Bryant Park Shoeshine, 2016
42nd Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City
For this participatory public performance, I bought a pair of all-white Air Force 1's and received a shoeshine at the stand on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The work embeds itself in the practice of shoe-shining to explore it's material and metaphorical qualities, and it's relationship to aspects of identity, power, and labor.
An Effort To Defend
Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2021
For this exhibition, I made posters which feature people from the New Bed Stuy Boxing Center, Trans Boxing, and the Queen City Boxing Club. During the opening, I invited a local musician, Freedom Nicole Moore, to perform, and afterwards, I held a public outdoor screening of Frank Rhodes 1995 USBA Super Middleweight title fight in a neighbor named Venus' backyard. After the screening, Frank, Hardface (another trainer from the gym), and I went back to the Wave Pool Gallery to look at the show, and to watch a fight.
