVL4GBU1URYMJ/In+progress+high+view.jpg WORK - JACKSON REINS 2020 In-progress studio shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683311352500-8QLST1B2LYVFV3CANRBM/Newly+Acquired+Firescreen+Whole.jpg WORK - NEWLY ACQUIRED FIRE SCREEN 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 32 x 23.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683311399676-XTG8LOQ23MXB6QW0LD0T/Screen+top.jpg WORK - DETAIL: NEWLY ACQUIRED FIRE SCREEN 2023 Screen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683311401960-LQNGCLQWQR3N3CICNVRF/Shovel+Broom.jpg WORK - DETAIL: NEWLY ACQUIRED FIRE SCREEN 2023 Fireplace shovel and broom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629733338272-UK8JAQJHSJSWY4WCA3SB/Passage+to+Liberia+%28whole%29.jpg WORK - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches Monrovia, Liberia is named after James Monroe because he favored the region’s colonization, and supported the American Colonization Society, which advocated forced expatriation—the “resettling” of freed blacks to West Africa. The eponymous Monroe Doctrine was an American Imperialist foreign policy position that hypocritically opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It was a declaration of hegemony and a right of unilateral intervention over the Americas. Any doctrine is a body of principles, but the body of principals – people whose land, labor and lives were exploited, is the focus here. Democratic values espoused for a minority have long been justifications to retain oligarchic privilege. By design, the ‘new world’ imported European aspirations for, and the inequities of, empire, along with furniture and jewelry. Monroe, who enslaved up to 250 people in his lifetime, lies in state on a funeral bier improvised from an overturned sofa. It is from the Bellangé collection of furniture he ordered for the White House Oval Room (now the Blue Room). Surrounding him are ‘principals’—boys burnishing and polishing a barrel and the precious furniture. They wear shirts with logos of the Seneca Nation of Indians: Keepers of the Western Door and the Iroquois Nation, a Liberty Bell patch, and a cap with a patch of the African continent. An incomplete account of Monroe’s presidency can be read here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629733618682-ZOF9NBACN2WBGVPK8DAJ/monroe+peace+friendship+medalians.jpg WORK - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Detail of James Monroe on funerary bier with Peace and Friendship medallions, Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629734863075-4FHA5PXVTXWTJHGXDV3L/field+workers+and+a+harvest+god.jpg WORK - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Detail of Fieldworkers with a Harvest God, Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629732896505-Q6HK1XD2DWT4UE5M5AOQ/foundations+of+innoscence.jpg WORK - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Detail (Foundation of Innocence) Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629732916412-IKL7VVU5H3J5658QNCEP/Western+Door+5+Nations+Africa.jpg WORK - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Detail of boys burnishing and polishing barrel and Bellangé furniture, wearing shirts with logos of the Seneca Nation of Indians: Keepers of the Western Door and Iroquois Nation, Liberty Bell patch, and cap with African continent Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408086903-94FPP7FEXIGK5QPOFHLL/A+Body+of+Principles+whole+brown.jpg WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches The fifth president James Monroe is decapitated—along with the mind that developed his eponymous doctrine. A doctrine is a body of principles. But the body of principals, people whose land, labor and lives were exploited, is primary. Their expropriated lands grow wheat for domestic and international trade, supplanting tobacco. Timing is everything in this field of reaping and harvesting. Democratic values espoused for a minority were justifications to retain oligarchic privilege. By design, the ‘new world’ imported European aspirations for, and the inequities of, empire, along with furniture and jewelry. Elizabeth Monroe’s finery and her husband’s Bellangé furniture cascade and crumble, tassels quake, and the glaringly obvious is uncovered. Sheaves are still borne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408094259-99SC9VEYBICJ20WK98KJ/The+Thriving.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail of The Thriving https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408087681-57FOQ89MDIVESHRBAYPM/Three+Clicks+to+Home.jpg WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Three clicks to home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408090996-2FTI4D29GRKD86KK8FZ1/Elizabeth_s+Adornments.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Elizabeth Monroe’s adornments https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408089862-92CCGZ4JAODZYVP022M8/after+visitation.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: After Visitation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408088781-D8AU1NONCOK94EWLNF4E/Sheaf+_+mask.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Sheaf mask https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408091960-GPTAR6AWYR9UDFHD7GTY/the+Time+is+Now.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: The Time Is Now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408095823-WZ92ISMOF4VY544MNITR/still+glaring+%28field+hands%29.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Still Glaring (field hands) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408096867-367ZUFUGUBCH2FDAG8KB/Sheaf+to+Tassle.JPG WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408098237-G4PA220766K9ALYSUHF9/Some+Shade.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Some shade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408099059-M8WG0D6EM4OTTWKDUKGJ/Time+is+Now+%28horizontal%29.JPG WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408100361-O271R32SJKF7AADUJZSS/Balancing+Acts.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Acts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408101497-THWJ1UBM54LBQIXFYN7E/By+Design.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detal: By design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408102357-3LPMRYO7K4E1XLDWK7D6/Unravelers.JPG WORK - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Sheaf to Tassle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970191754-IFTJACRXKO3BPIU5ICSO/Before%2B7%253A4%252C%2B2021%252C%2BInk%2Band%2Bgouache%2Bon%2Bpaper%252C%2B44%2Bx%2B58.5%2Binches.jpg WORK - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970117423-GCU431JSCPR1B5MHIQH2/marshmellow+roasting.jpg WORK - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches Detail of roasting marshmellows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970109788-GSVUSZ5DDLN99MPI0ZC1/opposum+detail.jpg WORK - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches Detail of possum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970101789-3RI87109YN8XMUZAVUH7/pair+of+wishes.jpg WORK - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches Detail of pair of wishes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970126477-3A1SFWCHVP74MQ2VV0ZW/Fly+detail.jpg WORK - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches Detail of fly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970798941-S5SECKB0F6WGY6FYM1SS/Nailery+Monticello.jpg WORK - NAILERY (MONTICELLO) 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 46 x 55 inches Growing tobacco required child labor (the small stature of children made them ideal workers for the distasteful task of plucking and killing tobacco worms). When growing wheat, which did not require small hands, Jefferson transferred his surplus of young workers to his nail factory (boys) and spinning and weaving operations (girls). In 1794, he launched a nailery and supervised it personally for three years. “I now employ a dozen little boys from 10 to 16 years of age, overlooking all the details of their business myself.” He said he spent half the day counting and measuring nails. In the morning he weighed and distributed nail rod to each nailer; at the end of the day he weighed the finished product and noted how much rod had been wasted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580323944662-4WVHVII6YPVH0TRLPRUB/Fitting+%28Jefferson%29+whole.jpg WORK - FITTING 2020 Ink on paper, 50 x 114 inches I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Text on Panel Four of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living —W. H. Auden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590084987853-XD59JWDXX2TNADOF49Y3/Fitting%2BBarbarous%2BAncestors%2Btext.jpg WORK - FITTING 2020 Detail of text from Jefferson’s letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816) inscribed in the southeast quadrant of the Jefferson Memorial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580323976848-JIMMQS5QR3QHJ0H6E5LO/Fitting+nature+of+man+vest.jpg WORK - FITTING 2020 Detail of Thomas Jefferson’s vest with tree and flower ornamentation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580323985391-XTOPN3M2K4KH61NH9WDI/Fitting+old+coat+det.jpg WORK - FITTING 2020 Detail of old coat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580323993069-TKGXG61MSM72LWZUAORX/Fitting+portrait+det.jpg WORK - FITTING 2020 Detail of Thomas Jefferson sculpture with laurel wreath https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580324001962-10J9POBP3OYKVALJMDCP/Fitting+Sally+Hemmings+justice.jpg WORK - FITTING 2020 Detail of Sally Hemmings (mother of Jefferson’s children) as Columbia (the historical female national personification of the United States of America, and a poetic name for the Americas). The female figure representing Freedom that tops the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building shares many of Columbia’s characteristics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580324004737-P7OCMWDB0HZRYH6JBN8X/Fitting+Truth+Digger+det.jpg WORK - FITTING 2020 The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living —W. H. Auden Detail of Digger seeking truth in Jeffersonian documents spilling from his intestines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431611945-NCWP56XVO9Y6PNXNRNXK/Extraction+of+Madison%27s+Soul%2C+20MB.jpg WORK - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Ink on paper, 54.5 x 55 inches Francis (Frank) Johnson, born in 1792, was the first popular black composer and bandleader in the United States. He holds his keyed bugle while leaning on James Madison’s bedpost. In the distance his band marches forth. The bedchamber is absent. The bed frame and canopy, left exposed in a destitute tobacco field, catch fire from embers of the U.S. Capitol and Presidential Mansion blaze. The house was a dreary place in 1814 when the British seized and torched Washington. But still it haunts. It haunts, too, that Paul Jennings, and the door man, and the gardener secured the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington from the British assault (even if it was a copy of Stuart’s own painting – it’s an original isn’t it?). And it haunts most on Judgment Day when your soul is discovered to be but three fifths of a man’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431625778-19E4V1RE0UBYRIIDM2YY/Madison+strung+up_20MB.jpg WORK - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of James Madison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431630196-Q5UZA149SFYAPDQJ0Q4Q/Madison%27s+guts_20MB.jpg WORK - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of James Madison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431603577-4ZR6KG1KYKYZ2OH5CH4J/Cannon.jpg WORK - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of British cannon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431603298-K7G745VNBOHGJZJ0QVHW/Canopy+fire+and+crane_20MB.jpg WORK - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of bed frame and canopy catching fire from embers of the U.S. Capitol and Presidential Mansion blaze in 1814 during the British assault on Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431623221-KPHDJB762DVG3CM0BKIB/Johnson+trumpeteer_20MB.jpg WORK - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of Francis (Frank) Johnson, born in 1792—the first popular black composer and bandleader in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430836144-2KR9MCQ8ET1CWPAY4SFF/Madison+in+May%2C+2019%2C+Ink%2C+58.5+x+115.5+inches.jpg WORK - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Ink on paper, 58.5 x 114 inches Paul Jennings, born into slavery at the concentration camp Montpelier, author of “A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison”, in the guise of Apollo, unsuccessfully requests his freedom at the fourth president’s death. Jennings’ family (his wife, Fanny, and their children Felix, Frances, John, Franklin, and William), with whom he was never allowed to live, circle around the childless Madison. Young John, Franklin and William play ‘abolitionist’ before their entry into the Union army during the Civil War. Jennings’ extended family rehearses around the Maypole for their future reunion. They wave ribbons, weave streamers and frolic on hobbyhorses. Panpipes are set aside by Satyrs and lyres are laid to rest at the obelisk’s steps. Lyrebirds from the New England Highlands strut, perch and sing their ‘flute dialect’ on the green. Amidst confetti, different species of Lyrebird chicks listen and learn new vocalizations of democratic protest. Dolley Todd Madison, the ‘country’s first lady’, who continued to enslave Paul Jennings after her husband’s death, lifts her gown skirts and drags tobacco leaves. She thanks Jennings for his generous financial assistance as she spins into financial hardship. Representatives of the largest attempted escape of the enslaved in US history, that Jennings helped plan, are seen again on the plantation after their resale and continued bondage. Athenian vessels, a pitcher (Oinochoe) and a high-handled drinking cup (Kantharos), in the form of “Aithiopian” heads (circa 500 BC), lie beneath snakes and denuded stalks. Neither we nor Madison (though steeped in Greek and Latin philosophy and prose in their original languages) are certain of what these serving vessels connote regarding race or hierarchical relationships. In the upper right, canonical interpreters of lost causes fold their chairs. Exeunt stage left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430857523-TVPV9445L4SD18S07PLX/Tiara+girl_20MB.jpg WORK - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of Maypole streamers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430879101-N958008D67THK168KC17/Boy+in+tobacco_20MB.jpg WORK - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of boy in tobacco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430926742-90SY7QSVL1UT4TS72FAF/kids+ribbons+closeup_20MB.jpg WORK - MADISON IN MAY 2019 detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430962499-MELTCKMZ1VJYF0WEDRH2/Pole+bird_20MB.jpg WORK - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of bird https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431406111-W7KM8M01RZP87MJBO0BN/Girls+inspecting_20MB.jpg WORK - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of girls with magnifying glasses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431423494-11IDK94L9VYANQZHK16K/Pole+with+lyre_20MB.jpg WORK - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of flayed Madison and lyre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623588822-3HW9G884DSP5YIXRNGLN/Geroge+Washington_Frankenstein_Prone.jpg WORK - THE CREATION OF G. W. 2018 Ink and wax on paper, 58 x 108 inches The first of our presidents who enslaved people, George Washington is shown reclining in a mythical laboratory from the 1931 Frankenstein film. A typical defense of slavery was that it was practiced by ‘men trapped by their own time’. These men embraced this trap, benefitting from the largest slave economy in the Americas, a 400-year old economy still indebted to this fact. The glass bubbles in the children’s mobile floating above Washington’s head resemble the test tube vessels of the supposed Enlightenment. They contain the ghosts of abolitionists who led many others who knew slavery was wrong. Were they also trapped in their time? They include: the influential Benjamin Lay; Olaudah Equiano (who was kidnapped from his Nigerian village, sold into slavery, survived the horrors of the Middle Passage, served several masters, purchased his freedom in 1766, moved to England, and became an abolitionist activist and one of the earliest proponents for interracial marriage); and Mum Bett, aka Elizabeth Freeman (who survived being hit and burned by her master with a hot shovel, and, based on Massachusett’s new constitution proclaiming all residents were “born free and equal,” sued the state and won her freedom, laying the groundwork for the state’s abolition of slavery in 1783). At the operating table’s fulcrum, Washington’s bandaged arm extends in a magnanimous gesture. Chronos, as a custodian, appraises his appeal. Barely visible supporting Washington’s boot, as a visual pun, is the musket of an African American soldier. Washington knew whoever armed Black men the fastest would win the Revolutionary War; but he suggested executing any who would seek freedom by joining the British. New England also promised freedom to enslaved blacks if they served in the Continental Army. Over the course of the war, about one-fifth of that army was Black.[16] Washington ordered re-enlisting freed Black men who had already served, worrying that some might cross over to the British. An estimated 20,000 African Americans joined the British cause while 9000 became Black Patriots fighting against the British. Waiting in the wings of this drawing, fallen statues try to escape the demolition site with their dreams of world domination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623611297-6URJ6BDY5TFUPJ9QF4WS/Geroge+WAshington_Frankenstein_central+figure.jpg WORK - Detail of THE CREATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 2018 At the operating table’s fulcrum, Washington’s bandaged arm extends in a magnanimous gesture. Chronos, as a custodian, appraises his appeal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623622220-V6O220BKSAFBL296R42B/wrecking+ball.jpg WORK - Detail of THE CREATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 2018 Detail of Mum Bett, aka Elizabeth Freeman, who survived being hit and burned by her master with a hot shovel. Based on Massachusett’s new constitution proclaiming all residents were “born free and equal,” she sued the state and won her freedom, laying the groundwork for the state’s abolition of slavery in 1783. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573696870045-8FZ00KPI0SQ9UAMNK2EH/5%274_%2C+88_+responds+to+Master.jpg WORK - 5' 4", 88; Responds to "Master", 2019 Ink on paper, 40 x 43 inches In a form of revenge fantasy, James Madison, who freed none of his 100 enslaved workers, bears an iron collar. It is just one sampling of the cruel hardware that controlled and punished the enslaved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573696874717-C22LSDRY5F0JH5CJOV5L/5%274_%2C+88%3B+Responds+to+Master+det.jpg WORK - 5' 4", 88; Responds to "Master", 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924352955-1DROXS76KCDJ4JT1W846/Tomb+of+Usher%2C+2018%2C+ink%2C+44x30.5in.jpg WORK - TOMB OF USHER 2018 Ink on paper, 44 x 30.5 inches Preparatory drawing for Flaying Father: George Washington Cardiff This triple portrait presents an idealized George Washington as a white supremacist gesturing heavenward, and as a Gucci garbed spirit-usher holding his own death mask with his wig hair let down. The usher beacons toward a white void—a white supremacist nether world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924349885-BCRHRLUG87OEU2SH4D7H/Detail_Tomb+of+Usher+2.jpg WORK - Detail of TOB OF USHER 2018 Detail of preparatory drawing for Flaying Father: George Washington Cardiff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924349694-Z27O19YJ88N4S60D2Y06/Detail_Tomb+of+Usher+3.jpg WORK - Detail of TOMB OF USHER 2018 Detail of preparatory drawing for Flaying Father: George Washington Cardiff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623914818-7JDJJ06JW5TZP3T4TS6N/Innocence_George+Washington_Frankenstein.jpg WORK - INNOCENCE 2018 Ink on paper, 90.5 x 43.25 inches George Washington was the first of five presidents of the United States who imposed slavery on people while in office. At the age of eleven, he took possession of ten people. He continued to enslave people for the next 56 years. He resorted to slave labor to build the White House rather than hire foreign labor. To retain his slaves, he evaded the Gradual Abolition Act of 1780, by rotating those working for him in bondage so they would not qualify. His will stipulated that 123 enslaved people were to be kept in bondage until after his wife’s death. While some were emancipated in 1801, many others legally enslaved on Mount Vernon remained in bondage. In this and other works, Washington is presented as a giant Frankenstein, the miraculous image of the new nation. Like the creature Frankenstein, he is awkwardly pieced together from corpses, constructed from selective memories and myths of American history. Gazing at cut flowers, he wistfully contemplates his legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623960584-LC7CXDL83GN68SPUPEA6/George+Washington_Hand+detail.jpg WORK - INNOCENCE 2018 Detail of George Washington’s hand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623948443-A0KNGCZ7CK13DQEL2JX6/George+Washington+head+detail.jpg WORK - INNOCENCE 2018 Detail of George Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623954715-LQWEHXB3PMDUJRSXT5HL/George+Washington_Frankenstein_flowers+detail.jpg WORK - INNOCENCE 2018 Detail of flowers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136657686-380KKLY4SE6AJUDZQQT3/Lafayette+de+la+Mancha+_+the+Giant+50+x+56.jpeg WORK - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136679427-7ZN1R5VK37B1DPEFPNIW/central+figure+cropping.jpeg WORK - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL MILLS Detail of Marquis de Lafayette on his quixotic quest to save Jefferson’s soul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136776137-T5964IHKL0OYO78I9N7E/Lafayette+upholds+the+declaration+of+America.jpeg WORK - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL MILLS Detail of Lafayette holding The Declaration of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136787605-0HVEERI2CLGA4BKYM3LS/TJ+_+the+Cracker+Plant.jpeg WORK - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL MILLS Detail of Thomas Jefferson as a vampiric Giant, with cracker plants and burning windmills in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136811161-HE69V44MKBYB01175YPU/Burning+Windmills+right.jpeg WORK - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL MILLS Detail of burning windmills https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525736127154-AQ9GWUJ1N5243VC4OQ3X/Jefferson+Marsyas_brighter.jpg WORK - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 Charcoal, lumber crayon, ink and graphite on paper, 84 x 216 inches Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 600 people during his lifetime, institutionalizing free labor that generated personal profit and grew unfathomable national prosperity. The constitutional heritage that our founding fathers forged is indeed foundational to today’s injustices. The system that served their interests still promotes political disenfranchisement, racism, property rights over human rights, and hypocritical rhetoric espousing democratic values. Willingly or unwillingly, we are all invested in this legacy. ‘Flaying’ refers to the hubris of the mythological Marsyas, who competes with and offends Apollo by playing his flute and whipping everyone into a frenzy—an apt metaphor for the incitement of demagogues, then and now. Accounts of his penalty vary—between having his flayed skin nailed to a pine tree or converted into a wine sack. His cruel fate warns against the self-congratulatory myths and actual practices of our nation—and their ominous repercussions. Many telling details include: Jefferson’s deformed pleading hands and a lacy cravat floating above his flayed intestines, as well as the four mocking birds of Jefferson’s White House. Dick, his favorite bird, purchased from one of his father-in-law’s ‘slaves’, perches on the ropes that bind Jefferson’s satyr fetlocks. Three portraits of Sally Hemings are grouped: one pregnant with the six known children fathered by Jefferson; another as she’s giving birth to ‘democracy,’ (a child born of what would now be considered statutory rape); and the third as a sixteen-year-old in Paris, where she was free. For all of Jefferson’s words about freedom, he brought her back to Monticello to serve with the “extraordinary privileges” of remaining in bondage for the rest of her life. The children he fathered with her were consigned to decades of enslavement. Over the next 32 years, Sally Hemings raised Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525735580700-H8M4OG654QCA4FOST467/IMG_7318.jpg WORK - Working on FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525735580656-FZVCDHXX5YYQ3BQNYAK7/IMG_7320.jpg WORK - Working on FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526835166893-KCAW5TX9ZHQ5BJHAV3FU/Jefferson+Marsyas+first+quarter.jpg WORK - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 First quarter of work, left side https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718258127-G8AVCSG3OEJ4GNNKX76C/spirals.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS The third portrait of Sally Hemings in this work as a a sixteen-year-old in Paris, where she was free. For all of Jefferson’s words about freedom, he brought her back to Monticello to serve with the “extraordinary privileges” of remaining in bondage for the rest of her life. The children he fathered with her were consigned to decades of enslavement. Over the next 32 years, Sally Hemings raised Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526835170690-B8HM5A5F3SSLEC6XPIYU/Flaying+Father_Jefferson+2nd+quarter.jpg WORK - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 2nd quarter of work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718259801-8N4X4EU6C00R0LCFMKQG/stacked.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (stacked) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526835180156-87XEMXRXDC33HXWH0Z1K/Flaying+Father_Jefferson+3rd+quarter.jpg WORK - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 3rd quarter of work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718211448-YQODOGVJQTD4HVAP9OWK/barbers.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (Obama) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718241116-W3QI2E63XH64M3Q5BJJM/looking+up.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (looking up) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526835185121-WYREM8MEMM3K6M9CBQZ3/Flaying+Father_Jefferson+4th+quarter.jpg WORK - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 4th quarter of work (far right side) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718211143-0DVC9AXPXQAM4AKXNVRQ/amends.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718216938-P27MD4YFIQ4C8HZ82SVL/choice.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (choice) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718216691-LRYVEN7IU59OPZY8W26V/bear+necessities.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (bear necessities) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718231327-U14U7YIWUHLZ34MQF9CW/gear.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (gear) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718235970-XF6BGVKMBSGSPOP3MVP3/I+do+declare.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (I do declare) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718222324-S23WCIG2CO2YOFEP5AP9/Cravat.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (cravat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718221101-D4FC0W3ECV5GVLA43EGN/embargo+turtle.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (embargo turtle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718225481-AO0QHAXVUS4QB01L8LVT/encription.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (encryption) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718226584-I1MJWLZ4OIX50NOJOG68/filial.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (filial) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718229410-175TP9C12DB28O9N8RCO/flap.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (skin flap) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718233240-DT5UFYAZ4AOVW3FJODTU/gentleman+to+scholar.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (gentleman to scholar) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718241041-R7C4P93764OYMNYQSGUD/knots+of+history.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (knots of history) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718246122-M74D1K103JIG13XQMJUW/minor+plans+ashes+knife.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (coal miner in Sally Heming's cabin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718247369-KMHQDCR4H55PTI62MDBA/nesting.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS One incarnation of Jefferson’s mocking bird, Dick, nesting on the ropes that bind his satyr’s fetlock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718263184-K27971SE34RDZL06IQTY/the+enlightenment.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (the Enlightenment) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718264613-A5R0Y1CH9UES1JHR7BDI/tipping+point.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (tipping point) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718251246-EUOCUDOVZ9MK2PR4AC0P/plumb.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (plumb) The background text on Panel Four of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC reads: I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718266508-JK9DKIY9OC2Z4H4E0FI1/white+shirt+hand+cuffs.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (cuffs) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686064674813-5NXKWB0UQYV3H1IACLR5/Jefferson+Saves+Some+50+x+56+ink.jpeg WORK - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686064674806-4W3DWHPGFXKAGHN6ZKJV/Jefferson+w+babies+det.jpeg WORK - Detail: JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686064671594-U6KF52RWDP7EXB0ML9V7/Shoveling+Lifting.jpeg WORK - Detail: JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Charcoal Kiln Laborers Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686065136627-Q2EY4DDSE3IYUW7FMRUB/Flower+season.jpeg WORK - Detail: JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILN Flower season Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686064678693-7DXZIKK3Y5KEGC47TDPC/Charcoal+Kiln+Ladder.jpeg WORK - Detail: JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Charcoal kiln labor Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1680185257477-IMXLND9MMTKYRUQM7C1P/THE+EXTRACTION+OF+ANDREW+JACKSON%E2%80%99S+CROWN+2020%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+57+x+113.5+inches+.jpg WORK - THE EXTRACTION OF ANDREW JACKSON’S CROWN 2020 Ink on paper, 57 x 113.5 inches Jackson lays on a medical bed with his spurs still on, as surgeons exorcize his crown. The slop bucket contains either his cranial contents or the spoils of atrocities committed in his name — take your pick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611949747623-3K08L96T4HI0GI74HW4A/body+boots.jpg WORK - EXTRACTION (ANDREW JACKSON) 2020 Detail of Jackson’s boots and sword https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611949732525-PM10JHEVHTS4GYQOMU6B/Extraction+head+crown+det.jpg WORK - EXTRACTION (ANDREW JACKSON) Detail of Jackson’s crown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611949735870-BB5JK8V1A6TM7ZTJCT5B/extraction+scrutiny.jpg WORK - EXTRACTION (ANDREW JACKSON) 2020 Detail of extracting jewels from the crown of a would-be-king https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611949744769-QURTH1M6HJ30FARAUKRW/eagle+hilt.jpg WORK - EXTRACTION (ANDREW JACKSON) 2020 Detail of eagle hilt of Jackson’s sword https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611950335910-2O806KVSF9H1K3J8P1YE/extraction+pail.jpg WORK - EXTRACTION (ANdREW JACKSON) 2020 Detail of pail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718251271-RQCNQ906FGZXQMA295SA/oven+to+fireplace.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (oven to fireplace) A detail from one of the three depictions of Sally Hemings who appears in this work. Here she is pregnant with one of at least six children she bore by Jefferson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611950359702-U741N6UW5JCFHLVAHOY3/Lying+Mouth+%28Jackson%29%2C+2020%2C+Distemper%2C+goache%2C+conte+and+ink+on+paper%2C+50+x+50+inches.jpg WORK - LYING MOUTH 2020 Portrait of Andrew Jackson Distemper, gouache, conte and ink on paper,55.5 x 55.5 inches In LYING MOUTH, Jackson is being harnessed. The crown he aspired to is converted into a horse’s feed bag. W.J.T. Mitchell’s essay, Cloning Terror, comes to mind as he writes about the “hooding of the head, and especially of the ‘head of state’ as an ideal strategy for humiliating the enemy in a war of images.” We might remember the once-powerful tyrant Saddam Hussein who was paraded before the cameras in a humiliating scene of abjection, and subjected to a public dental inspection, ostensibly to check for cyanide pills. Jackson’s feedbag is another kind of humiliation—a just retribution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611950364839-X4M9C6LF24SYKL5NN3EY/jackson+lying+mouth+feed+bag+det.jpg WORK - LYING MOUTH 2020 Detail of Andrew Jackson’s crown-as-feedbag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924561203-QBAXUT3JLWPVVUSROL8P/Surgeons+and+Shades+Search+for+GW%27s+Heart%2C+2018%2C+ink%2C+38x42.jpg WORK - SURGEONS AND SHADES SEARCH FOR THE HEART OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 2018 Ink on paper, 38 x 42 inches This is a study of a group of surgeons under a high intensity lamp shining on a high tech operating theater, with a news crew anxiously awaiting results while they search for George Washington’s heart. Urologist Dr. Hans Koch, from Otto Dix’s Weimar portrait, is also attending. Mock wailers in the background anticipate that its discovery will reveal the same payload as Bush’s search for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Namely, as we all knew then, as well as now—nothing. Celebrants here are NOT beneath Washington’s stirruped boot. One tests his reflexes or taps musically with a gavel of justice on his knee. This study is one of several might be considered allegorical autopsies on the body of American history, myth and policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924564901-S6XRV1WXYW0KNWDJMVWG/Trio.jpg WORK - Detail SURGEONS AND SHADES SEARCH FOR THE HEART OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924557883-D6BXGY979C4RDD0XER58/Blindfolded.jpg WORK - Detail SURGEONS AND SHADES SEARCH FOR THE HEART OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 2018 Detail of preparatory drawing for Flaying Father: George Washington Cardiff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430608397-WPTS7E5H4SXH1W82GT72/Washington+and+CHerry+Tree%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper.jpg WORK - George Washington and Cherry Tree 2019 Ink on paper, 55.5 x 55.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430640458-H0HDZ9HMJUQGSP5FCH5F/Washington+head.jpg WORK - George Washington and Cherry Tree 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430658046-CWVEKU1BAKUSG78RBTOX/Cuff.jpg WORK - George Washington and Cherry Tree 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430649191-MOUP836384RSRSQUQ84S/Trunk+and+hand.jpg WORK - George Washington and Cherry Tree 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629748941360-AFVCVK69CRR24AX9DJWY/Candles+Want+Snuffing+whole.jpg WORK - CANDLES WANT SNUFFING 2021 Ink on paper, 50 x 55 inches Thomas Jefferson as Nosferatu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629748946523-HB983T9W4E1Y4BY2NYNN/Candles+want+suffing+det.+%28nosferatu+jefferson%29.jpg WORK - CANDLES WANT SNUFFING 2021 Detail of Thomas Jefferson as Nosferatu Ink on paper, 50 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629748956509-TYSIIULYDTXT5P08X1B7/Candles+Want+%28hand+on+revolving+Burling+chair+seat%29.jpg WORK - CANDLES WANT SNUFFING 2021 Ink on paper, 50 x 33 inches Detail of Jefferson/Nosferatu hand on Burling chair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629748949932-CX9FWZ7739CBVAPGC3IW/Candles+Want+det+%28unconfined+dark%29.jpg WORK - CANDLES WANT SNUFFING 2021 Detail, Ink on paper, 50 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555624617973-MZ51KZCHZ5HYSUJV7JKK/Golden+Boy.jpg WORK - GOLDEN BOY 2018 Ink and gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628971189254-65RXND261A9X61ZKD7K0/Education+BL+Barbados+whole+1200.jpg WORK - THE EDUCATION OF BENJAMIN LAY 2021, Ink on Arches, 74 x 74 inches Benjamin Lay, a mercurial, hunchbacked, radical abolitionist dwarf, was ‘the first person to boycott slave-produced commodities. Living in Barbados, he witnessed the brutality of Britain’s first ‘black-slave society,’ and proselytized against it. Fearing the system’s corrosive influence, he left for Philadelphia where he theatrically castigated his fellow Quakers. By plunging a hidden (and forbidden) sword through a book prop to spatter fake blood, he publicly indicted their own violence as slave holders. This work responds to the National Gallery’s portrait of Lay by Williams and West, who show an isolated hermit before his cave dwelling, living in concord with nature as an agrarian vegetarian. This historical allegory firmly placed in the present reframes its subject amidst conditions of both solidarity and resistance. Details from contemporary Barbadian sugarcane festivals mix with quotations of exploited field laborers, pointing to their origins in a pierced atlas. Reference: Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1668523202436-Z8S846SXBL1PX1ZYKBIH/central+heart+1200.jpg WORK - THE EDUCATION OF BENJAMIN LAY 2021 Detail of central heart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1668522471569-61AKYGWXC0TV15PULLMO/Perfect+Match+%28whole%29.jpg WORK - A PERFECT MATCH 2021 Ink on paper, 49.25 x 26.25 inches James Monroe as a burning effigy with allusions to the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1668522522865-P0KPYPJQ0ZA6JHWEEN5Q/Harbinger+%28whole%29.jpg WORK - HARBINGER 2021 Ink on paper, 50.25 x 53.25 inches James Monroe, with allusions to the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540589730836-NLZEMGH5GQMX1Q45RPR4/Somewhere+Over+detail.jpg WORK - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail Heavy children tugged, then didn’t, along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540589730455-R8U7Y7VFUANT1U8031SO/Somewhere+over+the+border+head+detail.jpg WORK - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526606904612-VDR8F1YCUS78CFJFLH8X/Fugue%2C+2017_duo.jpg WORK - FUGUE, 2017 Ink and soluble graphite on paper, two panels, 84 x 42 inches each One eye saw monstrosities. ______________ Another quizzical find was a cartoon cat printed on a sweatshirt. Its hair sprouts tied by an elastic band; its paws raised in submission. The status of statelessness that defines ‘refugee’ is not bestowed, earned or desired; its costs are dear. Rather, statelessness is a branding that burns as it takes what was given at birth. It separates, distances, and makes ‘other’. The protection sought in flight is fraught, if secured at all. Integration into a host country is mostly a prolonged trial, typically thwarted, seldom achieved, and almost never satisfactory. In the meantime, so many are suspended in limbo, involuntarily residing in camps. Only a fraction of the world’s refugees are resettled each year. Far from visibility, nearly half are confined to camps, remaining displaced for an average of seventeen years. Glimpses of refugee experience conveyed through the media are just that; they fail to reveal the depth of loss and longing for family, home and self-sufficiency. As in ancient myths and epics, novels like Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone and the Refugee Tales collection, modeled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, tell fuller stories of the perils of flight and return. Odysseus, himself, escaped from the Cyclops by clinging to and hiding under the belly of a sheep. Migrants today cling to tops of trains and undersides of trucks, risking their lives as they try to save their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608631823-GNRCA1FSXSXQ7X7AHXXW/Fugue+left_2017%2C+Ink+and+soluble+graphite+on+paper%2C+two+panels%2C+84+x+42.jpg WORK - FUGUE, 2017 Left panel, Ink and soluble graphite on paper, two panels, 84 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526606919912-YWKPOFPLT75BFCS33HBL/Detail+of+Cyclops.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607126570-HCE6K9EAADAKVVHVQH6A/Cyclops+closeup.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE Another quizzical find was a cartoon cat printed on a sweatshirt. Its hair sprouts tied by an elastic band; its paws raised in submission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607130641-SNLDJ0CWD8QNHYU5F2C4/Cyclops+and+Eagle.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE One eye saw monstrosities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607266943-R03SQ7427M3PEGDTBHKA/Urns.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607392137-VVQC64XA9UIFGVQGD2JG/IMG_4610.JPG WORK - Detail of FUGUE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607472735-VI7R7XQHNG7ABKUW28BB/Trcuk+door.jpg WORK - Detail of Fugue (truck door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608089518-UWGN8ZE7UW8RQVU9I1BC/Birds+on+truck.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE (birds on top of truck) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608118400-RQK7VRBLKO2PX9AZEBCM/Masked+figure.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608136666-9SZA1MSN35IX69G081XB/Tire.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE (tire) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608146437-WRUKE7O0BZMD2I8ANQWH/Truck+2.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE Numbers, letters, ascribed. Coming, going, proscribed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608236188-QIV850UX9XLFIYQC7QCO/Rear+view+mirror.jpg WORK - Detail of FUGUE Holding their breath, photographers unlatched the door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561587007062-C74O6GXRS696ISE8HCIZ/Nativity+detail.jpg WORK - NATIVITY 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561586978737-BB4HVU51X76ZZNC8OSDO/Nativity+II%2C+2018%2C+ink+and+wax+on+paper%2C+43+x+38+inches.jpg WORK - NATIVITY II, 2019 ink and wax on paper, 43 x 38 inches The wise men traveled by starlight. They didn’t offer toothbrushes, soap or food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526785956608-K3OSFO5WLEES0CQTWU37/2+panels+joined+copy.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Ink, charcoal, wax, graphite, 84 x 84 inches They donated to inaugural balls and political action committees and further expanded their contracts for private for-profit prison chains. In 2016, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the end of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ use of private prisons. They decorated big box chain stores with Pokemon posters to make “family-friendly facilities.” Before April 2018, asylum seekers were generally not prosecuted. Neither were people who came to the US with their children. They downplayed the cages for migrant children, comparing them to chain-link fences “around playgrounds all over America.” On June 18, Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed family separation was ‘necessary’ to keep the country from being ‘overwhelmed.’ They held hands and linked arms in human chains to prevent the placement of children in detention centers, until the police arrived. They were handcuffed as they were arrested. As of June 26, 2018, non-violent civil disobedience remains a punishable exercise of First Amendment rights. They tried to weaken a link in the authoritarian chain. On June 26, 2018, an injunction at the request of the ACLU was granted to reunite children with their parents within 30 days, but the government has no clear process to comply. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786193873-4PD5RNQ7HCRRJZILU3H1/Right+whole.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh, 2018 right panel Ink, charcoal, wax, graphite, 84 x 84 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786208758-VO7QBNOF49PM2CLYA1BO/3+kids.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786223183-JYCJ768LHZF0AJCX0G55/boat.jpg WORK - Detail, The ICEman Cometh The happier narratives of immigration that we tell our children…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786239447-MSDY0JUQG3SSHCG3ZVLR/Chains+2.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Festive decorations for detention centers…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786250023-3L6DNJX0R0FGKJZSHRS3/dreamer.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Dreamers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786255640-JNI8T2PXVZON56K6ANNJ/masked+guy.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Lucha Libre toy (the term used in Mexico for professional wrestling) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786265522-A56U9B46QR6TBUNQFRMK/Mayflower.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Commercialization of emigration narratives via fast food toys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786272791-80MLF658DUX06WIIUFOE/Mayflower+close.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Commercialization of emigration narratives via fast food toys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786277891-Z213SKF7U1ABMZC5CF98/P1030220.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786285039-BRVR4XD7N1EX2T8HMWS5/P1030221.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Dreamer with Captain America T-shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786291968-L3C04VK07EJ71AL8Z8QB/uguaro.jpg WORK - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Detention center tracking device https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786301670-QU1SJO71EYR749TJYYSN/Side+guy.jpg WORK - Detail COMETH 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786323337-B9MTJSUUR0AB1Z5TE9WN/Left+panel+whole.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Left panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786342629-7N0D6XGH0QUT7D6TU7VR/P1030189.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Left panel detail: ICE enforcers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786347732-I1YLUC7Z0DIHKWV1PJZX/P1030190.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: Girl dressed for her Quinceañera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786358286-4QX4AX85RIJQDS5CG4LQ/P1030193.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: inquiry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786364914-86B258F7LMA2UF6I0V88/P1030194.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: stuffed Pokemon toy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786369892-WQH1JESH83EQ17UK4Z2F/P1030195.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: U.S. Capitol T-shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786375110-RKO0RFFM8N97APIYZ1C7/dotted+dress.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786391792-12JWK1WNT4SAH0PIV7A2/P1030200.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: maraca with toy Policia car https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786398502-VT6AZQKLMNF8IR98E6II/Upper+chains.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: festive chains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786401872-3MQE4WCEQ6F5F0A4A7UV/P1030204.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail of left panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786415019-6M84NJAMSSUZ3YVRO8S6/Blond+Girl.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail of left panel: Girl dressed for her Quinceañera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786462603-B3GCSYNWK7TOCR10IPGJ/P1030207.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail of left panel: Girl with stuffed sheep toy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786470711-H19P4GJY9CNSV1679QA1/Picture+frame+with+toys.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: Photograph of relative attached to painting of home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786484477-24KA8X7EM34RKI5EBAUY/Pigtails.jpg WORK - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588691810-AEJWOMGAAIGAAOCZMVAB/Dreamcatcher%2C+2018%2C+90+x+42.5+inches.jpg WORK - DREAMCATCHER 2018 Ink on paper, 90 x 42.5 inches The tour moves on, and we see many more gadgets that the Border Patrol relies on to ‘gain situational awareness to better detect, identify, monitor, and respond to threats to the Nation’s borders.’ It’s a dizzying list of mechanical hoodoo: ‘Biometrecis, Thermal Hand-Held Imaging Devices, Mobile Surveillance Systems[s],… Remote Video Surveillance System[s],… Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System[s],… Night Vision Devices… Integrated Fixed Towers.’ Don’t forget assault rifles, drones, four-wheelers, horses, handcuffs, stun guns, and the old-fashioned combat boot to the neck. … In 1989,…the annual budget for the US. Border Patrol totaled $232 million. By fiscal year 2010, that annual budget had increased to $3.8 billion[.] As astonishing as this current annual boundary enforcement budget is, it still does not include the billions of dollars allotted to other agencies such as immigration, Customs and Enforcement that police ports of entry or those responsible for fence construction and maintenance. Based on rough estimates derived from a recent congressional report, $14.8 billion were spent on boundary security in fiscal year 2012. Excerpts from The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De Leon who cites the United States Border Patrol Strategic Plan. The Mission: Protect America 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588691682-MKOGEAXUIPRW1SVJYM7T/Dreamcatcher_Camera+detail.jpg WORK - DREAMCATCHER Camera detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555790129679-07J0FTEFUQVHKEF8GELD/Astronaut+2018.jpg WORK - TRANSPORT II 2018 People don’t turn into refugees overnight. Ink on paper, 90 x 43 inches Becoming a refugee is a gradual process, a bleaching out, a transition into a ghostly existence. … What matters is that a thousand little anchors once moored you to the world. Becoming a refugee means watching as those anchors are severed, one by one, until at last you’re floating outside of society, an untethered phantom in need of a new life. Excerpts from Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa by Lev Golinkin in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555789737226-2G5AE74Q7BPV8FRBCRWN/Head+detail.jpg WORK - TRANSPORT II 2018 Detail of heads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555789741303-37YC2MULOHOMKEF85LX0/suit+detail.jpg WORK - Transport II Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588742518-N3GAASJL2639X2OTFX2H/Transport+brighter.jpg WORK - TRANSPORT 2018 Ink on paper, 91.25 x 42.25 inches People don’t turn into refugees overnight. “Becoming a refugee is a gradual process, a bleaching out, a transition into a ghostly existence. With the exception of those born in refugee camps, every refugee used to have a life. … What matters is that a thousand little anchors once moored you to the world. Becoming a refuge means watching as those anchors are severed, one by one, until at last you’re floating outside of society, an untethered phantom in need of a new life.” Excerpts from Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa by Lev Golinkin in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588736866-790L1NO4HV6J65MADVQ1/helmet+det.jpg WORK - TRANSPORT 2018 Detail of astronaut helmet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588741995-OK66ARJYJOK2E7KKA24S/child+face+det.jpg WORK - TRANSPORT 2018 Detail of child’s head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588771827-P84D1OSGZDJOBUE1VPQJ/Bound%2C+2018_Boy_41.25+x+88.5+inches_Johnson+.jpg WORK - BOUND 2018 Ink on paper, 41.25 x 88.5 inches They came effortlessly, alone, empty handed, without friends, family, culture or a past. They took off on a lark without needs, or provisions; required nothing to sustain life, neither food, water nor shelter. They traveled freely amongst strangers, without care, language or desire. They tarried and waited, unseen, without apprehension of the foretold or fear of the unforeseen. They were impervious to temperature, exposure to the elements and the creatures of the land and sea. They would not be deterred—no matter the hardships, the consequences, the threats and promises of violence, oppression and humiliation. They could not be prevented—despite barriers, surveillance, military tactics and personnel, by vigilantes, the hostiles. They were able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588775111-D57SLPJ40IM46VJV6CFB/Bound%2C+2018_Caped+Boy+detail.jpg WORK - Detail of BOUND 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588773917-LDG3ZZ01AO3211VXQ2ZV/Bound_Cape+detail.jpg WORK - Detail of BOUND 2018 Detail of cape https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132803093-SSGQ48KKM7AI02M6GL6N/1+CEDE+Mother%27s+House+%28whole%29+84%2522+x+84%2522.jpg WORK - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) 2017 Ink on paper, 84 x 84 inches, two panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132802379-3Y15WA8K1LO2SQDS28EC/2+CEDE+mother+Living+Room.jpg WORK - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) detail of Living Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132805900-ZHT7NXCQMNPK98DIX5OS/8+CEDE+mother+Empty+Bed+w+flowers.jpg WORK - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) Detail of empty bed with monkey pillow case https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132808610-VUQ879O43Z9KKXU2R25O/10+CEDE+mother+Tank+Notation+det.jpg WORK - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) Tank notation detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132809122-8TCHYC24YOCKP0Z51X85/10.5+CEDE+mother+Tank+in+Room.jpg WORK - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) Detail of tank in room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526606803287-J07CYALWQGSDIJ52XQD2/Ascension%2C+2017%2C+ink%2C84+x+42.jpg WORK - ASCENSION, 2017 Ink, 84 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526606821527-FRKW00HBCI9W5GFF3OTC/Ascension+detail_Born+Free.jpg WORK - Detail of ASCENSION, 2017 Ink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304214456-EXC9QR1S5133Q7B1AJ19/Fawn%2C+2015+ink%2C+20.5x28.5.jpg WORK - Untiled (Fawn) 2015 ink on paper, 20.5 x 28.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304277366-Q5VCT8GIDM11G78HYOZD/Fawn+detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Fawn) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390011113-KXXK4NXVAR2FLK8WZ4LR/William+Tell%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+20+x+29+inches_6.5MB.jpg WORK - William Tell, 2016 ink on paper, 20 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390010298-89TIS556CB6CTRB0JWAE/William+Tell%2C+2016_+detail_baseball_6MB.jpg WORK - Detail of William Tell, 2016 (baseball) ink on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1473448771363-6IITJQBEQSJKL92RXW8C/Daniel+Boone%2C+2016+ink+on+beige+paper%2C+21.5+x+29+inches+copy.jpg WORK - A Delicate Balance, 2016, ink on beige paper, 21.5 x 29 in In ‘A Delicate Balance,’ we find: a scale model tank resting on an upended Daniel Boone TV series metal lunch box; a terracotta bound Aztec slave sitting on a US Defense ministry seal printed on an empty cardboard doll box; a plastic buffalo, miniature guns, ceramic ‘tea party minute man’ and O'joker (President Obama painted as the Joker from The Dark Knight Batman film), bobble-head figurines, a Parthenon Museum of Knoxville souvenir coffee cup, a cloth Donald Rumsfeld doll, iron eagle wall décor, and an ancient Greek bust of a youth bearing a yarmulke from the Israeli army. They are all among the salient and evaporating elements competing for table top space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390011912-2WTE3XAE06NX1L2H942V/MoMA%27s+Lions%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+Strathmore%2C+18+x+24+inches.jpg WORK - MoMA's Lions, 2016 ink on Strathmore, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390009622-8RL39BH4D99WVXRNG0U1/Foot+Smasher%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+on+gray+paper%2C+28+x+20.5+inches_6.7MB.jpg WORK - Foot Smasher, 2016 ink on on gray paper, 28 x 20.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390009048-4AH4P026SYY9JNQKTXMZ/Foot+Smasher%2C+2016%2C+detail+of+king_4.7MB.jpg WORK - Detail of Foot Smasher (king), 2016 ink on gray paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390008124-JJJ8236U9F5UAU8YGO77/Foot+Smasher%2C+2016_detail+of+frog_web.jpg WORK - Detail of Foot Smashed, 2016 (frog) ink on gray peper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390008850-WFIKHWCCZ877I7QC1I24/Foot+Smasher%2C+2016%2C+detail+of+flower+fox+detail_web+.jpg WORK - Detail of Foot Smasher, 2016 ink on on gray paper, 28 x 20.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304990710-QNQ4FQ3WRGLR16WY31M9/PArthenon+goblet%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Fabriano%2C+20x28.jpg WORK - Untitled (Parthenon Goblet) 2015, ink on Fabriano, 20 x 28 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305098272-FQ5Z6GIADUWSO9EQ1FU2/Parthenon+Goblet-detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Parthenon Goblet) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304047127-CXU45L1GFFHY667MD5DR/Big+Foot%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Arches%2C+28.5x20.jpg WORK - Untitled (Big Foot) 2015, ink on Arches, 28.5x20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304142028-VXVPAMD2CE86TFOJ07VM/Big+Foot_detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Big Foot) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304395387-3RW6EKCDP82U3TXDD6WF/Bookends%2C2015%2C+ink+on+Fabriano%2C+29x21.jpg WORK - Untitled(Bookends) 2015, ink on Fabriano, 29 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462307076384-B0I4UC7AXO5ZO3ZEB1CT/Bookends_detail+2.jpg WORK - Untitled (Bookends) detail 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304448157-2CK4TA5NM6EFNWIEQRYY/Bookends_detail+3.jpg WORK - Untitled(Bookends) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306690105-VGXELXRZKAX951SS5XVT/Skull_Osama+Profile%2C+2015%2C+ink+and+gouache+on+gray+paper.jpg WORK - Untitled (Osama and Skull) 2015, ink and gouache on gray paper, 20 x 28.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304657604-GV0F7UL8T3MHGQ2X5ZM2/Bugles_eagles%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+19.5x28.jpg WORK - Untitled (Bugle mouthpieces and Eagle) 2015, ink on paper, 19.5 x 28 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304719274-UNSCB28O3PSW4BNEQFOP/Bugles_eagles+detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Bugle mouthpieces and Eagle) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304512467-YD4MQDO6NQPUPJOQVA8Y/Birds+and+Knit+Beard%2C+2015%2C+ink+20.5x29.jpg WORK - Untitled(Birds and Knit Beard) 2015, ink on paper, 20.5 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304588085-TWAEPRIHIOCAMM8QD8DD/Birds+and+Knit+Beard+detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Birds and Knit Beard) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304815339-17HGRF4FYODD3AL05W3N/Epiphany%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+20x29.jpg WORK - Untitled (Epiphany) 2015, ink on paper, 20 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304931558-R4TD77CNOJ49WCWWRNOI/Epiphany_detail_+2015.jpg WORK - Untitled (Epiphany) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305930273-3LU52EKU6O5UCNOKUBYN/Profile+with+spool%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+20x28.jpg WORK - Untitled(Profile with Spool) 2015, ink on paper, 20x28 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306064411-322OJANGR5237UDA4GBO/Profile+with+spool-detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Profile with Spool) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306778463-CCNBAGYIE75YM8JIREL2/Swathe%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Fabriano%2C20.5x29.jpg WORK - Untitled (Swathe Lifted) 2015, ink on Fabriano, 20.5 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306848524-LSX83FPKL0W1IN857XHR/Swathe_detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Swathe Lifted) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306243093-70XY0YGNBR2HSLTFC6M3/Reclining+Skeleton%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Fabriano%2C+21x28.75.jpg WORK - Untitled (Reclining Skeleton) 2015, ink on Fabriano, 21 x 28.75 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306610087-Z8O4US68DWDOAG3K8NV5/Reclining+Skeleton_detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Reclining Skeleton) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305579935-CD5S11IOXI2T7AL4HH77/Politicos%2C+2015%2Cink+and+gouache+on+gray+paper%2C+28.5x20.25.jpg WORK - Untitled (Politicos) 2015,ink and gouache on gray paper, 28.5 x 20.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305782726-DCVNKJAJ589JC60GP9EA/Politicos+detail.jpg WORK - Untitled (Politicos) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305351793-KZ3A3NFPQMBJ239AO3IX/Pale+Lions%2C+2015+ink%2C+20.5+x29.jpg WORK - Tug of War ink on paper, 20 x 28.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306929126-KIS3QD9PDFB3HLQRKIOX/Tank%2C+2015%2C+20x26+inches%2Cgraphite.jpg WORK - Untitled (Tank) 2015, graphite on paper, 20 x 26 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486245102351-ON8VWS271CZM58LKF12R/Touch+and+Go%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+ARches%2C+29x21+inches.jpg WORK - Touch and Go 2015, ink on Arches, 29 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486244889118-V2WWVVC8783CHBJ6XECF/Drawn%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+paper%2C29x21.jpg WORK - Drawn 2015, ink, 29 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304326293-X69UBZ798C8KJP6PD4LQ/Eagle+Eyes%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+28.75x20.25.jpg WORK - Untitled (Eagle Eyes) 2015, ink on paper, 28.75 x 20.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486244975190-JGUHD6CYI1W9FYP66VU1/Salute%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+22x11.75+inches.jpg WORK - Salute 2015, ink, 22 x 11.75 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486244879006-SSCGYL9QX28GD0UPN3VR/Leaping+Gazelle%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Arches%2C+21.5x20.5+inches.jpg WORK - Tail Chasing 2015, ink on Arches, 21.5 x 29.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390007982-BO5LBH37YWTLW8VN4GO2/Flower+Smasher%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+Strathmore%2C+18+x+24+inches_web.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305474652-X2KPV0ZGSMN498MZNPAR/Liberty%2C+2015%2C+20x20%2C+graphite%2C+20x020.jpg WORK - Untitled (Liberty) 2015, graphite, 20x20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1550882677528-U665SVBQ720GXKE9FCFB/Johnson_Andrew+Ellis_Mirage+of+the+Magi+1.jpg WORK - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Ink on paper, 59 x 114.5 inches There were signs, tracks, tolls, pleas. Mirage of the Magi mocks the hysterical hype of ‘invasions,’ ‘terrorists’ and ‘bad people’ at the border. Instead, spirits riding camels bring gifts to fore. They are distinguished ‘terrorists’ from the Middle East, leading a Central American Caravan. They have journeyed to where the star stops—at the border. Barely visible in the distance, ‘hordes’ of immigrant day laborers breach the barricade to tend crops for below poverty wages without job security, benefits or the protection of labor laws. The ghostly wall behind them becomes a backdrop for those who actually cultivate our sustenance. Mirage of the Magi was included in Somewhere Over the Border at the Allcott Gallery at UNC Chapel Hill, February 10 – March 8, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552532762972-XEBIZRNNQBXM0HUUNNJH/Black+Ribboned+Woman.jpg WORK - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Detail of Black Ribboned Woman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552532759981-BA7065M8WVSOD35BYMEF/Sombrero+King%29lo.jpg WORK - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552532752471-CSZ8KGNTTVUA6RY6ZR6P/Laborers.jpg WORK - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Detail of laborers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530525048-JREWDY4SKTQQ2HU83PMP/Mist+of+the+Magi%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+59+x+114.5.jpeg WORK - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 Ink on unframed paper, 59 x 114.5 inches Swift from the whirlwinds of indefinite chaos comes a caravan—a rude, discordant, shapeless mass with a heap of attendant spirits. Mist of Magi is part of the series Somewhere Over the Border that examines the state of statelessness that defines ‘refugee.’ Refugees are not born but created out of dire circumstances typically resulting from systemic exploitation, economic destitution, and the upheavals of war and famine. The displaced are frequently portrayed as stripped of culture, connection, profession and the ability to care for each other or themselves. These works depict migrants in their strength-possessing a past and dreaming a future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530624504-Y984D9L8C4TWZWMN28QF/P1030883.jpeg WORK - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530526292-JEL6ZE3TG5RA64S4YVJJ/Trust+Jesus+detail.jpeg WORK - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 Trust in Jesus detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530529587-N0QQGMV2EQBT6FGQEL9P/Ammo+detail.jpeg WORK - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 Ammo detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530651300-U23K9E37HPBCBNW8MA62/Mist+of+MAgi+Head+detail.jpg WORK - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 Jaguar mask detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560978920325-XYFAL63OPAFRMGVUOIXI/cabbage+patch+harvest.jpg WORK - Conquistadors: Cabbage Harvest 2019 Ink on paper, 54.75 x 58.5 inches Sanguine faces in florid fields. Florid tales with sanguine knives that cut stem from base, without damage to the product. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560978734615-4THF3V1CUE830FUXZE27/Cabbage+Patch+helmet+det.+good.jpg WORK - Conquistadors: Cabbage Harvest 2019 Detail of helmet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979655503-UUMZY92O3ZDVHSA7WYA5/Death+Against+A+Hedge.jpg WORK - DEATH AGAINST THE HEDGE 2019 Ink on paper, 42.5 x 91 inches Fear the landscaper. The cucumber workers are having a field day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979668049-Z0YD8Q4L842U254R4BFB/Death+Against+A+Hedge+det.jpg WORK - DEATH AGAINST THE HEDGE 2019 Detail of pruner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979684941-2U5VC2G0XBSWATA73EC8/Death+Against+A+Hedge+det.bird.jpg WORK - DEATH AGAINST THE HEDGE 2019 Detail of bird Ink on paper, 42.5 x 91 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1623550483610-G7V8MUO8SE52TR4G621F/Patrol%252C%2B2018.jpg WORK - PATROL 2019 Ink on paper, 43.5 x 38.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530750524-X26G9H2F2TGUTSQ30HKX/Patrol_mask+detail.jpg WORK - PATROL 2019 Mask detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530763079-DEVW1X5JGKKF47PPLLSJ/Patrol_ICE+detail.jpg WORK - PATROL 2019 Detail of ICE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530772856-E61F1Q3M4ORXHZGDGHO0/Conquistadors+%28Eggplant+Harvest%29%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+Paper%2C+30.5+x+43.75+inches.jpg WORK - CONQUISTADORS: EGGPLANT HARVEST 2019 Ink on Paper, 30.5 x 43.75 inches Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna They had hit Ruben with the high beams, had blinded him so that the van he was driving, full of Mexicans going to pick tomatoes, would have to stop. Ruben spun - the van into an irrigation ditch, spun the five-year-old me awake to immigration officers, their batons already out, already looking for the soft spots on the body, to my mother being handcuffed and dragged to a van, to my father trying to show them our green cards. - They let us go. But Alvaro was going back. So was his brother Fernando. So was their sister Sonia. Their mother did not escape, and so was going back. Their father was somewhere in the field, and was free. There were no great truths - revealed to me then. No wisdom given to me by anyone. I was a child who had seen what a piece of polished wood could do to a face, who had seen his father about to lose the one he loved, who had lost some friends who would never return, who, later that morning, bent to the earth and went to work." - From Bent to the Earth, © 2006 by Blas Manuel De Luna, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530781621-LEA4YYSXPIGV2DVYS7WH/Conquistadors+%28Eggplant+Harvest%29%2C+Detail%2C2019%2C+Ink+on+Paper%2C+30.5+x+43.75+inches.jpg WORK - CONQUISTADORS: EGGPLANT HARVEST 2019 Detail of conquistador helmet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565191750587-MMSPMA04SBAJCUVIFO5D/Trim+and+Proper%2C+2019%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+44x36.jpg WORK - TRIM AND PROPER 2019 ink on paper, 44 x 36 inches Fear the landscaper. The cucumber workers are having a field day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629740338428-53AD4R3JXRTFVWKLQ2NE/Companions+%28jaguar+bunks+whole+large%29.jpg WORK - COMPANIONS 2019 Ink on paper, 42 x 90 inches Incarcerated girls sleep in the forced sorority of isolation, separated from their parents seeking asylum at the border. Their patterned bedding refers to the jaguar in Aztec and Mayan mythology, a being of the stars and the earth, alternately representing a brave warrior or ruler of the underworld; the night sun and darkness; power, ferocity, and valor; and the power to face one's fears or confront one's enemies. Paper chains of faceless human figures cast shadows in the cinder block room. The child in the lower bunk covers her face with laundry as lights remain on throughout the night in detention centers. Misidentification and loss of identity are reflected in the mirroring of the numerical stenciling of 906 and 906 on the bunk beds. That anonymity is resisted with possessions carried for months on migrant journeys, often across deserts and swamps, including clothing, hand washed underwear drying on iron railings, religious cards, beaded necklaces and bracelets, and a plastic toy plant set on rungs of bunkbed ladders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629740354072-IC7CRUGE1OI5NXMYMFI6/companions+%28jaguar+girl+detail%29.jpg WORK - COMPANIONS 2019 Detail of child in the lower bunk covering her face with laundry as lights remain on throughout the night in detention centers. Ink on paper, 42 x 90 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629740379335-KXFIJ45U6EAYTBH4SEWL/Lower+chamber+of+perpetual+light.jpg WORK - COMPANIONS 2019 Detail of lower bunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629767735047-6QVOG72O28A5JRIHLE8E/items+for+passage.jpg WORK - COMPANIONS 2019 Detail of items for passage. Ink on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530810252-TJZJ8BUDRR62JUNE4SRX/Black+Cabbage_Helmet+Offering+detail.jpg WORK - BLACK CABBAGE 2019 Center detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530822194-2R582039L34GUB9Q8SI1/Black+Cabbage_upper+left+corner.jpg WORK - BLACK CABBAGE 2019 Upper left corner detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530834969-40BENZPT94WN6YYJG9UO/Helmut+detail.jpg WORK - BLACK CABBAGE 2019 Helmet detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552764371112-O1MZZEU0O45R7YZ58997/Sanctuary_butterfly+girl%2C2019%2Cink%2C43.5x34.5.jpg WORK - SANCTUARY 2019 Ink on paper, 43.5 x 34.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531064826-9M5CCPMCD2FC5DMZYECO/Sanctuary_helmet.jpg WORK - SANCTUARY 2019 Detail of conquistador helmet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531069132-9LHF2JJ3OWG7QRNIBC5Y/Sanctuary_Bucket.jpg WORK - SANCTUARY 2019 Detail of picking peppers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552763046160-P458QIKKPBN2HRWHNPP5/Black+Hand%2C+2019%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+42.5+x+91+inches.jpg WORK - BLACK HAND 2019 Ink on paper, 42.5 x 91 inches Psalm By Wisława Szymborska (trs. Joanna Trzeciak) How leaky are the borders of man-made states! How many clouds float over them scot-free, how much desert sand sifts from country to country, how many mountain pebbles roll onto foreign turf in provocative leaps! Need I cite each and every bird as it flies, or alights, as now, on the lowered gate? Even if it be a sparrow—its tail is abroad, thought its beak is still home. As if that weren’t enough—it keeps fidgeting! Out of countless insects I will single out the ant, who, between the guard’s left and right boots, feels unobliged to answer questions of origin and destination. If only this whole mess could be seen at once in detail on every continent! Isn’t that a privet on the opposite bank smuggling its hundred-thousandth leaf across the river? Who else but the squid, brazenly long-armed, would violate the sacred territorial waters? How can we speak of any semblance of order when we can’t rearrange the stars to know which one shines for whom? Not to mention the reprehensible spreading of fog! Or the dusting of the steppe over its entire range as though it weren’t split in two! Or voices carried over accommodating air waves: summoning squeals and suggestive gurgles! Only what’s human can be truly alien. The rest is mixed forest, undermining moles, and wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552763066338-SQVC8HDM46M7NK7UCU8K/Hand+detail.jpg WORK - BLACK HAND 2019 Detail of black hand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552763053585-9YBCKEXXB206HD7MXG5A/Cyclops+detail.jpg WORK - BLACK HAND 2019 Detail of Cyclops trailed by sheep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552763160947-UPA2LVPA4N5T5BQJNRXH/Aztec+Reins.jpg WORK - BLACK HAND 2019 Detail of sheep muzzle with Aztec reins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561583245086-J9CZ96TMVPGYPTBY645F/Somewhere+Over+the+Border%2C+2018%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+3+panels%2C+42x107.5+each_20MB.jpg WORK - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Displaced and stateless peoples are often seen as stripped of culture, connection, profession and the ability to care for each other or themselves. Somewhere Over the Border depicts migrants in their strength—possessing a past and dreaming a future. Children, separated from their relatives by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol Agents, invert the usual power dynamic. Their masks, attire and postures draw upon a rich and self-sufficient culture. Mayan and Aztec iconography abounds, invoking the power of the Mesoamerican god Tezcatlipoca, associated with the night sky and winds, hurricanes, enmity, discord, divination, sorcery and strife. In creation myths, Tezcatlipoca is often shown with his lost right foot replaced with an obsidian mirror. Channeling night and the force of gales, the children become gods, tossing their powerless would-be captors on a parachute that becomes the heavens. Some agents wear flower-patterned fatigues; their scopes and surveillance gear are aimless. Others become Mexican Lucha libre pro-wrestlers in tights and tattoos, caught and tethered with beaded friendship bracelets. The children’s attire grants agency and promises transport—imprinted with sea creatures and freight trains colloquially known as ‘La Bestia’ (The Beast)—that have carried them, in dream or reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561584793587-9V6WQ2G4CTIE5YXPB2FZ/Somewhere+Over+the+Border_central+detail_20MB.jpg WORK - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Central detail Heavy children tugged, then didn’t, along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561586790612-4AZJRTO747RAHXXHAB0V/Mask.jpg WORK - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail of mask https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561585071584-4C6SLD9CH3JS6QG2FT94/Conch+shell.jpg WORK - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail of conch shell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561585067705-WH4OAAGKPMMUBQEU2IJ5/pajamas.jpg WORK - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561826202623-V76E5OA02Y9W95HVIZC9/Dog+Boy%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+42+x+39+inches.jpg WORK - DOG BOY 2019 Ink on paper, 42 x 39 inches In Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, the narrator’s immigrant parents, following a rural Vietnamese tradition of naming a child for something so worthless that the evil spirits might pass over the house and spare him, call him Little Dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188566495-U8K9XNN0C5DVG2RFNTEL/Fierce+Determined+Undaunted+20+MB+whole+dyptic_ss.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Ink on two pieces of paper, 42 x 91 inches each Deep in the heavy metal mines Mercury sends mixed signals. Tremble. Stay. Quarry to quarantine, you won’t find anyone, anymore, with that name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188587053-IPFR9AULNZ0N6C77G1MY/Fierce+Determined+Undaunted+left.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Left half: 42 x 91 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188593711-H3BYNNYUG9CZBHZW3VWM/Fierce+Determined+Undaunted+right.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Right half, 42 x 91 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188743336-34CITRQJ81SK5K02WO4N/oversight.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Oversight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188636479-2I0E6MPDLPCLT1Q95BB9/double+consciousness.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Double Consciousness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188673136-NNJ7MZSK31C05TTMDM94/talismen.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Talisman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188719837-7L3Q9UEUWZCKY6B402S1/process+of+denial+vertical.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Process of Denial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189782457-EUCB92L3517FSUWHOSJ8/night+vision+warrants.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Night Vision Warrants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188732114-ZQS2051WDLHD1NSZRN61/squeeze+factors.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Squeeze Factors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189794562-MA263X128U0HXCGX0WNX/in+some+respects+egalitarian.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: In some respects egalitarian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189552379-XTIV4QIKUQEJCU330FHX/The+Fear+of+Nostalgia.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Fear of Nostalgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189936649-SD1ZJMBRPKI02ZL7A2VC/masked+gunmen.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Masked gunmen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189622353-G9UQEII1J75IMCGFVBV9/mining+pipes+distributing+toxins.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Mining Pipes Distributing Toxins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188764584-PSAQFVG9YLY8MEYEKQ2V/no+aid+to+Central+American+Northern+Triangle+logo.jpg WORK - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: No Aid to Central American Northern Triangle Logo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1638896972889-R7V13WKSYOIFTAKC0I23/Providence%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+55.5+x+55.5+inches.jpg WORK - PROVIDENCE 2019 Ink on Talas paper, 55.5 x 55.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1638896984049-CFOGET2S6DXHLCGW3W5D/Center+detail.jpg WORK - Detail from PROVIDENCE 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1638896994965-9QW1HB2XZVXN5MTXQJ6X/Two+figures+2.jpg WORK - Detail from PROVIDENCE 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979139400-JBVCWML71KO6VYKKBV0M/Navigation%2C+2019%2C+ink+54x114.jpg WORK - NAVIGATION 2019 Ink on paper, 54 x 114 inches Fierce, you came, determined, undaunted. My thumbprints look funny if humble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979201640-EP834RVKPZU2J61LBIV7/Navigation+det.+seated+four.jpg WORK - NAVIGATION 2019 Detail of four riders https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979755395-28EQ7JDKOMEDEVYQ2WQK/Navigation+det.+camel+head.jpg WORK - NAVIGATION 2019 Detail of camel head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979202562-ATE8Z571G0VT53HO8ID7/Navigation+det.+spurs.jpg WORK - NAVIGATION 2019 Detail of spurs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555354216722-XO970G8T37QHB9TD7J4T/Barrier+Knight_20M.jpg WORK - Barrier Knight 2019 Ink on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531196432-N7LQ02PF2C8VSBJV1A2S/Camel+Under+Gate%2C+2019.jpg WORK - INVADERS 2019 Ink on paper, 43 x 38 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531202470-62WF27IE0WMFVZKPX1OI/Rider.jpg WORK - INVADERS 2019 Detail of rider https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531209966-6ESNFK2031MDQC9HYYLV/Camel+Head.jpg WORK - INVADERS 2019 Detail of camel head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1566140848517-H3RTOYRHC91LN85C5JY2/Boots.jpg WORK - NATIVITY II, 2018 Ink and wax on paper, 43.5 x 38.5 inchess The wise men traveled by starlight. They didn’t offer toothbrushes, soap or food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1566140880862-D0TFILUBETBAUQBC9JF6/Boots_Baby+detail.jpg WORK - NATIVITY II 2018 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555959403729-LBMZ1W7GZ39H3S5J3JUS/JOHNSON_Pressed.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH Digital collage image for exhibition announcement, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555964111491-KCNU4BWNDKOZ62NGM5WO/A+Space-Johnson_Page_1.jpg WORK - ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PRESSED AT A SPACE February 25 - March 26, 2005 in Toronto Essay by b.h. Yael https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555964562841-15XHFC2RX8TQHCCV7HUQ/A+Space-Johnson_Page_2.jpg WORK - ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PRESSED AT A SPACE Interior https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555964654082-R0HU7KMXTN2DE3XHHB9E/b.h.+yael+essay.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960104865-NNZW7K6HFTPYQVBP7YG7/3.dozer+installed.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 Detail of Caterpillar bulldozer used to demolish Palestinian homes and olive groves. Digital prints on custom-cut acrylic mirrored tiles. Installed at Chatham College, Pittsburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960432187-YYX90ZYUPFXNHV837RAY/2.long+view+rev_altered.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 View of Caterpillar Bulldozer with tracks Digital prints on custom-cut acrylic mirrored tiles with barbed wire. Installed at Chatham College Pittsburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555959424303-SKHC5VKBN1RW8GY9N0N6/pressed6.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 Detail of wall with olive orchard on custom-cut reflective acrylic tiles. Installed at Chatham College Pittsburgh. Source photograph by Martin Prekop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960107265-AYCHTULB2P0D43L3KSEB/5.We+shall+return.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 Detail of printed bulldozer tiles with graffiti “We shall return” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960111295-286V1ZRVWMPCD2UZSXK7/4.caterpillar+logo.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 Detail of mirrored tiles with Caterpillar bulldozer logo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960430704-N51KZ7AKA0IT0VRHZ9S1/9.orchard+w+pattern.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 Plan for cutting the printed mirrored tiles for the olive grove. Source photograph by Martin Prekop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555963599035-KM97IH7G9ZWD85MLQV16/Pressed+on+Paper+at+Kendall.JPG WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 Selection from a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Installed at Fed Galleries, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2017-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961671146-TL4WMMI0KQH0KJYZ1MK3/hex+4+top+5.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions Hex 4 Top 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961673783-WV6LGG118ANWXSI6331Y/hex+7+top2.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 7, Top 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961676836-ZWWURW9HBHTHGADSMCHF/hex+9+bttm5.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 9, Bottom 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961678609-8KNHXI328S89CK9C503X/hex+10+bttm3.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 10, Bottom 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961687208-CO1FDSP3FRSMLHCRQPAH/hex+11+up+mid+5.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 11, Mid 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961691716-JFF5DPJKNL7RRX69Z180/hex+20.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 20, Up mid 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961694320-323NJNJ95A9KYBZO39WU/hex+23+up+mid+2.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 23, Up mid 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961745476-B8B1QQUX5R2SB8KHZ3JB/hex+26+up+mid+3.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 26, Up mid 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961770733-NIZ7LYULYXNFVNNWZR5N/hex+31+top+4.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 31, Top 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961786614-05U5NXPR0O7W9V32K6WU/hex+33.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 33, Up Mid 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961817090-C872M1KGKW0JF28B9K11/hex+44++bttm1.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions Hex 44, Bottom 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961820817-5ZRR09DJG5622B3KK464/hex+45bttm7.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 45, Bottom 7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961827015-TE618H81BE69BECDS3A7/PRESSED_Razor+XLVIII.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 48, Top 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961865743-DCJ4JDDQ7MXJYI0BKPMQ/razor+2+up+mid+8.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 2, Up mid 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961872389-GP7HDQ8K2Y2MUCP7F4NX/razor+8+bttm4.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 8, Bottom 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961876725-BWI6FC2DJ0D0LRPD61WX/razor+9lo+mid+4.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 9, Low mid 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961909136-TX2PDVXNO828HXB6JP9T/razor+11+top+6.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions Razor 11, Top 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961917244-NXRI0A214BJ4B9R5NP8F/razor+14+bttm6.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 14, Bottom 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961918891-T7BI3AA5C05WERRG91LD/razor+16+top1.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 16, Top 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961921985-MPOI0LEXTBT9PP2ZQD5C/razor+18+lo+mid+3.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 18, low mid 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961926202-BW2BKEZX5BT717W9BLMH/razor+20+lo+mid+8.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 20, Low mid 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961928762-N3VUGBQMZUC14T13EO1S/razor+21+up+mid+1.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 21, Up Mid 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961931866-4CZ8D2RLMRF6MCUUOB22/razor+27+up+mid+7.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 27, Up Mid 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961934701-YX39326LE438ZGCN7CPA/razor+28+lo+mid+1.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961936593-2JBBEB57RFIOFJF8WYLB/razor+29+lo+mid+2.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961937706-XBE03V3CJRUM2QZHITLU/razor+30+lo+mid+5.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 30, Low mid 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961941063-43CSATKVZ6CY2TNP6B0B/razor+32+lo+mid+7.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions, Razor 32, Low mid 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961945869-OXHX4LO0HCGEMDNISI99/razor+32+lo+mid+7.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961950883-65USP0OHGTS0D820FXUV/razor+35+lo+mid+6.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961951925-P8BZD3WTK0IL681WA7Z3/razor+38+top+7.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 38, Top 7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961954486-HPGQBCPMU9W2UVMF0XPF/razor+48+top+3.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 48, Top 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961956329-MYYEOOIMLJPCU3HTV287/razor+51+bttm2.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 51, Bottom 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961959096-V8GPTSKL02FJ9ZQB2Q03/razor+70+top+8.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions Razor 70, Top 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555962976831-5J5X14S2ZDR83FGHYHR9/razor+77+bttm8.jpg WORK - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions, Razor 77, Bottom 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563952665-HNRJK6F5KLMGMBJYM233/Scent.jpg WORK - SCENT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563953887-SK4WOCAWK4GELAD6ZZP4/up+%26+down+prayer.jpg WORK - UP & DOWN PRAYER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563950526-9RFQ1UPVZV0LRLGQGEWY/Accrual.jpg WORK - ACCRUAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563950884-DJ69464KH0H80FUVBOZV/Butting+Gazelles.jpg WORK - BUTTING GAZELLES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563950506-MPP5VXLHYEOCIA7X6NXH/Burial.jpg WORK - BURIAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563950964-FGGP58NGV1AFF61CKIPE/Carrion.jpg WORK - CARRION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563951314-PEQPD84DZ6BEC3EHX04L/eating+high.jpg WORK - EATING HIGH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563951664-CJ3NYU26R9HJ53GIMIM0/Gone.jpg WORK - GONE FLAT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563951641-6JM28SW5HKLCNF31J0QU/grazing+chopper.jpg WORK - GRAZING CHOPPER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563951251-IVOXQVCWPXL52LCB8SB2/ENTRY.jpg WORK - ENTRY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563952153-UCURGFVTJ605Y9Q14N6Q/merry+go+round.jpg WORK - MERRY GO ROUND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563952149-5ZZ41LGS7Z3RW5DU7C78/monster+headlight.jpg WORK - MONSTER HEADLIGHT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563953230-LYM3SD07LNB9M17OIZ7X/sitting+roof+mascott.jpg WORK - ROOF MASCOT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563953279-L1PQM1JYPSQHJJJCYB1I/there+there.jpg WORK - THERE THERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556564410112-QYYX4UEA7I3DGHP2GRZH/sheep+prison++FINAL+FLAT.jpg WORK - SHEEP PRISON https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563952638-T8VZD61BEFVFHEJ8G05I/push+up+jump.jpg WORK - PUSH UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563953779-CJWNWO6HT4UXT0S58871/tree+climbing.jpg WORK - TREE CLIMBING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559884029-V12RGPH4T0GCY3UDUA7D/35_36sand+backCover_pp.jpg WORK - FOLD 2006 Front cover pages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559962883-FIZXANUMVZB6RKZ8JRNZ/3_4+SandNigger2ithWatermelonTaffy+copy.jpg WORK - FOLD Pages 3 and 4 “Sand Nigger” is an offensive and derogatory term used by some American military personnel to describe a person of Middle Eastern descent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560018097-VDJ90NOQX8KDTNCJY9PM/5-6+Leash+and+Still+Life.jpg WORK - FOLD: LEASH and LAST BREATH Page 3: After-image of the leash held by Lynddie England at Abu Ghraib. Page 4: Last breath of a dying goat in a parched land, with a dream of daisies plucked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560055789-U16MW6QDBYBU2JNQHCJI/7-8_MetalMadeFlesh+and+Quarry.jpg WORK - FOLD: METAL MADE FLESH and QUARRY Pages 7 and 8 METAL MADE FLESH: in an instrument of devastation-- excavating consciousness in an altered geography, an altered photograph — an altered veracity changing the borders, felling the peace. As opposed to the mechanical bulldozers that destroy Palestinian homes and olive groves, this shovel is a manually operated tool. It represents personal labor and pain, pigmented with flesh and blood-colored rust. QUARRY The wound of crushing exposed The blood red head of a hammer looms above a distant mosque. The taffy below writhes in sand imprinted with patterns of Islamic design — a metaphor for being mired in intractable situations we help to create — in Palestine, Afghanistan and so many other places of war and occupation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560113185-HDEBGOTDF591JULHDQF4/9%2C10_ShadowArch+copy.jpg WORK - FOLD: SHADOW ARCH Pages 9 and 10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560150189-KW7DOZD2FOX43HDCAQYX/11-12_This_LandIsMy+Land%2CThisLandIsMyLand.+II+copy.jpg WORK - FOLD: THIS LAND IS MY LAND, THIS LAND IS MY LAND I and II Pages 11-12 A face-off (if shown as a pair) of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers used to destroy Palestinian homes and olive groves. Enlarged to absurd proportions, these monstrous machines appear part animal. Humorous in their incongruity and impossibility, they are open to interpretation. Is the bulldozer like some thumb of God, rubbing out the olive trees? Or, is the tree rising up and offering its oppressor to a heavenly judge? Can be exhibited singly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559769788-C6L5NE751ENNWHAH18O8/13-14_FirstRequest+and+Spring+Preening.jpg WORK - FOLD: FIRST REQUEST and SPRING PREENING Pages 13 and 14 Smoke from an Aladdin’s lamp merges with the trail of a burning Gazelle helicopter. A dove preens in the absence of peace. The lower border portrays the transition of King Richard the Lionheart’s sword into taffy — a malleable, limp, impotent, sticky, messy goo into which any strong, hard, sharp-edged, steel weapon dissolves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559775657-473LSN5AACYNRSIW5PGL/15-16_DryTablets+and+Magic+Carpet.jpg WORK - FOLD: DRY TABLETS and MAGIC CARPET Pages 15 and 16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559918511-M0OPMR1EMFOZ2AZBY1UB/17-18__Refrain+I+and+II.jpg WORK - FOLD: REFRAIN I and II Pages 17 and 18 Microphones engraved with Arabic script give voice to those whose throats have been (figuratively or literally)severed. The plaster heads are life casts from women of Middle Eastern descent. The sword below is a replica of the one used by Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade in which he massacred thousands of Muslim prisoners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559918155-FJ3I9VNX7B5TRINSN8XS/19_20_Somewhere+Over+Geneva.jpg WORK - FOLD: SOMEWHERE OVER GENEVA 12 x 18 inches, pages 19 and 20 A meditation on violations of human rights conventions and agreements. As of January 2010, the United Nations Security Council had passed 79 resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law concerning Palestine and Lebanon. Donald Neff, former Bureau Chief in Israel for Time: “Aside from the core issues—refugees, Jerusalem, borders—the major themes reflected in the U.N. resolutions against Israel over the years are its unlawful attacks on its neighbors; its violations of the human rights of the Palestinians, including deportations, demolitions of homes and other collective punishments; its confiscation of Palestinian land; its establishment of illegal settlements; and its refusal to abide by the U.N. Charter and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559918899-AXB0FVOA9DU235GO5VRJ/21-22+Runaway+I+and+II.jpg WORK - FOLD: RUNAWAY I and II Pages 21 and 22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559907209-MQOQOOSXCQRLUIECZ3IQ/25_26+Recoil+copy.jpg WORK - FOLD: RECOIL 12 x 18 inches, pages 25 and 26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559904768-UVGQBAVOZRR2IEQ6HKJ5/23-24_+Overturn+and+White+Wash.jpg WORK - FOLD 2006 WHITEWASH and OVERTURN Page 17: The whitewashing of torture, the veiling of atrocity, the black made white. The promises of false consequences, false consciousness that are too true. The sand turned night. Mephistopheles’ wing turned lead. The hawk’s wing hovers. Page 18: Truth overturned. Regime overturned. Vehicles mangled. The ethereal dissolved, feathers turned razors, spirits slicing their way to heaven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559896566-N2H4Z9JTU8J42NW9K3RB/27-28_Helm+and+Black+Gold.jpg WORK - FOLD: HELM and BLACK GOLD Pages 27 and 28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559893458-IP9V2XV9R3GDJZDMHR1D/29-39+Snare+and+Lyre.jpg WORK - FOLD: SNARE and LYRE Pages 29 and 30 The Mesopotamian lyre was stolen from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and is depicted amidst a hail of olive offerings. A flute punctures the marching drum floating in Snare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559888197-G1EK0DYKI950QJ0KJV8F/31-32_Razanne%27s+Bus+and+Turkish+Coffin.jpg WORK - FOLD: RAZANNE'S BUS and TURKISH COFFIN Pages 31 and 32 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559887892-VO1Q8BG8FMYYXKZGY3EU/33_34+Shake.jpg WORK - FOLD: SHAKE Pages 33 and 34 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560418800-0KAM1ESLYT8YM60GUYF7/35_36sand+end.jpg WORK - FOLD End pages 35 and 36 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1596398595168-3SQ62BJJJ5BP2VJJFK3H/26_Johnson_Sweet+Feats.jpg WORK - SWEET FEATS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747404711-WRIRVRDPEDLP2HKO2A1H/FLEECE_HI+RES.jpg WORK - FLEECE 2005 Projected as video on wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747557387-TOW6479CO0P5TL8FEJJJ/fleece+two+half.jpg WORK - FLEECE 2005 Ceramic brick well installed at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, shown with overhead projection down into the base of the well. Speakers are contained within the stacked ceramic units. Thanks to Bill Cravis and his expertise in clay casting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747447391-EJMKS70EPMLQV56P1W9P/Fleece_helicopter.jpg WORK - FLEECE 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747476675-LJ1W703WWSFZFOW2NWIS/1.Fleece%2Cbrown+det.jpg WORK - FLEECE 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556748598602-C7IOO4VHWG5GMMTCX3E4/white+sheep.jpg WORK - FLEECE 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556748748514-CKOAS7AGCGBJ9P6GOZSY/fleece+inter+inst.jpg WORK - FLEECE 2005 Video still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749968074-EJ5PHTM7RS8S5VAX9QQA/Descension+still+3.jpg WORK - DESCENSION Video Still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749972781-EPZPDOYWT6DXUFATSYB3/Descension+still+1.jpg WORK - DESCENSION Video still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749965473-XZX85RU6ZPT3KGLWP7IG/Descension+still+2.jpg WORK - DESCENSION Video still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749937930-0VQ2UL6AJ80L2AOQNVHN/Descension+room.jpg WORK - DESCENSION 2011 Installed in Sites of Passage, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA, September 9, 2011 – February 12, 2012 The room is lined with floor cushions and a bench to suggest a majlis (an Arabic meeting room). The projector is mounted inside of a box. The video is projected onto the ceiling. A decorative pattern is stenciled on the walls of the room and the box. This pattern could also be digitally printed on a scroll and adhered to the wall like wallpaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556750062578-RISYD894WEBR9B3GR5KB/aa1.JPG WORK - DESCENSION 2011 Installation detail of pattern stenciled on projector housing and walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749911579-6FEUSCSL38U12ZQOB61O/aj+camel+necking.jpg WORK - ANDREW ELLIS JOHNSON The artist with his subject at Fayoum International Art Center in Egypt in 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987101633-3IHSVN3IS5TYK0ARII0T/The+Closed+Mouth%2C+2003%2C+Oil+on+Belgian+Linen%2C+78+x+78+inches.jpg WORK - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78 x 78 inches In Samuel Clemens' The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the protagonist fills his opponent’s frog with buckshot, causing it to lose the competition. The image of a bloated frog filled with ammunition is a poignant metaphor for US foreign policy. Alluding to the Twain short story, the large-scale painting is an allegory of consumption, constipation and the dangers inherent in isolationist aggression in international affairs. The portrait is of a proud, bloated, silent (dumb) king of its own mountain, feasting on the living within its expansive jurisdiction. On a formal level, the "Pathetic Fallacies" cycle features isolated creatures with an attribute of excess within a barren environment. The naked linen harkens to the Buddhist/Taoist void that activates being, which further highlights the violence inherent in “The Closed Mouth”. It is the only piece in the cycle in which the creature contains rather than being contained -- by the decontextualized surrounding vacancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986595536-ZZNNUFNUZ5D98G6BC5TA/The+Closed+Mouth_eye.JPG WORK - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986607788-F0QPN6AZL2P07AY984NH/The+Closed+Mouth-frog.JPG WORK - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986603178-G1N3YZR54RDM4ZPS0FXV/The+Clsoed+Mouth_mosquitoes.JPG WORK - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 1997, detail of mosquitoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986628805-MWSFW7DZUHR53RXW8XLC/The+Closed+Mouth+Mosquitoes+2.JPG WORK - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003, detail of mosquitoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986575298-B2K1Q34PD9W6QYEFV58U/TheClosedMouth2003study_pp.jpg WORK - STUDY for THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003 Gouache on paper with thread, 19.5 x 21.375 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987187597-KGYXMKKKRUCFOX296HB9/Downzing%2C1997%2C+Oil+on+Belgian+Linen%2C+78x54+inches.jpg WORK - DOWNSIZING, 1997 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78x54 inches A large rat gnaws through its monstrous tale. Its action reads as a life affirming escape from its tethered condition or as a suicidal gesture toward the ultimate fall. Downsizing refers to an economy that lays off its workers at the expense of inflated CEO salaries and short-term profits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987192997-PDWC96OYGP4U8OEYI4OJ/Downsizing+detail.jpg WORK - DOWNSIZING, 1997, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987269965-UDQIY9O352WIP7NXT109/The+Locusts+Keep+Calling%2C+1997%2C+Oil+on+Belgian+Linen%2C+78+x+62+inches.jpg WORK - THE LOCUSTS KEEP CALLING, 1997 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78 x 62 inches My brother, who died of HIV in 1996, was born in the Asiatic year of the rabbit. Shortly before resigning from his job he overheard his colleagues betting on how many days he had left to live. The subtitle to The Locusts Keep Calling is Consciousness Kills. The deafening drone of the Locust is the call of the sirens, the stimulant of the flesh, the enticement to death. The swollen sensors of the demure rabbit more collectively refer to a state of awareness in the “developed” world” where we hear of sufferings the world over and typically remain impotent to remedy them. What are the psychosexual consequences for those who listen too much? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987279943-RRI4LH58RBCV7YD8D2TZ/The+Locusts+Keep+Calling%2C+rabbit.jpg WORK - THE LOCUSTS KEEP CALLING, 1997, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987277451-RPTXVOATAHIEAMJL9A55/The+Locusts+Keep+Calling_ear.jpg WORK - THE LOCUSTS KEEP CALLING, 1997 detail of inner ear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987392263-3UVC4WQBSVWZ7AZ8FH29/OUTGROWN+just+image.jpg WORK - OUTGROWN, 1997 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78 x 62 inches Painting is the art of arrest, and in Born(e), the subject is caught in the awkward condition of being unable to fly or walk. The expansive webbed feet of an afflicted cormorant are too heavy to ascend and too enormous to function on the ground. The world wide web (a misnomer if there ever was one*) promises flight, a new air of connectedness and conquest. Is this atmosphere one we are born into or forced, like Sisyphus, to perpetually carry? * A generation or so ago half the world had never made a phone call, much less engage with the technocratic elite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987427570-EM7MMQKRMVTA3HG34ZXB/Borne_paper.jpg WORK - BORN(E), 1997 Mixed media on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987687737-N0E3S80G8LDT98C9L83E/Outgrown_DWG.jpg WORK - STUDY for OUTGROWN, 1997 Gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986557453-ZXXMPHDB6Y5TDCZ2SO7K/Johnson_In+his+own+image.jpg WORK - IN HIS OWN IMAGE: Intellectual Property Rights, 1998 Ink and acrylic on paper, 10 x 22 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415924483-UH62DHP5F6E66DPAVDPU/1.Millstone.jpg WORK - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Found No More At All premiered in in Apocalypse Now And Then: Art at the End of Time at DePaul University Art Gallery in Chicago. The sculpture was inspired by St. John the Divine's accounts in Revelations of an apocalyptic sea of glass mingled with fire, the violence of angelic judgment, and the silencing of artisans of whatsoever craft they be. This 2,000 pound, 52 inch diameter, iron-banded marble millstone was found in the rubble of an exploded paint factory, and is balanced on 144 wine-filled goblets on a bed of pulverized bone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415919350-K9X1MI99Q83YYRH7LVS2/2.Millstone+det.jpg WORK - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Detail from above millstone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415770482-ADOQ40PLS9Z81J6U31JR/Found+No+More+Intro+text.jpg WORK - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Texts that accompanied the exhibit. (Statistics are from 1998, when the piece premiered) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415773332-4ZTZNE00Z5F5L7VJ0HSR/Found+No+More+Poems.jpg WORK - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Texts that accompanied the exhibit. (Statistics are from 1998, when the piece premiered) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415964882-9Y461OW1KGAAY6LWV0BS/Found+No+More_+ALternative+Musuem.jpg WORK - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 A 1998 reconstructed version from New Voices/New Visions at The Alternative Museum in New York City used a wider 18th century millstone from the Tuthilltown Mill in Gardiner, New York. Pieced together from granite used for ballast on a ship from France, this stone ground wheat, rye and corn, in a water-powered mill built by slaves. Both versions, with their biblical and historical references, question the use and abuse of power, collective resistance, and personal transcendence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415904094-BGCMH7EG4W9YLPZI7MUW/Found+No+More+at+All_dwg_pp.jpg WORK - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Wine, gouache, human blood, and mold on Korean paper 34.5 x 23.75 inches The circles in the Found No More drawings represent the 144 wine glasses that support the millstone, and are drawn with the materials used in the sculpture: blood, wine and ground bone. With their biblical and historical references, the works question the use and abuse of power, collective resistance, and personal transcendence, even in the face of apocalyptic disaster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415912304-RIZZRR09P0KSVK9XS6KQ/6.Millstudy+det.jpg WORK - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Detail of drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489350670741-1VT19GQV2SWBK0EGFONP/Union.jpg WORK - UNION 2017, Altered sickle and head of sledgehammer, 16.5 x 8.25 x 2.5 inches Union is another piece that reflects Johnson’s sense of irony—and sense of history. The sculpture merges a hammer and sickle, distinct tools originally meant to represent the coming together of the factory worker and the farmer. By merging them into one tool, we might hope for a doubled strength. Instead, both are rendered dysfunctional. Union is a lament for the state of unions in the US today, hobbled by long, well-financed campaigns by conservative foundations and business groups, especially against employees in the public sector. There is a line in Bertolt Brecht’s United Front Song: “It's nobody's work but the worker's own / to set the worker free.” Time to sing it. From Marx@200 catalogue, exhibited at SPACE in Pittsburgh in 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1586024357524-XLDXH8E8H5JJS2Q9HW2O/Baton+Sledge+good%2C+2016%2CConductor%E2%80%99s+baton+with+sledgehammer+head%2C+22.25x7x2.25.jpg WORK - Conductor 2016, Conductor’s baton with sledgehammer head, 22.25 x 7 x 2.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1586024782667-KESAT5LO79H8BSCRNC65/Sledgehammer+with+baby+face%2C+2015.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085985453-F3KDNMCLYD04TOHACIC8/political+craft+20M.jpg WORK - TILL 2007 Chalked vintage tool handles, cast glass, concrete TILL is a collection of full-scale agricultural tools (hoes, scythes, sickles, machetes, pick axes, etc.) with their heads or blades cast in glass. With their bleached, detached wooden handles, they are framed by a low rectilinear cement barrier affixed to the floor on which they are arranged. The title plays with at least three connotations: the temporal associations of “till,” as in the preposition “until”; the verb referring to field labor as in “tilling the earth;” and the noun’s reference to a cash register, a locus of capital. Apart from the socio-political associations discussed below, the work also suggests a gesture of aggression against the gallery and against minimalism itself, as the tools lay in wait to hack the ground on which they lay. Of course, contradictions abound, as these objects may also “fetishize” labor, neutering any functional or oppositional impulses. If wielded, the tools would break and crash upon impact; thus, the futility of aesthetic utilitarianism. (text continues) Premiered at Glassnost, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, June 8 – July 13, 2007. Pittsburgh Post Gazette Review, June 27, 2007 Casting assistants: Kim Chaplin of Goggleworks, Reading, PA and Norm Wright, Pittsburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085504601-DCI1X9HP32K9SK7X8TYA/3.+single+scythe.jpg WORK - TILL: Scythe Some relevant statistics and conditions at the time of TILL’s making: Three quarters of the world’s 1.2 billion extremely poor people live and work in rural areas. Western systems of measuring production are geared to mega-agribusiness corporations and cash crop profits rather than effective farming for local needs. The World Rural Women’s Day 2002 Background Paper and the IFAP Standing Committee on Women in Agriculture President’s Open Letter conclude that: the most efficient means of rendering the destruction of nature, local economies and small autonomous producers is by rendering their production invisible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085882115-45B0GSUP9XN42KEWDZQU/Hoe+head+under+20M.jpg WORK - TILL: Hoe head Vandana Shiva, winner of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) for her work on globalization and poverty, exposes the invisible. The ghostly fragility and “invisibility” of Till’s instruments of production reflect the unacknowledged subsistence farmer. Unseen are the women who produce more than 50% of the food we eat. Unseen are the decreasing incomes of farmers and the doubling of food prices between 1999 and 2000. Unrecognized is the rise in food deprivation in rural areas and the resulting increase in mortality rates. Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers spending more for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. As debts rise in both rich and poor countries, farmers are literally killing themselves.* In the most bitter of ironies, they imbibe the very pesticides that they can ill afford and become ghosts of the land. Their absence is evoked by TILL’s dried out emaciated handles gathered like bones in a desert, their steel turned brittle and crystalline, like frosted death. * 2300 farmers in the Vidarbha cotton belt of India have committed suicide since 2000. (Amelia Gentleman, “Despair takes toll on Indian farmers,” International Herald Tribune, May 31, 2006). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085903211-OS8ZD5AGVNL9NMNBHDUU/machete.jpg WORK - TILL: Machete Invisibility and absence pervade as increased economic growth through global commerce is based on pseudo surpluses. More food is being traded while the poor are consuming less and literally disappearing. When growth increases poverty, when real production becomes a negative economy, something has gone wrong with the concepts and categories of wealth and wealth creation. The “till” becomes invisible in how it protects the speculators who are defined as “wealth creators” and in how it conceals their greed and its consequences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085500137-DBIX7JMA79CJ7HACXVU0/2.+line+of+four.jpg WORK - TILL Detail of installation Installed in at Glassnost, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, June 8 – July 13, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085494641-NG357V6ZZUR6DPGM9WOQ/1.+installation+shot.jpg WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533673112-X2UG8OTFI4SDSVX3KBJV/Sweep+%28whole%29.jpg WORK - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 43.5 x 85 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533397480-NOUE6I9YW4J1R24ZTVL3/costodian%2Bmap%2Btime%2Bdet.jpg WORK - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 43.5 x 85 inches Detail of custodian and map of time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533195500-HI4HPV75Y7CPDYQYPUMQ/global+time.jpg WORK - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of ‘global time’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533204310-U7F9L5U50A6SM3H2WOM3/tsunami+trunk.jpg WORK - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of tsunami and trunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533349476-K32Y1W9L7SMECMM1EVKZ/broom+pan+shore_20MB.jpg WORK - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of dustpan at shore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533176078-A5H2PXL54J98MUDOWG2O/broom+pan+chair.jpg WORK - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of dustpan and chair leg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591204653823-8KCK4331CIUIBQJN6TYC/Insurrection%2C+2020%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+50+x+113+inches.jpg WORK - INSURRECTION 2020 Ink on paper, 50 x 113 inches INSURRECTION was published in QUARANZINE #79 by Half Letter Press. FALLOW TRENCH In the exceptional Nation State of One, the novel plague, first declared nonexistent, then decried as sophic, was ultimately decreed ‘Democratic’. It was. Though itself invisible to the naked eye, the virus, though little, spread by aspirational spittle, magnified divisions and bonds. Manufacturers mandated. Distributors consolidated. Liberators looted. Suppliers hoarded. Senators sanctioned. the unaffordable could be bought again. Sacrificial heroes, ill-suited, staved, for another quarter, the essential economy. Perhaps. Routines were screened. Meetings multiplied and merged. Unemployment ranks swelled. Curves flattened; feeds fed. Appropriations diverted. Tweet-enlisted fascists drilled. Unmasked. Indisposed Justice meted black breath no repose. The State of Stasis is fought within, and without. Andrew Ellis Johnson 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591204643545-N3QR2D7TH1JRJB1VR62C/Insurrection+black+couch+det.jpg WORK - INSURRECTION 2020 Detail of couch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591204643102-F2GDQSUDIJDRAFWSR78D/Insurrection+left.jpg WORK - INSURRECTION 2020 Detail, left half https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591204657022-7XLU2LITSK91Q0GP8U7U/Insurrection+right.jpg WORK - INSURRECTION 2020 Detail, right half https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1595181266545-3V3ATVHNX64LULWVNBN5/Insurrecto+detail.jpg WORK - INSURRECTION 2020 Detail of the novel, INSURRECTO by Gina Apostol The drawing is named after Insurrecto by Gina Apostol, a novel read and set aside behind the reader’s sterile shoulder. It’s story begins under the current presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, a dictator who has encouraged extrajudicial killings. Not surprisingly, this president has been praised by our own president, who seems a kindred bully. With the unrest that followed George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, Trump tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Apostol’s Insurrecto is a feverish narrative about a small Filipino town’s insurrection against American oppressors. Fevers are insurrections of the body against infection and illness. We have illnesses of all kinds—medical, social, and economic. Too many are chronic. Certain fevers need to spread—to burn out ignorance and injustice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533796438-3NOSMML2ZP9CESCAB23R/Incoming+single+whole.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 50 x 116 inches INCOMING is an updated and ironic allegory of manifest destiny, an idea that embodies its legacy. It blends historical and current references to xenophobic and hypocritical attitudes toward migrants and disease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533999025-IL53WECS8ZVGCUM5QHA4/hydrolic+lift.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 50 x 116 inches, 50 x 116 inches Detail of hydraulic lift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533941178-SRGOKX8O2A82NJHRPNF2/reigns.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of reins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611534065280-ZFYQB2N7PWG40UKVVOGZ/band+played+on.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of ‘the band played on’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533928811-ROHHGP3W5ESGZ5ERGQWT/hydolic+lift+horizontal.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper. Detail of hydraulic lift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533974988-T5Z5J923WQ9D875SFZX3/incoming+sign.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper. Detail of ‘incoming’ sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533907455-6BV7GBXH1WLNQGZBRMT7/bunting.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Detail of bunting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533967285-TAF07RRGFUP5XLK3QFIO/pall+bearer.jpg WORK - INCOMIGN 2020 Detail of pallbearer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611535002014-009EKZUZ11Q5EQ32EECR/father+daughter+hazardous.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Detail of father and daughter with hazard ribbon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611534042307-93AH2CLJK3VP1QVINA8G/trombone.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Detail of trombone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611534200275-OLF7BSVUXHBL8HE646NY/incoming+Modanna+child_20MB.jpg WORK - INCOMING 2020 Detail of Madonna and child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332704956-UZBCKBZ8QQELIN55HUHK/Carrier%2C+2020.jpg WORK - CARRIER 2020 Ink on paper, 50 x 113 inches The ghost of patriarchy is going away, reclining and ensconced in high culture – as is his want. He absently gestures to no one in particular. The sovereign sway of cherubs and camels give way to another sanitized history: our own. First responders in bleached personal protective equipment take their haul to the burial trench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332720000-3XBQZWYPLE5LQV0UW6U1/Covid+Couch_Camel+with+hand+cuff+detail.jpg WORK - CARRIER 2020 Detail of lace cuff from the Enlightenment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332750208-OSQ9ANCLUWEVDTNG3UWL/left+figure.jpg WORK - CARRIER 2020 Detail of a carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332741584-4HC96QQ67U89EOE3MJIS/central+cushion.jpg WORK - CARRIER 2020 Detail of Covid couch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332872565-3ATFYHY5P0HB2072BND9/cushion+det.+w+puti+%26+basket.jpg WORK - CARRIER 2020 Detail of upholstery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944072290-EGM56AF7CB8HSMM0U576/1_Taxed%2C+2017%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+42+x+74+inches.jpg WORK - TAXED 2017 Ink on paper, 42 x 74 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944096585-VZYJXGS5V3QAN2FLJTUD/couch+corner+%26+carrier+det.jpg WORK - TAXED 2017 Detail of couch carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944102757-VEGDPBLIF93TLC8VYNVC/Taxed+%28right+couch+det%29.jpg WORK - TAXED 2017 Detail of right couch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944123819-XR819U8KXAS9NHSYA71E/Taxed+%28central+couch+det%29.jpg WORK - TAXED 2017 Detail of Louis XVI couch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944176767-2DB5NUI3DI92LD8Z3X99/Taxed+%28louis+xvi+couch+det%29.jpg WORK - TAXED 2017 Detail of Louis XVI couch upholstery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944293433-P6OT6A36KT7MHKYXUVDZ/Taxed+%28upper+left+det%29.jpg WORK - TAXED 2017 Detail of upper left corner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944158310-8EPGCRZ8R2UQSFM8H27P/Taxed+graves+w+Bejouis.jpg WORK - TAXED 2017 Detail of graves (with artist’s cat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591208213225-6Q7LRXXUVHRXJHFOV6ZZ/understudied+%28gold+w.+white+vase%29.jpg WORK Tentative initial gestures in a painting are referred to as an “understudy.” “Understudied” is a twelve-part cycle for the hours, a repeating perpetual nature morte that suppresses the extravagance of Dutch still life materialism. Each panel highlights a silver platter containing a fleshed out week’s supply of an AZT cocktail.* https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591208309286-FWLU7LG9O0SLTAZ6JJNS/lavender+green+fabric.jpg WORK Pharmaceutical companies spend more each year on advertising than they do on research and development. A new and improved strain of AIDS was reported of late in medical journals, while 40,000,000 people were newly infected with the HIV virus last year alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591208224651-TXXFM5SD2PMASJDER2SC/yellow+pills.jpg WORK There have been 22 million estimated deaths from the beginning of the epidemic through 2001, leaving 14 million orphans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591208073159-DTIXB42IH4RE9JQJZNZD/Johnson_Understudied_deep+green_blue+pills.jpg WORK The pandemic remains underreported, understudied and without remedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1721078928359-1DJVIW642HYGPZQNP8CQ/Understudied_orange+capsules.jpg WORK - Understudied, 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591209054448-Y3PZQI3M01TZ8H2Q3OIL/5+understudied.jpg WORK At the dawn of perception in moments of apprehension apparitions await substantiation. Desire seeks a body. Dreams fail the flesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598497772027-YI9E2RQSEIM4WWZV4OG8/dirt+blue+halo.jpg WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598497221698-5Z8HAYUZOYG7N3P6ZNJ7/Tears+of+All+Eyes_still2_6MB.jpg WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598497925383-GWK5J0F6VYH5EJKVOT1J/mid+sun+rest+turquois.jpg WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598499197253-6UEA2EEH4QSP0WOH5X13/Tears+of+All+Eyes_Still+3_1.5MB.jpg WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598497247299-QI9B0KO63IC1BKIUMUCZ/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.18.32+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598497207735-PTCUT2SJDM0XAJPELPX6/Tears+of+All+Eyes+Still+3_5MB.jpg WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498080222-5VWB6DZQWA8ZVGZ8RJ6R/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.33.48+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498531078-Q2UAZ19RRYHMS74DVDES/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.36.06+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498562717-T5EXDJDF2WTLAWK834BX/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.34.22+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498533058-OWSVMZLZPIBOXVMXPB5T/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.35.54+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498089311-CYPQ5TX9JUIG7VNC50RB/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.36.54+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498072701-IBPW8EMXLLSPA2IMAHJ6/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.38.10+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498453023-UI66DDS1MWQ7T69Y3419/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.38.40+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498066863-JUMG3YKJA9PE1YXDO160/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.37.55+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498268196-0OGB40ORY65VFB88YTFX/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.39.02+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498052463-60R7SMFZZJIR0RB8IW9S/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.39.50+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498058844-HS2WFWQ0IWOPCDY8Y7HW/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.40.19+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498106342-1M5ODGTNWERT9VW7QJO1/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.40.58+PM.png WORK - TEARS OF ALL EYES 2012 12.40.58 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598498112602-VXBE0GUSF7A2908BRVJ4/Screen+shot+2012-11-03+at+12.40.50+PM.png WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598497583022-EBJC69P0HX85BVME17RZ/purple+grey+3+suns.jpg WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598497420418-4OUNCWRZ4DZHUN7NY4TN/egypt+three+suns+%280%3B02%3B03%3B28%29.jpg WORK - Tears of All Eyes 2012   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390111454-0K04U6V0JIVM50P7FBEB/transparency+good+1.jpg WORK - TRANSPARENCY 2009 Modified riot shield created for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh During the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, the city was swamped by law enforcement units from and outside of the city. In an advance court action, the ACLU had won protesters the right to hold demonstrations during the summit. However, after the G20 visitors departed, police ordered students to disperse, but trapped them in an area with no escape and proceeded to make arrests of 25 protesters (some were my students). The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit over the mass arrests, arguing that police illegally disrupted a peaceful gathering, arrested people who were trying to follow police orders, and used excessive force including the gratuitous firing of pepper spray and rubber bullets. In one settlement, Pittsburgh paid $88,000 to 11 of the original 25 plaintiffs. Later, in 2013, the ACLU arrived at a $400,000 final settlement of lawsuits for 13 other plaintiffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390239193-YT6JX7JHA4UM5T5BHWKU/help3.2564.jpg WORK - STUDENT PROJECT for the G20: HELP WANTED The gargantuan HELP WANTED project (coordinated by Sarah Ceurvorst) was installed on the Carnegie Mellon campus soccer field under helicopters flying overhead -- just in the nick of time for G20 leaders dining at neighboring Phipps Conservatory. Ceurvorst said she chose the theme to encourage everyone to help each other and discourage people from violence, fear and degradation. “We need to come together, find common ground and aid each other in our time of need.” The project is one of several that came out of Andrew Ellis Johnson's freshman concept studio class in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon in response to the G20 visit -- with lots of help from grad assistant, Sung Rok Choi. Other freshmen projects included: G20 to Go bottled sprays to eliminate odious debt with just one squirt (Mitsuko Verdery and Molly Swartz); giant rolling heads of state made of inflated fabric (Courtney Wittekind and Lauren Faigeles; LED magnetic "throw-lights" that assembled into an illuminated giant squid climbing a cement wall (Ethan Gladding, Aaron Regal and James Wolpert); heart g20 and other sticker logo designs by Cory Juba and Garrett Nickerson and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390199567-UDC5B3PAPTP6SI4X2DNP/help+wanted+1.jpg WORK - STUDENT PROJECT for the G20: HELP WANTED 2009 Aerial view. Initiated by Sarah Ceurvorst in Andrew Ellis Johnson’s Concept Studio Course at Carnegie Mellon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390506738-ZQ9SWHZ4Y3QEFR2P1GS8/G2O_to_Go_verderi_and_Swartz.jpg WORK - STUDENT PROJECT for the G20: G2O TO GO G20 to Go bottled sprays to eliminate odious debt with just one squirt by ffrst year undergraduates Mitsuko Verdery and Molly Swartz in Andrew Ellis Johnson’s Concept Studio course at Carnegie Mellon University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390659907-ZHY7LMOYIBDZ1XDMVNSQ/heads_of_state.jpg WORK - STUDENT PROJECT for the G20: HEADS OF STATE 2009 Giant rolling heads of state made of inflated fabric by first years students Courtney Wittekind and Lauren Faigeles in Andrew Ellis Johnson’s Concept Studio course at Carnegie Mellon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611593616722-LGWTKN0J259DHJHNAVZK/01_Fin+Lamp+flags+broken+stand+alone+BEST.jpg WORK - THE CROSSING 2021 Still of streetlamp in Tahrir Square https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611594435091-66GEH2BC09B6VY8Q8DIE/02_Islamic+Speakers+Flag+stand+alone.jpg WORK - THE CROSSING 2021 Still of speakers in Tahrir Square https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611593439595-6GQS78JAAFGI2U5ALJO1/04traffic+light+saddle+sign.jpg WORK - THE CROSSING Still of traffic lights in Tahrir Square https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611593707416-70XFB5ZORB57PAUCS9RA/03_tangle+martyr.jpg WORK - THE CROSSING 2021 Still of reins, ropes, and photograph of martyr of the Egyptian Revolution 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661636944441-AK78OW3T480FYBVUC775/Canopy+Nativity+whole.jpg WORK - CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Ink on paper, 50 x 54 inches CANOPY NATIVITY speaks to climate change and its rupture of human habits and habitats. CANOPY NATIVITY combines speculative futurism with the most elemental act of survival—birth. A woman takes refuge from a rising flood in the precarious heights of pine boughs, delivering a child only to have space-suited figures come to pluck it away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661636971192-2NBD1BA2RSIFLQ46R0PL/Delivery+and+Possession+det.jpg WORK - detail of CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Delivery and possession… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661637024716-2JYZ5G9FCVETSUQYLCPO/overlook.jpg WORK - Detail of CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Overlook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661637051610-1WTMZ4MT8QL5PR4YSGNF/severed+trunk.jpg WORK - Detail of CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Severed trunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658261229443-4XLV110XQFBRWQUELSES/Tin-foil+clad+Kyacks+in+the+pines+%28whole%29.jpg WORK - CANOPY 2021, Ink on Arches, 40.5 x 90.5 inches CANOPY speaks to climate change and its rupture of human habits and habitats. Kayaks lined with birch bark are clad in tin foil and stranded high in the pines. Tin foil is often associated with paranoid strategies of fighting surveillance, but it can also be a protective insulator. 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ON SWINGING 2021 Cap and cravat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661639490948-54RKUP78BYONE04A1LIK/Collapsed+Carousel+whole.jpg WORK - ALL FALL DOWN 2021 Ink on paper, 50 55 inches As Nicholas Mirzoeff noted, psychiatrist and decolonization theorist Frantz Fanon called colonial regimes a “world of statues.” As Fanon put it, “The statue of the general who carried out the conquest” is part of “a world which is sure of itself, which crushes with its stones the backs flayed by whips: this is the colonial world.” From “Trump iIs Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again” in The Intercept (August 8, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661639496290-YZDZSISCIJWF7UPV34LV/far+left.jpg WORK - Detail of ALL FALL DOWN 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661639506407-TURD8FQPER1M3T7RRP0Q/redeemers.jpg WORK - Detail of ALL FALL DOWN 2021 Redeemers As Nicholas Mirzoeff noted, psychiatrist and decolonization theorist Frantz Fanon called colonial regimes a “world of statues.” As Fanon put it, “The statue of the general who carried out the conquest” is part of “a world which is sure of itself, which crushes with its stones the backs flayed by whips: this is the colonial world.” From “Trump iIs Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again” in The Intercept (August 8, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661639509595-IP7PGO9XBDO6FPRAH7IK/trainwreck+panel.jpg WORK - Detail of ALL FALL DOWN 2021 Trainwreck panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661639499579-Y7O7C0W32QXN2849RIGV/forced+to+fire+at+union+.jpg WORK - Detail of ALL FALL DOWN 2021 Forced to fire at the Union https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661639503289-HWGG84X9Q023977PMXTY/gleaners.jpg WORK - Detail of ALL FALL DOWN 2021 Gleaners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661640096962-U9OXTIS6L7HWK6VONG1U/Confederate+Swing+whole.jpg WORK - CONFEDERATE SWING 2022 Ink, oil stick, graphite and gouache on paper, 50 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661640112870-3VRL8B5ZE2IIA1CQ14BO/Capitol+ride+icon.jpg WORK - Detail of CAPITOL SWING 2022 Capitol swing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661640223400-2FKH0D5FQH3QI25QEZKF/cornice+ride+det.jpg WORK - Detail of CONFEDERATE SWING 2022 Cornice swing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661640337604-8254WCC6MZ8QFAVWOOMN/pedestal+ride+det.jpg WORK - Detail of CONFEDERATE SWING 2022 Pedestal swing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661640841550-O5YW7QDWD26S3LO81EXF/angels+in+the+sky+det.jpg WORK - Detail of CONFEDERATE SWING 2022 Angels in the sky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661640736472-Z63G6N226OZJ41W0GK91/Architrave+ride+det.jpg WORK - Detail of CONFEDERATE SWING 2022 Architrave swing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262895940-22Z3315LE3SZNAMSK4LS/Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+%28bear+wheelbarrow+whole%29.jpg WORK - ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches Imagining Thomas Jefferson if he had acknowledged his children with Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264018239-4MSHO2651NBWJX7GWUWW/web_Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+%28boy+close+up%29.jpg WORK - Detail of ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264022098-CISAW2NPUQLSWZDVXAKW/web_Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+boy+det.jpg WORK - Detail of ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264070366-28O4XJ73CTWYPOYMML74/Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+bear+det.jpg WORK - Detail of ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches The sleeping bear refers to a gift of two grizzly bear cubs to Thomas Jefferson from Captain Zebulon Pike who acquired them in the southern region of the great Continental Divide where he wrote they “were "considered by the natives of that country as the most ferocious animals of the continent." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264943820-X1236EWI4VXP00XJ6UFP/Queen+On+Her+Own+Color+%28Whole%29.jpg WORK - QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches Queen on Her Own Color depicts Thomas Jefferson with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who became Thomas Jefferson’s property as a girl, through his wife’s inheritance. Contextualizing texts from the Monticello site follow: Unlike countless enslaved women, Sally Hemings was able to negotiate with her owner. In Paris, where she was free, the 16-year-old agreed to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her unborn children. Over the next 32 years Hemings raised four children—Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia. … [Sally Hemings’ son], Madison Hemings recounted that his mother “became Mr. Jefferson’s concubine” in France. When Jefferson prepared to return to America, Hemings said his mother refused to come back, and only did so upon negotiating “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her future children. He also noted that she was pregnant when she arrived in Virginia, and that the child “lived but a short time.” No other record of that child has been found. The Monticello site offers no proving account of Hemings’ negotiation for her personal freedom, or her reason for trusting Jefferson to keep his promise. Pregnant at the age of 16, we wonder what kind of choice she really had. She returned from Paris, where she was free, to Virginia as an enslaved household servant and lady’s maid. She bore at least six children fathered by Thomas Jefferson. Decades after the Paris negotiation, her four surviving children were freed—two daughters in the early 1820’s and her two sons only after Jefferson died in 1826. Never legally emancipated, Sally Heming was unofficially freed—or “given her time”—by Jefferson’s daughter Martha after his death. In the game of chess, “The King and Queen, as the most significant pieces, stand in the middle of the chessboard. Chess rules dictate “queen on color,” meaning the White Queen goes on a light square and the Black Queen on a dark square, supposedly because the King is a gentleman and invites the Queen to stand on her own color. These rules suggest a patronizing chivalry toward both an official and intimate partner. In the drawing, Sally Hemings and Jefferson sit on a checked cloth. Their ‘leisure,’ with or without consent, is staged against a backdrop of enslaved field laborers. Jefferson makes advances on her while holding a white queen. Hemings’ black pieces are toppled but her hoe and trowel both have blades— aspirational tools for a cannibalized ‘love.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264685864-IV5QVD7FKEJWLNIS49QP/Checks.jpg WORK - Detail of QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR (Checks) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264694965-T3O9GLI5FTMQZNKEWQ4E/A+Favored+Trowel.jpg WORK - Detail of QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR (A favored trowel) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264710337-MDQWSXZVJL5JFJES9HUB/Fairest+of+them+all.jpg WORK - Detail of QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR (Fairest of them all) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264937362-EF7E8JRWOB14P6NU2UMZ/On+Whose+Shoulders+We+Stand.jpg WORK - Detail of QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR (On whose shoulders we stand) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264349899-H02BBGMWOD2X63OVKAR6/web_Waiting+for+Isaac+and+John%28whole%29.jpg WORK - WAITING FOR ISAAC AND JOHN 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 54.5 inches To survey his estate, an aging Thomas Jefferson needed to be ferried around in a wheelbarrow. Isaac Jefferson and John Hemings were both enslaved at Monticello. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264364543-459H40PY96OD6MRMK1W6/web_cow+lick+det.jpg WORK - Detail of WAITING FOR ISAAC AND JOHN (Cow lick) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 54.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264364493-596L4D62ML1E8Y1B1H1S/web_Waiting+For+%28Roman+Garb+det.%29.jpg WORK - Detail of WAITING FOR ISAAC AND JOHN (Roman Garb) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 54.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661472814640-KW4SSRV94P6DGKME8EEQ/Jefferson+at+Half+Rations+2021%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+50+x+55.75+inches.jpg WORK - Jefferson at Half Rations, 2021 Ink on paper, 50 x 55.75 inches The economic implications of slavery are infinite. The enslaved were a financial bonanza for Jefferson, a perpetual human dividend at compound interest. Jefferson wrote, “I allow nothing for losses by death, but, on the contrary, shall presently take 4% credit per annum, for their increase over and above keeping up their own numbers.” Jefferson is portrayed here gaunt from the half rations that were proscribed for the sick and elderly for underproducing. He bears a smoldering dependent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661472844262-6Z658PDP4E7BABWYXG8W/smoldering+dependent.jpg WORK - Detail of JEFFERSON AT HALF RATIONS 2021 A smoldering descendent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661717809024-Y2ABNDKF30OKJCI9WGPP/Cradle+Plow+Rustle+whole+20MB.jpg WORK - CRADLE PLOW: RUSTLE 2022 Ink on paper, 24 x 38 inches Based on Thomas Jefferson’s drawing of a plow and calculations of capital. “But still viewing slave selling as a last resort, Jefferson turned to slave leasing and mortgaging for income. Jefferson’s ability to hire slaves out and use them as collateral to secure loans was based on the increased value of slave bodies and the “natural increase” of the slave population. Unlike in the Caribbean, this increase allowed Virginia planters to satisfy the demand for slave labor without having to import slaves from Africa. Jefferson himself encouraged the reproduction of his slave population. In particular, Jefferson understood that female slaves—and their future children—represented the best way to increase the value of his holdings, what he called “capital.” “I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man of the farm,” Jefferson wrote in 1820. “What she produces is an addition to the capital,” while a male slave’s “labors disappear in mere consumption.”9 In 1819, worried by a spike in infant mortality at Poplar Forest, Jefferson believed that it was for “moral as well as interested considerations” that overseers should preserve slaves’ lives, not for “their labor, but their increase.”10 As Jefferson’s friend and neighbor John Hartwell Cocke observed, Virginia slaveowners increasing believed that their “profits consists in the increased number & value of their slaves,” rather than in the crops that their bondspeople produced.”11 From Monticello.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661717812713-M7GM7C0A91OUWRQPBNOY/Cradle+Plow+Rustle+det+20MB.jpg WORK - Detail from CRADLE PLOW: RUSTLE 2022 Ink on paper, 24 x 38 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661718006751-ZMFI6E19H3KS3J4LA377/Cradle+Plow+Spell+whole+20MB.jpg WORK - CRADLE PLOW: SPELL 2022 Ink on paper, 24 x 38 inches Based on Thomas Jefferson’s drawing of a plow and calculations of capital. “By 1794, Jefferson had put his plans into action at Monticello. He had a plow fitted with a wooden moldboard of his design and later reported to Sir John Sinclair that "an experience of 5. years has enabled me to say it answers in practice to what it promises in theory." In addition to offering the least resistance as it was pulled through the soil, Jefferson's moldboard had a further advantage: "[I]t may be made by the coarsest workman, by a process so exact, that it's form shall never be varied a single hair's breadth." Ease of duplication was thus another measure of the usefulness of his design.”[4] 4. Jefferson to Sinclair, March 23, 1798, in PTJ, 30:201-05. Transcription available at Founders Online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661717935643-N16GE83NGGJDSVJB7VDX/Cradle+Plow+Spell+det+20MB.jpg WORK - Detail from CRADLE PLOW: SPELL 2022 Ink on paper, 24 x 38 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473577440-SI8Y3JNJOPQLIBFYYXR0/Liberty+Liberty+Whole+144+x+96+lower.jpg WORK - LIBERTY LIBERTY 2022 Ink, gouache, and charcoal Nepalese mulberry paper, 144 x 96 inches LIBERTY, LIBERTY acknowledges that some constitutionally protected freedoms are not absolute. Its bell snuffs the flame of Liberty’s torch as certain liberties must be curtailed to allow others, to insure the public good or to preserve democracy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473602222-07HWETL8Z7IH2PQK34NL/Liberty+Liberty+bell+crack+det..jpg WORK - Detail of LIBERTY LIBERTY 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473590883-P1JU3Q464QMI93YUJTY2/Liberty+Liberty+low+right+det.jpg WORK - Detail of LIBERTY LIBERTY 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473598302-SAMME4NCJXRVTNVWQVPX/Liberty+Liberty+bell+text+det.jpg WORK - Detail of LIBERTY LIBERTY 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473594773-KW60YDZF0HNL5UJMPW1M/Liberty+Liberty+low+left+det.jpg WORK - Detail of LIBERTY LIBERTY 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1725571128745-W9VWZ7MIMWZNRMQOWOCS/Kindle%2C+2024%2C+Mixed+media+on+paper%2C+56.5+x+50+inches%2C.jpg WORK - KINDLE 2024 Mixed media on paper, 56.5 x 50 inches An icy flame from the Statue of Liberty's torch is surrounded by a sea of banned books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473151832-0FZG85MBFSFKD1WAG3GZ/Kumbaya+whole.jpg WORK - KUMBAYA 2022 Ink and gouache on paper, 43 x 38 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473218632-GU80JWO7ZD3J3YBPDLG9/Kumbaya+circle+figures+det.jpg WORK - Detail of KUMBAYA 2022 After the insurrection, with the military playing cards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473203604-4TC7YN6SV4J7EMR18DM7/right+figures+det.jpg WORK - Detail of KUMBAYA 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661473227595-PZMS9URI7RFSUS9KKZQB/Kumbaya+statue+flag+det.jpg WORK - Detail of KUMBAYA 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262223632-OAL3SFFTOEDK7072LTIK/Harbinger+%28whole%29.jpg WORK - HARBINGER 2021, Ink on paper, 50.25 x 53.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262227095-TLAOKQNU8AX3ZY0K0DYQ/Moon+Child.jpg WORK - Detail of HARBINGER (Moon child) 2021, Ink on paper, 50.25 x 53.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262262310-QLO17M2E6W5TEV25E1MW/Approaching+Bonfire.jpg WORK - Detail of HARBINGER (Approaching bonfire) 2021, Ink on paper, 50.25 x 53.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262267935-O89MM7XVHTYP5450QUEC/Pitched.jpg WORK - Detail of HARBINGER (Pitched) 2021, Ink on paper, 50.25 x 53.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262271682-N85GRSBTRW0KJVACIB2G/Reversible.jpg WORK - Detail of HARBINGER (Reversible) 2021, Ink on paper, 50.25 x 53.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661735607101-FRBF6I1D1VZQHXBASO7U/Some+Kind+of+Justice.jpg WORK - SOME KIND OF JUSTICE 2018 Ink on paper, 42 x 84 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661735618254-T7RJL1U3AKGO3UW54GEY/P1030179.jpg WORK - Detail from SOME KIND OF JUSTICE 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661735621730-IDOWI35T0W82CRWJKVT3/P1030185.jpg WORK - Detail from SOME KIND OF JUSTICE 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1725571325432-MGYNQQ1NQNK3A0N0MIXO/Some+Kind+of+Justice+I%2C+BRIGHTER+2018%2C+Ink%2C+charcoal+and+wax+on+paper%2C+84.5+x+42.5+inches.jpg WORK - SOME KIND OF JUSTICE I 2018 Ink, charcoal and wax on paper, 84.5 x 42.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1725571342184-RDY1L984JVVLT5F4J0VQ/Some+Kind+of+Justice+II%2C+BRIGHTER_2018%2C+Ink%2C+charcoal+and+wax+on+paper%2C+84.5+x+42.5+inches_+baby+bird+whole.jpg WORK - SOME KIND OF JUSTICE II 2018 Ink, charcoal and wax on paper, 84.5 x 42.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262578929-DS9VHBAIOVIBBWZAVEQT/Before+7%3A4%2C+2021%2C+Ink+and+gouache+on+paper%2C+44+x+58.5+inches.jpg WORK - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262673773-1KBCW3B0JEMV360CED58/wheat+carrier.jpg WORK - Detail of 7/4 (Wheat and chaff) 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262655756-X9VW5CV5Y686ZUOQWB2C/opposum+detail.jpg WORK - Detail of BEFORE 7/4 (Possum) 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262643820-Y39XLT7VDYHNAJZ6NWAE/marshmellow+roasting.jpg WORK - Detail of BEFORE 7/4 (Marshmallow roasting) 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262637233-4QOBASQ2WW1TCBOZA05H/fire+stare+w+bird_20M.jpg WORK - Detail of BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658260546903-XHHUKL2O1WE9VT3UZ33V/web_Skin+Deep%2C+2022%2C+24+x+18+inches+framed.jpg WORK - LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE: SKIN DEEP 2022 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 24 x 18 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658260558234-TT8EW49RGER1BLPPV2DW/web_DUAL+RULE+more+or+less+to+scale%2C+2022%2C+18+x+14+inches+framed.jpg WORK - LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE: DUAL RULE 2022 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 24 x 18 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658260569923-IDM6D2HLTC5A8UXY2ES9/web_Parallel+Lives%2C+2022%2C+24+x+18+inches+framed.jpg WORK - LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE: PARALLEL LIVES 2022 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 24 x 18 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658260580821-A5E7TXK7DV0F7XTKXRVD/web_Charon%27s+Bit.+2022%2C+24+x+18+inches+framed.jpg WORK - LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE: Charon's Bit, 2022 Inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 24 x 18 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658260593987-MYYEJ3DANWPONDYGYVOS/web_Recto+Verso%2C+2022%2C+12+x+12+inches+framed.jpg WORK - LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE: RECTO VERSO 2022 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 12 x 12 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658260604928-T3YPRHVMQMM1Q967855U/web_Silent+Partner%2C+2022%2C+14+x+18+inches.jpg WORK - LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE: SILENT PARTNER 2022 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 14 x 18 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658260616073-FP75NAZFN6MC9A60XQCZ/web_Doll+Face%2C+2022%2C+12+x+12+inches+framed.jpg WORK - LAMENTATIONS OF LAFAYETTE: DOLL FACE 2022 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 12 x 12 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136823761-O4ODLDFVTZ06FNG4CUIK/1.+Imgregnable+whole.jpg WORK - IMPREGNABLE 2022 Ink and mixed media on Nepalese mulberry paper, 120 x 108 inches The Supreme Court Justices who decided that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion oversee a forced birth. According to their reasoning, no rights exist if they weren’t explicitly written into the Constitution. In this scene of a miscarriage of justice, the Arms of Court preserve the principle of ‘Your body, my choice.’ Within this dark cave of unreason, high tech cauldrons, the autoclaves, purify children that women are forced to bear for the court. The psychological pressure and physical turbulence of bearing and rearing is sanitized in hell-broth out of sight. Beliefs of various stripes lie on the field in a state-sanctioned, publicly funded religious spectacle. Justice Alito, Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas, with his conservative activist wife Ginni, harmonize as a barbershop quartet. Clarence and Ginni whisper sweet nothings like “we shall overcome” into each other’s ears. Ideals of coercion, forced labor and ownership remain “core family values.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136817605-8MPT33XMXQRSH1GY1E1I/2.+Moral+Center+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Moral Center or To Have and to Hold. Arms of Court protect and preserve the legislation of ‘Your body my choice.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136837042-WYZU8RXIBASMAWMTQKZ7/Impregnable+in+progress_Johnson.jpg WORK - IMPREGNABLE 2022 Work in progress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136508967-SWSC2I0ZRJ69A1LKXUEP/9.+50+Yardline+vert.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 50 yard line: Subduing beliefs of various stripes on the field in State sanctioned, publicly funded religious spectacle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136134285-KWPQ6BPUQ6KAFISMHIDY/19.+Four-part+Hamony+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Four-part Harmony: Alito, Kavanaugh, Thomas and Thomas harmonize as a barbershop quartet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136785489-K12RS2R8BZX64Z7XVJ5M/4.+Core+Values.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Core Values: Ideals of coercion, forced labor and ownership remain core family values. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136550840-644ML8OMGABTZAZNPPGQ/7.+Impartial%2C+Chaste+vert.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Impartial, Chaste: Even women who suffer miscarriages could find themselves facing suspicion or scrutiny. Do miscarriages of justice? If You Couldn’t See It Then You Can’t See It Now: If you saw it but didn’t text it, it is not a right now. No rights exist if they weren’t explicitly written into the Constitution, whether or not they were condoned but not codified, or unable to be perceived or understood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136461152-E004QDB3Z82IMD1LXSKS/11.+Inciting+Lamps+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Inciting lamps The bronze bird in the middle alights on and defecates from the handle of a ram’s head oil lamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136394720-YIPP0WF24XE1OKMZUUAW/13.+Ornamentation.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Ornamentation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136363633-F8MQKIWGB2CMOBLBDGC5/14.+Freedom+Understood+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Freedom Had to be Understood from the Inside: Tiger's chaudron, and NRA millions, For the ingredients of our cauldron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683137254022-IEYKGSGL8MGQ3OF2CGC5/5.+Dangling+dixie+vertical.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Dangling Dixie: A few Southern ear worms to keep the Rebel yell at bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136336903-T7W6PEDDAO1PWTP80872/15.+Autoclave+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Autoclave for the Domestic Supply of Infants: High tech cauldrons, the autoclaves, purify children that women are forced to bear for the court. The psychological pressure and physical turbulence of bearing and rearing is sanitized in hell-broth out of sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136285943-U9Z0N7XTGGOJNSNNCPNZ/16.+Groom.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Groom for the Conjugation of Church and State https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683138613962-DSOG1G4QNFJ4BAKAS89O/17.+Finger+of+Birth-Strangled+Babe+vertical.JPG WORK - IMPREGNABLE 2022 Finger of Birth-Strangled Babe: Leading the developed world in maternal and infant mortality, the ‘Domestic Supply of Infants’* comes to market. The maternal death rate of black women is four to seventeen times greater than that of white women. *See Alito’s own footnotes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136110036-OZAFROISTMZBSG03QZ46/20.+Habitus.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Habitus: General constitution, socially-ingrained habits, skills and dispositions. The physiognomy of privilege. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136069689-HIORDUU60I8SVZPEJSLG/21.+Sweet+Nothings+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Sweet Nothings: ‘There’s nothing over you sweet’ said Clarence to Ginni. ‘There’s no oversight board or rulebook for you, best friend’ said Ginni to Clarence. To each other they whispered ‘We Shall Overturn Someday.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136011460-34QNAA03J8Y2AX4KB7VK/22.+Silvered+in+the+Moon_s+Eclipse.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Silvered in the Moon’s Eclipse: Bats are not blind and can see even in the dimmest light. Justice is not either. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135989724-7UO009OK96QG0KV5TQHW/23.+In+the+Bag+vertical.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 In the Bag: 51% of Amicus curiae (“friend-of-the-court”) briefs calling for an end to the Federal abortion right are linked to Ginni Thomas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135958975-UZQUDFJULQ637UDQPS0K/24.+Shadow+Docket+Wool+of+Bat+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 What’s on the Shadow Docket Tonight?: Wool of Bat and Owlet’s wing. In recent years, the court has increasingly abused the ”shadow docket” emergency process to take action on substantive issues, without live public deliberation and often at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135908469-WL06K9D6T63WYZOK7V5B/25.+Textualist+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Textualist: Men are not angels if they parse their words right. The Devil is also in the footnotes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135878021-KKM0P2MOR0T565N5WVLU/26.+Night+and+Day+vert.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Sweltered Venom Sleeping Not: Some vipers hunt by night and some by day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683137974194-FCU2LHU6HDDSIFN6ZBY7/26.+1115+AD.+Birthing+Stool+horizontal.JPG WORK 115 A.D. Birthing stool detail on the right). Another 12th century ecclesiastical support system for those in labor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135838820-LSNGBA7U9NNUO3K0UL0S/27.+Supermajority+Elephant_s+foot+stool.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Supermajority Elephant’s Foot Stool: CEO and Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, who killed an endangered Botswanan savannah elephant, sways the Supreme Court with right-wing dark-money amicus briefs and offerings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135787337-RTG98N24X274F2HDD2AJ/28.+Dusky+horizontal.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Dusky: The conservative justices wouldn’t protect the endangered Dusky Gopher Frog’s critical habitat, essential for the amphibian’s preservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135686263-3BPNOSHVFW3IWVQZCNOL/29.+Tatarus+Terraces.JPG WORK - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Tatarus Terraces: It would take more than nine days for the gavel to fall from earth into the wide abyss of the underworld, Tararus – the gloomy part of Hades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135743009-JIWRNL5A2WYYXSQ4403Y/WIP_Impregnable_Johnson.jpg WORK - IMPREGNABLE 2022 Work in progress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683140472089-AG7KLSA49W4XB2OPQ42A/Visitation+whole_lighter.jpg WORK - THE VISITATION 2022 Charcoal, conte, ink, gouache on mulberry paper, 108 x 96 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683140802514-LKAWH00ZUG1U08DCGZS8/Visitation+baby.jpg WORK - DETAIL: THE VISITATION 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683140802144-61ICXUPPVLA4V75F7OU7/Visitation+cent+fig.jpg WORK - DETAIL: THE VISITATION 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683140808031-M37AMTX3M0UL6BR7IRGK/Visitation+left+fig.jpg WORK - DETAIL: THE VISITATION 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683140808159-W94I9D1FI9084GVJ96W0/Visitation+robes.jpg WORK - DETAIL: THE VISITATION 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661714939484-6WUJXTZQU4OJ0SR1N254/The+Originalists_Delivering+Greater+Justice%2C+2022%2C+Ink+and+gouache+on+paper%2C+50+x+55+inches.jpg WORK - THE ORIGINALISTS: DELIVERING GREATER JUSTICE 2022 Ink on paper, 50 x 55 inches Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. miscarrying justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661715025724-IVPTGZ9OSTDWX815NCW3/Unplanned%2C+Unhoped%2C+Unforseening+det.jpg WORK - Detail from THE ORIGINALISTS: DELIVERING GREATER JUSTICE 2022 Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Roberts: facing unplanned, unhoped for, and unforeseen consequences… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661714987790-O7EKB9D663MXZCBB54QM/Anesthetic+det.jpg WORK - Detail from THE ORIGINALISTS: DELIVERING GREATER JUSTICE 2022 Justice Clarence Thomas administering ‘anesthetic’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661714996059-08NOUIJ2ITA4COE2S0J4/Chaste+Stars+det.jpg WORK - Detail from THE ORIGINALISTS: DELIVERING GREATER JUSTICE 2022 An emotionally overwhelmed Clarence Thomas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661715003487-8QXEKUKM35QGDADVQDTE/Impartial+det.jpg WORK - Detail from THE ORIGINALISTS: DELIVERING GREATER JUSTICE 2022 An ‘impartial’ Justice Alito… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661715011170-0E9K05I2EQMJNPCT85AD/Limiting+Scope+det.jpg WORK - Detail from THE ORIGINALISTS: DELIVERING GREATER JUSTICE 2022 The limited scope of Justice Amy Coney Barrett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661715018286-LUHCED4HYE4V6ILB0EB0/Stuffing.jpg WORK - Detail from THE ORIGINALISTS: DELIVERING GREATER JUSTICE 2022 Justices trying to return the baby to the womb - “whose idea was this?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681760951078-Q4OQQQWF9BEJK4DGL8WD/IMG_8855.JPG WORK - Spring: Let them keep their children — tethered, 2000 Detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681760958135-S7JQYYQCZ82YMY816D93/single+pink+fixed.jpg WORK - Spring: Let them keep their children — tethered, 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681760960334-2EJ277ZXO3ROLJA9J4WN/spring_pink_bear_trap.jpg WORK - Spring: Let them keep their children — tethered, 2000 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681760962065-SIV54MC8ZIO648Y2N5ON/spring_pink_hopscotch+altered.jpg WORK - Spring: Let them keep their children — tethered, 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681760963862-0UC2K6BHJEGS6EGFGKY0/spring_yellow_detail.jpg WORK - Spring: Let them keep their children — tethered, 2000 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681762247780-VEXPSHEDVLGMJUNRK7KY/spring_blue_altered.jpg WORK - Spring: Let them keep their children — tethered, 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681762543709-ZY88FAGJK23F8NLH135Z/02_Degree+of+Difficulty.jpg WORK - DEGERE OF DIFFICUlTY 1999 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681940755739-V28EEKB4RDQLAPO40MQM/13.stock_options_hands_right.jpg WORK - STOCK OPTIONS 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681940755732-VZIRGL90BIJ3VGI1GRKJ/14.stOckOptiOns1.jpg WORK - STOCK OPTIONS 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681940756425-QQZCZEIYLZ2QCD4Y5ONR/15.stOckOptiOns_detail.jpg WORK - STOCK OPTIONS 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681940756685-T5MCHB8XU4LGHG79263S/stock_options_bluehands.jpg WORK - STOCK OPTIONS 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1681940759107-BOW9N96HISGA4HMCSSJK/stock_options_fisheye.jpg WORK - STOCK OPTIONS 2001 Installation reflected in the mylar letter “O”of “Options.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687114252785-TEGABF4GHUHG49NH0LPR/Sinkhole+Whole.jpg WORK - SINKHOLE 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 37.5 x 24.5 inches SINKHOLE speaks to the engineered unravelling of electoral trust. It portrays a ballot worker diligently performing duties in a sinkhole of suspicion and harassment, surrounded by long lines in districts purposely assigned fewer polling stations, shorter voting calendars, and increasing restrictions. Above her are ghostly gerrymandering politicians who skew the democratic process, promoting disenfranchisement and undermining the spirit of authentic democracy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687114205063-BFBEWSX23E15XHDVMP3I/Sinkhole+monitor.jpg WORK - SINKHOLE 2023 Detail of Poll worker monitoring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687114086590-KZJ2MVEPN3ZCYIA2VC5P/Sinkhole+glances.jpg WORK - SINKHOLE detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687114090748-34R30WV1J9LW7O51KUNP/Sinkhole+church+det.jpg WORK - SINKHOLE detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687114094481-4C8F2BE84Z66N6MGPZKU/Sinkhole+Line+Forms+Here.jpg WORK - SINKHOLE 2023 Detail: Line forms here…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687114099811-5L4HMHMT2L9UMR50XG4G/Sinkhole+stairing.jpg WORK - SINKHOLE detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687114104447-7HT7SJ82YG11S4FAPJRJ/power+umbrella.jpg WORK - SINKHOLE detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687115020478-1QOU0XLLWTL9WJUHWMU7/Poll+Patrol%2C+brighter.jpg WORK - POLL PATROL 2023 Ink, gouache, graphite 54.5 x 55.5 inches POLL PATROL merges self-appointed vigilantes with ICE agents who assume the ‘burden’ to ensure that only the “right” people live and vote in the USA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687115034866-005P4FAH4UP8Q0WJ8W4P/Umbillical+ropes.jpg WORK - POLL PATROL detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687115047055-N0J3CTM0JX2ANRNY6PWG/Scrutinized.jpg WORK - POLL PATROL Detail fo the scrutinized https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687115069719-ZDXUGI1W75FHO8184VO2/Identification.jpg WORK - POLL PATROL Detail of identification https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687115080060-VMEXXAKWI01QT6PLQ8W0/Capuchin+monitor.jpg WORK - POLL PATROL Capuchin monkey poll monitor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687115090434-HZ6IY8IZL6181XFQ617J/Balladeers.jpg WORK - POLL PATROL Detail of balladeers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687122163539-M3VAYWL8IUZP7XEXLRZW/Caveat+Cravat%2C+2023.jpg WORK - CAVEAT CRAVAT, 2023 Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 26 × 13 inches. 33.25 × 19.75 framed. CAVEAT CRAVAT (Well, Not Everybody) transforms a typical monument to a caped ‘super-hero’ Founding Father, yoked by a contraption that can be a joker’s accessory or a painful manacle inflicted on slaves. He ascends with arms extended in a proclamatory gesture, only to say “well, not everybody!” The rights enshrined in the Constitution were not extended to all. The cravat tumbles with endless exceptions or omissions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687123153127-1XL4HTYWXI3OFIX1YFFM/Freedom+for+the+Once+Born+1+whole+clean.jpeg WORK - FREEDOM FOR THE ONCE BORN 2023 Charcoal on paper, 40 x 43 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687123143225-YSPGL1SCU4MFMT2FPPKV/Freedom+Once+Born+1+three+children.jpeg WORK - FREEDOM FOR THE ONCE BORN detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687123136512-FQ96NEI8ZAM533O385TQ/Freedom+Once+Born+1+child+1+det.jpeg WORK - FREEDOM FOR THE ONCE BORN detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687124267713-JEUHEYLIUN0ZW1WKJYR7/Freedom+for+the+Once+Born+II%2C+2023%2C+Charcoal+on+paper%2C+59.5+x+47+inches_brighter.jpg WORK - FREEDOM FOR THE ONCE BORN II, 2023 Charcoal on paper, 59.5 x 47 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687124313999-4CT5T56CM0R7474LZFNC/Freedom+Once+Born+2+right+children+det.jpeg WORK - FREEDOM FOR THE ONCE BORN II, 2023 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687124369789-32LUZV32DFZNMMTUZFI4/Freedom+Unborn+2+jacket+det.jpeg WORK - FREEDOM FOR THE ONCE BORN II, 2023 Detail of “Where Woke Goes to Die” jacket logo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687124753521-KHOL8EA1UDOB4C6RTC0K/Study+for+Freedom+for+the+Once+Born_white+field.jpg WORK - STUDY for FREEDOM FOR THE ONCE BORN, 2023 Ink and conté crayon on grey paper, 18.5 x 12.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687129532986-YUIB3OUPZR19X95CSHQI/central+figure+crop.jpeg WORK - ALL CLEAR Detail of child in camouflage pants with open transparent backback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687129484667-X6TWBSZNHPNM88CFUY3A/ALL+CLEAR+59+x+59_+charcoal+graphite.jpeg WORK - ALL CLEAR 2023 Charcoal and graphite on paper, 59 x 59 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687129499791-1UR80SQSA0JR3U0O6LYI/Burning+book+detail.jpeg WORK - ALL CLEAR Detail of burning book logo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687129512876-5UIN3PNPUA86646UM83C/Cartoon+heart+detail.jpeg WORK - ALL CLEAR Detail of transparent backpacks, mandatory in some schools to detect presence of weapons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687129543170-E3TC0M6BGMBAE1CFELQB/Transparent+backpacks.jpeg WORK http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/choreography-1 daily 0.75 2018-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526663030691-H1J393MCL6QTK1G2ZD26/Choroegraphy_lighter+web.jpg choreography - CHOREOGRAPHY 2009 Marble and cultured marble, 72x132 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526663030691-H1J393MCL6QTK1G2ZD26/Choroegraphy_lighter+web.jpg choreography - CHOREOGRAPHY 2009 Marble and cultured marble, 72x132 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465229204263-5DSPCXCQEMUPN7TFBN5S/Choroegraphy_lighter+web.jpg choreography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461003779692-MNYF8HRHA6OH50V5EYDG/Choroegraphy.jpg choreography - CHOREOGRAPHY 2009, Marble and cultured marble, 72x120 inches Installed at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465229128707-VP2LLSA677MBYOWK71JQ/Choroegraphy_lighter+web.jpg choreography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002369214-IMS90Z9WV725A5E962PQ/Choreography_side1.jpg choreography - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461267505204-IKFGG4JLM6K4XVY9NW45/Choroegraphy_lighter.jpg choreography - CHOREOGRAPHY 2009, Marble and cultured marble, 72x132 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002462164-ISQPZPO9NV1WRH60H19X/Choreography+detail+web.jpg choreography - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002542545-JFQRWIG6I957L1RAOYS4/Choreography_single_banana-web.jpg choreography - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002871012-8SSKIS4W7G3CIW1YOO7L/Choroegraphy_montgomery_web.jpg choreography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461267472351-OI80FUDF5PW5NZPEZI5N/choreorgaphy+2_montgomery_web+brighter.jpg choreography - CHOREOGRAPHY 2009 Marble and cultured marble, 72x132 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002987831-5ITBV51Q8SB0HF3RKTIO/Choreography_single1.jpg choreography - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461002869641-TLUATUB6WUZ02CK6F8QW/choreorgaphy+2_montgomery_web.jpg choreography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461267785482-UGWSYFP6W1Y89BYYGGGJ/choroegraphy+detail_mont_web_light.jpg choreography - Detail of CHOREOGRAPHY http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/eternal-flames daily 0.75 2020-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017673073-TC287YKZZNT30OZB9IB3/Johnson_EternalFlame_beak_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017673073-TC287YKZZNT30OZB9IB3/Johnson_EternalFlame_beak_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017673973-FJTI2Y7QQUP94854IAET/Johnson_EternalFlames_osama_nostrils_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017674023-3VNIGB01QN16HN1LXR5O/Johnson_EternalFlames_eagle_deflated_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017674396-BB0H8H4U7YOT55CVAO7X/Johnson_EternalFlames_osama_tower_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES IV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017674552-KBRNY4V66GFEU02JOMTB/Johnson_EternalFlames_turban_twist_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES V https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017675711-BZ1NTHMR1YIMQN5R2OOS/Johnson_EternalFlamesXX_rocket_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES VI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017675302-S2FV5LKOX0L7QL9EUUZZ/Johnson_EternalFlamesV_eagle_slumped_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES VII https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017674976-LR03J3EG45M8I1IZU265/Johnson_EternalFlames-mashed_nose_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES VIII https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017675038-7B81E1ZXU9O3HFWX2ZNF/Johnson_EternalFlames-eagle_pp.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES IX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017836974-41E8RH3E3MQIUWI8QGLP/Johnson_EternalFlames_eagle+flickering.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES IX verso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461017898645-VIMW8Y0X9DDUPFSTU6DL/Osama_grimace_cropped.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES X https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461018543234-KKG88J33S9CAJQNHDZMP/Johnson_EternalFlames_turban_twist.jpg ETERNAL FLAMES - ETERNAL FLAMES V http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/trophies daily 0.75 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206182448-VGVHZPSFV8O2YVIZ7YL2/Johnson_Handmaidens.jpg TROPHIES - Handmaidens, 2015, painted chalkware and hand grenades https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1639334277032-FB8DMPE5ZWCSNCGTPGU5/Johnson_Profile%2C+2014%2C+plaster%2C+19x10x8+%28right+side%29.jpg TROPHIES - PROFILE 2014 Plaster, 19 x 10 x 8 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206361409-4X4J7DWJFVGO9O5ELZHP/Johnson_Eagle+Eyes_5MB.jpg TROPHIES - RAPT, 2014 alabaster with acrylic eagle eyes and wax, 22x14x13 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206653486-5QBYR555DDVA6ZF3A4C2/alabaster+eagle+woman+detail+1920.jpg TROPHIES - Detail of RAPT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526665201753-RDVI0ZE85W1HH2LDXNQS/Spurious%2C2-18%2C+gouache%2C+wax%2C+ink%2C+graphite%2C+and+digital+print+on+paper%2C+43.5+x+65.75+in.jpg TROPHIES - SPURIOUS 2018 Gouache, wax, ink, graphite, and digital print on paper, 43.5 x 65.75 inches. Published in Hyperallergic, March 3, 2018 SPURIOUS Just as Achilles, swift of foot though absent spear: “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon.” —US President Donald John Trump Just as Hermes, winged sandaled interpreter translates: “I think he was just stating that as a leader, he would have stepped in and hopefully been able to help.” —White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Discrepancies are aesthetic: “You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed color. Became very red […] it’s just not my thing.” —US President Donald John Trump It’s a bone spur kind of thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206281690-6VL3ZCV3RCLJEF7M0IZ6/Achilles%27+dove+%28foot+prosthetic%292014+10+x+13+x+6.jpg TROPHIES - Achilles’ Dove, 2014, painted chalkware and articulated prosthetic, 10x13x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206364238-W333FL73U75NXYLZUP73/Sam+I+Am+1200.jpg TROPHIES - Sam I Am, 2014, hydrocal, 19x10x12 inches The devolution of democracy, alluding to Ted Cruz’ 2013 marathon faux filibuster reading of Green Eggs and Ham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206362162-NW395D8IRVKIJG5GBZ9U/Sam+I+Am+raw+left+1200.jpg TROPHIES - Sam I Am, 2014, hydrocal, 19x10x12 inches The devolution of democracy, alluding to Ted Cruz’ 2013 marathon faux filibuster reading of Green Eggs and Ham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265006332-R0P703R1SA32DKFSNLNC/Myth+of+Might+Double+pp.jpg TROPHIES - Myth of Might, 2013, cast marble, gilded plastic, 16x8x7 Gilded eaglets emerge from the fists of superhero Hulk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265006231-QWDXACQ02COYJX003SKB/Myth+of+Might+Single_pp.jpg TROPHIES - Myth of Might, 2013, cast marble, gilded plastic, 16x8x7 Gilded eaglet emerges from the fist of superhero Hulk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206361389-4G9NK74DEOVNVBVQJ64W/iron+eagle+front+1200.jpg TROPHIES - Biting the Wing, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206714333-TBCAWN5RN9SVA9ZUCMTI/Biting+the+Wing_iron+eagle+bits+own+wing+1200.jpg TROPHIES - Biting the Wing, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461264691429-KAF7IGR2RVTLEI2AFK0E/Golden+Calf+front.jpg TROPHIES - Golden Calf, 2014, gilded prosthetic leg and plaster, 22x15x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461264691429-VG5JJXIATCWWAXS0O2C9/Golden+Calf+side.jpg TROPHIES - Golden Calf, 2014, gilded prosthetic leg and plaster, 22x15x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461264889796-V00XMQUEYM0GBTD5QZTJ/Golden+Calf+verso.jpg TROPHIES - Golden Calf, 2014, gilded prosthetic leg and plaster, 22x15x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265006963-4W1P3P4LLG6TGP8LMWVI/PULL_pp.jpg TROPHIES - Pull, 2013 Inkjet print of sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1639334269809-XQV9T15M1LYJTW62O486/left+underware+bookend+lion+raw.jpg TROPHIES - LEFT LION BOOKEND 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1639334506697-98PQE6U8ZJQRRI83Q8WN/right+underware+lion+raw.jpg TROPHIES - RIGHT LION BOOKEND 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265006974-T6GY1A2NGCEL2SI7CCQN/WORN+%28turban%29.jpg TROPHIES - WORN, 2013, painted cultured marble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466386143703-5OSSTD42XRHA477U9F0S/Wall-eyed%2C+2016%2C+18x8.5x8.5_web.jpg TROPHIES - PERIPHERAL, 2015 Altered plaster bust, prosthetic human eyes, 18h x 8.5w x 8.5d inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1492628925475-OJ50V01OZCJLZRJKG19Y/cross+eyed+athlete+detail+1920.jpg TROPHIES - Detail of PERIPHERAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465236894089-SIFTQXNI28Q78C0T9B6O/crossed+eyed+athlete+w+ped+det+tight.jpg TROPHIES - Detail of PERIPHERAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1759262207708-ISL3XPEEOS7EV9SK58F8/Deposition+3+eggshell+skull.png TROPHIES - DEPOSITION 2014 Replica of human skull with Victory wax and egg shell, 8h x 6w x 8d inches As of September 30, 2025, the phrase "no more stepping on eggshells" is a policy implemented in the U.S. military by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1759262410918-3UZNXXGO3881PFIU0PA7/Deposition+LOWER%2C+2014%2C+replica+of+human+skull%2C+eggshells%2Cegg+shell+skull%2C+8x5.5x8in.jpg TROPHIES - DEPOSITION 2014, replica of human skull with Victory wax and egg shell, 8h x 6w x 8d inches Deposition: • a testifying especially before a court • out-of-court testimony made under oath and recorded by an authorized officer for later use in court • an act or process of laying someone or something down or letting something fall • an act of removing from a position of authority As of September 30, 2025, the phrase "no more stepping on eggshells" is a policy implemented in the U.S. military by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1586025866075-A84RWO6NDEXB7M4JY0GP/Parthenon+Claw%2C+2016%2C+plaster+model%2C+cast+resin+hawk+claw%2C+4.75x4.25x3.jpg TROPHIES - SEIZE 2016, plaster model, cast resin raptor claw, 4.75 x 4.25 x 3 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461206997283-RWO9CLGM0SCPMCETOD7B/Johnson_Handmaidens.jpg TROPHIES http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/return-to-sender1 daily 0.75 2018-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268776168-ICNCRKP9XATA977DU0B8/Return+to+Sender+Install+3+web.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER, 2015 Cast cultured granite, cement and metal boxes, variable dimensions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268776168-ICNCRKP9XATA977DU0B8/Return+to+Sender+Install+3+web.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER, 2015 Cast cultured granite, cement and metal boxes, variable dimensions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268922919-32Z6S8U969EPWPV7QCP4/Altitude+I+%28full%29%2C+2015%2C+metal%2C+cultured+black+granite%2C+concrete%2C+10.5x12.5x10in+closed%2C+19.25in+open.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER I, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 10.5x12.5x10 inches closed/19.25 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268928232-FFGINYMEDN5FAXP78PH4/Return+to+Sender+I.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - Detail: RETURN TO SENDER I, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268925372-NIDF9BEJPZ8GJLXYN2XH/Return+to+Sender+II+copy.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER II, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 10.25 x 12.5 x 9.5 inches closed/ 19 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268919163-JK4QLNPAMBXBXZN9WWVC/Altitude+III_duo+3.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER III: Altitude, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box, 14.75x17x17 inches each compartment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268921156-C6ZP7BTMODNIH9EO0W9C/Altitude+III_duo.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER III: Altitude, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box, 14.75x17x17 inches each compartment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268927008-TZEITCYRJU74O8AJXDC4/Return+to+Sender+IV_cool.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - ETURN TO SENDER IV, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 10.5 x 12.5 x 10 inches closed / 19.25 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268922714-0PCVPEDQ88YV9P2W54JW/Return+to+Sender++V_verso%2C12x8.5x12in.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER V, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 12 x 8.5 x 12 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268928270-MYZGR3AY7XE2BLTE57SO/Return+to+Sender+V%2C12x8.5x12in.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER V, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 12 x 8.5 x 12inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268929625-EPG4CC0L9YNKT7N5K71J/Return+to+Sender+VI%2C11x12x9.5+in+closed%2C+22+open.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER VI, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 11 x 12 x 9.5 inches closed, 22 inches open https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268929424-7GMUFRQ2FO226895522O/Return+to+Sender+VI-Lateral%2C11x12x9.5+in+closed%2C+22+open.jpg RETURN TO SENDER - RETURN TO SENDER VI, 2015, cast cultured granite, cement and metal box 11 x 12 x 9.5 inches closed / 22 inches open http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2018-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205256406-55VY3YST4BB0GLUL4L8B/Avert+flat.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Avert, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205256406-55VY3YST4BB0GLUL4L8B/Avert+flat.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Avert, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205259033-L0LO2MWZE6JX8LVGD2EX/Early+mourning+flat.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Early Mourning, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205258947-6WVFCOA78YTEBVQ9SELY/Envelop+flat.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Envelop, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205259807-PTSL0PO7AZUMJ3R4GOPB/Extract.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Extract, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205260945-S2I1231FO5F4O6GTKHOK/G%27s+Virgin+Stiffed.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - G's Virgin Stiffed, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205262860-BE65W2YRL11R0H2PWOHT/Half+of+mourning+flat.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Half of Mourning, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205263959-IHTT6QCVLW3XDX836MKA/Paled.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Paled, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205263764-185JPF1BBGF1QL9BZB2S/Part+whole.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Part Whole, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205267400-UIW4XXPDWBMJXG0LT52D/Rub.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Rub, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205269112-Z1WA47AXB43B86GQ8XJV/Stave.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Stave, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461205274176-AZVKOZR5ZEBTSJTBSZCA/Stiffed.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - Stiffed, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666652770-ASN645PHSEHAXWJS1G8I/Praying+Hands_Son%2C+2014%2Cblack+granite%2C+7+x+7+x+15+inches.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - PRAYING HANDS (SON) 2014 Black granite, 7 x 7 x 15 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666240086-I1JUA74Y636OM43RRVXL/Clasped+Hands.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - CLASPED HANDS, 2013? Graphite, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666363265-D7UYG7GJPMQZQ3WPKW10/Praying+Hands_Mother.jpg IN GOOD FAITH - PRAYING HANDS (MOTHER) 2013 Ink on paper, 24 x 18 inches, 30” x 23” framed http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/unrest2 daily 0.75 2021-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611070922710-74SJGMS7D7E4STB9PZUX/FULCRUM_square.jpg UNREST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1484775793734-OXR2J7GCY2Z27WZL0QJU/FULCRUM_square.jpg UNREST - FULCRUM 2013 Cast marble, glass and human hair, 24 x 16 x 6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461268312455-FDWNZV6TQRJNFC4E87MQ/Fulcrum+closest+bright.jpg UNREST - Fulcrum, 2013, cast marble, glass and human hair, 24x16x6 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265838875-WKKQD0OTK3H88UOGAKF7/ABANDON+sleep+of+justice_34x13.5x13.5+in.jpg UNREST - Abandon: Sleep of Justice, 2013, cultured black marble and black iron, 34x13.5x13.5 inches An homage to Goya’s Los Caprichos, and their condemnation of human folly, specifically the work, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. The sleep of justice is more than a folly, as experienced by too many unarmed civilians at the hands of law enforcement and neighborhood vigilantes. (For Trayvon Martin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461266129695-912KJ6EWTU4LXD578BMT/anniversary+%28marble+travon%29.jpg UNREST - UNREST (HYPNOS), 2014 Cultured marble and iron wing, 22 wide x 13 deep x 9 height https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265909742-9L6BO9DIHU05GK6Q470S/David+Slingshot+1920.jpg UNREST - DAVID'S SLING (Magic Wand), 2014, plastic skull, bone and rubber bands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265839659-4MR0GJFO7F13LM5PH22C/Measure+for+Measure.jpg UNREST - Measure for Measure, 2013, iron shovel blade, glass and plastic letter beads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461265839604-C8TBUR08HRKTCX9TBSH2/HEED_pp.jpg UNREST - Heed, 2013, iron shovel blade, cast marble, plastic and metal letter beads, 19x9x16 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1492629236261-39Q3WSW7YXL2UY9JBHJC/Charge_Redefining+Genocide.jpg UNREST - CHARGE: REDEFINING GENOCIDE, 1999 altered bugle, black flag (with optional marble sarcophagus lid, 60" x 24" x 6") http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/charge.html http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/infant-justice daily 0.75 2020-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461271629855-91TP3TL001W13VHCCJAP/Infant+Justice_glass+rattles_pp.jpg INFANT JUSTICE - Inheritance, 2004, glass baby rattles filled with stones In Infant Justice, two somber cribs provide a dialectical foil for a delicate medium, using its material qualities to work with, and not against, its stereotypical associations. Here, glass remains fragile, beautiful, precious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461272010356-GQGU6O4GBW3WODK36WE8/Inheritance_shekels.jpg INFANT JUSTICE - Inheritance , 2004, glass baby barbell rattles filled with stones surrounded by a group of twelve BCE stone shekel weights Infant Justice is immanent, as well as present, and lives, as do we, with the discrepancies between the seen (frozen, utopic) and the known (active, chaotic). We know the ideals of our judicial system to be illusory; transparent gavels cast condescending and often cryptic shadows over our heads. The promise and image of impartiality is, in practice, easily broken, splintered through selective prosecution at home and shattered through blatant inequities in our foreign policy. Pleas for justice are muted, not pacified. Rattles of resistance unshaken, are not resigned. The stones' cries contained, at great cost, for this moment. *** Installed at The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University for Objects in/and Visual Culture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461275833938-O5U65Y6Y680PP1DY0R6W/Crib-02.jpg INFANT JUSTICE - INFANT JUSTICE, 2002 two cribs with mobile consisting of nine glass gavels Be quiet. Good night. Don't let the bedbugs bite, but when they do don't cry. Be quiet. For God's sake, Be quiet. for my sake, Be quiet. for truth for justice for the American way just Be quiet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461275833409-RF3W64LD405P085RIF3J/Crib-03.jpg INFANT JUSTICE - Detail of INFANT JUSTICE, 2002 crib with mobile consisting of nine glass gavels Installed at Pittsburgh Glass Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461273945033-JDA9I4S1NF96PREDPNWN/Infant+Justice_glass+rattles_pp.jpg INFANT JUSTICE http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/formal-graffiti1 daily 0.75 2017-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577603029-OVC9CTE0RLYISSDCCDXA/p.34+%28Ha%E2%80%99%29+Insulation_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.34 (Ha’) Insulation 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 22.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577603029-OVC9CTE0RLYISSDCCDXA/p.34+%28Ha%E2%80%99%29+Insulation_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.34 (Ha’) Insulation 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 22.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577598352-XVD4WADAV2ZJHYYS979U/p.28+%28Djim%29+Metal+_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.28 (Djim) Metal 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 22.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577600559-8H9E0R36NS7TCX9DD08B/p.+32+%28Ba%E2%80%99%29+Carpet.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p. 32 (Ba’) Carpet 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577582244-RH2K5IK6LIYB79K2BDAJ/p.+30+%28Lam%2C+Miim%2C+Noun%2C+Ha%E2%80%99%2C+La%E2%80%99%29+Plywood_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p. 30 (Lam, Miim, Noun, Ha’, La’) Plywood 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577584599-97WA1DY5R09BC1UJ6ZO8/p.+32+%28Ba%E2%80%99%29+Aluminum_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p. 32 (Ba’) Aluminum 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 9.125 x 12.125 inches; 19.5 x 17 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577590331-QRTB7GFKZI99RPYV7YHP/p.25+%28Ayn%29+Pipe_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.25 (Ayn) Pipe 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 9.125 x 12.125 inches; 19.5 x 17 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577604267-ZFNACRFKV4FMU8CHE9SO/p.41+%28Sin%2C+Ha%E2%80%99%2C+Fa%E2%80%99%29+Wallpaper.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.41 (Sin, Ha’, Fa’) Wallpaper 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 9.125 x 12.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577582053-D50E73G0EA6UIYFL8O2L/p.+27+%28Ha%E2%80%99%2C+Wa%29+Bucket_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p. 27 (Ha’, Wa) Bucket 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577602000-CEJOYFWHEFDJF5SVWRHK/p.30+%28Lam%2C+Miim%2C+Noun%2C+Ha%E2%80%99%2C+La%E2%80%99%29+Glass_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.30 (Lam, Miim, Noun, Ha’, La’) Glass 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577588122-MZD91POD1A8O6TYBDX8U/p.24+%28Dal%2C+Sin%29+I-Beam_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.24 (Dal, Sin) I-Beam 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577596176-CX77DYC0YGW035QALBE2/p.26+%28Ha%E2%80%99%29+Angle+Iron_half.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.26 (Ha') Angle Iron 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 9.125 x 12.125 inches; 19.5 x 17 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483577607268-2CB8401MINSLDOB26853/p29rust_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p. 29 Rust 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483578410227-IK23LXEMNF3QLZJYITRH/p.30+%28Lam%2C+Miim%2C+Noun%2C+Ha%E2%80%99%2C+La%E2%80%99%29+Glass_pp.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483578528253-UZ1E74818F3WB8YLZA7B/p.27+%3F%3F%3F.jpg FORMAL GRAFFITI - Formal Graffiti: p.27 2011, Archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 12.125 x 9.125 inches; 17 x 19.5 inches framed http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/inconceivable-1 daily 0.75 2016-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694777143-32LKWJ43Z1G4HTKK7T2W/Early+2+in.jpg Inconceivable - INCONCEIVABLE: Early, 2013, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694777143-32LKWJ43Z1G4HTKK7T2W/Early+2+in.jpg Inconceivable - INCONCEIVABLE: Early, 2013, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694777139-4UAXWK5JR33EZY6E05GD/Inconceivable_Yva+2+in.jpg Inconceivable - INCONCEIVABLE: Yva, 2013, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694799142-GJ4BLNU5J6DF2I6X805F/Ryder_web.jpg Inconceivable - INCONCEIVABLE: Ryder, 2015, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461694798708-4QVJBE2SUJA6FSULX13G/TAJ.jpg Inconceivable - INCONCEIVABLE: Taj, 2015, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461695147289-EFG69RL56ZD30NW3SL4L/Lucien_web.jpg Inconceivable - INCONCEIVABLE: Lucien, 2013, Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 30 inches, 32 x 32 inches framed http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/proverbs-1 daily 0.75 2016-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700883216-NJE0V68LLI6MT2RNZ8KE/5+o%27clock+somewhere.jpg Proverbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700883216-NJE0V68LLI6MT2RNZ8KE/5+o%27clock+somewhere.jpg Proverbs - 5 O'clock Somewhere https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700881526-N31R1IJ9J3PTPJ72009X/Proverbs-+Bare+Standard_3MB.jpg Proverbs - Bare Standard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700882178-YJJTI4L7NDXSTW3IZW11/Proverbs-Promised+World_3MB.jpg Proverbs - Promised World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700883693-UK3UHSJ79BQY484V620O/salted+pearls.jpg Proverbs - Salted Pearls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700887357-LVK5CIOBPLG41QJOELWW/cotton+seed+in+the+sun.jpg Proverbs - Cotton Seed in the Sun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700891809-YH1J5UMTE1GMA812ONSS/stone+%26+an+apple.jpg Proverbs - Stone and an Apple https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700893467-5ZIUVWRFD73FUTZJUNM2/assorted+flavors.jpg Proverbs - Assorted Flavors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700894806-PDG9B478WMGRWR7Z9N1T/stronger+argument.jpg Proverbs - Stronger Argument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700894934-7NHISRKV8X751TQ6N4O8/if+a+peg.jpg Proverbs - If a Peg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700896283-XPJHSPL1A3EXN5D4EC5I/dwell+in+cities.jpg Proverbs - Dwell in Cities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700896514-PZSDFZSU8H7A3GXPTEIG/bare+standard.jpg Proverbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700897973-45P4V3GV57DSEXLWIJE2/party+with+tap+water.jpg Proverbs - Party with Tap Water https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700898355-1HPF45VLCNLE6MSKXQYF/a+friend%27s+stone.jpg Proverbs - A Friend's Stone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700899382-3NM69SY4750SWG5CKD9C/one+hand.jpg Proverbs - One Hand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700900401-BZ1MRWNG0VRPKY14L9V1/promised+world.jpg Proverbs - Promised World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700900717-RTN6Z8VAZ6QB1WIVPJ9A/wait+your+turn.jpg Proverbs - Wait Your Turn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700902890-8W5YR0TFNGZ324QWHNXG/Empty+walnut%27s+song.jpg Proverbs - Empty Walnut's Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700902963-2O4ZKJG05RI3DD7ZQTBO/worms+won%27t+eat.jpg Proverbs - Worms Won't Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700904634-8ZC283L3BCZXCOVCBGI7/other%27s+honey.jpg Proverbs - Other's Honey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700904920-BM4ILV658SAUK32VW1E4/two+mellons.jpg Proverbs - Two Melons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700906456-S1DPCD2L1TL8411D4286/tie+your+truck.jpg Proverbs - Tie Your Truck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700906553-O3CBBTZGVBGI98APPAE0/stop+passing.jpg Proverbs - Stop Passing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700908103-567X8KAC8OREDZ7R8AND/locked+door.jpg Proverbs - Locked Door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461700908246-SANEGUJBPA99CMMBOZG9/how+to+dance.jpg Proverbs - How to Dance http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/share-1 daily 0.75 2016-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702510390-BW5L80UOER8R5GLQZXER/02_Johnson_Share_print+set+of+6.jpg Share https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702510390-BW5L80UOER8R5GLQZXER/02_Johnson_Share_print+set+of+6.jpg Share - SHARE, 2010, Haitian mud, smidgeon of margarine, smidgeon of salt, elite granite, absent fork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702511622-SC4PCQTDS99737AVWRNQ/Johnson_SHARE_single+tray.jpg Share https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702512476-EWDN60P44CC1WDSLWVE6/Share_text+spread+flat.jpg Share - Publication version of SHARE, 2010, Haitian mud, smidgeon of margarine, smidgeon of salt, elite granite, absent fork, page 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1461702514366-QO7KRE81RUFWMDL3FZX6/03_Johnson_SHARE_duo.jpg Share - Publication version of SHARE, 2010, Haitian mud, smidgeon of margarine, smidgeon of salt, elite granite, absent fork, page 2 http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/swathe daily 0.75 2016-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308117529-O09NO1PA7YVUU3G0RH56/Swathe+1.jpg Swathe - Swathe I 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308117529-O09NO1PA7YVUU3G0RH56/Swathe+1.jpg Swathe - Swathe I 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308116752-O8F0Q6VXJ6EK39DKDKOC/Swathe+2.jpg Swathe - Swathe II 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308113726-9DSCRQZWPC1CBA45BGA3/Swathe+3.jpg Swathe - Swathe III 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308109280-491ZB9Z2L6PTXQO97MO2/Swathe+4.jpg Swathe - Swathe IV 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462308109679-JTX0J3HMGKRP54W240W6/Swathe+5.jpg Swathe - Swathe V 2006, ink on paper, 8.5 x 10.5 inches http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/washed-up-1 daily 0.75 2017-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304214456-EXC9QR1S5133Q7B1AJ19/Fawn%2C+2015+ink%2C+20.5x28.5.jpg WASHED UP - Untiled (Fawn) 2015 ink on paper, 20.5 x 28.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304214456-EXC9QR1S5133Q7B1AJ19/Fawn%2C+2015+ink%2C+20.5x28.5.jpg WASHED UP - Untiled (Fawn) 2015 ink on paper, 20.5 x 28.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304277366-Q5VCT8GIDM11G78HYOZD/Fawn+detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Fawn) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390011113-KXXK4NXVAR2FLK8WZ4LR/William+Tell%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+20+x+29+inches_6.5MB.jpg WASHED UP - William Tell, 2016 ink on paper, 20 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390010298-89TIS556CB6CTRB0JWAE/William+Tell%2C+2016_+detail_baseball_6MB.jpg WASHED UP - Detail of William Tell, 2016 (baseball) ink on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1473448771363-6IITJQBEQSJKL92RXW8C/Daniel+Boone%2C+2016+ink+on+beige+paper%2C+21.5+x+29+inches+copy.jpg WASHED UP - A Delicate Balance, 2016, ink on beige paper, 21.5 x 29 in In ‘A Delicate Balance,’ we find: a scale model tank resting on an upended Daniel Boone TV series metal lunch box; a terracotta bound Aztec slave sitting on a US Defense ministry seal printed on an empty cardboard doll box; a plastic buffalo, miniature guns, ceramic ‘tea party minute man’ and O'joker (President Obama painted as the Joker from The Dark Knight Batman film), bobble-head figurines, a Parthenon Museum of Knoxville souvenir coffee cup, a cloth Donald Rumsfeld doll, iron eagle wall décor, and an ancient Greek bust of a youth bearing a yarmulke from the Israeli army. They are all among the salient and evaporating elements competing for table top space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390011912-2WTE3XAE06NX1L2H942V/MoMA%27s+Lions%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+Strathmore%2C+18+x+24+inches.jpg WASHED UP - MoMA's Lions, 2016 ink on Strathmore, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390009622-8RL39BH4D99WVXRNG0U1/Foot+Smasher%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+on+gray+paper%2C+28+x+20.5+inches_6.7MB.jpg WASHED UP - Foot Smasher, 2016 ink on on gray paper, 28 x 20.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390009048-4AH4P026SYY9JNQKTXMZ/Foot+Smasher%2C+2016%2C+detail+of+king_4.7MB.jpg WASHED UP - Detail of Foot Smasher (king), 2016 ink on gray paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390008124-JJJ8236U9F5UAU8YGO77/Foot+Smasher%2C+2016_detail+of+frog_web.jpg WASHED UP - Detail of Foot Smashed, 2016 (frog) ink on gray peper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390008850-WFIKHWCCZ877I7QC1I24/Foot+Smasher%2C+2016%2C+detail+of+flower+fox+detail_web+.jpg WASHED UP - Detail of Foot Smasher, 2016 ink on on gray paper, 28 x 20.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304990710-QNQ4FQ3WRGLR16WY31M9/PArthenon+goblet%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Fabriano%2C+20x28.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Parthenon Goblet) 2015, ink on Fabriano, 20 x 28 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305098272-FQ5Z6GIADUWSO9EQ1FU2/Parthenon+Goblet-detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Parthenon Goblet) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304047127-CXU45L1GFFHY667MD5DR/Big+Foot%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Arches%2C+28.5x20.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Big Foot) 2015, ink on Arches, 28.5x20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304142028-VXVPAMD2CE86TFOJ07VM/Big+Foot_detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Big Foot) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304395387-3RW6EKCDP82U3TXDD6WF/Bookends%2C2015%2C+ink+on+Fabriano%2C+29x21.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled(Bookends) 2015, ink on Fabriano, 29 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462307076384-B0I4UC7AXO5ZO3ZEB1CT/Bookends_detail+2.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Bookends) detail 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304448157-2CK4TA5NM6EFNWIEQRYY/Bookends_detail+3.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled(Bookends) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306690105-VGXELXRZKAX951SS5XVT/Skull_Osama+Profile%2C+2015%2C+ink+and+gouache+on+gray+paper.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Osama and Skull) 2015, ink and gouache on gray paper, 20 x 28.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304657604-GV0F7UL8T3MHGQ2X5ZM2/Bugles_eagles%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+19.5x28.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Bugle mouthpieces and Eagle) 2015, ink on paper, 19.5 x 28 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304719274-UNSCB28O3PSW4BNEQFOP/Bugles_eagles+detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Bugle mouthpieces and Eagle) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304512467-YD4MQDO6NQPUPJOQVA8Y/Birds+and+Knit+Beard%2C+2015%2C+ink+20.5x29.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled(Birds and Knit Beard) 2015, ink on paper, 20.5 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304588085-TWAEPRIHIOCAMM8QD8DD/Birds+and+Knit+Beard+detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Birds and Knit Beard) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304815339-17HGRF4FYODD3AL05W3N/Epiphany%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+20x29.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Epiphany) 2015, ink on paper, 20 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304931558-R4TD77CNOJ49WCWWRNOI/Epiphany_detail_+2015.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Epiphany) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305930273-3LU52EKU6O5UCNOKUBYN/Profile+with+spool%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+20x28.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled(Profile with Spool) 2015, ink on paper, 20x28 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306064411-322OJANGR5237UDA4GBO/Profile+with+spool-detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Profile with Spool) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306778463-CCNBAGYIE75YM8JIREL2/Swathe%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Fabriano%2C20.5x29.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Swathe Lifted) 2015, ink on Fabriano, 20.5 x 29 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306848524-LSX83FPKL0W1IN857XHR/Swathe_detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Swathe Lifted) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306243093-70XY0YGNBR2HSLTFC6M3/Reclining+Skeleton%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Fabriano%2C+21x28.75.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Reclining Skeleton) 2015, ink on Fabriano, 21 x 28.75 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306610087-Z8O4US68DWDOAG3K8NV5/Reclining+Skeleton_detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Reclining Skeleton) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305579935-CD5S11IOXI2T7AL4HH77/Politicos%2C+2015%2Cink+and+gouache+on+gray+paper%2C+28.5x20.25.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Politicos) 2015,ink and gouache on gray paper, 28.5 x 20.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305782726-DCVNKJAJ589JC60GP9EA/Politicos+detail.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Politicos) detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305351793-KZ3A3NFPQMBJ239AO3IX/Pale+Lions%2C+2015+ink%2C+20.5+x29.jpg WASHED UP - Tug of War ink on paper, 20 x 28.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462306929126-KIS3QD9PDFB3HLQRKIOX/Tank%2C+2015%2C+20x26+inches%2Cgraphite.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Tank) 2015, graphite on paper, 20 x 26 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486245102351-ON8VWS271CZM58LKF12R/Touch+and+Go%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+ARches%2C+29x21+inches.jpg WASHED UP - Touch and Go 2015, ink on Arches, 29 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486244889118-V2WWVVC8783CHBJ6XECF/Drawn%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+paper%2C29x21.jpg WASHED UP - Drawn 2015, ink, 29 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462304326293-X69UBZ798C8KJP6PD4LQ/Eagle+Eyes%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+28.75x20.25.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Eagle Eyes) 2015, ink on paper, 28.75 x 20.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486244975190-JGUHD6CYI1W9FYP66VU1/Salute%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+22x11.75+inches.jpg WASHED UP - Salute 2015, ink, 22 x 11.75 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1486244879006-SSCGYL9QX28GD0UPN3VR/Leaping+Gazelle%2C+2015%2C+ink+on+Arches%2C+21.5x20.5+inches.jpg WASHED UP - Tail Chasing 2015, ink on Arches, 21.5 x 29.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1466390007982-BO5LBH37YWTLW8VN4GO2/Flower+Smasher%2C+2016%2C+ink+on+Strathmore%2C+18+x+24+inches_web.jpg WASHED UP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462305474652-X2KPV0ZGSMN498MZNPAR/Liberty%2C+2015%2C+20x20%2C+graphite%2C+20x020.jpg WASHED UP - Untitled (Liberty) 2015, graphite, 20x20 inches http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/soft-indicators-hard-data-1 daily 0.75 2018-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666014798-EQ8J150DWC4LNX5CKPXU/Liberalization+and+Regulation%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+21.5x11.5_2MB.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - Liberalization and Regulation 2015, ink on paper, 21.5 x 11.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666014798-EQ8J150DWC4LNX5CKPXU/Liberalization+and+Regulation%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+21.5x11.5_2MB.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - Liberalization and Regulation 2015, ink on paper, 21.5 x 11.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462307591834-V3L4OGXMOJ5GQ8888IHC/Liberalization+and+Regulation%2C+2015%2C+ink%2C+21.5x11.5_2MB.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - Liberalization and Regulation 2015, ink on paper, 21.5 x 11.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462307781043-XF3LRTJ1H5Z8J27VJFRD/Left+spine%2C+2015%2C+ink+22+x+11.33.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - Left Spine 2015, ink on paper, 22 x 11.33 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462307739470-X6KF36TL23BHAA0K0ORA/Black+gut%2C+2015%2C+ink+22+x+11.33.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - Black Gut 2015, ink on paper, 22 x 11.33 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462310562888-QE6R0ONZ503R9TPAM2MJ/2.The+Imperial+Right%2C+2013%2C+ink%2C+18+x+24+in.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - The Imperial Right 2013, ink on paper, 18 x 24 inches Collection of Claire Stigliani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462310397403-90QK4KZ81XMNCLL73W7I/The+Imperial+Right%2C+2013%2C+detail_pp+alt.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - The Imperial Right 2013, Ink on paper, 18 x 24 inches Collection of Claire STigliani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462310655912-DRX5P7YI5VT5OKQTSH4A/1.Uprising%2C+2013%2C+ink%2C+18+x+24+in.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - Uprising 2013, ink on paper, 18 x 24 inches Collection of Ayanah Moor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462310486613-BSR0YHALVU4PT2YPGEPJ/Uprising_5MB.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - Uprising (detail) 2013, ink on paper, 18 x 24 inches Collection of Ayanah Moor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526665791116-X93WH7LJIWSBIS2EJNK6/Johnson_Fulfillment_2013%2Cink%2C11.5x21.5in_pp.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - FULFILLMENT 2013 Ink, ,11.5 x 21.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526665941322-4LDUJ20M948IAS3J38JM/Lion+Eating+Wing.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - LION EATING WING Ink https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526666085714-FMCHEWU2FR4WZOAAL38B/Tightrope.jpg Soft Indicators, Hard Data - Tightrope, 2013 Ink http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/released-1 daily 0.75 2016-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309174698-FIHKQQ70XG3251RBL9ME/Sarcophagus+2014+mixed+media_29x21in_pp.jpg RELEASED - SARCOPHAGUS 2014 mixed media on paper, 29 x 20 inches, 36.5” x 27” framed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1462309174698-FIHKQQ70XG3251RBL9ME/Sarcophagus+2014+mixed+media_29x21in_pp.jpg RELEASED - 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MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS 2015 Massacre of the Innocents was created as an elegy to Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot by police in Cleveland in 2014. Though the caller who instigated the police dispatch reported that Tamir was probably a juvenile and that the gun he was pointing at a recreation center was probably fake, police fired on him within two seconds of their arrival on the scene. Neither of the two responding officers administered first aid and Tamir Rice died the next day. This incident represents, in effect, a summary execution, an extrajudicial act of authority. The toy objects and sounds rotating throughout the video are from different developmental stages of childhood, from teething rings and Tinker Toys to marbles, miniature police cars and remote controls. Toys designed to teach the alphabet breathe the letter H and spell out N.R.A. while others play mechanized ditties such as The Yellow Rose of Texas. Projected onto or behind these objects of innocence are target practice diagrams so that the objects spiral around their bulls’ eyes. These target sheets are seen from behind so that we can imagine being in the cross hairs and crossfire. Bullets are aimed at us, rather than at some other innocent. Authority is capricious, exerted with bias and—too often—fatal results. The related sculpture, Rehearsal, alludes to “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” representing the adamant refusal to face the facts on gun violence. Human ears, cast in marble, are plugged with live bullets that have not yet punctured the absence they flank, a silent emptiness that may represent incomprehension or denial, or those departed – whether by suicide or homicide. It consists of metal bookends, cast cultured marble, and live bullets, 5 x 5 x 4.625 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173900989-PE1EDYFMD2J683CISY44/Massacre+of+the+Innocents+web.jpg Massacre of the Innocents - MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS 2015 Massacre of the Innocents was created as an elegy to Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot by police in Cleveland in 2014. Though the caller who instigated the police dispatch reported that Tamir was probably a juvenile and that the gun he was pointing at a recreation center was probably fake, police fired on him within two seconds of their arrival on the scene. Neither of the two responding officers administered first aid and Tamir Rice died the next day. This incident represents, in effect, a summary execution, an extrajudicial act of authority. The toy objects and sounds rotating throughout the video are from different developmental stages of childhood, from teething rings and Tinker Toys to marbles, miniature police cars and remote controls. Toys designed to teach the alphabet breathe the letter H and spell out N.R.A. while others play mechanized ditties such as The Yellow Rose of Texas. Projected onto or behind these objects of innocence are target practice diagrams so that the objects spiral around their bulls’ eyes. These target sheets are seen from behind so that we can imagine being in the cross hairs and crossfire. Bullets are aimed at us, rather than at some other innocent. Authority is capricious, exerted with bias and—too often—fatal results. The related sculpture, Rehearsal, alludes to “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” representing the adamant refusal to face the facts on gun violence. Human ears, cast in marble, are plugged with live bullets that have not yet punctured the absence they flank, a silent emptiness that may represent incomprehension or denial, or those departed – whether by suicide or homicide. It consists of metal bookends, cast cultured marble, and live bullets, 5 x 5 x 4.625 inches. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/5754c1e2e707eb927537306f/5754cb0c9f726692f068e885/1465174981407/Massacre+of+the+Innocents+web.jpg Massacre of the Innocents - Massacre of the Innocents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173135110-OSODGAUGQHT7BTHTMGE1/web+3.jpg Massacre of the Innocents - Massacre of the Innocents Installation in UNLOADED at SPACE, Pittsburgh, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173134314-MOIH63TR6EZ64Z29K5KL/web+1.jpg Massacre of the Innocents - Massacre of the Innocents Video installation in UNLOADED at SPACE, Pittsburgh, 2015 Passages on Massacre of the Innocents from the catalogue for UNLOADED, a traveling exhibition that premiered at SPACE in Pittsburgh in 2015: Johnson’s video Massacre of the Innocents further reflects the consequences of our ignorance, indifference, fear or inaction. Target practice sheets appear in succession, but from their reverse sides. We imagine the bullets coming at us, not fired away from us, as in typical first shooter positions so popular in films and gaming. Objects of innocence revolve around the bull’s eyes, caught in the crossfire. The work is a stark pronouncement: it is our own safety that is compromised and threatened by guns. ...Johnson’s video Massacre of the Innocents presents the backsides of firing range targets; the viewers are the implied marks. Toys for children who are no more circulate in slow motion, sometimes aligning with the bull’s eyes, suggesting who and what is endangered – cops and criminals, adults and children alike. According to the FBI and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, guns kill more preschool-age children (about 80 a year) than police officers (about 50), despite the existence of old and new technologies that could reduce those numbers. One can no longer buy the childproof Smith & Wesson handguns manufactured in the 1880s. New smart guns that can be fired only by authorized users (using fingerprint recognition) could prevent accidental or criminal use, but the NRA resists them, claiming they are unreliable and may become mandatory. Gun rights lobbies consistently oppose gun safety proposals, such as California Senate Bill 199. Seeking to visibly distinguish pellet, toy and airguns from real guns, a diluted version of the bill passed, requiring only two short colored adhesive stripes. Federal law requires only that replica guns have an orange mark on the tips of their barrels; children remove or paint over them easily. Colorful or not, most states have no age limits for purchase of airguns that share the risks inherent to carrying real guns. A 2009 University of Pennsylvania epidemiological study found that those with firearms were about 4.5 times more likely to be shot than those who did not carry. Successful defensive gun use is rare, despite the persistent and prevalent notion that guns protect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173134337-5W1EWDZ1SNYEPG0BWPJ3/web+2.jpg Massacre of the Innocents - Massacre of the Innocents Video installation in UNLOADED at SPACE, Pittsburgh, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1465173968592-1QYZ4GA10HAE70EW5PZE/Rehearal_cropped.jpg Massacre of the Innocents - Rehearsal (detail), 2014 Rehearsal, alludes to “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” representing the adamant refusal to face the facts on gun violence. Human ears, cast in marble, are plugged with live bullets that have not yet punctured the absence they flank, a silent emptiness that may represent incomprehension or denial, or those departed – whether by suicide or homicide. 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Deserts and other arid lands are often conducive to the visionary. Visions of promises, of unobtainable assistance or elusive rescue, are all overwhelmed by the insistence and physicality of dried mud. mirage, salvage, dust projections of assistance, liberation, fulfillment buoy the disconsolate, oppressed, parched flailing in the sun proclamations of remedy, re-stabilization, 40 acres and a mule entice the weary and unwary alike, clutching to believe ­­ provisions of austerity measures, the short term before the long haul, financial undertow reward the buried with all they can eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483312345760-EF171GX3R1MJQUORHQ9J/Until+Human+%2714+COLLECTION+flat+15+5116_10MB.jpg Until Human Voices Wake Us - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 Earth, glue, insufficient rain, ink, blood, dust, spit and muck on paper, 42” x 31” each ‘Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever… (Herman Melville) ...but what place hath reflection ‘in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is’ (Psalms 63:1) Until Human Voices Wake Us is a drawing cycle of individual life vests drawn in blood and ink on fields of cracked earth. Deserts and other arid lands are often conducive to the visionary. Visions of promises, of unobtainable assistance or elusive rescue, are all overwhelmed by the insistence and physicality of dried mud. mirage, salvage, dust projections of assistance, liberation, fulfillment buoy the disconsolate, oppressed, parched flailing in the sun proclamations of remedy, re-stabilization, 40 acres and a mule entice the weary and unwary alike, clutching to believe ­­ provisions of austerity measures, the short term before the long haul, financial undertow reward the buried with all they can eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1483310935131-UNPJ3RXECK3N7YMBD4TO/Until+Human+%2714+17_pp.jpg Until Human Voices Wake Us - UNTIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US 1999 ‘Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever… (Herman Melville) ...but what place hath reflection ‘in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is’ (Psalms 63:1) Until Human Voices Wake Us is a drawing cycle of individual life vests drawn in blood and ink on fields of cracked earth. Deserts and other arid lands are often conducive to the visionary. 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The sculpture merges a hammer and sickle, distinct tools originally meant to represent the coming together of the factory worker and the farmer. By merging them into one tool, we might hope for a doubled strength. Instead, both are rendered dysfunctional. Union is a lament for the state of unions in the US today, hobbled by long, well-financed campaigns by conservative foundations and business groups, especially against employees in the public sector. There is a line in Bertolt Brecht’s United Front Song: “It's nobody's work but the worker's own / to set the worker free.” Time to sing it. From Marx@200 catalogue, exhibited at SPACE in Pittsburgh in 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489350670741-1VT19GQV2SWBK0EGFONP/Union.jpg Union - UNION 2017, Altered sickle and head of sledgehammer, 16.5 x 8.25 x 2.5 inches Union is another piece that reflects Johnson’s sense of irony—and sense of history. The sculpture merges a hammer and sickle, distinct tools originally meant to represent the coming together of the factory worker and the farmer. By merging them into one tool, we might hope for a doubled strength. Instead, both are rendered dysfunctional. Union is a lament for the state of unions in the US today, hobbled by long, well-financed campaigns by conservative foundations and business groups, especially against employees in the public sector. There is a line in Bertolt Brecht’s United Front Song: “It's nobody's work but the worker's own / to set the worker free.” Time to sing it. From Marx@200 catalogue, exhibited at SPACE in Pittsburgh in 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1586024357524-XLDXH8E8H5JJS2Q9HW2O/Baton+Sledge+good%2C+2016%2CConductor%E2%80%99s+baton+with+sledgehammer+head%2C+22.25x7x2.25.jpg Union - Conductor 2016, Conductor’s baton with sledgehammer head, 22.25 x 7 x 2.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1586024782667-KESAT5LO79H8BSCRNC65/Sledgehammer+with+baby+face%2C+2015.jpg Union http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/futures1 daily 0.75 2018-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502294869160-NQ9WTTZSCIBJATFA4MVG/Johnson_Futures_HI_web.jpg FUTURES - FUTURES 2005-09, acrylic on five panels, 80 x 180 inches total https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502294869160-NQ9WTTZSCIBJATFA4MVG/Johnson_Futures_HI_web.jpg FUTURES - FUTURES 2005-09, acrylic on five panels, 80 x 180 inches total https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502295676605-H9LUSVZ3DZU8QQN01MVC/Futures_child+detail_web.jpg FUTURES - FUTURES, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792806896-FG8CVELR12GTI103JE05/child+head+good+det.jpg FUTURES - Detail of Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502295187518-KUWUMF614VL3SMVLVE5R/Johnson_Futures_HI_web+2.jpg FUTURES - FUTURES 2005-09, acrylic on five panels, 80 x 180 inches total https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792825821-ZFLZJV9RG0BV79LZUYQ7/Futures_belly+detail.jpg FUTURES - Detail of Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792819721-MQVS8LCEZ2CKZMF87WAY/ear+good+det.jpg FUTURES - Detail of Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502294133382-8XXD897M4JIYKO2NDTPB/Futures_4.2MB+web.jpg FUTURES - FUTURES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792833203-R5HPVRTABP5UY206WLDC/Futures_head+detail.jpg FUTURES - Detail of Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1489792893567-09BH8NM6YXZA42KPHGXM/Market.jpg FUTURES - Market, 1999, 27” x 39”, acrylic/Wall St. Journal Market uses the financial pages as a backdrop for ironic economic icons. The little piggy “who went to Market” dwarfs its handler, who is either taken for a ride or left behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502295050788-FSZ9SQCDVISJ5A24YUQ0/Futures+Study+BW+2011%2C+15.75x35.25in_web.jpg FUTURES - MARKET, 2011 ink on paper, 15.75 x 35.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502293513950-PCGRG61U3U4IOQQEZ6IY/Johnson_Futures_HI_web.jpg FUTURES - Futures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525720306092-TMVMIV1O5ACZ18LQCAIE/CAPITAL+FLIGHT+single.jpg FUTURES - CAPITAL FLIGHT, 1999 Acrylic on newspaper, 27 x 19 inches Capital Flight is the apparition of an angel, a winged herald who, when scrutinized, tears the wings off a squawking fowl. 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A doctrine is a body of principles. But the body of principals, people whose land, labor and lives were exploited, is primary. Their expropriated lands grow wheat for domestic and international trade, supplanting tobacco. Timing is everything in this field of reaping and harvesting. Democratic values espoused for a minority were justifications to retain oligarchic privilege. By design, the ‘new world’ imported European aspirations for, and the inequities of, empire, along with furniture and jewelry. Elizabeth Monroe’s finery and her husband’s Bellangé furniture cascade and crumble, tassels quake, and the glaringly obvious is uncovered. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472753118-QVXFPM4Q0VTJJ86XIIAL/Alligator+Snout.jpg DRAIN - Detail of SLUSH 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472726029-ISPH1BG8T5RXJU7L27S2/Alligator+Foot+2.jpg DRAIN - Detail of SLUSH 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472743689-9PBLX33OMUPQQYXLESCO/Alligator+Skin.jpg DRAIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472770627-PYNHW39W7PISDOGICL0F/Shadowy+Bucketeer.jpg DRAIN - Detail of SLUSH 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472776561-DG1HW7WN7TE4KWF98MGX/Skeleton+Bucketeer.jpg DRAIN - Detail of SLUSH 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472818564-ZG7QAUSQ7IMS8UGGKXO9/Three+Buckets.jpg DRAIN - Detail of SLUSH 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1702320932723-EAXKLO39PWME9FKXL9M0/Sanctuary+of+Style+%28Bath%29%2C+20MB_2023%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+42+x+42+inches_new.jpg DRAIN - SANCTUARY OF STYLE (BATH) 2023 Ink on paper, 42 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1702321570936-4NRGU1DHC9R52TQSEB52/Detail_Sanctuary+of+Style_Vert_Bath_web_2023%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+42+x+42+inches_new.jpg DRAIN - DETAIL of SANCTUARY OF STYLE (BATH) 2023 Ink on paper, 42 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495489999205-9Z3A5M61YHJFQ8GPLXKZ/Swamp+Accommodations+VI_2017_11+x+11.5+inches.jpg DRAIN - Swamp Accommodations VI, 2017 Ink on paper, 11 x 11.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495490012544-ILUW1BKY3J8EHLQSMZJR/Swamp+Accommodations+II.jpg DRAIN - Swamp Accommodations II, 2017 Ink on paper, 11 x 14 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495490022182-NVL3MLM7PGANDDBOFQWE/Swamp+Accommodations+V.jpg DRAIN - Swamp Accommodations V, 2017 Ink on paper, 11 x 14 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495491787106-D9OLYOSAUIUJEQLF02KL/Swamp+Accommodations+I.jpg DRAIN - Swamp Accommodations I, 2017 Ink on paper, 11 x 14 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495492096079-B7HI0IDBIERJ93MQFWDV/Swamp+Accommodations+IV.jpg DRAIN - Swamp Accommodations IV, 2017 Ink on paper, 11 x 14 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495491784416-5S2F7GICMEMNI7GYR4PU/Swamp+Accommodations+III.jpg DRAIN - Swamp Accommodations III, 2017 Ink on paper, 11 x 14 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495473158647-GZ06M4JLTADIKZP835YJ/Step+up%2C+2017%2C+ink+and+conte+on+paper%2C+28.25x20.25.jpg DRAIN - Step Up, 2017 ink and oil stick on paper, 28.25 x 20.25 inches Trump "challenged Muslim leaders to step up their efforts to counter a “wicked ideology” and purge the “foot soldiers of evil” from their societies. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-islam-speech.html?_r=0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495473151425-RTVQEVMUHKW7M3CGCUP5/Step+Up+Detail_head.jpg DRAIN - Detail of Step Up, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495473152580-07LNK0E4Y3D6Z0OXPYWB/Step+Up+detail.jpg DRAIN - Detail of Step Up, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495473009272-O1XYGOWXUBN2F5LC3KUY/PREP%2C+2017%2C+18x24in.jpg DRAIN - Prep, 2017 charcoal, ink, gold spray paint on paper, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472965047-VZ5WH4IHID27CLJ1WV3A/PREP_Hands+detail.jpg DRAIN - Detail of Prep, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472992790-FA23FPZOPRPLK769PFBA/PREP_mosquitoes+detail+2.jpg DRAIN - Detail of Prep, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472988583-WQB41LL1CF9Z2DQTDNBX/PREP_mosquitoes+detail+3.jpg DRAIN - Detail of Prep, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495473014253-JVOHXYXNDQGJU9W3S8AU/PREP_mosquitoes+detail.jpg DRAIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495472957165-O8MJOMDNFIO97KILOZB4/Holding+One%27s+Nose%2C+2017.jpg DRAIN - Holding One's Nose, 2017 Chalk pastel http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/choke-1 daily 0.75 2021-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495479393370-DOG4PCKDQXBD3WIP3UPI/CHOKE+2017_black.jpg Choke - CHOKE: WITNES FOR PEACE 2017 Wood bat, epoxy filler, glass eyes, 33 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495479393370-DOG4PCKDQXBD3WIP3UPI/CHOKE+2017_black.jpg Choke - CHOKE: WITNES FOR PEACE 2017 Wood bat, epoxy filler, glass eyes, 33 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495479404686-G8GGHIZJINTBE0O5777D/CHOKE+2017.jpg Choke - CHOKE:WITNESS FOR PEACE 2017 Wood bat, epoxy filler, glass eyes, 33 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1495479412390-L09I473MTEMJNHQRIAP7/CHOKE+detail+2017.jpg Choke - Detail CHOKE:WITNESS FOR PEACE 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611592587083-57CUW3DCHOUJ442UM1D5/Johnson+OYG+Gazette_CHOKE+and+CLUTCH.jpg Choke - CHOKE and CLUTCH From OYG Gazette created for Bad as I Wanna Be, curated by Joshua Bienko, August 24 – September 22, 2013 http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/pathetic-fallacies-1 daily 0.75 2019-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987101633-3IHSVN3IS5TYK0ARII0T/The+Closed+Mouth%2C+2003%2C+Oil+on+Belgian+Linen%2C+78+x+78+inches.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78 x 78 inches In Samuel Clemens' The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the protagonist fills his opponent’s frog with buckshot, causing it to lose the competition. The image of a bloated frog filled with ammunition is a poignant metaphor for US foreign policy. Alluding to the Twain short story, the large-scale painting is an allegory of consumption, constipation and the dangers inherent in isolationist aggression in international affairs. The portrait is of a proud, bloated, silent (dumb) king of its own mountain, feasting on the living within its expansive jurisdiction. On a formal level, the "Pathetic Fallacies" cycle features isolated creatures with an attribute of excess within a barren environment. The naked linen harkens to the Buddhist/Taoist void that activates being, which further highlights the violence inherent in “The Closed Mouth”. It is the only piece in the cycle in which the creature contains rather than being contained -- by the decontextualized surrounding vacancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987101633-3IHSVN3IS5TYK0ARII0T/The+Closed+Mouth%2C+2003%2C+Oil+on+Belgian+Linen%2C+78+x+78+inches.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78 x 78 inches In Samuel Clemens' The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, the protagonist fills his opponent’s frog with buckshot, causing it to lose the competition. The image of a bloated frog filled with ammunition is a poignant metaphor for US foreign policy. Alluding to the Twain short story, the large-scale painting is an allegory of consumption, constipation and the dangers inherent in isolationist aggression in international affairs. The portrait is of a proud, bloated, silent (dumb) king of its own mountain, feasting on the living within its expansive jurisdiction. On a formal level, the "Pathetic Fallacies" cycle features isolated creatures with an attribute of excess within a barren environment. The naked linen harkens to the Buddhist/Taoist void that activates being, which further highlights the violence inherent in “The Closed Mouth”. It is the only piece in the cycle in which the creature contains rather than being contained -- by the decontextualized surrounding vacancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986595536-ZZNNUFNUZ5D98G6BC5TA/The+Closed+Mouth_eye.JPG PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986607788-F0QPN6AZL2P07AY984NH/The+Closed+Mouth-frog.JPG PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986603178-G1N3YZR54RDM4ZPS0FXV/The+Clsoed+Mouth_mosquitoes.JPG PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 1997, detail of mosquitoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986628805-MWSFW7DZUHR53RXW8XLC/The+Closed+Mouth+Mosquitoes+2.JPG PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003, detail of mosquitoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986575298-B2K1Q34PD9W6QYEFV58U/TheClosedMouth2003study_pp.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - STUDY for THE CLOSED MOUTH, 2003 Gouache on paper with thread, 19.5 x 21.375 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987187597-KGYXMKKKRUCFOX296HB9/Downzing%2C1997%2C+Oil+on+Belgian+Linen%2C+78x54+inches.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - DOWNSIZING, 1997 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78x54 inches A large rat gnaws through its monstrous tale. Its action reads as a life affirming escape from its tethered condition or as a suicidal gesture toward the ultimate fall. Downsizing refers to an economy that lays off its workers at the expense of inflated CEO salaries and short-term profits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987192997-PDWC96OYGP4U8OEYI4OJ/Downsizing+detail.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - DOWNSIZING, 1997, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987269965-UDQIY9O352WIP7NXT109/The+Locusts+Keep+Calling%2C+1997%2C+Oil+on+Belgian+Linen%2C+78+x+62+inches.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE LOCUSTS KEEP CALLING, 1997 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78 x 62 inches My brother, who died of HIV in 1996, was born in the Asiatic year of the rabbit. Shortly before resigning from his job he overheard his colleagues betting on how many days he had left to live. The subtitle to The Locusts Keep Calling is Consciousness Kills. The deafening drone of the Locust is the call of the sirens, the stimulant of the flesh, the enticement to death. The swollen sensors of the demure rabbit more collectively refer to a state of awareness in the “developed” world” where we hear of sufferings the world over and typically remain impotent to remedy them. What are the psychosexual consequences for those who listen too much? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987279943-RRI4LH58RBCV7YD8D2TZ/The+Locusts+Keep+Calling%2C+rabbit.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE LOCUSTS KEEP CALLING, 1997, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987277451-RPTXVOATAHIEAMJL9A55/The+Locusts+Keep+Calling_ear.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - THE LOCUSTS KEEP CALLING, 1997 detail of inner ear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987392263-3UVC4WQBSVWZ7AZ8FH29/OUTGROWN+just+image.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - OUTGROWN, 1997 Oil on Belgian Linen, 78 x 62 inches Painting is the art of arrest, and in Born(e), the subject is caught in the awkward condition of being unable to fly or walk. The expansive webbed feet of an afflicted cormorant are too heavy to ascend and too enormous to function on the ground. The world wide web (a misnomer if there ever was one*) promises flight, a new air of connectedness and conquest. Is this atmosphere one we are born into or forced, like Sisyphus, to perpetually carry? * A generation or so ago half the world had never made a phone call, much less engage with the technocratic elite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987427570-EM7MMQKRMVTA3HG34ZXB/Borne_paper.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - BORN(E), 1997 Mixed media on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499987687737-N0E3S80G8LDT98C9L83E/Outgrown_DWG.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - STUDY for OUTGROWN, 1997 Gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499986557453-ZXXMPHDB6Y5TDCZ2SO7K/Johnson_In+his+own+image.jpg PATHETIC FALLACIES - IN HIS OWN IMAGE: Intellectual Property Rights, 1998 Ink and acrylic on paper, 10 x 22 inches http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/austerity-measures daily 0.75 2017-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499915990784-ISK9W0RAF5B5C6SCBQNA/image-asset.jpeg AUSTERITY MEASURES - STEINE I, 2015 Archival inkjet print, 18.75 x 12.5 inches A toast to economic restructuring. (German glass stein with Greek Parthenon shot glass) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499914046287-CUJA7LPFSW62GZR4BHG2/Steine+I%2C+2015_glass_beer+stein+and+shot+glass%2C12.5x5.5x3.5inches.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - STEINE I, 2015 Archival inkjet print, 18.75 x 12.5 inches A toast to economic restructuring. (German glass stein with Greek Parthenon shot glass) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499913672431-18NW61Y7NRY24PXPW469/Steine+II%2C+2015_stone_beer+stein+and+espresso+cup%2C+10x5x3.75inches.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - STEINE II, 2015 Archival inkjet print, 18.75 x 12.5 inches A toast to economic restructuring. (German beer stein with Greek Parthenon souvenir) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499907607693-C6YTN7EYPC7L88J1Y7R0/Rocking+Horses+%281%29.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - ROCKING HORSES, 2017 Archival inkjet print, 33.5 x 33.5 inches Cover of July 15, 2015 Counterpunch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499907822764-QO6FKDPGBSGC9F4E5LGL/Johnson_Net+Gains_HI.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - NET GAINS, 2009 Archival inkjet print, 20 x 20 inches NET GAINS s portrays the fragility of the economic web. A metallic eagle, its flight arrested, is stationed on a US quarter, a gleaming ersatz moon. Stoic, the raptor proudly peers from above, clenching arms and offerings, relinquishing nothing. The price of security proudly rises high, being both Icarus and the fly.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499907766194-2RFLTZANQCMEXP1W4W37/Toward+the+First+World_HI.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - TOWARD THE FIRST WORLD 1997, oil on Belgian linen, 10 x 22 inches On those who carry the burden, wondering at the rot. Not all slippage is hermeneutic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499954243426-J7TAZE4P8C6X9I4CWVVL/Market+Mop+Up+duo+web+site2.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP, 1999-2001 Detail, Acrylic and tarnished copper on plastic, fiberglass, drywall, 18’ x 40’ x 10’ (dimensions variable). With optional 14 min. sound loop. An installation in which predator and prey, beneficence and need conflate. Painting cloaks the sculptural, yet the physical can not be denied. The material flees deception, yet illusion chases on. Ruse carrots and corn, rabbits and ravens, are stratagems of confrontational, consumptive sharks and piranhas. JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP critiques what many consider the natural order, the conditions and consequences of capitalism and international economic policies. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/Market_Mop_up.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499954820191-Y6J20G1U9QSO8I0F3S1L/MarketMopUp_Haynes.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP, 1999-2001 Acrylic and tarnished copper on plastic, fiberglass, drywall, 18’ x 40’ x 10’ (dimensions variable). With optional 14 min. sound loop. Installation at John and June Allcott Gallery at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000 An installation in which predator and prey, beneficence and need conflate. Painting cloaks the sculptural, yet the physical can not be denied. The material flees deception, yet illusion chases on. Ruse carrots and corn, rabbits and ravens, are stratagems of confrontational, consumptive sharks and piranhas. JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP critiques what many consider the natural order, the conditions and consequences of capitalism and international economic policies. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/Market_Mop_up.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499954847342-A8NFUNLWQKZ3QFGG7WIO/Market+Mop+Up+left.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP, 1999-2001 Detail, Acrylic and tarnished copper on plastic JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP critiques what many consider the natural order, the conditions and consequences of capitalism and international economic policies. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/Market_Mop_up.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499955242772-8S65T4OSIKTNNE0BICPA/Market+Mop+Up+right.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP, 1999-2001 Detail, Acrylic and tarnished copper on plastic JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP critiques what many consider the natural order, the conditions and consequences of capitalism and international economic policies. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~johnson/Market_Mop_up.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499914587913-131TI842IISTQPINWIU2/Wishing+Well.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - WISHING WELL, 2000 Industrial mop bucket, copper patina, foreign and domestic coins. 14 min. sound loop optional. Foreign and domestic coins are strewn in the empty bucket with the U.S. currency occupying the upper tier of the bucket (though not for long). A CD sound loop is an optional accompaniment. It plays the sound of the gallery being mopped and coins plunking into water. The sounds are heard backwards and forwards continuously, referring to economic policies that result in reverse financial flow, with the investment of first world countries in developing countries returning to its origin. Can be shown alone or as part of JUST ANOTHER MARKET MOP UP installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499913667049-ST414T5E23MRFZ0V9EB5/Steine+I%2C+2015_glass_beer+stein+and+shot+glass%2C12.5x5.5x3.5inches.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - STEINE I, 2015 Archival inkjet print, 18.75 x 12.5 inches A toast to economic restructuring. (German glass stein with Greek Parthenon shot glass) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499912816395-RL596YVRYGXJACNMARTJ/Steine+I%2C+2015_glass_beer+stein+and+shot+glass%2C12.5x5.5x3.5inches.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - STEINE I, 2015 Archival inkjet print, 18.75 x 12.5 inches A toast to economic restructuring. (German glass stein with Greek Parthenon shot glass) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499907469822-571LCWJLAKNIBY78ZQFG/Steine+I%2C+2015_glass_beer+stein+and+shot+glass%2C12.5x5.5x3.5in.jpg AUSTERITY MEASURES - STEINE 1, 2015 Archival inkjet print, 18.75 x 12.5 inches A toast to economic restructuring. (German glass stein with Greek Parthenon shot glass) http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/wicked-aspirations1 daily 0.75 2017-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957555707-8NEKZZEDZOMM776HL9RH/8.Basic+conditionalities.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Basic Conditionalities or the Assumption of Burden: Stalking the Countryside, 1998 Oil, ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957555707-8NEKZZEDZOMM776HL9RH/8.Basic+conditionalities.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Basic Conditionalities or the Assumption of Burden: Stalking the Countryside, 1998 Oil, ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/5967849d2994cafea1942dac/596785495016e13b3ce0543c/1499956553471/ WICKED ASPIRATIONS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499956608826-U3PEDLE4T9TVPH4ADXID/11.WickedAspirations_ClamorousCats.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957532786-FLYGV7URSQ5VXE0NM3A2/Subjugated+Squirrels_7M.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Post-colonial Shift to Greater Dependency: Subjugated Squirrels, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957528374-RVHWN4NVPNA0VDE7E3UP/split+nut_pp.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Detail from Post-colonial Shift to Greater Dependency: Subjugated Squirrels, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957700197-ATGCRUNLQ2IUTWGBBXH7/squirrels_detail_pp.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Detail from Post-colonial Shift to Greater Dependency: Subjugated Squirrels, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957532427-JKYJOZK1MJJ6IPX3ARIL/Clamorous+Cats_6M.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Vassals and Tributaries: Clamorous Cats, Lifting of Foreign Investment Restriction & Hope, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957529026-P8ESGJF9A3G2HY6F2HBB/cropped+fish_pp.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Detail, Vassals and Tributaries: Clamorous Cats, Lifting of Foreign Investment Restriction & Hope, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957852990-Y58F2P0TRSTZFOZCR2T2/11.DelusionalDogs.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Vassals and Tributaries: Delusional Dogs, 1998 Ink and gouache on paper, 13.75 x 27.5 inches Collection of Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957462339-ZNFMDYIMP1F3MIZ4G99N/Maniacal+Monkeys_pp.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Vassals and Tributaries: Maniacal Monkeys, 1998 Ink and gouache/paper, 21 x 21 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514514-TSTYCXMZPEAGX9B0M213/16.fish+balloon.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come, 2000 Ink wash on weather balloon, 36 inch diameter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514610-X2J50UCRRONWG9IEMCOZ/17.Trans+balloon.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come, 2000 Ink wash on weather balloon, 36 inch dimater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514133-7NYH2Y7OSN88VN8TQNEY/15.blackballoon_pp.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come, 2000 Ink wash on weather balloon, 36 inch diameter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514209-HD7V3YEYOHZKLCQ3EOKI/squirrel+test_pp.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957514804-F28CZJO1IW1ZT9F3GVQZ/18.bust+squirrels.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come, 2000 Ink wash on collapsed weather balloon, pin, 19 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499957515120-X74O3IFKN2Q2F5NYAO1I/bust+squirrelsdet.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - Preparing for Disasters That Have Already Come (Detail), 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1499958032824-KY4JQ1L9T3JW54RSVJ9E/marriage_of_hope_and_debt.jpg WICKED ASPIRATIONS - The Mating of Hope and Debt, 2000 Ink on paper, 14 x 11 inches http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/the-artist-in-his-studio2 daily 0.75 2018-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502295969968-06OB8A6LY0IJPO8ZOQDD/Finished+individ+panels+74%2522+x+40%2522+ea_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017, ink on paper, three 70 x 44 inch panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502295969968-06OB8A6LY0IJPO8ZOQDD/Finished+individ+panels+74%2522+x+40%2522+ea_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017, ink on paper, three 70 x 44 inch panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296118998-U15JRZNMPB8WA8BLZGJB/Finished+individ+panels+74%2522+x+40%2522+ea_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017, ink on paper, three 70 x 44 inch panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296431973-D0C65R5DF8IHX50E9I6C/center+asides_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296520882-VHCKPNI5UEZW3GUQKPQH/center+beseeching+barrel+after+Uccello.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Beseeching barrel, after Uccello https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296219715-WH9LOW7AK3HP3TBS4L9F/center+absent+laborer_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO Detail center panel, Absent Laborer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296325387-B1RA8GOUY1617AIIA115/center+an+opening+guilletin+bench_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Guillotine opening https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296635866-9WIXGO6BR1ZE8373D75P/center+broken+cup+ink+bottles+horse_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296716730-MV8TV3ULZRO4K1EYGUAR/center+brushes+w+fate_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, brushes with Fate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296754281-S4W94RAOAZN2XTZJDGFL/center+central+plane_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296872266-K2GL5TYLY07BYDZPEZ6W/center+dancer+w+mirror.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Dancer with Mirror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296876069-GR2QZKLWB90GZO12TWRE/center+deluge+pin+up+after+Uccello_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, pin up of Uccello's Deluge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502296911601-WR9ND8IO3YIAKPYFVOFD/center+dismount_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Dismount https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297044266-K1MTLWOQ4LJPWRE9BM3D/center+plea+castration+club+after+Uccello_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, plea castration club after Uccello https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297480690-JY49BGD386T26ZGWNHIA/center+point+line+bleed_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Point Line Bleed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297578137-IREINDC6DKGRYEN5JH3E/center+prone+lion+pigweb.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Prone Lion and Pig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297695782-XCGVDEYZRTJ8G0NY1MK1/center+short+hand+%28skull%29_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, short hand (skull) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297800298-QC3YLBEV7CENGXREXTQL/center+sketch+of+freedom_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Sketch of Freedom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502297873316-RAC46VQC3S1GWZV0L8UZ/center+tales+of+purity_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Tales of Purity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502298049292-9HJ3ZN4Z3CVZUJ1CJ68R/center+uplifting+%28guillotine%29_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 2017 Detail center panel, Uplifting (guillotine) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502298397598-1HGGW2S8C2EEYCVI1OZN/left+13th+labour+%28Hercules%27+laundry%29_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO 20117 Detail left panel, 13th labour (Hercules' laundry) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502298504274-8NCB8R4VLETKWIEK42DW/left+anamorphic+ebola+stretcher_web.jpg THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO - THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO Detail left panel, Anamorphic Ebola Stretcher http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/pace-1 daily 0.75 2022-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502118586953-36H0YUAN5L9S4Q9BWNOA/PACE+1920x1120+still+1.jpg PACE - PACE, 2012, still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502118586953-36H0YUAN5L9S4Q9BWNOA/PACE+1920x1120+still+1.jpg PACE - PACE, 2012, still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502118587827-G3SK9OHYXOQJZFIPXLA6/PACE+1920+still+7_pp.jpg PACE - PACE, 2012, still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1502118589548-9G5T99IHNI32F0MRUKF5/PACE+1920+still+10.jpg PACE - PACE, 2012, still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611535420782-4MG7455TZ4GGXVUR5VAH/Over+There+copy.jpg PACE - OVER THERE 2011 Archival digital print on Hahnemühle paper, 72” x 27” OVER THERE responds to historical and contemporary notions of liberty--here and “over there,” especially in light of revolutionary movements during the Arab Spring of 2011. Connections between Egypt and America exist in the history of the Statue of Liberty, a noted symbol of freedom. Originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World," the statue was proposed by the French historian Edouard de Laboulaye to commemorate the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution. Its sculptor, Frédéric Bartholdi, began developing plans for a colossal female figure as a beacon, proposed to Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt. The plan was to build a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said. The figure was based on Bartholdi’s 1856 drawings that used Egyptian women as models. The Egyptian beacon was never built, but the Statue of Liberty’s 1870-71 design evolved from this earlier version. Informed by a photograph of the statue's display at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in New York, the torch in “Over There” has slipped from Liberty’s hand. The torch is an instrument of human agency, so its fall or absence might ask how abstract and ideal notions of “freedom” become realities. Who truly bears the torch of freedom today and how is liberty won? ————————————————————————————————- OVER THERE was included in Sites of Passage: Egypt and the U.S. at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh in September of 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611535436508-56R595DQ4M5DKECQ5P8X/Over+There+detail_sq.jpg PACE - OVER THERE 2011 Detail from Liberty’s hand. http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/over-there-1 daily 0.75 2017-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1501779875036-9C5W58QYMJAUM74XD4NT/Over+There+web+no+border.jpg OVER THERE - OVER THERE, 2011 Archival digital print on Hahnemühle paper, 72 x 27 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1501779875036-9C5W58QYMJAUM74XD4NT/Over+There+web+no+border.jpg OVER THERE - OVER THERE, 2011 Archival digital print on Hahnemühle paper, 72 x 27 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1501779653745-G40F5FAL6VFQUKBO0Y7F/Over+There+final+web.jpg OVER THERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1501779697769-TW1RZRWSCSS9ZMCLW8IU/Over+There+detail_pp.jpg OVER THERE - Detail of Over There, 2011 http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/tall-tails-1 daily 0.75 2021-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504324900062-PAC7RIGSQAT2SNGNRUIV/1+tiki+2+tiki+whole+75x42%2522+ink+charcoal.jpg TALL TAILS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306177104-NJA9FPB9Q3QYB6X7U19Y/Revelry+whole.jpg TALL TAILS - REVELRY Gouache and ink on Arches 50.25 x 115.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598321202990-IEUSZQCGOUME50KI0L0M/gallop+pole.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Ajax and Blackjack and Black Bess and Brown Roan, Butler and Bucephalus and Captain and Dixie. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306199741-FR872NHI23LLDSXIU5MD/licking+hoof.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Dixie and Fire Eater and Firefly and Fleeter, Fleetfoot and Fly-By-Night and Hero and Highfly. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306221901-TPLQKIXX27FH7HDWKE85/maternity+foal.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Lightning and Jeff Davis and Jinny and King Philip, Little Sorrel and Lucy Long and Milroy and My Maryland. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306248802-2LDAA2VLJETC8AQXO4FO/Red+Eye.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Nellie Gray and Pocohontas and Red Eye and Red Pepper, Richmond and Rifle and Roderick and Shiloh. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598306262470-J3TJT3IM4ORH8F2CJMZ0/grit.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Skylark and Tom Telegraph, Traveller, Virginia and Warren. They were sired and sold, traded and slaughtered. But do you recall The Civil War wasn’t their fault at all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598321936318-7AFK65LO6P2TYZUGA2EX/monumental.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee and John Hunt Morgan and Wade Hampton, Sterling Price and Edward Porter Alexander and Patrick Cleburne and Albert Sidney Johnston. But do you recall They were presidents and governors Engineers and executives and authors? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598320725958-61GJBZLCDDLF0ZBIULW4/stoic+nuzzeling.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Robert E. Rodes and Belle Boyd and Walter Herron Taylor and James Longstreet J.E.B. Stuart and Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Bell Hood and Isaac R. Trimble. But do you recall They were actors and bankers and lawyers Insurance and real estate brokers and superintendents? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598320737471-CUPE7UO2YDITIZ1K3PGF/helix+horizontal.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 You know Stonewall Jackson and John B. Gordon and Fitzhugh Lee and George H. Stuart Richard Brooke Garnett, Patrick Ronayne Cleburne and Richard Stoddert Ewell, Daniel Rugles, Turner Ashley Jr. and Brian Grimes. But do you recall They were politicians and executives and diplomats? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598322222066-1WZWQSO033EQM2UPD4MC/Reveille.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 These white supremacists, rapists, enslavers, and Grand Wizards Created and maintained, as do we, Forced labor camps, disenfranchisement, and caste inequity. Precluding education, working wages, and possibilities, Denying housing, child and health care and security, Silencing, terrorizing, torturing and killing with impunity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598320749183-5GH1CRFRNYN546KZTYOK/V+for+Victory+vertical.jpg TALL TAILS - DETAIL OF REVELRY 2020 We’ll go down in infamy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323895139-W5IX2XMHZJX4QX10UIO9/Blue+revelry%2C+2020%2C+42.5+x+91+Inches.jpg TALL TAILS - RELEASE 2020 Gouache, 42.5 x 91 Inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323075405-JYAJZV9X3ITYGEKBAQQ2/Blue+grin.jpg TALL TAILS - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Blue grin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323097673-JIUKHBBPMS4IZ6QDC3Q1/blue+outlook.jpg TALL TAILS - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Blue outlook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323113830-D79MOM2TRR028Y06ZN74/perspective+from+the+ground.jpg TALL TAILS - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Perspective on the ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323131404-AE7AYHIHYUQD273SISW7/blue+revelry+tale+icon.jpg TALL TAILS - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Tangled tail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323147039-XQWAPEW0CJO2KXWWIPYO/blue+solidarity.jpg TALL TAILS - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Blue solidarity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598323334410-T3SAYCGZP4L1N0QL7EUN/hither.jpg TALL TAILS - RELEASE 2020 Detail: Hither https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287293035-RLOSNZ5EAKAVYYHDIV8W/Q%2526A%252C%2B2020%252C%2Bink%2Bon%2Bcold%2Bpressed%2Barches%252C%2B50%2Bx%2B105%2Binches.jpg TALL TAILS - Q&A, 2020 Ink on cold pressed arches, 50 x 105 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287153802-ZMZ7GO0KLQWVSHRI1O7R/Boy+with+drum+detail.jpg TALL TAILS - Q&A, 2020 Detail of police shields and boy with drum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287162488-J67G95N9SAS41FE0SJ16/Face+Shields+detail.jpg TALL TAILS - Q&A, 2020 Detail of police face shields https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287180671-1U9V9LLX6N4NCVF5VFT1/Headphones+detail.jpg TALL TAILS - Q&A, 2020 Detail of child with headphones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1607287555878-UA4AEVKK8OZP1JJW9G4A/Shield+detail.jpg TALL TAILS - Q&A, 2020 Detail of police shields and gear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319997198-V5UVIEARTMSUZWBKAPY3/1+tiki+2+tiki+whole+75x42%2522+ink+charcoal.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Ink and charcoal, 75 x 42 inches In his third press conference following the Charlottesville riot, President Trump argued: "So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? But they were there to protest -- excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. President Trump, August 15, 2017 at Trump Tower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319544079-SOJ9935PL7PAAURH4P3W/1+tiki+2+tiki+det.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319575032-S715F594JGPNG7QLMHML/child+skeleton+reflection.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, Child skeleton reflection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319575950-J9IW6BZVNKXC2X8IBFJB/child+skeleton+torso.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, Child torso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319563905-CAHZAG6J5WIV1X4KYM9V/1+tiki+reflection.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, Tiki reflection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319567822-3134MY3D3Q9GSV58L258/1+tiki+2+tiki+whole+75x42%2522+ink+charcoal.jpg TALL TAILS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319586364-YIRC2C33V5EDAR5LPGSO/mirror.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, mirror https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319586301-ZBNHF07TD5W295VEDGA2/gorilla+skull.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail, gorilla skull https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319595188-QBXZQZ1DOISP28QURQ5G/washington+jefferson+reflection.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail: Washington and Jefferson reflection "So this week it's Robert E. Lee," Trump told reporters. "I notice that Stonewall Jackson's coming down," he added, referring to another famous Confederate commander. "I wonder: Is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?" Trump said. "You know, you really do have to ask yourself — where does it stop?" President Trump, August 15, 2017 at Trump Tower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319600846-VHZB3AW2HD9BRBAF8QFQ/washington+reflection.jpg TALL TAILS - ONE TIKI, TWO TIKI, 2017 Detail: Washington relfection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961033850-BVLIDMSHFATTW7Z21D5I/I+Come+from+Alabama.jpg TALL TAILS - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Ink on paper, 40 x 27 inches. This ink drawing responds to the contentious legacy of the Stephen Foster public sculpture, first erected in 1900 in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park and now situated on Schenley Plaza near the Stephen Foster Memorial on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The bronze sculpture features the American composer seated, gazing outward, with a shoeless banjo player at his feet — identified as “Uncle Ned.” Created by Giuseppe Moretti, the sculpture was actually designed by a committee that included banker Andrew W. Mellon, the director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, a railroad mogul and a parks director among others. 50,000 Pittsburghers lined the parade route for its dedication and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Director led 3,000 school children in song at its unveiling. During the Great Depression, ‘Uncle’ Ned’s banjo and Foster’s pen were repeatedly stolen and presumably sold as scrap metal. The monument depicts the writing of the song “Uncle Ned” about an enslaved person recently deceased. His fingers were long like de cane in de brake, He had no eyes for to see. The drawing's title, I Come From Alabama With A Banjo Round My Neck, is a modification of a lyric in Foster’s popular Oh! Susanna, a minstrel song considered one of the top 100 western songs of all time. Not content with transcribing Ned’s music, Foster is depicted taking his banjo, too. The transference, however, puts Foster in the enslaved’s shoeless state, with no eyes ‘for to see’ and dangling from the banjo’s extended strings. His toes are now rubbed for ‘good luck’ while a ghost of child labor sits still shining shoes. How does it feel –does it tickle? Links to related stories: Tony Norman: Monuments and their discontents What to do with a Stephen Foster statue with a black man at his feet? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961044218-XCH0DVQN2NYAB1X8EGX5/Stephen+Foster+vampire.jpg TALL TAILS - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Detail of Stephen Foster Vampire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961047503-Y41L1YT1LRS6FVY4HLTQ/Stephen+Foster+w+strings+attached.jpg TALL TAILS - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Detail, Stephen Foster with strings attached https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961032788-4XAALM74KVF97D6PD98G/Banjo+round+my+neck+%28detail%29.jpg TALL TAILS - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Detail, Banjo round my neck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1505961041452-BTUE84BZFI6IWDTVSHRV/Shine+On+%28det%29.jpg TALL TAILS - I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ROUND MY NECK, 2017 Detail, shine on https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504319895302-GQQPJID366OHXIFLT8F9/On+All+Sides+whole+75x42%2522+ink+charcoal.jpg TALL TAILS - RECRUIT, 2017 Ink and charcoal, 75 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318771596-BCASI81BFX5JM9MQ2SEC/cat+skeleton+reflection.jpg TALL TAILS - RECRUIT detail, 2017 Cat skeleton detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318772600-45BV7UE7C7M2R04APWUS/cat+skeleton.jpg TALL TAILS - RECRUIT detail, 2017 Cat skeleton detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318783527-FG10M9AW7FRDO5ZW55F5/eagle+icon.jpg TALL TAILS - RECRUIT detail 2017 Eagle detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318788478-48ZOKXWZTFA1RIN8FBOZ/regressive+reflections.jpg TALL TAILS - RECRUIT detail 2017 Detail, Regressive Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318793872-YN9XSKXDCU5C5XRZ74LQ/salute+reflection.jpg TALL TAILS - RECRUIT detail 2017 Detail, Salute Reflection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504320309670-GJLHF8UKJ6I8YJM4NM9U/tall+tails%2C+74%2522+x+42%2522%28whole%29.jpg TALL TAILS - TALL TAILS, 2017 Ink, 75 x 42 inches In his third press conference following the Charlottesville riot, President Trump argued: "So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? But they were there to protest -- excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee." President Trump, August 15, 2017 at Trump Tower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504320307696-I4NHN3LN471Z524LYIPA/tall+tails+%28smoke+trail+detail%29.jpg TALL TAILS - TALL TAILS, 2017 Detail: smoke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504320299005-SVYN71L8XXI66OFI5BMI/tall+tails+%28bust+detail%29.jpg TALL TAILS - TALL TAILS, 2017 Detail: Jefferson's pony tail In his third press conference following the Charlottesville riot, President Trump argued: "So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? But they were there to protest -- excuse me, if you take a look, the night before they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee." President Trump, August 15, 2017 at Trump Tower   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526830524089-ET4ADND6NASPMCYUYX4L/2+elephants.jpg TALL TAILS - SOME KIND OF JUSTICE, 2018 Ink, charcoal, graphite, 42 x 84 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526830531396-X31RH9V15QOZRLQL8IRI/P1030179.jpg TALL TAILS - Detail SOME KIND OF JUSTICE, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504318778956-4ZCNU844427LC2LEO2R4/On+All+Sides+whole+75x42%2522+ink+charcoal.jpg TALL TAILS - ON ALL SIDES, 2017 Ink and charcoal, 75 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526830639749-DMNSDDQYPUEM52TVN7FG/P1030180.jpg TALL TAILS - Detail SOME KIND OF JUSTICE, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504321356234-IJDPZQLCBIIXEJUOEPMC/standard+fare+40%2522+x27.5%2522.jpg TALL TAILS - STANDARD FARE, 2017 Mixed media, 40 x 27.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1612890068252-CCSYYUBHVCSK3HZLI7QC/PHRENOLOGICAL+PERFECTION%2C+2018%2C+Wax%2C+ink+and+charcoal+on+paper%2C+43+x+39+inches+%28with+Molotov+turnip%29+brighter.jpg TALL TAILS - PHRENOLOGICAL PERFECTION 2018 Wax, ink and charcoal on paper, 43 x 39 inches (with Molotov turnip) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1612890080635-LOI1S7ULGNMEMN69S0NP/phenological+perfection+det.jpg TALL TAILS - PHRENOLOGICAL PERFECTION 2018 Detail Wax, ink and charcoal on paper, 43 x 39 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1612890348978-EG6ZDB8N1TQLERN8B9MZ/scales+justice+lions+rats+straight.jpg TALL TAILS - SCALES WITH LIONS AND RATS 2018 Charcoal on paper, 43 x 31 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1612890355853-XKJGWLAG48P8DP1HD2YD/skirt+of+justice+adj.jpg TALL TAILS - SCALES WITH LIONS AND RATS 2018 Detail of skirt of justice Charcoal on paper, 43 x 31 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504324597582-EWPANEJG4EPXYL7XBSD6/all+things+equal+21.5%2522+x+29.5%2522.jpg TALL TAILS - ALL THINGS EQUAL, 2017 Ink, 21.5 x 29.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1504321712883-ZQCFLZ2VMWPSHKHG4SR9/ride.jpg TALL TAILS - RIDE, 2017 Ink http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/retribution-stains-1 daily 0.75 2017-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364156569-MC78AB5WM1MHLPZB2IDV/small+hot+pink+bib_pp.jpg Retribution Stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364156569-MC78AB5WM1MHLPZB2IDV/small+hot+pink+bib_pp.jpg Retribution Stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510363623582-4IRZMC5XO6DSZ1379DH1/retribution_stains_wall.jpg Retribution Stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364463380-6WM9CZHJE2U8ZC6WGE04/retribution_stains_wall.jpg Retribution Stains - Retribution Stains, 1998 Installation in Silenced Voices: an Affirmation of Human Rights, SPACES, Cleveland, OH, June 5 – July 30, 1999 22 hand-painted bibs In the spring of 1998, the first twenty-two Rwandan Hutus convicted of participating in the slaughter of 1994 were wearing white bibs with black squares painted to locate the sternum. They were executed by firing squad in public at a one-meter range. The United Nations, which set up its own court in Tanzania to judge those suspected of genocide, has yet to deliver a single verdict.* The minority Tutsis, backed by the West, led a repressive government for decades before their overthrow which led to the genocide. The black squared bibs here serve as the remembrance of myriad moral stains we nightly (take to) table. *Alfonso Rojo in Kigali from a Manchester Guardian Weekly article of May 3, 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364154652-2JFYS7P3419R7SXQ7S5E/Johnson_Retribution+Stains_Violet+Bib.jpg Retribution Stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364150243-PTPL427X96OP7YV3LBIG/Johnson_Retribution+Stains_Small+blue+bib.jpg Retribution Stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364155947-E5JT6I3HVYK100Z5JORR/Red+rectangular+bib.jpg Retribution Stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364148972-MNLZ3WNCNKP9G1GTI8ZB/Angel+wings+bib.jpg Retribution Stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364159212-A6YI6DSE43MZTH7ZXWBK/small+aqua+bib.jpg Retribution Stains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1510364161230-A6203UG3NTW2ZCT8Z2RT/Sun+bib.jpg Retribution Stains http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/flaying-father-1 daily 0.75 2024-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594687392576-IXI7HSU7Z7GCHVUGQ3VK/Jackson+Reins%2C+2020%2C+Gouache%2C+dry+pigment+and+gum+arabic+on+paper%2C+114+x+57+inches.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Gouache, dry pigment and gum arabic on two pieces of paper, 114 x 114 inches. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend (also known as Tohopeka, Cholocco Litabixbee, or The Horseshoe), was fought during the War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory, now central Alabama. On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under Major General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe who opposed American expansion, effectively ending the Creek War. After the battle, Jackson's troops made bridle reins from skin taken from Indian corpses, conducted a body count by cutting off the tips of their noses, and sent their clothing as souvenirs to the "ladies of Tennessee." * Jackson was also known as a “would-be-king” for his abuse of presidential powers during his “reign.” * Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror, (Little, Brown 1993), p. 85 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594687392576-IXI7HSU7Z7GCHVUGQ3VK/Jackson+Reins%2C+2020%2C+Gouache%2C+dry+pigment+and+gum+arabic+on+paper%2C+114+x+57+inches.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Gouache, dry pigment and gum arabic on two pieces of paper, 114 x 114 inches. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend (also known as Tohopeka, Cholocco Litabixbee, or The Horseshoe), was fought during the War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory, now central Alabama. On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under Major General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe who opposed American expansion, effectively ending the Creek War. After the battle, Jackson's troops made bridle reins from skin taken from Indian corpses, conducted a body count by cutting off the tips of their noses, and sent their clothing as souvenirs to the "ladies of Tennessee." * Jackson was also known as a “would-be-king” for his abuse of presidential powers during his “reign.” * Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror, (Little, Brown 1993), p. 85 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594686606373-E7OMV5QM7TMXOYUK7IYV/portrait.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of bridle. After the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson's troops made bridle reins from skin taken from Indian corpses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594752736362-CAMQ6G2HI50OH6MJA0CN/nose+straps.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of nose straps. Trump has said Jackson, who led the systematic removal of native Americans two centuries ago, is a personal hero. From June 2020: "Last night we stopped an attack on a great monument of Andrew Jackson and Lafayette Park," Trump told reporters, adding that "numerous people" are already in jail and more are going "today." Trump and Jackson share punitive and repressive impulses. As the United States expanded, Jackson opposed policies that would have outlawed slavery in western territories. And when abolitionists attempted to send anti-slavery tracts to the South during his presidency, Jackson helped ban their delivery and called the anti-slavery advocates monsters who should “atone for this wicked attempt with their lives.” Records show that Jackson beat his enslaved workers, including doling out a brutal public whipping to a woman he felt had been “putting on airs.” And when any of them ran away, he pursued them and put them in chains when they were recovered. In an 1804 newspaper advertisement for a 30-year-old runaway named Tom, he offered an extra $10 for every 100 lashes doled out to the escapee. In response to people protesting against racist monuments, Trump has threatened:"We are looking at long term jail sentences for these vandals, hoodlums, anarchists and agitators. Some people don't like that language, but that's what they are: Bad people. They don't love our country, and they're not taking down our monuments," he said. "I just want that to be clear." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685568811-HTVK9MPZBFHOQ7M6QB7L/jackson%27s+train.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of Jackson’s train… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594686557789-F03JGFS2TRVYYHGD25EK/crest+and+leaves+horizontal.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of an invented (and originally unregistered) coat-of-arms used to lend prestige to Trump’s golf resort in Aberdeen, Scotland. It features a shield with an eagle clutching three golf balls and the slogan Numquam concedere, which translates to “never give up” or “never concede.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594686306559-JA0W8PRSTV0NOZ6SULW2/King_Andrew_the_First_%28political_cartoon_of_President_Andrew_Jackson%29.jpg FLAYING FATHER - KING ANDREW THE FIRST circa 1832 King Andrew the First is a cartoon depicting Andrew Jackson, the 7th United States president, as a “would-be-king” because opposers often viewed him as an abuser of his presidential powers. The creator of the cartoon is unknown. It was used to support presidential campaigns opposing Jackson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594689351689-CO1QN16UNMX7OK01ICWJ/peace+%26+friendship+medalion.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS Detail of Peace and Friendship Medallion “In March 1814, Jackson tracked the Red Sticks to Horseshoe Bend, a peninsula formed by the Tallapoosa River in what is now Alabama, and launched a frontal assault on their breastworks. His troops might have been repulsed had the Cherokees not crossed the river and attacked from the rear. Caught between two attacking forces, the Red Sticks lost nearly 900 warriors in what proved to be the decisive battle of the war. That day, a Cherokee named Junaluska saved Jackson from an attacker, prompting the Tennessean to declare, “As long as the sun shines and the grass grows, there shall be friendship between us.” But in the peace treaty he negotiated with the Creeks, Jackson confiscated 23 million acres of land in Alabama and Georgia—some of which belonged to the Cherokees.” By Brian Hicks, Smithsonian Magazine, March 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685684487-80N6HW9GPUHKGL2DSBEE/molly%27s+curse+%28parrot%29.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of Poll, an African grey parrot given to Andrew Jackson’s wife Rachel. Jackson became its caretaker after her death. The bird apparently spewed foul language and curses learned from Jackson. According to Rev. William Menefee Norment, who presided at Jackson’s funeral, “before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.”* *Volume 3 of Samuel G. Heiskell’s Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685648297-530X2XZU465X89BHGDBS/stirrup+w+snake.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of stirrup with snake motif. Jackson spoke with a forked tongue in his genocidal treatment of Native Americans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685706678-T53JT7V97OCBQFJDHV9W/buckles.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 Detail of buckle and embossed button. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594685763609-LVKPDOEKVL4GBU1URYMJ/In+progress+high+view.jpg FLAYING FATHER - JACKSON REINS 2020 In-progress studio shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683311352500-8QLST1B2LYVFV3CANRBM/Newly+Acquired+Firescreen+Whole.jpg FLAYING FATHER - NEWLY ACQUIRED FIRE SCREEN 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 32 x 23.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683311399676-XTG8LOQ23MXB6QW0LD0T/Screen+top.jpg FLAYING FATHER - DETAIL: NEWLY ACQUIRED FIRE SCREEN 2023 Screen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683311401960-LQNGCLQWQR3N3CICNVRF/Shovel+Broom.jpg FLAYING FATHER - DETAIL: NEWLY ACQUIRED FIRE SCREEN 2023 Fireplace shovel and broom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629733338272-UK8JAQJHSJSWY4WCA3SB/Passage+to+Liberia+%28whole%29.jpg FLAYING FATHER - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches Monrovia, Liberia is named after James Monroe because he favored the region’s colonization, and supported the American Colonization Society, which advocated forced expatriation—the “resettling” of freed blacks to West Africa. The eponymous Monroe Doctrine was an American Imperialist foreign policy position that hypocritically opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It was a declaration of hegemony and a right of unilateral intervention over the Americas. Any doctrine is a body of principles, but the body of principals – people whose land, labor and lives were exploited, is the focus here. Democratic values espoused for a minority have long been justifications to retain oligarchic privilege. By design, the ‘new world’ imported European aspirations for, and the inequities of, empire, along with furniture and jewelry. Monroe, who enslaved up to 250 people in his lifetime, lies in state on a funeral bier improvised from an overturned sofa. It is from the Bellangé collection of furniture he ordered for the White House Oval Room (now the Blue Room). Surrounding him are ‘principals’—boys burnishing and polishing a barrel and the precious furniture. They wear shirts with logos of the Seneca Nation of Indians: Keepers of the Western Door and the Iroquois Nation, a Liberty Bell patch, and a cap with a patch of the African continent. An incomplete account of Monroe’s presidency can be read here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629733618682-ZOF9NBACN2WBGVPK8DAJ/monroe+peace+friendship+medalians.jpg FLAYING FATHER - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Detail of James Monroe on funerary bier with Peace and Friendship medallions, Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629734863075-4FHA5PXVTXWTJHGXDV3L/field+workers+and+a+harvest+god.jpg FLAYING FATHER - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Detail of Fieldworkers with a Harvest God, Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629732896505-Q6HK1XD2DWT4UE5M5AOQ/foundations+of+innoscence.jpg FLAYING FATHER - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Detail (Foundation of Innocence) Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629732916412-IKL7VVU5H3J5658QNCEP/Western+Door+5+Nations+Africa.jpg FLAYING FATHER - PASSAGE TO LIBERIA 2021 Detail of boys burnishing and polishing barrel and Bellangé furniture, wearing shirts with logos of the Seneca Nation of Indians: Keepers of the Western Door and Iroquois Nation, Liberty Bell patch, and cap with African continent Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408086903-94FPP7FEXIGK5QPOFHLL/A+Body+of+Principles+whole+brown.jpg FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Ink and gouache on paper, 57 x 114 inches The fifth president James Monroe is decapitated—along with the mind that developed his eponymous doctrine. A doctrine is a body of principles. But the body of principals, people whose land, labor and lives were exploited, is primary. Their expropriated lands grow wheat for domestic and international trade, supplanting tobacco. Timing is everything in this field of reaping and harvesting. Democratic values espoused for a minority were justifications to retain oligarchic privilege. By design, the ‘new world’ imported European aspirations for, and the inequities of, empire, along with furniture and jewelry. Elizabeth Monroe’s finery and her husband’s Bellangé furniture cascade and crumble, tassels quake, and the glaringly obvious is uncovered. Sheaves are still borne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408094259-99SC9VEYBICJ20WK98KJ/The+Thriving.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail of The Thriving https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408087681-57FOQ89MDIVESHRBAYPM/Three+Clicks+to+Home.jpg FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Three clicks to home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408090996-2FTI4D29GRKD86KK8FZ1/Elizabeth_s+Adornments.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Elizabeth Monroe’s adornments https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408089862-92CCGZ4JAODZYVP022M8/after+visitation.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: After Visitation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408088781-D8AU1NONCOK94EWLNF4E/Sheaf+_+mask.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Sheaf mask https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408091960-GPTAR6AWYR9UDFHD7GTY/the+Time+is+Now.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: The Time Is Now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408095823-WZ92ISMOF4VY544MNITR/still+glaring+%28field+hands%29.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Still Glaring (field hands) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408096867-367ZUFUGUBCH2FDAG8KB/Sheaf+to+Tassle.JPG FLAYING FATHER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408098237-G4PA220766K9ALYSUHF9/Some+Shade.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Some shade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408099059-M8WG0D6EM4OTTWKDUKGJ/Time+is+Now+%28horizontal%29.JPG FLAYING FATHER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408100361-O271R32SJKF7AADUJZSS/Balancing+Acts.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Acts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408101497-THWJ1UBM54LBQIXFYN7E/By+Design.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detal: By design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1634408102357-3LPMRYO7K4E1XLDWK7D6/Unravelers.JPG FLAYING FATHER - BODY OF PRINCIPLES 2021 Detail: Sheaf to Tassle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970191754-IFTJACRXKO3BPIU5ICSO/Before%2B7%253A4%252C%2B2021%252C%2BInk%2Band%2Bgouache%2Bon%2Bpaper%252C%2B44%2Bx%2B58.5%2Binches.jpg FLAYING FATHER - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970117423-GCU431JSCPR1B5MHIQH2/marshmellow+roasting.jpg FLAYING FATHER - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches Detail of roasting marshmellows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970109788-GSVUSZ5DDLN99MPI0ZC1/opposum+detail.jpg FLAYING FATHER - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches Detail of possum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970101789-3RI87109YN8XMUZAVUH7/pair+of+wishes.jpg FLAYING FATHER - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches Detail of pair of wishes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970126477-3A1SFWCHVP74MQ2VV0ZW/Fly+detail.jpg FLAYING FATHER - BEFORE 7/4 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 44 x 58.5 inches Detail of fly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628970798941-S5SECKB0F6WGY6FYM1SS/Nailery+Monticello.jpg FLAYING FATHER - NAILERY (MONTICELLO) 2021, Ink and gouache on paper, 46 x 55 inches Growing tobacco required child labor (the small stature of children made them ideal workers for the distasteful task of plucking and killing tobacco worms). When growing wheat, which did not require small hands, Jefferson transferred his surplus of young workers to his nail factory (boys) and spinning and weaving operations (girls). In 1794, he launched a nailery and supervised it personally for three years. “I now employ a dozen little boys from 10 to 16 years of age, overlooking all the details of their business myself.” He said he spent half the day counting and measuring nails. In the morning he weighed and distributed nail rod to each nailer; at the end of the day he weighed the finished product and noted how much rod had been wasted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580323944662-4WVHVII6YPVH0TRLPRUB/Fitting+%28Jefferson%29+whole.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FITTING 2020 Ink on paper, 50 x 114 inches I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Text on Panel Four of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living —W. H. Auden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590084987853-XD59JWDXX2TNADOF49Y3/Fitting%2BBarbarous%2BAncestors%2Btext.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FITTING 2020 Detail of text from Jefferson’s letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816) inscribed in the southeast quadrant of the Jefferson Memorial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580323976848-JIMMQS5QR3QHJ0H6E5LO/Fitting+nature+of+man+vest.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FITTING 2020 Detail of Thomas Jefferson’s vest with tree and flower ornamentation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580323985391-XTOPN3M2K4KH61NH9WDI/Fitting+old+coat+det.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FITTING 2020 Detail of old coat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580323993069-TKGXG61MSM72LWZUAORX/Fitting+portrait+det.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FITTING 2020 Detail of Thomas Jefferson sculpture with laurel wreath https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580324001962-10J9POBP3OYKVALJMDCP/Fitting+Sally+Hemmings+justice.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FITTING 2020 Detail of Sally Hemmings (mother of Jefferson’s children) as Columbia (the historical female national personification of the United States of America, and a poetic name for the Americas). The female figure representing Freedom that tops the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building shares many of Columbia’s characteristics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1580324004737-P7OCMWDB0HZRYH6JBN8X/Fitting+Truth+Digger+det.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FITTING 2020 The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living —W. H. Auden Detail of Digger seeking truth in Jeffersonian documents spilling from his intestines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431611945-NCWP56XVO9Y6PNXNRNXK/Extraction+of+Madison%27s+Soul%2C+20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Ink on paper, 54.5 x 55 inches Francis (Frank) Johnson, born in 1792, was the first popular black composer and bandleader in the United States. He holds his keyed bugle while leaning on James Madison’s bedpost. In the distance his band marches forth. The bedchamber is absent. The bed frame and canopy, left exposed in a destitute tobacco field, catch fire from embers of the U.S. Capitol and Presidential Mansion blaze. The house was a dreary place in 1814 when the British seized and torched Washington. But still it haunts. It haunts, too, that Paul Jennings, and the door man, and the gardener secured the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington from the British assault (even if it was a copy of Stuart’s own painting – it’s an original isn’t it?). And it haunts most on Judgment Day when your soul is discovered to be but three fifths of a man’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431625778-19E4V1RE0UBYRIIDM2YY/Madison+strung+up_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of James Madison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431630196-Q5UZA149SFYAPDQJ0Q4Q/Madison%27s+guts_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of James Madison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431603577-4ZR6KG1KYKYZ2OH5CH4J/Cannon.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of British cannon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431603298-K7G745VNBOHGJZJ0QVHW/Canopy+fire+and+crane_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of bed frame and canopy catching fire from embers of the U.S. Capitol and Presidential Mansion blaze in 1814 during the British assault on Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431623221-KPHDJB762DVG3CM0BKIB/Johnson+trumpeteer_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EXTRACTION OF MADISON'S SOUL 2019 Detail of Francis (Frank) Johnson, born in 1792—the first popular black composer and bandleader in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430836144-2KR9MCQ8ET1CWPAY4SFF/Madison+in+May%2C+2019%2C+Ink%2C+58.5+x+115.5+inches.jpg FLAYING FATHER - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Ink on paper, 58.5 x 114 inches Paul Jennings, born into slavery at the concentration camp Montpelier, author of “A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison”, in the guise of Apollo, unsuccessfully requests his freedom at the fourth president’s death. Jennings’ family (his wife, Fanny, and their children Felix, Frances, John, Franklin, and William), with whom he was never allowed to live, circle around the childless Madison. Young John, Franklin and William play ‘abolitionist’ before their entry into the Union army during the Civil War. Jennings’ extended family rehearses around the Maypole for their future reunion. They wave ribbons, weave streamers and frolic on hobbyhorses. Panpipes are set aside by Satyrs and lyres are laid to rest at the obelisk’s steps. Lyrebirds from the New England Highlands strut, perch and sing their ‘flute dialect’ on the green. Amidst confetti, different species of Lyrebird chicks listen and learn new vocalizations of democratic protest. Dolley Todd Madison, the ‘country’s first lady’, who continued to enslave Paul Jennings after her husband’s death, lifts her gown skirts and drags tobacco leaves. She thanks Jennings for his generous financial assistance as she spins into financial hardship. Representatives of the largest attempted escape of the enslaved in US history, that Jennings helped plan, are seen again on the plantation after their resale and continued bondage. Athenian vessels, a pitcher (Oinochoe) and a high-handled drinking cup (Kantharos), in the form of “Aithiopian” heads (circa 500 BC), lie beneath snakes and denuded stalks. Neither we nor Madison (though steeped in Greek and Latin philosophy and prose in their original languages) are certain of what these serving vessels connote regarding race or hierarchical relationships. In the upper right, canonical interpreters of lost causes fold their chairs. Exeunt stage left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430857523-TVPV9445L4SD18S07PLX/Tiara+girl_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of Maypole streamers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430879101-N958008D67THK168KC17/Boy+in+tobacco_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of boy in tobacco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430926742-90SY7QSVL1UT4TS72FAF/kids+ribbons+closeup_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - MADISON IN MAY 2019 detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430962499-MELTCKMZ1VJYF0WEDRH2/Pole+bird_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of bird https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431406111-W7KM8M01RZP87MJBO0BN/Girls+inspecting_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of girls with magnifying glasses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573431423494-11IDK94L9VYANQZHK16K/Pole+with+lyre_20MB.jpg FLAYING FATHER - MADISON IN MAY 2019 Detail of flayed Madison and lyre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623588822-3HW9G884DSP5YIXRNGLN/Geroge+Washington_Frankenstein_Prone.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE CREATION OF G. W. 2018 Ink and wax on paper, 58 x 108 inches The first of our presidents who enslaved people, George Washington is shown reclining in a mythical laboratory from the 1931 Frankenstein film. A typical defense of slavery was that it was practiced by ‘men trapped by their own time’. These men embraced this trap, benefitting from the largest slave economy in the Americas, a 400-year old economy still indebted to this fact. The glass bubbles in the children’s mobile floating above Washington’s head resemble the test tube vessels of the supposed Enlightenment. They contain the ghosts of abolitionists who led many others who knew slavery was wrong. Were they also trapped in their time? They include: the influential Benjamin Lay; Olaudah Equiano (who was kidnapped from his Nigerian village, sold into slavery, survived the horrors of the Middle Passage, served several masters, purchased his freedom in 1766, moved to England, and became an abolitionist activist and one of the earliest proponents for interracial marriage); and Mum Bett, aka Elizabeth Freeman (who survived being hit and burned by her master with a hot shovel, and, based on Massachusett’s new constitution proclaiming all residents were “born free and equal,” sued the state and won her freedom, laying the groundwork for the state’s abolition of slavery in 1783). At the operating table’s fulcrum, Washington’s bandaged arm extends in a magnanimous gesture. Chronos, as a custodian, appraises his appeal. Barely visible supporting Washington’s boot, as a visual pun, is the musket of an African American soldier. Washington knew whoever armed Black men the fastest would win the Revolutionary War; but he suggested executing any who would seek freedom by joining the British. New England also promised freedom to enslaved blacks if they served in the Continental Army. Over the course of the war, about one-fifth of that army was Black.[16] Washington ordered re-enlisting freed Black men who had already served, worrying that some might cross over to the British. An estimated 20,000 African Americans joined the British cause while 9000 became Black Patriots fighting against the British. Waiting in the wings of this drawing, fallen statues try to escape the demolition site with their dreams of world domination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623611297-6URJ6BDY5TFUPJ9QF4WS/Geroge+WAshington_Frankenstein_central+figure.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of THE CREATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 2018 At the operating table’s fulcrum, Washington’s bandaged arm extends in a magnanimous gesture. Chronos, as a custodian, appraises his appeal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623622220-V6O220BKSAFBL296R42B/wrecking+ball.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of THE CREATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 2018 Detail of Mum Bett, aka Elizabeth Freeman, who survived being hit and burned by her master with a hot shovel. Based on Massachusett’s new constitution proclaiming all residents were “born free and equal,” she sued the state and won her freedom, laying the groundwork for the state’s abolition of slavery in 1783. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573696870045-8FZ00KPI0SQ9UAMNK2EH/5%274_%2C+88_+responds+to+Master.jpg FLAYING FATHER - 5' 4", 88; Responds to "Master", 2019 Ink on paper, 40 x 43 inches In a form of revenge fantasy, James Madison, who freed none of his 100 enslaved workers, bears an iron collar. It is just one sampling of the cruel hardware that controlled and punished the enslaved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573696874717-C22LSDRY5F0JH5CJOV5L/5%274_%2C+88%3B+Responds+to+Master+det.jpg FLAYING FATHER - 5' 4", 88; Responds to "Master", 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924352955-1DROXS76KCDJ4JT1W846/Tomb+of+Usher%2C+2018%2C+ink%2C+44x30.5in.jpg FLAYING FATHER - TOMB OF USHER 2018 Ink on paper, 44 x 30.5 inches Preparatory drawing for Flaying Father: George Washington Cardiff This triple portrait presents an idealized George Washington as a white supremacist gesturing heavenward, and as a Gucci garbed spirit-usher holding his own death mask with his wig hair let down. The usher beacons toward a white void—a white supremacist nether world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924349885-BCRHRLUG87OEU2SH4D7H/Detail_Tomb+of+Usher+2.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of TOB OF USHER 2018 Detail of preparatory drawing for Flaying Father: George Washington Cardiff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924349694-Z27O19YJ88N4S60D2Y06/Detail_Tomb+of+Usher+3.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of TOMB OF USHER 2018 Detail of preparatory drawing for Flaying Father: George Washington Cardiff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623914818-7JDJJ06JW5TZP3T4TS6N/Innocence_George+Washington_Frankenstein.jpg FLAYING FATHER - INNOCENCE 2018 Ink on paper, 90.5 x 43.25 inches George Washington was the first of five presidents of the United States who imposed slavery on people while in office. At the age of eleven, he took possession of ten people. He continued to enslave people for the next 56 years. He resorted to slave labor to build the White House rather than hire foreign labor. To retain his slaves, he evaded the Gradual Abolition Act of 1780, by rotating those working for him in bondage so they would not qualify. His will stipulated that 123 enslaved people were to be kept in bondage until after his wife’s death. While some were emancipated in 1801, many others legally enslaved on Mount Vernon remained in bondage. In this and other works, Washington is presented as a giant Frankenstein, the miraculous image of the new nation. Like the creature Frankenstein, he is awkwardly pieced together from corpses, constructed from selective memories and myths of American history. Gazing at cut flowers, he wistfully contemplates his legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623960584-LC7CXDL83GN68SPUPEA6/George+Washington_Hand+detail.jpg FLAYING FATHER - INNOCENCE 2018 Detail of George Washington’s hand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623948443-A0KNGCZ7CK13DQEL2JX6/George+Washington+head+detail.jpg FLAYING FATHER - INNOCENCE 2018 Detail of George Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555623954715-LQWEHXB3PMDUJRSXT5HL/George+Washington_Frankenstein_flowers+detail.jpg FLAYING FATHER - INNOCENCE 2018 Detail of flowers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136657686-380KKLY4SE6AJUDZQQT3/Lafayette+de+la+Mancha+_+the+Giant+50+x+56.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136679427-7ZN1R5VK37B1DPEFPNIW/central+figure+cropping.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL MILLS Detail of Marquis de Lafayette on his quixotic quest to save Jefferson’s soul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136776137-T5964IHKL0OYO78I9N7E/Lafayette+upholds+the+declaration+of+America.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL MILLS Detail of Lafayette holding The Declaration of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136787605-0HVEERI2CLGA4BKYM3LS/TJ+_+the+Cracker+Plant.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL MILLS Detail of Thomas Jefferson as a vampiric Giant, with cracker plants and burning windmills in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718236359-938GZ4O8JV70MWQGDNZR/Jefferson+Marsyas+7230.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 Charcoal, ink, lumber crayon and graphite on paper, 84 x 216 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687136811161-HE69V44MKBYB01175YPU/Burning+Windmills+right.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL MILLS Detail of burning windmills https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525736127154-AQ9GWUJ1N5243VC4OQ3X/Jefferson+Marsyas_brighter.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 Charcoal, lumber crayon, ink and graphite on paper, 84 x 216 inches Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 600 people during his lifetime, institutionalizing free labor that generated personal profit and grew unfathomable national prosperity. The constitutional heritage that our founding fathers forged is indeed foundational to today’s injustices. The system that served their interests still promotes political disenfranchisement, racism, property rights over human rights, and hypocritical rhetoric espousing democratic values. Willingly or unwillingly, we are all invested in this legacy. ‘Flaying’ refers to the hubris of the mythological Marsyas, who competes with and offends Apollo by playing his flute and whipping everyone into a frenzy—an apt metaphor for the incitement of demagogues, then and now. Accounts of his penalty vary—between having his flayed skin nailed to a pine tree or converted into a wine sack. His cruel fate warns against the self-congratulatory myths and actual practices of our nation—and their ominous repercussions. Many telling details include: Jefferson’s deformed pleading hands and a lacy cravat floating above his flayed intestines, as well as the four mocking birds of Jefferson’s White House. Dick, his favorite bird, purchased from one of his father-in-law’s ‘slaves’, perches on the ropes that bind Jefferson’s satyr fetlocks. Three portraits of Sally Hemings are grouped: one pregnant with the six known children fathered by Jefferson; another as she’s giving birth to ‘democracy,’ (a child born of what would now be considered statutory rape); and the third as a sixteen-year-old in Paris, where she was free. For all of Jefferson’s words about freedom, he brought her back to Monticello to serve with the “extraordinary privileges” of remaining in bondage for the rest of her life. The children he fathered with her were consigned to decades of enslavement. Over the next 32 years, Sally Hemings raised Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525735580700-H8M4OG654QCA4FOST467/IMG_7318.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Working on FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525735580656-FZVCDHXX5YYQ3BQNYAK7/IMG_7320.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Working on FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526835166893-KCAW5TX9ZHQ5BJHAV3FU/Jefferson+Marsyas+first+quarter.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 First quarter of work, left side https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718258127-G8AVCSG3OEJ4GNNKX76C/spirals.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS The third portrait of Sally Hemings in this work as a a sixteen-year-old in Paris, where she was free. For all of Jefferson’s words about freedom, he brought her back to Monticello to serve with the “extraordinary privileges” of remaining in bondage for the rest of her life. The children he fathered with her were consigned to decades of enslavement. Over the next 32 years, Sally Hemings raised Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526835170690-B8HM5A5F3SSLEC6XPIYU/Flaying+Father_Jefferson+2nd+quarter.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 2nd quarter of work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718259801-8N4X4EU6C00R0LCFMKQG/stacked.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (stacked) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526835180156-87XEMXRXDC33HXWH0Z1K/Flaying+Father_Jefferson+3rd+quarter.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 3rd quarter of work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718211448-YQODOGVJQTD4HVAP9OWK/barbers.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (Obama) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718241116-W3QI2E63XH64M3Q5BJJM/looking+up.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (looking up) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526835185121-WYREM8MEMM3K6M9CBQZ3/Flaying+Father_Jefferson+4th+quarter.jpg FLAYING FATHER - FLAYING FATHER: JEFFERSON MARSYAS, 2018 4th quarter of work (far right side) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718211143-0DVC9AXPXQAM4AKXNVRQ/amends.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718216938-P27MD4YFIQ4C8HZ82SVL/choice.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (choice) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718216691-LRYVEN7IU59OPZY8W26V/bear+necessities.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (bear necessities) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718231327-U14U7YIWUHLZ34MQF9CW/gear.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (gear) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718235970-XF6BGVKMBSGSPOP3MVP3/I+do+declare.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (I do declare) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718222324-S23WCIG2CO2YOFEP5AP9/Cravat.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (cravat) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718221101-D4FC0W3ECV5GVLA43EGN/embargo+turtle.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (embargo turtle) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718225481-AO0QHAXVUS4QB01L8LVT/encription.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (encryption) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718226584-I1MJWLZ4OIX50NOJOG68/filial.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (filial) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718229410-175TP9C12DB28O9N8RCO/flap.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (skin flap) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718233240-DT5UFYAZ4AOVW3FJODTU/gentleman+to+scholar.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (gentleman to scholar) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718241041-R7C4P93764OYMNYQSGUD/knots+of+history.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (knots of history) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718246122-M74D1K103JIG13XQMJUW/minor+plans+ashes+knife.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (coal miner in Sally Heming's cabin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718247369-KMHQDCR4H55PTI62MDBA/nesting.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS One incarnation of Jefferson’s mocking bird, Dick, nesting on the ropes that bind his satyr’s fetlock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718263184-K27971SE34RDZL06IQTY/the+enlightenment.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (the Enlightenment) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718264613-A5R0Y1CH9UES1JHR7BDI/tipping+point.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (tipping point) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718251246-EUOCUDOVZ9MK2PR4AC0P/plumb.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (plumb) The background text on Panel Four of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC reads: I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718266508-JK9DKIY9OC2Z4H4E0FI1/white+shirt+hand+cuffs.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (cuffs) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686064674813-5NXKWB0UQYV3H1IACLR5/Jefferson+Saves+Some+50+x+56+ink.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686064674806-4W3DWHPGFXKAGHN6ZKJV/Jefferson+w+babies+det.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - Detail: JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686064671594-U6KF52RWDP7EXB0ML9V7/Shoveling+Lifting.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - Detail: JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Charcoal Kiln Laborers Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686065136627-Q2EY4DDSE3IYUW7FMRUB/Flower+season.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - Detail: JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILN Flower season Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1686064678693-7DXZIKK3Y5KEGC47TDPC/Charcoal+Kiln+Ladder.jpeg FLAYING FATHER - Detail: JEFFERSON SAVES SOME FOR THE CHARCOAL KILNS, 2023 Charcoal kiln labor Ink and gouache on paper, 50 x 56 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1680185257477-IMXLND9MMTKYRUQM7C1P/THE+EXTRACTION+OF+ANDREW+JACKSON%E2%80%99S+CROWN+2020%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+57+x+113.5+inches+.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EXTRACTION OF ANDREW JACKSON’S CROWN 2020 Ink on paper, 57 x 113.5 inches Jackson lays on a medical bed with his spurs still on, as surgeons exorcize his crown. The slop bucket contains either his cranial contents or the spoils of atrocities committed in his name — take your pick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611949747623-3K08L96T4HI0GI74HW4A/body+boots.jpg FLAYING FATHER - EXTRACTION (ANDREW JACKSON) 2020 Detail of Jackson’s boots and sword https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611949732525-PM10JHEVHTS4GYQOMU6B/Extraction+head+crown+det.jpg FLAYING FATHER - EXTRACTION (ANDREW JACKSON) Detail of Jackson’s crown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611949735870-BB5JK8V1A6TM7ZTJCT5B/extraction+scrutiny.jpg FLAYING FATHER - EXTRACTION (ANDREW JACKSON) 2020 Detail of extracting jewels from the crown of a would-be-king https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611949744769-QURTH1M6HJ30FARAUKRW/eagle+hilt.jpg FLAYING FATHER - EXTRACTION (ANDREW JACKSON) 2020 Detail of eagle hilt of Jackson’s sword https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611950335910-2O806KVSF9H1K3J8P1YE/extraction+pail.jpg FLAYING FATHER - EXTRACTION (ANdREW JACKSON) 2020 Detail of pail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1525718251271-RQCNQ906FGZXQMA295SA/oven+to+fireplace.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail of JEFFERSON MARSYAS (oven to fireplace) A detail from one of the three depictions of Sally Hemings who appears in this work. Here she is pregnant with one of at least six children she bore by Jefferson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611950359702-U741N6UW5JCFHLVAHOY3/Lying+Mouth+%28Jackson%29%2C+2020%2C+Distemper%2C+goache%2C+conte+and+ink+on+paper%2C+50+x+50+inches.jpg FLAYING FATHER - LYING MOUTH 2020 Portrait of Andrew Jackson Distemper, gouache, conte and ink on paper,55.5 x 55.5 inches In LYING MOUTH, Jackson is being harnessed. The crown he aspired to is converted into a horse’s feed bag. W.J.T. Mitchell’s essay, Cloning Terror, comes to mind as he writes about the “hooding of the head, and especially of the ‘head of state’ as an ideal strategy for humiliating the enemy in a war of images.” We might remember the once-powerful tyrant Saddam Hussein who was paraded before the cameras in a humiliating scene of abjection, and subjected to a public dental inspection, ostensibly to check for cyanide pills. Jackson’s feedbag is another kind of humiliation—a just retribution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611950364839-X4M9C6LF24SYKL5NN3EY/jackson+lying+mouth+feed+bag+det.jpg FLAYING FATHER - LYING MOUTH 2020 Detail of Andrew Jackson’s crown-as-feedbag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924561203-QBAXUT3JLWPVVUSROL8P/Surgeons+and+Shades+Search+for+GW%27s+Heart%2C+2018%2C+ink%2C+38x42.jpg FLAYING FATHER - SURGEONS AND SHADES SEARCH FOR THE HEART OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 2018 Ink on paper, 38 x 42 inches This is a study of a group of surgeons under a high intensity lamp shining on a high tech operating theater, with a news crew anxiously awaiting results while they search for George Washington’s heart. Urologist Dr. Hans Koch, from Otto Dix’s Weimar portrait, is also attending. Mock wailers in the background anticipate that its discovery will reveal the same payload as Bush’s search for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Namely, as we all knew then, as well as now—nothing. Celebrants here are NOT beneath Washington’s stirruped boot. One tests his reflexes or taps musically with a gavel of justice on his knee. This study is one of several might be considered allegorical autopsies on the body of American history, myth and policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924564901-S6XRV1WXYW0KNWDJMVWG/Trio.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail SURGEONS AND SHADES SEARCH FOR THE HEART OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526924557883-D6BXGY979C4RDD0XER58/Blindfolded.jpg FLAYING FATHER - Detail SURGEONS AND SHADES SEARCH FOR THE HEART OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 2018 Detail of preparatory drawing for Flaying Father: George Washington Cardiff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430608397-WPTS7E5H4SXH1W82GT72/Washington+and+CHerry+Tree%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper.jpg FLAYING FATHER - George Washington and Cherry Tree 2019 Ink on paper, 55.5 x 55.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430640458-H0HDZ9HMJUQGSP5FCH5F/Washington+head.jpg FLAYING FATHER - George Washington and Cherry Tree 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430658046-CWVEKU1BAKUSG78RBTOX/Cuff.jpg FLAYING FATHER - George Washington and Cherry Tree 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573430649191-MOUP836384RSRSQUQ84S/Trunk+and+hand.jpg FLAYING FATHER - George Washington and Cherry Tree 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629748941360-AFVCVK69CRR24AX9DJWY/Candles+Want+Snuffing+whole.jpg FLAYING FATHER - CANDLES WANT SNUFFING 2021 Ink on paper, 50 x 55 inches Thomas Jefferson as Nosferatu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629748946523-HB983T9W4E1Y4BY2NYNN/Candles+want+suffing+det.+%28nosferatu+jefferson%29.jpg FLAYING FATHER - CANDLES WANT SNUFFING 2021 Detail of Thomas Jefferson as Nosferatu Ink on paper, 50 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629748956509-TYSIIULYDTXT5P08X1B7/Candles+Want+%28hand+on+revolving+Burling+chair+seat%29.jpg FLAYING FATHER - CANDLES WANT SNUFFING 2021 Ink on paper, 50 x 33 inches Detail of Jefferson/Nosferatu hand on Burling chair https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629748949932-CX9FWZ7739CBVAPGC3IW/Candles+Want+det+%28unconfined+dark%29.jpg FLAYING FATHER - CANDLES WANT SNUFFING 2021 Detail, Ink on paper, 50 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555624617973-MZ51KZCHZ5HYSUJV7JKK/Golden+Boy.jpg FLAYING FATHER - GOLDEN BOY 2018 Ink and gouache on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1628971189254-65RXND261A9X61ZKD7K0/Education+BL+Barbados+whole+1200.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EDUCATION OF BENJAMIN LAY 2021, Ink on Arches, 74 x 74 inches Benjamin Lay, a mercurial, hunchbacked, radical abolitionist dwarf, was ‘the first person to boycott slave-produced commodities. Living in Barbados, he witnessed the brutality of Britain’s first ‘black-slave society,’ and proselytized against it. Fearing the system’s corrosive influence, he left for Philadelphia where he theatrically castigated his fellow Quakers. By plunging a hidden (and forbidden) sword through a book prop to spatter fake blood, he publicly indicted their own violence as slave holders. This work responds to the National Gallery’s portrait of Lay by Williams and West, who show an isolated hermit before his cave dwelling, living in concord with nature as an agrarian vegetarian. This historical allegory firmly placed in the present reframes its subject amidst conditions of both solidarity and resistance. Details from contemporary Barbadian sugarcane festivals mix with quotations of exploited field laborers, pointing to their origins in a pierced atlas. Reference: Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1668523202436-Z8S846SXBL1PX1ZYKBIH/central+heart+1200.jpg FLAYING FATHER - THE EDUCATION OF BENJAMIN LAY 2021 Detail of central heart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1668522471569-61AKYGWXC0TV15PULLMO/Perfect+Match+%28whole%29.jpg FLAYING FATHER - A PERFECT MATCH 2021 Ink on paper, 49.25 x 26.25 inches James Monroe as a burning effigy with allusions to the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1668522522865-P0KPYPJQ0ZA6JHWEEN5Q/Harbinger+%28whole%29.jpg FLAYING FATHER - HARBINGER 2021 Ink on paper, 50.25 x 53.25 inches James Monroe, with allusions to the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2018-05-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/t/5afefb1a1ae6cf326e28e1e0/1526659859895/ New Gallery https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/5afefaeb2b6a285bdc8a99ca/5afefb13352f5344a462cb5f/1526659859895/ New Gallery http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/born-free-1 daily 0.75 2019-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540589699796-7RD7S8X5X8HYUE6BQIQG/Somewhere+Over+the+Border+3+parts.jpg BORN FREE - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Ink and graphite on three pieces of paper, each 42.5 wide The following two paragraphs are excerpts from A Refugee Again by Vu Tran in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen In many ways, a refugee is like an orphan, bereft of family and familial bonds of her homeland, native community and culture and customs. Stripped of agency from the moment she fled that homeland and dependent now on those who can protect her, she is frequently seen as childish, no matter how old she actually is. As a result, she is pitied for what she has suffered, whether real or imagined on the part of those pitying her and the pity will diminish the heroism of her journey and all the choices she made to survive and complete it. At the same time, as is inevitable in the act of compassion, that same pity can become a form of undue respect and admiration. People will listen to her story and sigh, offering her an exemption from judgment she might not deserve or want at all. … For those who can never quite accept her, a refugee is like a ghost. To them she’s come from another world, an obscure and incomprehensible world, and now resides in the shadows of this one—an alien entity, an intruder. She can be invisible even though her presence is felt. If she is seen, she might very well be seen through, a specter both present and distant, both acknowledged and denied. She can be spoken of in whispers but also caricatured in the stories that contain her. She can be feared, even when she is not there, sometimes irrationally so, more significant and sinister than any version of herself that she could have conjured. And in that sense, she can be mythologized. She is seen as a manifestation of the past and as a dark harbinger of the future, though it can be argued that the anxiety she inspires is little more than a projection of the beholder’s personal fears, deeply rooted in religious, political, and cultural beliefs that are themselves a mythos. That’s all to say that a refugee’s outsize effect on people, on those who cannot accept her, is motivated more often than not by the imagination. What they feel, though, is not imaginary. It is real and consequential. If anything, it is imagined into being. And that space between what is real and imaginary is ultimately where the refugee resides. Like a ghost, her state of being – to others and even to herself—is ambitious. Her identity, her goals and desires and intentions, her place in the world she now inhabits: they are all as hazy as those memories of the world she was once born into. … Displaced and stateless peoples are often seen as stripped of culture, connection, profession and the ability to care for each other or themselves. Somewhere Over the Border depicts migrants in their strength—possessing a past and dreaming a future. Children, separated from their relatives by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol Agents, invert the usual power dynamic. Their masks, attire and postures draw upon a rich and self-sufficient culture. Mayan and Aztec iconography abounds, invoking the power of the Mesoamerican god Tezcatlipoca, associated with the night sky and winds, hurricanes, enmity, discord, divination, sorcery and strife. In creation myths, Tezcatlipoca is often shown with his lost right foot replaced with an obsidian mirror. Channeling night and the force of gales, the children become gods, tossing their powerless would-be captors on a parachute that becomes the heavens. Some agents wear flower-patterned fatigues; their scopes and surveillance gear are aimless. Others become Mexican Lucha libre pro-wrestlers in tights and tattoos, caught and tethered with beaded friendship bracelets. The children’s attire grants agency and promises transport—imprinted with sea creatures and freight trains colloquially known as ‘La Bestia’ (The Beast)—that have carried them, in dream or reality. Andrew Ellis Johnson 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540589699796-7RD7S8X5X8HYUE6BQIQG/Somewhere+Over+the+Border+3+parts.jpg BORN FREE - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Ink and graphite on three pieces of paper, each 42.5 wide The following two paragraphs are excerpts from A Refugee Again by Vu Tran in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen In many ways, a refugee is like an orphan, bereft of family and familial bonds of her homeland, native community and culture and customs. Stripped of agency from the moment she fled that homeland and dependent now on those who can protect her, she is frequently seen as childish, no matter how old she actually is. As a result, she is pitied for what she has suffered, whether real or imagined on the part of those pitying her and the pity will diminish the heroism of her journey and all the choices she made to survive and complete it. At the same time, as is inevitable in the act of compassion, that same pity can become a form of undue respect and admiration. People will listen to her story and sigh, offering her an exemption from judgment she might not deserve or want at all. … For those who can never quite accept her, a refugee is like a ghost. To them she’s come from another world, an obscure and incomprehensible world, and now resides in the shadows of this one—an alien entity, an intruder. She can be invisible even though her presence is felt. If she is seen, she might very well be seen through, a specter both present and distant, both acknowledged and denied. She can be spoken of in whispers but also caricatured in the stories that contain her. She can be feared, even when she is not there, sometimes irrationally so, more significant and sinister than any version of herself that she could have conjured. And in that sense, she can be mythologized. She is seen as a manifestation of the past and as a dark harbinger of the future, though it can be argued that the anxiety she inspires is little more than a projection of the beholder’s personal fears, deeply rooted in religious, political, and cultural beliefs that are themselves a mythos. That’s all to say that a refugee’s outsize effect on people, on those who cannot accept her, is motivated more often than not by the imagination. What they feel, though, is not imaginary. It is real and consequential. If anything, it is imagined into being. And that space between what is real and imaginary is ultimately where the refugee resides. Like a ghost, her state of being – to others and even to herself—is ambitious. Her identity, her goals and desires and intentions, her place in the world she now inhabits: they are all as hazy as those memories of the world she was once born into. … Displaced and stateless peoples are often seen as stripped of culture, connection, profession and the ability to care for each other or themselves. Somewhere Over the Border depicts migrants in their strength—possessing a past and dreaming a future. Children, separated from their relatives by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol Agents, invert the usual power dynamic. Their masks, attire and postures draw upon a rich and self-sufficient culture. Mayan and Aztec iconography abounds, invoking the power of the Mesoamerican god Tezcatlipoca, associated with the night sky and winds, hurricanes, enmity, discord, divination, sorcery and strife. In creation myths, Tezcatlipoca is often shown with his lost right foot replaced with an obsidian mirror. Channeling night and the force of gales, the children become gods, tossing their powerless would-be captors on a parachute that becomes the heavens. Some agents wear flower-patterned fatigues; their scopes and surveillance gear are aimless. Others become Mexican Lucha libre pro-wrestlers in tights and tattoos, caught and tethered with beaded friendship bracelets. The children’s attire grants agency and promises transport—imprinted with sea creatures and freight trains colloquially known as ‘La Bestia’ (The Beast)—that have carried them, in dream or reality. Andrew Ellis Johnson 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540589730836-NLZEMGH5GQMX1Q45RPR4/Somewhere+Over+detail.jpg BORN FREE - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail Heavy children tugged, then didn’t, along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540589730455-R8U7Y7VFUANT1U8031SO/Somewhere+over+the+border+head+detail.jpg BORN FREE - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526606904612-VDR8F1YCUS78CFJFLH8X/Fugue%2C+2017_duo.jpg BORN FREE - FUGUE, 2017 Ink and soluble graphite on paper, two panels, 84 x 42 inches each One eye saw monstrosities. ______________ Another quizzical find was a cartoon cat printed on a sweatshirt. Its hair sprouts tied by an elastic band; its paws raised in submission. The status of statelessness that defines ‘refugee’ is not bestowed, earned or desired; its costs are dear. Rather, statelessness is a branding that burns as it takes what was given at birth. It separates, distances, and makes ‘other’. The protection sought in flight is fraught, if secured at all. Integration into a host country is mostly a prolonged trial, typically thwarted, seldom achieved, and almost never satisfactory. In the meantime, so many are suspended in limbo, involuntarily residing in camps. Only a fraction of the world’s refugees are resettled each year. Far from visibility, nearly half are confined to camps, remaining displaced for an average of seventeen years. Glimpses of refugee experience conveyed through the media are just that; they fail to reveal the depth of loss and longing for family, home and self-sufficiency. As in ancient myths and epics, novels like Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone and the Refugee Tales collection, modeled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, tell fuller stories of the perils of flight and return. Odysseus, himself, escaped from the Cyclops by clinging to and hiding under the belly of a sheep. Migrants today cling to tops of trains and undersides of trucks, risking their lives as they try to save their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608631823-GNRCA1FSXSXQ7X7AHXXW/Fugue+left_2017%2C+Ink+and+soluble+graphite+on+paper%2C+two+panels%2C+84+x+42.jpg BORN FREE - FUGUE, 2017 Left panel, Ink and soluble graphite on paper, two panels, 84 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526606919912-YWKPOFPLT75BFCS33HBL/Detail+of+Cyclops.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1549145720144-98DKU94252E54D3QMNY3/Spirits+Bearing+Gifts%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+59+x+114.5.jpg BORN FREE - SPIRITS BEARING GIFTS 2019 Ink on paper, 59 x 114.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607126570-HCE6K9EAADAKVVHVQH6A/Cyclops+closeup.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE Another quizzical find was a cartoon cat printed on a sweatshirt. Its hair sprouts tied by an elastic band; its paws raised in submission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607130641-SNLDJ0CWD8QNHYU5F2C4/Cyclops+and+Eagle.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE One eye saw monstrosities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607266943-R03SQ7427M3PEGDTBHKA/Urns.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607392137-VVQC64XA9UIFGVQGD2JG/IMG_4610.JPG BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526607472735-VI7R7XQHNG7ABKUW28BB/Trcuk+door.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of Fugue (truck door) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608089518-UWGN8ZE7UW8RQVU9I1BC/Birds+on+truck.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE (birds on top of truck) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608118400-RQK7VRBLKO2PX9AZEBCM/Masked+figure.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608136666-9SZA1MSN35IX69G081XB/Tire.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE (tire) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608146437-WRUKE7O0BZMD2I8ANQWH/Truck+2.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE Numbers, letters, ascribed. Coming, going, proscribed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526608236188-QIV850UX9XLFIYQC7QCO/Rear+view+mirror.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of FUGUE Holding their breath, photographers unlatched the door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561587007062-C74O6GXRS696ISE8HCIZ/Nativity+detail.jpg BORN FREE - NATIVITY 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561586978737-BB4HVU51X76ZZNC8OSDO/Nativity+II%2C+2018%2C+ink+and+wax+on+paper%2C+43+x+38+inches.jpg BORN FREE - NATIVITY II, 2019 ink and wax on paper, 43 x 38 inches The wise men traveled by starlight. They didn’t offer toothbrushes, soap or food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526785956608-K3OSFO5WLEES0CQTWU37/2+panels+joined+copy.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Ink, charcoal, wax, graphite, 84 x 84 inches They donated to inaugural balls and political action committees and further expanded their contracts for private for-profit prison chains. In 2016, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the end of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ use of private prisons. They decorated big box chain stores with Pokemon posters to make “family-friendly facilities.” Before April 2018, asylum seekers were generally not prosecuted. Neither were people who came to the US with their children. They downplayed the cages for migrant children, comparing them to chain-link fences “around playgrounds all over America.” On June 18, Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed family separation was ‘necessary’ to keep the country from being ‘overwhelmed.’ They held hands and linked arms in human chains to prevent the placement of children in detention centers, until the police arrived. They were handcuffed as they were arrested. As of June 26, 2018, non-violent civil disobedience remains a punishable exercise of First Amendment rights. They tried to weaken a link in the authoritarian chain. On June 26, 2018, an injunction at the request of the ACLU was granted to reunite children with their parents within 30 days, but the government has no clear process to comply. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786193873-4PD5RNQ7HCRRJZILU3H1/Right+whole.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh, 2018 right panel Ink, charcoal, wax, graphite, 84 x 84 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786208758-VO7QBNOF49PM2CLYA1BO/3+kids.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786223183-JYCJ768LHZF0AJCX0G55/boat.jpg BORN FREE - Detail, The ICEman Cometh The happier narratives of immigration that we tell our children…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786239447-MSDY0JUQG3SSHCG3ZVLR/Chains+2.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Festive decorations for detention centers…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786250023-3L6DNJX0R0FGKJZSHRS3/dreamer.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Dreamers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786255640-JNI8T2PXVZON56K6ANNJ/masked+guy.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Lucha Libre toy (the term used in Mexico for professional wrestling) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786265522-A56U9B46QR6TBUNQFRMK/Mayflower.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Commercialization of emigration narratives via fast food toys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786272791-80MLF658DUX06WIIUFOE/Mayflower+close.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Commercialization of emigration narratives via fast food toys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786277891-Z213SKF7U1ABMZC5CF98/P1030220.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786285039-BRVR4XD7N1EX2T8HMWS5/P1030221.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Dreamer with Captain America T-shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786291968-L3C04VK07EJ71AL8Z8QB/uguaro.jpg BORN FREE - Detail The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Detention center tracking device https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786301670-QU1SJO71EYR749TJYYSN/Side+guy.jpg BORN FREE - Detail COMETH 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786323337-B9MTJSUUR0AB1Z5TE9WN/Left+panel+whole.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh, 2018 Left panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786342629-7N0D6XGH0QUT7D6TU7VR/P1030189.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Left panel detail: ICE enforcers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786347732-I1YLUC7Z0DIHKWV1PJZX/P1030190.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: Girl dressed for her Quinceañera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786358286-4QX4AX85RIJQDS5CG4LQ/P1030193.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: inquiry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786364914-86B258F7LMA2UF6I0V88/P1030194.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: stuffed Pokemon toy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786369892-WQH1JESH83EQ17UK4Z2F/P1030195.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: U.S. Capitol T-shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786375110-RKO0RFFM8N97APIYZ1C7/dotted+dress.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786391792-12JWK1WNT4SAH0PIV7A2/P1030200.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: maraca with toy Policia car https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786398502-VT6AZQKLMNF8IR98E6II/Upper+chains.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: festive chains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786401872-3MQE4WCEQ6F5F0A4A7UV/P1030204.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail of left panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786415019-6M84NJAMSSUZ3YVRO8S6/Blond+Girl.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail of left panel: Girl dressed for her Quinceañera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786462603-B3GCSYNWK7TOCR10IPGJ/P1030207.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail of left panel: Girl with stuffed sheep toy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786470711-H19P4GJY9CNSV1679QA1/Picture+frame+with+toys.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel: Photograph of relative attached to painting of home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526786484477-24KA8X7EM34RKI5EBAUY/Pigtails.jpg BORN FREE - The ICEman Cometh 2018 Detail left panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588691810-AEJWOMGAAIGAAOCZMVAB/Dreamcatcher%2C+2018%2C+90+x+42.5+inches.jpg BORN FREE - DREAMCATCHER 2018 Ink on paper, 90 x 42.5 inches The tour moves on, and we see many more gadgets that the Border Patrol relies on to ‘gain situational awareness to better detect, identify, monitor, and respond to threats to the Nation’s borders.’ It’s a dizzying list of mechanical hoodoo: ‘Biometrecis, Thermal Hand-Held Imaging Devices, Mobile Surveillance Systems[s],… Remote Video Surveillance System[s],… Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System[s],… Night Vision Devices… Integrated Fixed Towers.’ Don’t forget assault rifles, drones, four-wheelers, horses, handcuffs, stun guns, and the old-fashioned combat boot to the neck. … In 1989,…the annual budget for the US. Border Patrol totaled $232 million. By fiscal year 2010, that annual budget had increased to $3.8 billion[.] As astonishing as this current annual boundary enforcement budget is, it still does not include the billions of dollars allotted to other agencies such as immigration, Customs and Enforcement that police ports of entry or those responsible for fence construction and maintenance. Based on rough estimates derived from a recent congressional report, $14.8 billion were spent on boundary security in fiscal year 2012. Excerpts from The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De Leon who cites the United States Border Patrol Strategic Plan. The Mission: Protect America 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588691682-MKOGEAXUIPRW1SVJYM7T/Dreamcatcher_Camera+detail.jpg BORN FREE - DREAMCATCHER Camera detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555790129679-07J0FTEFUQVHKEF8GELD/Astronaut+2018.jpg BORN FREE - TRANSPORT II 2018 People don’t turn into refugees overnight. Ink on paper, 90 x 43 inches Becoming a refugee is a gradual process, a bleaching out, a transition into a ghostly existence. … What matters is that a thousand little anchors once moored you to the world. Becoming a refugee means watching as those anchors are severed, one by one, until at last you’re floating outside of society, an untethered phantom in need of a new life. Excerpts from Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa by Lev Golinkin in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555789737226-2G5AE74Q7BPV8FRBCRWN/Head+detail.jpg BORN FREE - TRANSPORT II 2018 Detail of heads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555789741303-37YC2MULOHOMKEF85LX0/suit+detail.jpg BORN FREE - Transport II Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588742518-N3GAASJL2639X2OTFX2H/Transport+brighter.jpg BORN FREE - TRANSPORT 2018 Ink on paper, 91.25 x 42.25 inches People don’t turn into refugees overnight. “Becoming a refugee is a gradual process, a bleaching out, a transition into a ghostly existence. With the exception of those born in refugee camps, every refugee used to have a life. … What matters is that a thousand little anchors once moored you to the world. Becoming a refuge means watching as those anchors are severed, one by one, until at last you’re floating outside of society, an untethered phantom in need of a new life.” Excerpts from Guests of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa by Lev Golinkin in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588736866-790L1NO4HV6J65MADVQ1/helmet+det.jpg BORN FREE - TRANSPORT 2018 Detail of astronaut helmet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588741995-OK66ARJYJOK2E7KKA24S/child+face+det.jpg BORN FREE - TRANSPORT 2018 Detail of child’s head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588771827-P84D1OSGZDJOBUE1VPQJ/Bound%2C+2018_Boy_41.25+x+88.5+inches_Johnson+.jpg BORN FREE - BOUND 2018 Ink on paper, 41.25 x 88.5 inches They came effortlessly, alone, empty handed, without friends, family, culture or a past. They took off on a lark without needs, or provisions; required nothing to sustain life, neither food, water nor shelter. They traveled freely amongst strangers, without care, language or desire. They tarried and waited, unseen, without apprehension of the foretold or fear of the unforeseen. They were impervious to temperature, exposure to the elements and the creatures of the land and sea. They would not be deterred—no matter the hardships, the consequences, the threats and promises of violence, oppression and humiliation. They could not be prevented—despite barriers, surveillance, military tactics and personnel, by vigilantes, the hostiles. They were able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588775111-D57SLPJ40IM46VJV6CFB/Bound%2C+2018_Caped+Boy+detail.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of BOUND 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1540588773917-LDG3ZZ01AO3211VXQ2ZV/Bound_Cape+detail.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of BOUND 2018 Detail of cape https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132803093-SSGQ48KKM7AI02M6GL6N/1+CEDE+Mother%27s+House+%28whole%29+84%2522+x+84%2522.jpg BORN FREE - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) 2017 Ink on paper, 84 x 84 inches, two panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132802379-3Y15WA8K1LO2SQDS28EC/2+CEDE+mother+Living+Room.jpg BORN FREE - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) detail of Living Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132805900-ZHT7NXCQMNPK98DIX5OS/8+CEDE+mother+Empty+Bed+w+flowers.jpg BORN FREE - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) Detail of empty bed with monkey pillow case https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132808610-VUQ879O43Z9KKXU2R25O/10+CEDE+mother+Tank+Notation+det.jpg BORN FREE - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) Tank notation detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1544132809122-8TCHYC24YOCKP0Z51X85/10.5+CEDE+mother+Tank+in+Room.jpg BORN FREE - CEDE (MOTHERS HOUSE) Detail of tank in room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526606803287-J07CYALWQGSDIJ52XQD2/Ascension%2C+2017%2C+ink%2C84+x+42.jpg BORN FREE - ASCENSION, 2017 Ink, 84 x 42 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1526606821527-FRKW00HBCI9W5GFF3OTC/Ascension+detail_Born+Free.jpg BORN FREE - Detail of ASCENSION, 2017 Ink http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/somewhere-over-the-border daily 0.75 2021-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1550882677528-U665SVBQ720GXKE9FCFB/Johnson_Andrew+Ellis_Mirage+of+the+Magi+1.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Ink on paper, 59 x 114.5 inches There were signs, tracks, tolls, pleas. Mirage of the Magi mocks the hysterical hype of ‘invasions,’ ‘terrorists’ and ‘bad people’ at the border. Instead, spirits riding camels bring gifts to fore. They are distinguished ‘terrorists’ from the Middle East, leading a Central American Caravan. They have journeyed to where the star stops—at the border. Barely visible in the distance, ‘hordes’ of immigrant day laborers breach the barricade to tend crops for below poverty wages without job security, benefits or the protection of labor laws. The ghostly wall behind them becomes a backdrop for those who actually cultivate our sustenance. Mirage of the Magi was included in Somewhere Over the Border at the Allcott Gallery at UNC Chapel Hill, February 10 – March 8, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1550882677528-U665SVBQ720GXKE9FCFB/Johnson_Andrew+Ellis_Mirage+of+the+Magi+1.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Ink on paper, 59 x 114.5 inches There were signs, tracks, tolls, pleas. Mirage of the Magi mocks the hysterical hype of ‘invasions,’ ‘terrorists’ and ‘bad people’ at the border. Instead, spirits riding camels bring gifts to fore. They are distinguished ‘terrorists’ from the Middle East, leading a Central American Caravan. They have journeyed to where the star stops—at the border. Barely visible in the distance, ‘hordes’ of immigrant day laborers breach the barricade to tend crops for below poverty wages without job security, benefits or the protection of labor laws. The ghostly wall behind them becomes a backdrop for those who actually cultivate our sustenance. Mirage of the Magi was included in Somewhere Over the Border at the Allcott Gallery at UNC Chapel Hill, February 10 – March 8, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552532762972-XEBIZRNNQBXM0HUUNNJH/Black+Ribboned+Woman.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Detail of Black Ribboned Woman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552532759981-BA7065M8WVSOD35BYMEF/Sombrero+King%29lo.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552532752471-CSZ8KGNTTVUA6RY6ZR6P/Laborers.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - MIRAGE OF THE MAGI 2019 Detail of laborers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530525048-JREWDY4SKTQQ2HU83PMP/Mist+of+the+Magi%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+59+x+114.5.jpeg Somewhere Over the Border - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 Ink on unframed paper, 59 x 114.5 inches Swift from the whirlwinds of indefinite chaos comes a caravan—a rude, discordant, shapeless mass with a heap of attendant spirits. Mist of Magi is part of the series Somewhere Over the Border that examines the state of statelessness that defines ‘refugee.’ Refugees are not born but created out of dire circumstances typically resulting from systemic exploitation, economic destitution, and the upheavals of war and famine. The displaced are frequently portrayed as stripped of culture, connection, profession and the ability to care for each other or themselves. These works depict migrants in their strength-possessing a past and dreaming a future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530624504-Y984D9L8C4TWZWMN28QF/P1030883.jpeg Somewhere Over the Border - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530526292-JEL6ZE3TG5RA64S4YVJJ/Trust+Jesus+detail.jpeg Somewhere Over the Border - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 Trust in Jesus detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530529587-N0QQGMV2EQBT6FGQEL9P/Ammo+detail.jpeg Somewhere Over the Border - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 Ammo detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530651300-U23K9E37HPBCBNW8MA62/Mist+of+MAgi+Head+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - MIST OF THE MAGI 2019 Jaguar mask detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560978920325-XYFAL63OPAFRMGVUOIXI/cabbage+patch+harvest.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - Conquistadors: Cabbage Harvest 2019 Ink on paper, 54.75 x 58.5 inches Sanguine faces in florid fields. Florid tales with sanguine knives that cut stem from base, without damage to the product. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560978734615-4THF3V1CUE830FUXZE27/Cabbage+Patch+helmet+det.+good.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - Conquistadors: Cabbage Harvest 2019 Detail of helmet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979655503-UUMZY92O3ZDVHSA7WYA5/Death+Against+A+Hedge.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - DEATH AGAINST THE HEDGE 2019 Ink on paper, 42.5 x 91 inches Fear the landscaper. The cucumber workers are having a field day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979668049-Z0YD8Q4L842U254R4BFB/Death+Against+A+Hedge+det.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - DEATH AGAINST THE HEDGE 2019 Detail of pruner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979684941-2U5VC2G0XBSWATA73EC8/Death+Against+A+Hedge+det.bird.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - DEATH AGAINST THE HEDGE 2019 Detail of bird Ink on paper, 42.5 x 91 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1623550483610-G7V8MUO8SE52TR4G621F/Patrol%252C%2B2018.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - PATROL 2019 Ink on paper, 43.5 x 38.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530750524-X26G9H2F2TGUTSQ30HKX/Patrol_mask+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - PATROL 2019 Mask detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530763079-DEVW1X5JGKKF47PPLLSJ/Patrol_ICE+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - PATROL 2019 Detail of ICE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530772856-E61F1Q3M4ORXHZGDGHO0/Conquistadors+%28Eggplant+Harvest%29%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+Paper%2C+30.5+x+43.75+inches.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - CONQUISTADORS: EGGPLANT HARVEST 2019 Ink on Paper, 30.5 x 43.75 inches Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna They had hit Ruben with the high beams, had blinded him so that the van he was driving, full of Mexicans going to pick tomatoes, would have to stop. Ruben spun - the van into an irrigation ditch, spun the five-year-old me awake to immigration officers, their batons already out, already looking for the soft spots on the body, to my mother being handcuffed and dragged to a van, to my father trying to show them our green cards. - They let us go. But Alvaro was going back. So was his brother Fernando. So was their sister Sonia. Their mother did not escape, and so was going back. Their father was somewhere in the field, and was free. There were no great truths - revealed to me then. No wisdom given to me by anyone. I was a child who had seen what a piece of polished wood could do to a face, who had seen his father about to lose the one he loved, who had lost some friends who would never return, who, later that morning, bent to the earth and went to work." - From Bent to the Earth, © 2006 by Blas Manuel De Luna, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530781621-LEA4YYSXPIGV2DVYS7WH/Conquistadors+%28Eggplant+Harvest%29%2C+Detail%2C2019%2C+Ink+on+Paper%2C+30.5+x+43.75+inches.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - CONQUISTADORS: EGGPLANT HARVEST 2019 Detail of conquistador helmet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565191750587-MMSPMA04SBAJCUVIFO5D/Trim+and+Proper%2C+2019%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+44x36.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - TRIM AND PROPER 2019 ink on paper, 44 x 36 inches Fear the landscaper. The cucumber workers are having a field day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629740338428-53AD4R3JXRTFVWKLQ2NE/Companions+%28jaguar+bunks+whole+large%29.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - COMPANIONS 2019 Ink on paper, 42 x 90 inches Incarcerated girls sleep in the forced sorority of isolation, separated from their parents seeking asylum at the border. Their patterned bedding refers to the jaguar in Aztec and Mayan mythology, a being of the stars and the earth, alternately representing a brave warrior or ruler of the underworld; the night sun and darkness; power, ferocity, and valor; and the power to face one's fears or confront one's enemies. Paper chains of faceless human figures cast shadows in the cinder block room. The child in the lower bunk covers her face with laundry as lights remain on throughout the night in detention centers. Misidentification and loss of identity are reflected in the mirroring of the numerical stenciling of 906 and 906 on the bunk beds. That anonymity is resisted with possessions carried for months on migrant journeys, often across deserts and swamps, including clothing, hand washed underwear drying on iron railings, religious cards, beaded necklaces and bracelets, and a plastic toy plant set on rungs of bunkbed ladders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629740354072-IC7CRUGE1OI5NXMYMFI6/companions+%28jaguar+girl+detail%29.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - COMPANIONS 2019 Detail of child in the lower bunk covering her face with laundry as lights remain on throughout the night in detention centers. Ink on paper, 42 x 90 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629740379335-KXFIJ45U6EAYTBH4SEWL/Lower+chamber+of+perpetual+light.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - COMPANIONS 2019 Detail of lower bunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1629767735047-6QVOG72O28A5JRIHLE8E/items+for+passage.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - COMPANIONS 2019 Detail of items for passage. Ink on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530810252-TJZJ8BUDRR62JUNE4SRX/Black+Cabbage_Helmet+Offering+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - BLACK CABBAGE 2019 Center detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530822194-2R582039L34GUB9Q8SI1/Black+Cabbage_upper+left+corner.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - BLACK CABBAGE 2019 Upper left corner detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552530834969-40BENZPT94WN6YYJG9UO/Helmut+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - BLACK CABBAGE 2019 Helmet detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552764371112-O1MZZEU0O45R7YZ58997/Sanctuary_butterfly+girl%2C2019%2Cink%2C43.5x34.5.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - SANCTUARY 2019 Ink on paper, 43.5 x 34.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531064826-9M5CCPMCD2FC5DMZYECO/Sanctuary_helmet.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - SANCTUARY 2019 Detail of conquistador helmet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531069132-9LHF2JJ3OWG7QRNIBC5Y/Sanctuary_Bucket.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - SANCTUARY 2019 Detail of picking peppers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552763046160-P458QIKKPBN2HRWHNPP5/Black+Hand%2C+2019%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+42.5+x+91+inches.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - BLACK HAND 2019 Ink on paper, 42.5 x 91 inches Psalm By Wisława Szymborska (trs. Joanna Trzeciak) How leaky are the borders of man-made states! How many clouds float over them scot-free, how much desert sand sifts from country to country, how many mountain pebbles roll onto foreign turf in provocative leaps! Need I cite each and every bird as it flies, or alights, as now, on the lowered gate? Even if it be a sparrow—its tail is abroad, thought its beak is still home. As if that weren’t enough—it keeps fidgeting! Out of countless insects I will single out the ant, who, between the guard’s left and right boots, feels unobliged to answer questions of origin and destination. If only this whole mess could be seen at once in detail on every continent! Isn’t that a privet on the opposite bank smuggling its hundred-thousandth leaf across the river? Who else but the squid, brazenly long-armed, would violate the sacred territorial waters? How can we speak of any semblance of order when we can’t rearrange the stars to know which one shines for whom? Not to mention the reprehensible spreading of fog! Or the dusting of the steppe over its entire range as though it weren’t split in two! Or voices carried over accommodating air waves: summoning squeals and suggestive gurgles! Only what’s human can be truly alien. The rest is mixed forest, undermining moles, and wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552763066338-SQVC8HDM46M7NK7UCU8K/Hand+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - BLACK HAND 2019 Detail of black hand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552763053585-9YBCKEXXB206HD7MXG5A/Cyclops+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - BLACK HAND 2019 Detail of Cyclops trailed by sheep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552763160947-UPA2LVPA4N5T5BQJNRXH/Aztec+Reins.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - BLACK HAND 2019 Detail of sheep muzzle with Aztec reins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561583245086-J9CZ96TMVPGYPTBY645F/Somewhere+Over+the+Border%2C+2018%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+3+panels%2C+42x107.5+each_20MB.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Displaced and stateless peoples are often seen as stripped of culture, connection, profession and the ability to care for each other or themselves. Somewhere Over the Border depicts migrants in their strength—possessing a past and dreaming a future. Children, separated from their relatives by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol Agents, invert the usual power dynamic. Their masks, attire and postures draw upon a rich and self-sufficient culture. Mayan and Aztec iconography abounds, invoking the power of the Mesoamerican god Tezcatlipoca, associated with the night sky and winds, hurricanes, enmity, discord, divination, sorcery and strife. In creation myths, Tezcatlipoca is often shown with his lost right foot replaced with an obsidian mirror. Channeling night and the force of gales, the children become gods, tossing their powerless would-be captors on a parachute that becomes the heavens. Some agents wear flower-patterned fatigues; their scopes and surveillance gear are aimless. Others become Mexican Lucha libre pro-wrestlers in tights and tattoos, caught and tethered with beaded friendship bracelets. The children’s attire grants agency and promises transport—imprinted with sea creatures and freight trains colloquially known as ‘La Bestia’ (The Beast)—that have carried them, in dream or reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561584793587-9V6WQ2G4CTIE5YXPB2FZ/Somewhere+Over+the+Border_central+detail_20MB.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Central detail Heavy children tugged, then didn’t, along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561586790612-4AZJRTO747RAHXXHAB0V/Mask.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail of mask https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561585071584-4C6SLD9CH3JS6QG2FT94/Conch+shell.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail of conch shell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561585067705-WH4OAAGKPMMUBQEU2IJ5/pajamas.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER 2018 Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1561826202623-V76E5OA02Y9W95HVIZC9/Dog+Boy%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+42+x+39+inches.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - DOG BOY 2019 Ink on paper, 42 x 39 inches In Ocean Vuong’s novel On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, the narrator’s immigrant parents, following a rural Vietnamese tradition of naming a child for something so worthless that the evil spirits might pass over the house and spare him, call him Little Dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188566495-U8K9XNN0C5DVG2RFNTEL/Fierce+Determined+Undaunted+20+MB+whole+dyptic_ss.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Ink on two pieces of paper, 42 x 91 inches each Deep in the heavy metal mines Mercury sends mixed signals. Tremble. Stay. Quarry to quarantine, you won’t find anyone, anymore, with that name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188587053-IPFR9AULNZ0N6C77G1MY/Fierce+Determined+Undaunted+left.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Left half: 42 x 91 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188593711-H3BYNNYUG9CZBHZW3VWM/Fierce+Determined+Undaunted+right.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Right half, 42 x 91 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188743336-34CITRQJ81SK5K02WO4N/oversight.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Oversight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188636479-2I0E6MPDLPCLT1Q95BB9/double+consciousness.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Double Consciousness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188673136-NNJ7MZSK31C05TTMDM94/talismen.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Talisman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188719837-7L3Q9UEUWZCKY6B402S1/process+of+denial+vertical.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Process of Denial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189782457-EUCB92L3517FSUWHOSJ8/night+vision+warrants.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Night Vision Warrants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188732114-ZQS2051WDLHD1NSZRN61/squeeze+factors.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Squeeze Factors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189794562-MA263X128U0HXCGX0WNX/in+some+respects+egalitarian.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: In some respects egalitarian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189552379-XTIV4QIKUQEJCU330FHX/The+Fear+of+Nostalgia.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Fear of Nostalgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189936649-SD1ZJMBRPKI02ZL7A2VC/masked+gunmen.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Masked gunmen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565189622353-G9UQEII1J75IMCGFVBV9/mining+pipes+distributing+toxins.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: Mining Pipes Distributing Toxins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1565188764584-PSAQFVG9YLY8MEYEKQ2V/no+aid+to+Central+American+Northern+Triangle+logo.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - FIERCE DETERMINED UNDAUNTED 2019 Detail: No Aid to Central American Northern Triangle Logo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1638896972889-R7V13WKSYOIFTAKC0I23/Providence%2C+2019%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+55.5+x+55.5+inches.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - PROVIDENCE 2019 Ink on Talas paper, 55.5 x 55.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1638896984049-CFOGET2S6DXHLCGW3W5D/Center+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - Detail from PROVIDENCE 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1638896994965-9QW1HB2XZVXN5MTXQJ6X/Two+figures+2.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - Detail from PROVIDENCE 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979139400-JBVCWML71KO6VYKKBV0M/Navigation%2C+2019%2C+ink+54x114.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - NAVIGATION 2019 Ink on paper, 54 x 114 inches Fierce, you came, determined, undaunted. My thumbprints look funny if humble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979201640-EP834RVKPZU2J61LBIV7/Navigation+det.+seated+four.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - NAVIGATION 2019 Detail of four riders https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979755395-28EQ7JDKOMEDEVYQ2WQK/Navigation+det.+camel+head.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - NAVIGATION 2019 Detail of camel head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1560979202562-ATE8Z571G0VT53HO8ID7/Navigation+det.+spurs.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - NAVIGATION 2019 Detail of spurs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555354216722-XO970G8T37QHB9TD7J4T/Barrier+Knight_20M.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - Barrier Knight 2019 Ink on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531196432-N7LQ02PF2C8VSBJV1A2S/Camel+Under+Gate%2C+2019.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - INVADERS 2019 Ink on paper, 43 x 38 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531202470-62WF27IE0WMFVZKPX1OI/Rider.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - INVADERS 2019 Detail of rider https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1552531209966-6ESNFK2031MDQC9HYYLV/Camel+Head.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - INVADERS 2019 Detail of camel head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1566140848517-H3RTOYRHC91LN85C5JY2/Boots.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - NATIVITY II, 2018 Ink and wax on paper, 43.5 x 38.5 inchess The wise men traveled by starlight. They didn’t offer toothbrushes, soap or food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1566140880862-D0TFILUBETBAUQBC9JF6/Boots_Baby+detail.jpg Somewhere Over the Border - NATIVITY II 2018 Detail http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/pressed-1 daily 0.75 2019-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555959403729-LBMZ1W7GZ39H3S5J3JUS/JOHNSON_Pressed.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH Digital collage image for exhibition announcement, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555959403729-LBMZ1W7GZ39H3S5J3JUS/JOHNSON_Pressed.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH Digital collage image for exhibition announcement, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555964111491-KCNU4BWNDKOZ62NGM5WO/A+Space-Johnson_Page_1.jpg PRESSED - ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PRESSED AT A SPACE February 25 - March 26, 2005 in Toronto Essay by b.h. Yael https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555964562841-15XHFC2RX8TQHCCV7HUQ/A+Space-Johnson_Page_2.jpg PRESSED - ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PRESSED AT A SPACE Interior https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555964654082-R0HU7KMXTN2DE3XHHB9E/b.h.+yael+essay.jpg PRESSED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960104865-NNZW7K6HFTPYQVBP7YG7/3.dozer+installed.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 Detail of Caterpillar bulldozer used to demolish Palestinian homes and olive groves. Digital prints on custom-cut acrylic mirrored tiles. Installed at Chatham College, Pittsburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960432187-YYX90ZYUPFXNHV837RAY/2.long+view+rev_altered.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 View of Caterpillar Bulldozer with tracks Digital prints on custom-cut acrylic mirrored tiles with barbed wire. Installed at Chatham College Pittsburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555959424303-SKHC5VKBN1RW8GY9N0N6/pressed6.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 Detail of wall with olive orchard on custom-cut reflective acrylic tiles. Installed at Chatham College Pittsburgh. Source photograph by Martin Prekop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960107265-AYCHTULB2P0D43L3KSEB/5.We+shall+return.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 Detail of printed bulldozer tiles with graffiti “We shall return” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960111295-286V1ZRVWMPCD2UZSXK7/4.caterpillar+logo.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2003 Detail of mirrored tiles with Caterpillar bulldozer logo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555960430704-N51KZ7AKA0IT0VRHZ9S1/9.orchard+w+pattern.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 Plan for cutting the printed mirrored tiles for the olive grove. Source photograph by Martin Prekop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555963599035-KM97IH7G9ZWD85MLQV16/Pressed+on+Paper+at+Kendall.JPG PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 Selection from a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Installed at Fed Galleries, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2017-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961671146-TL4WMMI0KQH0KJYZ1MK3/hex+4+top+5.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions Hex 4 Top 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961673783-WV6LGG118ANWXSI6331Y/hex+7+top2.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 7, Top 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961676836-ZWWURW9HBHTHGADSMCHF/hex+9+bttm5.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 9, Bottom 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961678609-8KNHXI328S89CK9C503X/hex+10+bttm3.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 10, Bottom 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961687208-CO1FDSP3FRSMLHCRQPAH/hex+11+up+mid+5.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 11, Mid 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961691716-JFF5DPJKNL7RRX69Z180/hex+20.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 20, Up mid 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961694320-323NJNJ95A9KYBZO39WU/hex+23+up+mid+2.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 23, Up mid 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961745476-B8B1QQUX5R2SB8KHZ3JB/hex+26+up+mid+3.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 26, Up mid 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961770733-NIZ7LYULYXNFVNNWZR5N/hex+31+top+4.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 31, Top 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961786614-05U5NXPR0O7W9V32K6WU/hex+33.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 33, Up Mid 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961817090-C872M1KGKW0JF28B9K11/hex+44++bttm1.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions Hex 44, Bottom 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961820817-5ZRR09DJG5622B3KK464/hex+45bttm7.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Hex 45, Bottom 7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961827015-TE618H81BE69BECDS3A7/PRESSED_Razor+XLVIII.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 48, Top 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961865743-DCJ4JDDQ7MXJYI0BKPMQ/razor+2+up+mid+8.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 2, Up mid 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961872389-GP7HDQ8K2Y2MUCP7F4NX/razor+8+bttm4.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 8, Bottom 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961876725-BWI6FC2DJ0D0LRPD61WX/razor+9lo+mid+4.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 9, Low mid 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961909136-TX2PDVXNO828HXB6JP9T/razor+11+top+6.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions Razor 11, Top 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961917244-NXRI0A214BJ4B9R5NP8F/razor+14+bttm6.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 14, Bottom 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961918891-T7BI3AA5C05WERRG91LD/razor+16+top1.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 16, Top 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961921985-MPOI0LEXTBT9PP2ZQD5C/razor+18+lo+mid+3.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 18, low mid 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961926202-BW2BKEZX5BT717W9BLMH/razor+20+lo+mid+8.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 20, Low mid 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961928762-N3VUGBQMZUC14T13EO1S/razor+21+up+mid+1.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 21, Up Mid 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961931866-4CZ8D2RLMRF6MCUUOB22/razor+27+up+mid+7.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 27, Up Mid 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961934701-YX39326LE438ZGCN7CPA/razor+28+lo+mid+1.jpg PRESSED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961936593-2JBBEB57RFIOFJF8WYLB/razor+29+lo+mid+2.jpg PRESSED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961937706-XBE03V3CJRUM2QZHITLU/razor+30+lo+mid+5.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 30, Low mid 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961941063-43CSATKVZ6CY2TNP6B0B/razor+32+lo+mid+7.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions, Razor 32, Low mid 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961945869-OXHX4LO0HCGEMDNISI99/razor+32+lo+mid+7.jpg PRESSED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961950883-65USP0OHGTS0D820FXUV/razor+35+lo+mid+6.jpg PRESSED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961951925-P8BZD3WTK0IL681WA7Z3/razor+38+top+7.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 38, Top 7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961954486-HPGQBCPMU9W2UVMF0XPF/razor+48+top+3.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 48, Top 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961956329-MYYEOOIMLJPCU3HTV287/razor+51+bttm2.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions. Razor 51, Bottom 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555961959096-V8GPTSKL02FJ9ZQB2Q03/razor+70+top+8.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions Razor 70, Top 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1555962976831-5J5X14S2ZDR83FGHYHR9/razor+77+bttm8.jpg PRESSED - PRESSED: WHEN WORDS WERE EARTH 2005 From a series of 32 archival inkjet prints, printed to variable dimensions, Razor 77, Bottom 8 http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/and-gazelles-and-gazelles-1 daily 0.75 2019-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563952665-HNRJK6F5KLMGMBJYM233/Scent.jpg AND GAZELLES? AND GAZELLES. - SCENT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563952665-HNRJK6F5KLMGMBJYM233/Scent.jpg AND GAZELLES? 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AND GAZELLES. - EATING HIGH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563951664-CJ3NYU26R9HJ53GIMIM0/Gone.jpg AND GAZELLES? AND GAZELLES. - GONE FLAT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563951641-6JM28SW5HKLCNF31J0QU/grazing+chopper.jpg AND GAZELLES? AND GAZELLES. - GRAZING CHOPPER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563951251-IVOXQVCWPXL52LCB8SB2/ENTRY.jpg AND GAZELLES? AND GAZELLES. - ENTRY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563952153-UCURGFVTJ605Y9Q14N6Q/merry+go+round.jpg AND GAZELLES? AND GAZELLES. - MERRY GO ROUND https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563952149-5ZZ41LGS7Z3RW5DU7C78/monster+headlight.jpg AND GAZELLES? AND GAZELLES. - MONSTER HEADLIGHT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556563953230-LYM3SD07LNB9M17OIZ7X/sitting+roof+mascott.jpg AND GAZELLES? 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AND GAZELLES. - TREE CLIMBING http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/fold-1 daily 0.75 2020-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559884029-V12RGPH4T0GCY3UDUA7D/35_36sand+backCover_pp.jpg FOLD - FOLD 2006 Front cover pages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559884029-V12RGPH4T0GCY3UDUA7D/35_36sand+backCover_pp.jpg FOLD - FOLD 2006 Front cover pages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559962883-FIZXANUMVZB6RKZ8JRNZ/3_4+SandNigger2ithWatermelonTaffy+copy.jpg FOLD - FOLD Pages 3 and 4 “Sand Nigger” is an offensive and derogatory term used by some American military personnel to describe a person of Middle Eastern descent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560018097-VDJ90NOQX8KDTNCJY9PM/5-6+Leash+and+Still+Life.jpg FOLD - FOLD: LEASH and LAST BREATH Page 3: After-image of the leash held by Lynddie England at Abu Ghraib. Page 4: Last breath of a dying goat in a parched land, with a dream of daisies plucked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560055789-U16MW6QDBYBU2JNQHCJI/7-8_MetalMadeFlesh+and+Quarry.jpg FOLD - FOLD: METAL MADE FLESH and QUARRY Pages 7 and 8 METAL MADE FLESH: in an instrument of devastation-- excavating consciousness in an altered geography, an altered photograph — an altered veracity changing the borders, felling the peace. As opposed to the mechanical bulldozers that destroy Palestinian homes and olive groves, this shovel is a manually operated tool. It represents personal labor and pain, pigmented with flesh and blood-colored rust. QUARRY The wound of crushing exposed The blood red head of a hammer looms above a distant mosque. The taffy below writhes in sand imprinted with patterns of Islamic design — a metaphor for being mired in intractable situations we help to create — in Palestine, Afghanistan and so many other places of war and occupation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560113185-HDEBGOTDF591JULHDQF4/9%2C10_ShadowArch+copy.jpg FOLD - FOLD: SHADOW ARCH Pages 9 and 10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560150189-KW7DOZD2FOX43HDCAQYX/11-12_This_LandIsMy+Land%2CThisLandIsMyLand.+II+copy.jpg FOLD - FOLD: THIS LAND IS MY LAND, THIS LAND IS MY LAND I and II Pages 11-12 A face-off (if shown as a pair) of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers used to destroy Palestinian homes and olive groves. Enlarged to absurd proportions, these monstrous machines appear part animal. Humorous in their incongruity and impossibility, they are open to interpretation. Is the bulldozer like some thumb of God, rubbing out the olive trees? Or, is the tree rising up and offering its oppressor to a heavenly judge? Can be exhibited singly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559769788-C6L5NE751ENNWHAH18O8/13-14_FirstRequest+and+Spring+Preening.jpg FOLD - FOLD: FIRST REQUEST and SPRING PREENING Pages 13 and 14 Smoke from an Aladdin’s lamp merges with the trail of a burning Gazelle helicopter. A dove preens in the absence of peace. The lower border portrays the transition of King Richard the Lionheart’s sword into taffy — a malleable, limp, impotent, sticky, messy goo into which any strong, hard, sharp-edged, steel weapon dissolves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559775657-473LSN5AACYNRSIW5PGL/15-16_DryTablets+and+Magic+Carpet.jpg FOLD - FOLD: DRY TABLETS and MAGIC CARPET Pages 15 and 16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559918511-M0OPMR1EMFOZ2AZBY1UB/17-18__Refrain+I+and+II.jpg FOLD - FOLD: REFRAIN I and II Pages 17 and 18 Microphones engraved with Arabic script give voice to those whose throats have been (figuratively or literally)severed. The plaster heads are life casts from women of Middle Eastern descent. The sword below is a replica of the one used by Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade in which he massacred thousands of Muslim prisoners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559918155-FJ3I9VNX7B5TRINSN8XS/19_20_Somewhere+Over+Geneva.jpg FOLD - FOLD: SOMEWHERE OVER GENEVA 12 x 18 inches, pages 19 and 20 A meditation on violations of human rights conventions and agreements. As of January 2010, the United Nations Security Council had passed 79 resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law concerning Palestine and Lebanon. Donald Neff, former Bureau Chief in Israel for Time: “Aside from the core issues—refugees, Jerusalem, borders—the major themes reflected in the U.N. resolutions against Israel over the years are its unlawful attacks on its neighbors; its violations of the human rights of the Palestinians, including deportations, demolitions of homes and other collective punishments; its confiscation of Palestinian land; its establishment of illegal settlements; and its refusal to abide by the U.N. Charter and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559918899-AXB0FVOA9DU235GO5VRJ/21-22+Runaway+I+and+II.jpg FOLD - FOLD: RUNAWAY I and II Pages 21 and 22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559907209-MQOQOOSXCQRLUIECZ3IQ/25_26+Recoil+copy.jpg FOLD - FOLD: RECOIL 12 x 18 inches, pages 25 and 26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559904768-UVGQBAVOZRR2IEQ6HKJ5/23-24_+Overturn+and+White+Wash.jpg FOLD - FOLD 2006 WHITEWASH and OVERTURN Page 17: The whitewashing of torture, the veiling of atrocity, the black made white. The promises of false consequences, false consciousness that are too true. The sand turned night. Mephistopheles’ wing turned lead. The hawk’s wing hovers. Page 18: Truth overturned. Regime overturned. Vehicles mangled. The ethereal dissolved, feathers turned razors, spirits slicing their way to heaven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559896566-N2H4Z9JTU8J42NW9K3RB/27-28_Helm+and+Black+Gold.jpg FOLD - FOLD: HELM and BLACK GOLD Pages 27 and 28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559893458-IP9V2XV9R3GDJZDMHR1D/29-39+Snare+and+Lyre.jpg FOLD - FOLD: SNARE and LYRE Pages 29 and 30 The Mesopotamian lyre was stolen from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and is depicted amidst a hail of olive offerings. A flute punctures the marching drum floating in Snare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559888197-G1EK0DYKI950QJ0KJV8F/31-32_Razanne%27s+Bus+and+Turkish+Coffin.jpg FOLD - FOLD: RAZANNE'S BUS and TURKISH COFFIN Pages 31 and 32 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556559887892-VO1Q8BG8FMYYXKZGY3EU/33_34+Shake.jpg FOLD - FOLD: SHAKE Pages 33 and 34 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556560418800-0KAM1ESLYT8YM60GUYF7/35_36sand+end.jpg FOLD - FOLD End pages 35 and 36 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1596398595168-3SQ62BJJJ5BP2VJJFK3H/26_Johnson_Sweet+Feats.jpg FOLD - SWEET FEATS http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/descension-1 daily 0.75 2019-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749968074-EJ5PHTM7RS8S5VAX9QQA/Descension+still+3.jpg DESCENSION - DESCENSION Video Still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749968074-EJ5PHTM7RS8S5VAX9QQA/Descension+still+3.jpg DESCENSION - DESCENSION Video Still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749972781-EPZPDOYWT6DXUFATSYB3/Descension+still+1.jpg DESCENSION - DESCENSION Video still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749965473-XZX85RU6ZPT3KGLWP7IG/Descension+still+2.jpg DESCENSION - DESCENSION Video still https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749937930-0VQ2UL6AJ80L2AOQNVHN/Descension+room.jpg DESCENSION - DESCENSION 2011 Installed in Sites of Passage, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA, September 9, 2011 – February 12, 2012 The room is lined with floor cushions and a bench to suggest a majlis (an Arabic meeting room). The projector is mounted inside of a box. The video is projected onto the ceiling. A decorative pattern is stenciled on the walls of the room and the box. This pattern could also be digitally printed on a scroll and adhered to the wall like wallpaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556750062578-RISYD894WEBR9B3GR5KB/aa1.JPG DESCENSION - DESCENSION 2011 Installation detail of pattern stenciled on projector housing and walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556749911579-6FEUSCSL38U12ZQOB61O/aj+camel+necking.jpg DESCENSION - ANDREW ELLIS JOHNSON The artist with his subject at Fayoum International Art Center in Egypt in 2011. http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/fleece-1 daily 0.75 2019-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747404711-WRIRVRDPEDLP2HKO2A1H/FLEECE_HI+RES.jpg FLEECE - FLEECE 2005 Projected as video on wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747404711-WRIRVRDPEDLP2HKO2A1H/FLEECE_HI+RES.jpg FLEECE - FLEECE 2005 Projected as video on wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747557387-TOW6479CO0P5TL8FEJJJ/fleece+two+half.jpg FLEECE - FLEECE 2005 Ceramic brick well installed at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, shown with overhead projection down into the base of the well. Speakers are contained within the stacked ceramic units. Thanks to Bill Cravis and his expertise in clay casting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747447391-EJMKS70EPMLQV56P1W9P/Fleece_helicopter.jpg FLEECE - FLEECE 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556747476675-LJ1W703WWSFZFOW2NWIS/1.Fleece%2Cbrown+det.jpg FLEECE - FLEECE 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556748598602-C7IOO4VHWG5GMMTCX3E4/white+sheep.jpg FLEECE - FLEECE 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1556748748514-CKOAS7AGCGBJ9P6GOZSY/fleece+inter+inst.jpg FLEECE - FLEECE 2005 Video still http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/found-no-more daily 0.75 2019-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415924483-UH62DHP5F6E66DPAVDPU/1.Millstone.jpg FOUND NO MORE - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Found No More At All premiered in in Apocalypse Now And Then: Art at the End of Time at DePaul University Art Gallery in Chicago. The sculpture was inspired by St. John the Divine's accounts in Revelations of an apocalyptic sea of glass mingled with fire, the violence of angelic judgment, and the silencing of artisans of whatsoever craft they be. This 2,000 pound, 52 inch diameter, iron-banded marble millstone was found in the rubble of an exploded paint factory, and is balanced on 144 wine-filled goblets on a bed of pulverized bone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415924483-UH62DHP5F6E66DPAVDPU/1.Millstone.jpg FOUND NO MORE - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Found No More At All premiered in in Apocalypse Now And Then: Art at the End of Time at DePaul University Art Gallery in Chicago. The sculpture was inspired by St. John the Divine's accounts in Revelations of an apocalyptic sea of glass mingled with fire, the violence of angelic judgment, and the silencing of artisans of whatsoever craft they be. This 2,000 pound, 52 inch diameter, iron-banded marble millstone was found in the rubble of an exploded paint factory, and is balanced on 144 wine-filled goblets on a bed of pulverized bone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415919350-K9X1MI99Q83YYRH7LVS2/2.Millstone+det.jpg FOUND NO MORE - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Detail from above millstone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415770482-ADOQ40PLS9Z81J6U31JR/Found+No+More+Intro+text.jpg FOUND NO MORE - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Texts that accompanied the exhibit. (Statistics are from 1998, when the piece premiered) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415773332-4ZTZNE00Z5F5L7VJ0HSR/Found+No+More+Poems.jpg FOUND NO MORE - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Texts that accompanied the exhibit. (Statistics are from 1998, when the piece premiered) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415964882-9Y461OW1KGAAY6LWV0BS/Found+No+More_+ALternative+Musuem.jpg FOUND NO MORE - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 A 1998 reconstructed version from New Voices/New Visions at The Alternative Museum in New York City used a wider 18th century millstone from the Tuthilltown Mill in Gardiner, New York. Pieced together from granite used for ballast on a ship from France, this stone ground wheat, rye and corn, in a water-powered mill built by slaves. Both versions, with their biblical and historical references, question the use and abuse of power, collective resistance, and personal transcendence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415904094-BGCMH7EG4W9YLPZI7MUW/Found+No+More+at+All_dwg_pp.jpg FOUND NO MORE - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Wine, gouache, human blood, and mold on Korean paper 34.5 x 23.75 inches The circles in the Found No More drawings represent the 144 wine glasses that support the millstone, and are drawn with the materials used in the sculpture: blood, wine and ground bone. With their biblical and historical references, the works question the use and abuse of power, collective resistance, and personal transcendence, even in the face of apocalyptic disaster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1573415912304-RIZZRR09P0KSVK9XS6KQ/6.Millstudy+det.jpg FOUND NO MORE - FOUND NO MORE AT ALL 1998 Detail of drawing http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/till-1 daily 0.75 2020-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085985453-F3KDNMCLYD04TOHACIC8/political+craft+20M.jpg TILL - TILL 2007 Chalked vintage tool handles, cast glass, concrete TILL is a collection of full-scale agricultural tools (hoes, scythes, sickles, machetes, pick axes, etc.) with their heads or blades cast in glass. With their bleached, detached wooden handles, they are framed by a low rectilinear cement barrier affixed to the floor on which they are arranged. The title plays with at least three connotations: the temporal associations of “till,” as in the preposition “until”; the verb referring to field labor as in “tilling the earth;” and the noun’s reference to a cash register, a locus of capital. Apart from the socio-political associations discussed below, the work also suggests a gesture of aggression against the gallery and against minimalism itself, as the tools lay in wait to hack the ground on which they lay. Of course, contradictions abound, as these objects may also “fetishize” labor, neutering any functional or oppositional impulses. If wielded, the tools would break and crash upon impact; thus, the futility of aesthetic utilitarianism. (text continues) Premiered at Glassnost, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, June 8 – July 13, 2007. Pittsburgh Post Gazette Review, June 27, 2007 Casting assistants: Kim Chaplin of Goggleworks, Reading, PA and Norm Wright, Pittsburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085985453-F3KDNMCLYD04TOHACIC8/political+craft+20M.jpg TILL - TILL 2007 Chalked vintage tool handles, cast glass, concrete TILL is a collection of full-scale agricultural tools (hoes, scythes, sickles, machetes, pick axes, etc.) with their heads or blades cast in glass. With their bleached, detached wooden handles, they are framed by a low rectilinear cement barrier affixed to the floor on which they are arranged. The title plays with at least three connotations: the temporal associations of “till,” as in the preposition “until”; the verb referring to field labor as in “tilling the earth;” and the noun’s reference to a cash register, a locus of capital. Apart from the socio-political associations discussed below, the work also suggests a gesture of aggression against the gallery and against minimalism itself, as the tools lay in wait to hack the ground on which they lay. Of course, contradictions abound, as these objects may also “fetishize” labor, neutering any functional or oppositional impulses. If wielded, the tools would break and crash upon impact; thus, the futility of aesthetic utilitarianism. (text continues) Premiered at Glassnost, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, June 8 – July 13, 2007. Pittsburgh Post Gazette Review, June 27, 2007 Casting assistants: Kim Chaplin of Goggleworks, Reading, PA and Norm Wright, Pittsburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085504601-DCI1X9HP32K9SK7X8TYA/3.+single+scythe.jpg TILL - TILL: Scythe Some relevant statistics and conditions at the time of TILL’s making: Three quarters of the world’s 1.2 billion extremely poor people live and work in rural areas. Western systems of measuring production are geared to mega-agribusiness corporations and cash crop profits rather than effective farming for local needs. The World Rural Women’s Day 2002 Background Paper and the IFAP Standing Committee on Women in Agriculture President’s Open Letter conclude that: the most efficient means of rendering the destruction of nature, local economies and small autonomous producers is by rendering their production invisible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085882115-45B0GSUP9XN42KEWDZQU/Hoe+head+under+20M.jpg TILL - TILL: Hoe head Vandana Shiva, winner of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) for her work on globalization and poverty, exposes the invisible. The ghostly fragility and “invisibility” of Till’s instruments of production reflect the unacknowledged subsistence farmer. Unseen are the women who produce more than 50% of the food we eat. Unseen are the decreasing incomes of farmers and the doubling of food prices between 1999 and 2000. Unrecognized is the rise in food deprivation in rural areas and the resulting increase in mortality rates. Everywhere, food production is becoming a negative economy, with farmers spending more for industrial production than the price they receive for their produce. As debts rise in both rich and poor countries, farmers are literally killing themselves.* In the most bitter of ironies, they imbibe the very pesticides that they can ill afford and become ghosts of the land. Their absence is evoked by TILL’s dried out emaciated handles gathered like bones in a desert, their steel turned brittle and crystalline, like frosted death. * 2300 farmers in the Vidarbha cotton belt of India have committed suicide since 2000. (Amelia Gentleman, “Despair takes toll on Indian farmers,” International Herald Tribune, May 31, 2006). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085903211-OS8ZD5AGVNL9NMNBHDUU/machete.jpg TILL - TILL: Machete Invisibility and absence pervade as increased economic growth through global commerce is based on pseudo surpluses. More food is being traded while the poor are consuming less and literally disappearing. When growth increases poverty, when real production becomes a negative economy, something has gone wrong with the concepts and categories of wealth and wealth creation. The “till” becomes invisible in how it protects the speculators who are defined as “wealth creators” and in how it conceals their greed and its consequences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085500137-DBIX7JMA79CJ7HACXVU0/2.+line+of+four.jpg TILL - TILL Detail of installation Installed in at Glassnost, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, June 8 – July 13, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1590085494641-NG357V6ZZUR6DPGM9WOQ/1.+installation+shot.jpg TILL http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/pandemic-1 daily 0.75 2023-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533673112-X2UG8OTFI4SDSVX3KBJV/Sweep+%28whole%29.jpg Pandemic - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 43.5 x 85 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533673112-X2UG8OTFI4SDSVX3KBJV/Sweep+%28whole%29.jpg Pandemic - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 43.5 x 85 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533397480-NOUE6I9YW4J1R24ZTVL3/costodian%2Bmap%2Btime%2Bdet.jpg Pandemic - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 43.5 x 85 inches Detail of custodian and map of time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533195500-HI4HPV75Y7CPDYQYPUMQ/global+time.jpg Pandemic - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of ‘global time’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533204310-U7F9L5U50A6SM3H2WOM3/tsunami+trunk.jpg Pandemic - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of tsunami and trunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533349476-K32Y1W9L7SMECMM1EVKZ/broom+pan+shore_20MB.jpg Pandemic - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of dustpan at shore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533176078-A5H2PXL54J98MUDOWG2O/broom+pan+chair.jpg Pandemic - SWEEP 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of dustpan and chair leg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591204653823-8KCK4331CIUIBQJN6TYC/Insurrection%2C+2020%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+50+x+113+inches.jpg Pandemic - INSURRECTION 2020 Ink on paper, 50 x 113 inches INSURRECTION was published in QUARANZINE #79 by Half Letter Press. FALLOW TRENCH In the exceptional Nation State of One, the novel plague, first declared nonexistent, then decried as sophic, was ultimately decreed ‘Democratic’. It was. Though itself invisible to the naked eye, the virus, though little, spread by aspirational spittle, magnified divisions and bonds. Manufacturers mandated. Distributors consolidated. Liberators looted. Suppliers hoarded. Senators sanctioned. the unaffordable could be bought again. Sacrificial heroes, ill-suited, staved, for another quarter, the essential economy. Perhaps. Routines were screened. Meetings multiplied and merged. Unemployment ranks swelled. Curves flattened; feeds fed. Appropriations diverted. Tweet-enlisted fascists drilled. Unmasked. Indisposed Justice meted black breath no repose. The State of Stasis is fought within, and without. Andrew Ellis Johnson 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591204643545-N3QR2D7TH1JRJB1VR62C/Insurrection+black+couch+det.jpg Pandemic - INSURRECTION 2020 Detail of couch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591204643102-F2GDQSUDIJDRAFWSR78D/Insurrection+left.jpg Pandemic - INSURRECTION 2020 Detail, left half https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1591204657022-7XLU2LITSK91Q0GP8U7U/Insurrection+right.jpg Pandemic - INSURRECTION 2020 Detail, right half https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1595181266545-3V3ATVHNX64LULWVNBN5/Insurrecto+detail.jpg Pandemic - INSURRECTION 2020 Detail of the novel, INSURRECTO by Gina Apostol The drawing is named after Insurrecto by Gina Apostol, a novel read and set aside behind the reader’s sterile shoulder. It’s story begins under the current presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, a dictator who has encouraged extrajudicial killings. Not surprisingly, this president has been praised by our own president, who seems a kindred bully. With the unrest that followed George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, Trump tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Apostol’s Insurrecto is a feverish narrative about a small Filipino town’s insurrection against American oppressors. Fevers are insurrections of the body against infection and illness. We have illnesses of all kinds—medical, social, and economic. Too many are chronic. Certain fevers need to spread—to burn out ignorance and injustice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533796438-3NOSMML2ZP9CESCAB23R/Incoming+single+whole.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 50 x 116 inches INCOMING is an updated and ironic allegory of manifest destiny, an idea that embodies its legacy. It blends historical and current references to xenophobic and hypocritical attitudes toward migrants and disease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533999025-IL53WECS8ZVGCUM5QHA4/hydrolic+lift.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper, 50 x 116 inches, 50 x 116 inches Detail of hydraulic lift https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533941178-SRGOKX8O2A82NJHRPNF2/reigns.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of reins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611534065280-ZFYQB2N7PWG40UKVVOGZ/band+played+on.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper Detail of ‘the band played on’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533928811-ROHHGP3W5ESGZ5ERGQWT/hydolic+lift+horizontal.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper. Detail of hydraulic lift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533974988-T5Z5J923WQ9D875SFZX3/incoming+sign.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Ink and distemper on paper. Detail of ‘incoming’ sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533907455-6BV7GBXH1WLNQGZBRMT7/bunting.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Detail of bunting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611533967285-TAF07RRGFUP5XLK3QFIO/pall+bearer.jpg Pandemic - INCOMIGN 2020 Detail of pallbearer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611535002014-009EKZUZ11Q5EQ32EECR/father+daughter+hazardous.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Detail of father and daughter with hazard ribbon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611534042307-93AH2CLJK3VP1QVINA8G/trombone.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Detail of trombone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611534200275-OLF7BSVUXHBL8HE646NY/incoming+Modanna+child_20MB.jpg Pandemic - INCOMING 2020 Detail of Madonna and child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332704956-UZBCKBZ8QQELIN55HUHK/Carrier%2C+2020.jpg Pandemic - CARRIER 2020 Ink on paper, 50 x 113 inches The ghost of patriarchy is going away, reclining and ensconced in high culture – as is his want. He absently gestures to no one in particular. The sovereign sway of cherubs and camels give way to another sanitized history: our own. First responders in bleached personal protective equipment take their haul to the burial trench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332720000-3XBQZWYPLE5LQV0UW6U1/Covid+Couch_Camel+with+hand+cuff+detail.jpg Pandemic - CARRIER 2020 Detail of lace cuff from the Enlightenment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332750208-OSQ9ANCLUWEVDTNG3UWL/left+figure.jpg Pandemic - CARRIER 2020 Detail of a carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332741584-4HC96QQ67U89EOE3MJIS/central+cushion.jpg Pandemic - CARRIER 2020 Detail of Covid couch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1594332872565-3ATFYHY5P0HB2072BND9/cushion+det.+w+puti+%26+basket.jpg Pandemic - CARRIER 2020 Detail of upholstery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944072290-EGM56AF7CB8HSMM0U576/1_Taxed%2C+2017%2C+ink+on+paper%2C+42+x+74+inches.jpg Pandemic - TAXED 2017 Ink on paper, 42 x 74 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944096585-VZYJXGS5V3QAN2FLJTUD/couch+corner+%26+carrier+det.jpg Pandemic - TAXED 2017 Detail of couch carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944102757-VEGDPBLIF93TLC8VYNVC/Taxed+%28right+couch+det%29.jpg Pandemic - TAXED 2017 Detail of right couch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944123819-XR819U8KXAS9NHSYA71E/Taxed+%28central+couch+det%29.jpg Pandemic - TAXED 2017 Detail of Louis XVI couch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944176767-2DB5NUI3DI92LD8Z3X99/Taxed+%28louis+xvi+couch+det%29.jpg Pandemic - TAXED 2017 Detail of Louis XVI couch upholstery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944293433-P6OT6A36KT7MHKYXUVDZ/Taxed+%28upper+left+det%29.jpg Pandemic - TAXED 2017 Detail of upper left corner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611944158310-8EPGCRZ8R2UQSFM8H27P/Taxed+graves+w+Bejouis.jpg Pandemic - TAXED 2017 Detail of graves (with artist’s cat) http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/new-gallery-52 daily 0.75 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598389812280-4H0SUQNKK844C4G2MZSE/transparency+good+1.jpg TRANSPARENCY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598389812280-4H0SUQNKK844C4G2MZSE/transparency+good+1.jpg TRANSPARENCY http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/new-gallery-5 daily 0.75 2020-06-03 http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/transparency-1 daily 0.75 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390111454-0K04U6V0JIVM50P7FBEB/transparency+good+1.jpg TRANSPARENCY - TRANSPARENCY 2009 Modified riot shield created for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh During the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, the city was swamped by law enforcement units from and outside of the city. In an advance court action, the ACLU had won protesters the right to hold demonstrations during the summit. However, after the G20 visitors departed, police ordered students to disperse, but trapped them in an area with no escape and proceeded to make arrests of 25 protesters (some were my students). The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit over the mass arrests, arguing that police illegally disrupted a peaceful gathering, arrested people who were trying to follow police orders, and used excessive force including the gratuitous firing of pepper spray and rubber bullets. In one settlement, Pittsburgh paid $88,000 to 11 of the original 25 plaintiffs. Later, in 2013, the ACLU arrived at a $400,000 final settlement of lawsuits for 13 other plaintiffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390111454-0K04U6V0JIVM50P7FBEB/transparency+good+1.jpg TRANSPARENCY - TRANSPARENCY 2009 Modified riot shield created for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh During the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, the city was swamped by law enforcement units from and outside of the city. In an advance court action, the ACLU had won protesters the right to hold demonstrations during the summit. However, after the G20 visitors departed, police ordered students to disperse, but trapped them in an area with no escape and proceeded to make arrests of 25 protesters (some were my students). The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit over the mass arrests, arguing that police illegally disrupted a peaceful gathering, arrested people who were trying to follow police orders, and used excessive force including the gratuitous firing of pepper spray and rubber bullets. In one settlement, Pittsburgh paid $88,000 to 11 of the original 25 plaintiffs. Later, in 2013, the ACLU arrived at a $400,000 final settlement of lawsuits for 13 other plaintiffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390239193-YT6JX7JHA4UM5T5BHWKU/help3.2564.jpg TRANSPARENCY - STUDENT PROJECT for the G20: HELP WANTED The gargantuan HELP WANTED project (coordinated by Sarah Ceurvorst) was installed on the Carnegie Mellon campus soccer field under helicopters flying overhead -- just in the nick of time for G20 leaders dining at neighboring Phipps Conservatory. Ceurvorst said she chose the theme to encourage everyone to help each other and discourage people from violence, fear and degradation. “We need to come together, find common ground and aid each other in our time of need.” The project is one of several that came out of Andrew Ellis Johnson's freshman concept studio class in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon in response to the G20 visit -- with lots of help from grad assistant, Sung Rok Choi. Other freshmen projects included: G20 to Go bottled sprays to eliminate odious debt with just one squirt (Mitsuko Verdery and Molly Swartz); giant rolling heads of state made of inflated fabric (Courtney Wittekind and Lauren Faigeles; LED magnetic "throw-lights" that assembled into an illuminated giant squid climbing a cement wall (Ethan Gladding, Aaron Regal and James Wolpert); heart g20 and other sticker logo designs by Cory Juba and Garrett Nickerson and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390199567-UDC5B3PAPTP6SI4X2DNP/help+wanted+1.jpg TRANSPARENCY - STUDENT PROJECT for the G20: HELP WANTED 2009 Aerial view. Initiated by Sarah Ceurvorst in Andrew Ellis Johnson’s Concept Studio Course at Carnegie Mellon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390506738-ZQ9SWHZ4Y3QEFR2P1GS8/G2O_to_Go_verderi_and_Swartz.jpg TRANSPARENCY - STUDENT PROJECT for the G20: G2O TO GO G20 to Go bottled sprays to eliminate odious debt with just one squirt by ffrst year undergraduates Mitsuko Verdery and Molly Swartz in Andrew Ellis Johnson’s Concept Studio course at Carnegie Mellon University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598390659907-ZHY7LMOYIBDZ1XDMVNSQ/heads_of_state.jpg TRANSPARENCY - STUDENT PROJECT for the G20: HEADS OF STATE 2009 Giant rolling heads of state made of inflated fabric by first years students Courtney Wittekind and Lauren Faigeles in Andrew Ellis Johnson’s Concept Studio course at Carnegie Mellon http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/tears-of-alll-eyes daily 0.75 2020-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1598497772027-YI9E2RQSEIM4WWZV4OG8/dirt+blue+halo.jpg Tears of Alll Eyes - 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THE CROSSING 2021 Still of streetlamp in Tahrir Square https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611594435091-66GEH2BC09B6VY8Q8DIE/02_Islamic+Speakers+Flag+stand+alone.jpg THE CROSSING - THE CROSSING 2021 Still of speakers in Tahrir Square https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611593439408-D5I4A43HDKGD4OS9G0A8/01_Fin+Lamp+flags+broken+stand+alone+BEST.jpg THE CROSSING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611593439595-6GQS78JAAFGI2U5ALJO1/04traffic+light+saddle+sign.jpg THE CROSSING - THE CROSSING Still of traffic lights in Tahrir Square https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1611593707416-70XFB5ZORB57PAUCS9RA/03_tangle+martyr.jpg THE CROSSING - THE CROSSING 2021 Still of reins, ropes, and photograph of martyr of the Egyptian Revolution 2011 http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/uplift daily 0.75 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661636944441-AK78OW3T480FYBVUC775/Canopy+Nativity+whole.jpg UPLIFT - CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Ink on paper, 50 x 54 inches CANOPY NATIVITY speaks to climate change and its rupture of human habits and habitats. CANOPY NATIVITY combines speculative futurism with the most elemental act of survival—birth. A woman takes refuge from a rising flood in the precarious heights of pine boughs, delivering a child only to have space-suited figures come to pluck it away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661636944441-AK78OW3T480FYBVUC775/Canopy+Nativity+whole.jpg UPLIFT - CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Ink on paper, 50 x 54 inches CANOPY NATIVITY speaks to climate change and its rupture of human habits and habitats. CANOPY NATIVITY combines speculative futurism with the most elemental act of survival—birth. A woman takes refuge from a rising flood in the precarious heights of pine boughs, delivering a child only to have space-suited figures come to pluck it away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661636971192-2NBD1BA2RSIFLQ46R0PL/Delivery+and+Possession+det.jpg UPLIFT - detail of CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Delivery and possession… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661637024716-2JYZ5G9FCVETSUQYLCPO/overlook.jpg UPLIFT - Detail of CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Overlook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661637051610-1WTMZ4MT8QL5PR4YSGNF/severed+trunk.jpg UPLIFT - Detail of CANOPY NATIVITY 2022 Severed trunk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658261229443-4XLV110XQFBRWQUELSES/Tin-foil+clad+Kyacks+in+the+pines+%28whole%29.jpg UPLIFT - CANOPY 2021, Ink on Arches, 40.5 x 90.5 inches CANOPY speaks to climate change and its rupture of human habits and habitats. Kayaks lined with birch bark are clad in tin foil and stranded high in the pines. Tin foil is often associated with paranoid strategies of fighting surveillance, but it can also be a protective insulator. As the earth is threatened and threatening, these vessels are adapted in desperation, awaiting new and more sustainably-minded navigators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658261451828-KSK28HJQ1RVRKRL4QMOI/Kyak+%28broken+branches+det.%29.jpg UPLIFT - Detail of CANOPY 2021, Ink on Arches, 40.5 x 90.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658261450982-3P1LW1Z1PABPN0SBWOM7/Kyak+%28old+twisted+tree+det.%29.jpg UPLIFT - Detail of CANOPY 2021, Ink on Arches, 40.5 x 90.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658261463746-ZV31UCYOH978GA507S25/Kyak+%28spike+pine+cones+det.%29.jpg UPLIFT - Detail of CANOPY 2021, Ink on Arches, 40.5 x 90.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658261463331-3R40PZK5RMU3G0MAYUGI/Kyak+%28squirrel+pine+cone+det.%29.jpg UPLIFT - Detail of CANOPY 2021, Ink on Arches, 40.5 x 90.5 inches http://www.andrewellisjohnson.com/progeny daily 0.75 2024-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262895940-22Z3315LE3SZNAMSK4LS/Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+%28bear+wheelbarrow+whole%29.jpg PROGENY - ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches Imagining Thomas Jefferson if he had acknowledged his children with Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658262895940-22Z3315LE3SZNAMSK4LS/Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+%28bear+wheelbarrow+whole%29.jpg PROGENY - ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches Imagining Thomas Jefferson if he had acknowledged his children with Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264018239-4MSHO2651NBWJX7GWUWW/web_Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+%28boy+close+up%29.jpg PROGENY - Detail of ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264022098-CISAW2NPUQLSWZDVXAKW/web_Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+boy+det.jpg PROGENY - Detail of ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264070366-28O4XJ73CTWYPOYMML74/Arcas%2C+Ursa+Minor+bear+det.jpg PROGENY - Detail of ARCAS (URSA MINOR) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55.25 inches The sleeping bear refers to a gift of two grizzly bear cubs to Thomas Jefferson from Captain Zebulon Pike who acquired them in the southern region of the great Continental Divide where he wrote they “were "considered by the natives of that country as the most ferocious animals of the continent." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264943820-X1236EWI4VXP00XJ6UFP/Queen+On+Her+Own+Color+%28Whole%29.jpg PROGENY - QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches Queen on Her Own Color depicts Thomas Jefferson with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who became Thomas Jefferson’s property as a girl, through his wife’s inheritance. Contextualizing texts from the Monticello site follow: Unlike countless enslaved women, Sally Hemings was able to negotiate with her owner. In Paris, where she was free, the 16-year-old agreed to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her unborn children. Over the next 32 years Hemings raised four children—Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia. … [Sally Hemings’ son], Madison Hemings recounted that his mother “became Mr. Jefferson’s concubine” in France. When Jefferson prepared to return to America, Hemings said his mother refused to come back, and only did so upon negotiating “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her future children. He also noted that she was pregnant when she arrived in Virginia, and that the child “lived but a short time.” No other record of that child has been found. The Monticello site offers no proving account of Hemings’ negotiation for her personal freedom, or her reason for trusting Jefferson to keep his promise. Pregnant at the age of 16, we wonder what kind of choice she really had. She returned from Paris, where she was free, to Virginia as an enslaved household servant and lady’s maid. She bore at least six children fathered by Thomas Jefferson. Decades after the Paris negotiation, her four surviving children were freed—two daughters in the early 1820’s and her two sons only after Jefferson died in 1826. Never legally emancipated, Sally Heming was unofficially freed—or “given her time”—by Jefferson’s daughter Martha after his death. In the game of chess, “The King and Queen, as the most significant pieces, stand in the middle of the chessboard. Chess rules dictate “queen on color,” meaning the White Queen goes on a light square and the Black Queen on a dark square, supposedly because the King is a gentleman and invites the Queen to stand on her own color. These rules suggest a patronizing chivalry toward both an official and intimate partner. In the drawing, Sally Hemings and Jefferson sit on a checked cloth. Their ‘leisure,’ with or without consent, is staged against a backdrop of enslaved field laborers. Jefferson makes advances on her while holding a white queen. Hemings’ black pieces are toppled but her hoe and trowel both have blades— aspirational tools for a cannibalized ‘love.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264685864-IV5QVD7FKEJWLNIS49QP/Checks.jpg PROGENY - Detail of QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR (Checks) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264694965-T3O9GLI5FTMQZNKEWQ4E/A+Favored+Trowel.jpg PROGENY - Detail of QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR (A favored trowel) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264710337-MDQWSXZVJL5JFJES9HUB/Fairest+of+them+all.jpg PROGENY - Detail of QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR (Fairest of them all) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264937362-EF7E8JRWOB14P6NU2UMZ/On+Whose+Shoulders+We+Stand.jpg PROGENY - Detail of QUEEN ON HER OWN COLOR (On whose shoulders we stand) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 55 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264349899-H02BBGMWOD2X63OVKAR6/web_Waiting+for+Isaac+and+John%28whole%29.jpg PROGENY - WAITING FOR ISAAC AND JOHN 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 54.5 inches To survey his estate, an aging Thomas Jefferson needed to be ferried around in a wheelbarrow. Isaac Jefferson and John Hemings were both enslaved at Monticello. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264364543-459H40PY96OD6MRMK1W6/web_cow+lick+det.jpg PROGENY - Detail of WAITING FOR ISAAC AND JOHN (Cow lick) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 54.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1658264364493-596L4D62ML1E8Y1B1H1S/web_Waiting+For+%28Roman+Garb+det.%29.jpg PROGENY - Detail of WAITING FOR ISAAC AND JOHN (Roman Garb) 2021, Ink on paper, 49.5 x 54.5 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661472814640-KW4SSRV94P6DGKME8EEQ/Jefferson+at+Half+Rations+2021%2C+Ink+on+paper%2C+50+x+55.75+inches.jpg PROGENY - Jefferson at Half Rations, 2021 Ink on paper, 50 x 55.75 inches The economic implications of slavery are infinite. The enslaved were a financial bonanza for Jefferson, a perpetual human dividend at compound interest. Jefferson wrote, “I allow nothing for losses by death, but, on the contrary, shall presently take 4% credit per annum, for their increase over and above keeping up their own numbers.” Jefferson is portrayed here gaunt from the half rations that were proscribed for the sick and elderly for underproducing. He bears a smoldering dependent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661472844262-6Z658PDP4E7BABWYXG8W/smoldering+dependent.jpg PROGENY - Detail of JEFFERSON AT HALF RATIONS 2021 A smoldering descendent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661717809024-Y2ABNDKF30OKJCI9WGPP/Cradle+Plow+Rustle+whole+20MB.jpg PROGENY - CRADLE PLOW: RUSTLE 2022 Ink on paper, 24 x 38 inches Based on Thomas Jefferson’s drawing of a plow and calculations of capital. “But still viewing slave selling as a last resort, Jefferson turned to slave leasing and mortgaging for income. Jefferson’s ability to hire slaves out and use them as collateral to secure loans was based on the increased value of slave bodies and the “natural increase” of the slave population. Unlike in the Caribbean, this increase allowed Virginia planters to satisfy the demand for slave labor without having to import slaves from Africa. Jefferson himself encouraged the reproduction of his slave population. In particular, Jefferson understood that female slaves—and their future children—represented the best way to increase the value of his holdings, what he called “capital.” “I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man of the farm,” Jefferson wrote in 1820. “What she produces is an addition to the capital,” while a male slave’s “labors disappear in mere consumption.”9 In 1819, worried by a spike in infant mortality at Poplar Forest, Jefferson believed that it was for “moral as well as interested considerations” that overseers should preserve slaves’ lives, not for “their labor, but their increase.”10 As Jefferson’s friend and neighbor John Hartwell Cocke observed, Virginia slaveowners increasing believed that their “profits consists in the increased number & value of their slaves,” rather than in the crops that their bondspeople produced.”11 From Monticello.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661717812713-M7GM7C0A91OUWRQPBNOY/Cradle+Plow+Rustle+det+20MB.jpg PROGENY - Detail from CRADLE PLOW: RUSTLE 2022 Ink on paper, 24 x 38 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1661718006751-ZMFI6E19H3KS3J4LA377/Cradle+Plow+Spell+whole+20MB.jpg PROGENY - CRADLE PLOW: SPELL 2022 Ink on paper, 24 x 38 inches Based on Thomas Jefferson’s drawing of a plow and calculations of capital. “By 1794, Jefferson had put his plans into action at Monticello. He had a plow fitted with a wooden moldboard of his design and later reported to Sir John Sinclair that "an experience of 5. years has enabled me to say it answers in practice to what it promises in theory." In addition to offering the least resistance as it was pulled through the soil, Jefferson's moldboard had a further advantage: "[I]t may be made by the coarsest workman, by a process so exact, that it's form shall never be varied a single hair's breadth." Ease of duplication was thus another measure of the usefulness of his design.”[4] 4. Jefferson to Sinclair, March 23, 1798, in PTJ, 30:201-05. 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IMPREGNABLE 2022 Ink and mixed media on Nepalese mulberry paper, 120 x 108 inches The Supreme Court Justices who decided that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion oversee a forced birth. According to their reasoning, no rights exist if they weren’t explicitly written into the Constitution. In this scene of a miscarriage of justice, the Arms of Court preserve the principle of ‘Your body, my choice.’ Within this dark cave of unreason, high tech cauldrons, the autoclaves, purify children that women are forced to bear for the court. The psychological pressure and physical turbulence of bearing and rearing is sanitized in hell-broth out of sight. Beliefs of various stripes lie on the field in a state-sanctioned, publicly funded religious spectacle. Justice Alito, Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas, with his conservative activist wife Ginni, harmonize as a barbershop quartet. Clarence and Ginni whisper sweet nothings like “we shall overcome” into each other’s ears. Ideals of coercion, forced labor and ownership remain “core family values.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136817605-8MPT33XMXQRSH1GY1E1I/2.+Moral+Center+horizontal.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Moral Center or To Have and to Hold. Arms of Court protect and preserve the legislation of ‘Your body my choice.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136837042-WYZU8RXIBASMAWMTQKZ7/Impregnable+in+progress_Johnson.jpg THE ORIGINALISTS - IMPREGNABLE 2022 Work in progress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136508967-SWSC2I0ZRJ69A1LKXUEP/9.+50+Yardline+vert.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 50 yard line: Subduing beliefs of various stripes on the field in State sanctioned, publicly funded religious spectacle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136134285-KWPQ6BPUQ6KAFISMHIDY/19.+Four-part+Hamony+horizontal.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Four-part Harmony: Alito, Kavanaugh, Thomas and Thomas harmonize as a barbershop quartet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136785489-K12RS2R8BZX64Z7XVJ5M/4.+Core+Values.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Core Values: Ideals of coercion, forced labor and ownership remain core family values. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136550840-644ML8OMGABTZAZNPPGQ/7.+Impartial%2C+Chaste+vert.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Impartial, Chaste: Even women who suffer miscarriages could find themselves facing suspicion or scrutiny. Do miscarriages of justice? If You Couldn’t See It Then You Can’t See It Now: If you saw it but didn’t text it, it is not a right now. No rights exist if they weren’t explicitly written into the Constitution, whether or not they were condoned but not codified, or unable to be perceived or understood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136461152-E004QDB3Z82IMD1LXSKS/11.+Inciting+Lamps+horizontal.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Inciting lamps The bronze bird in the middle alights on and defecates from the handle of a ram’s head oil lamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136394720-YIPP0WF24XE1OKMZUUAW/13.+Ornamentation.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Ornamentation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136363633-F8MQKIWGB2CMOBLBDGC5/14.+Freedom+Understood+horizontal.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Freedom Had to be Understood from the Inside: Tiger's chaudron, and NRA millions, For the ingredients of our cauldron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683137254022-IEYKGSGL8MGQ3OF2CGC5/5.+Dangling+dixie+vertical.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Dangling Dixie: A few Southern ear worms to keep the Rebel yell at bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136336903-T7W6PEDDAO1PWTP80872/15.+Autoclave+horizontal.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Autoclave for the Domestic Supply of Infants: High tech cauldrons, the autoclaves, purify children that women are forced to bear for the court. The psychological pressure and physical turbulence of bearing and rearing is sanitized in hell-broth out of sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136285943-U9Z0N7XTGGOJNSNNCPNZ/16.+Groom.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Groom for the Conjugation of Church and State https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683138613962-DSOG1G4QNFJ4BAKAS89O/17.+Finger+of+Birth-Strangled+Babe+vertical.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - IMPREGNABLE 2022 Finger of Birth-Strangled Babe: Leading the developed world in maternal and infant mortality, the ‘Domestic Supply of Infants’* comes to market. The maternal death rate of black women is four to seventeen times greater than that of white women. *See Alito’s own footnotes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136110036-OZAFROISTMZBSG03QZ46/20.+Habitus.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Habitus: General constitution, socially-ingrained habits, skills and dispositions. The physiognomy of privilege. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136069689-HIORDUU60I8SVZPEJSLG/21.+Sweet+Nothings+horizontal.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Sweet Nothings: ‘There’s nothing over you sweet’ said Clarence to Ginni. ‘There’s no oversight board or rulebook for you, best friend’ said Ginni to Clarence. To each other they whispered ‘We Shall Overturn Someday.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683136011460-34QNAA03J8Y2AX4KB7VK/22.+Silvered+in+the+Moon_s+Eclipse.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 Silvered in the Moon’s Eclipse: Bats are not blind and can see even in the dimmest light. Justice is not either. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135989724-7UO009OK96QG0KV5TQHW/23.+In+the+Bag+vertical.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 In the Bag: 51% of Amicus curiae (“friend-of-the-court”) briefs calling for an end to the Federal abortion right are linked to Ginni Thomas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1683135958975-UZQUDFJULQ637UDQPS0K/24.+Shadow+Docket+Wool+of+Bat+horizontal.JPG THE ORIGINALISTS - DETAIL: IMPREGNABLE 2022 What’s on the Shadow Docket Tonight?: Wool of Bat and Owlet’s wing. 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Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John G. 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It portrays a ballot worker diligently performing duties in a sinkhole of suspicion and harassment, surrounded by long lines in districts purposely assigned fewer polling stations, shorter voting calendars, and increasing restrictions. Above her are ghostly gerrymandering politicians who skew the democratic process, promoting disenfranchisement and undermining the spirit of authentic democracy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2cf0ce4b058cbcb8957b0/1687114252785-TEGABF4GHUHG49NH0LPR/Sinkhole+Whole.jpg POLL PATROL - SINKHOLE 2023 Ink and gouache on paper, 37.5 x 24.5 inches SINKHOLE speaks to the engineered unravelling of electoral trust. It portrays a ballot worker diligently performing duties in a sinkhole of suspicion and harassment, surrounded by long lines in districts purposely assigned fewer polling stations, shorter voting calendars, and increasing restrictions. 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