Language
Language
Tableaux #4-3310 (Transcriptions of collected social commentary from Chicago and Miami translated to Polish, Haitian Creole and Spanish) 2010
Artist designed codex engraved onto mirror polished nickel plated aluminum
26 x 19 inches
Ask in the darkness, 2010
Installation view, Farside: Mosquera Collection, Miami
Carved blue agave plant and engraved nickel plated mirror polished aluminum
Dimensions variable
“All my skin folk, ain’t all my kin folk” (Zora Neale Hurston), 2008
Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Latex on MDF, fluorescent lighting
96 x 144 inches
“All my skin folk, ain’t all my kin folk” (Zora Neale Hurston), Translated into Japanese and Urdu, 2008
Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Latex on MDF, fluorescent lighting
96 x 144 inches
We all we got (Translated by museum visitors into local languages) 2008
Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Latex on MDF, fluorescent lighting
96 x 144 inches
Just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it right, 2008
Installation view, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
Enamel, latex, fluorescent lighting fixtures, polyurethane floor coating, laundry bag, and aluminum
120 x 160 inches
Jualas, 2007
Installation view, Co-Habitat, Monterrey, MX
Tracing paper, acrylic paint, fluorescent lighting fixtures, embossed leather belts, plastic bag, inflated balloon and extension cords
Dimensions variable
Excerpts from The First Testament of the Bible in Farsi translated by “Rejios”, 2007
Exterior walls of Co-Habitat. Made in collaboration with CEDIM University Students
Monterrey, MX
Piraguas, fresh fruit and chicharrones, 2008
Installation view, Packer Schopf, Chicago, IL
Carved aluminum composite panels, umbrellas, fluorescent lighting fixtures, acrylic, enamel paint and appropriated objects
Dimensions variable
Lo que puedes pagar (North Avenue and California, Chicago), 2006
Enamel on existing push cart
Chicago, IL
Piraguas, corn and chicharrones, 2008
Detail
“Do not buy this”, P.S. I know your “S” (Next Art Fair, Chicago, IL), 2008
Crowd sourced group drawing at an art fair
Carved and incised aluminum panel with baked enamel finish
24 x 24 inches
Private collection
Sin Título, 2007
Incised aluminum composite panel with baked enamel finish
48 x 48 inches
Gangdom (South End, Boston), 2007
Enamel and graphite on factory finished aluminum panels
96 x 96 inches
Hijab (Denmark), 2005
Pyrography, enamel and acrylic on wooden cabinet with oils, persian incense, a fresh flower lei and spray enamel
28 x 16 inches
Excerpts from MLK Jr’s speeches about equality (Denmark), 2005
Latex paint on gessoed canvas
80 x 80 inches
Copenhagen, Denmark
Decadence and Temptation, 2007
Installation view
Enamel on factory finished aluminum panels
144 x 96 inches and 96 x 96 inches
“Radiophobia” in Russian (by Ukranian poet Lyubov Sirota), 2006
Enamel on glass
Ukranian Village, Chicago, IL
Chiclets (Denmark), 2005
Acrylic, henna, enamel and graphite on a framed Giovanni Bragolin “Crying boy” print
48 x 76 inches
Related Exhibitions and Press
Institutionalized
MCA Chicago
We all we got.
Exhibition essay by Antonia Pocock
Pedway
Department of Cultural Affairs Chicago
Jack the Pelican Presents