24 x 30 in. Oil on canvas.

8 x 8 in. Mixed media.

This work pays tribute to Jackie Robinson and his extraordinary ability to overcome vicious discrimination with supreme poise and success to become a transcendental figure for racial progress in American society. Inspired by Lucio Fontano’s Spatialist movement—highlighted by the deconstruction of canvases to create three-dimensional sculptures—a black ball explodes through a plain white canvas to symbolize the triumph of #42 over intolerance to help transform preconceived notions of the possibilities for people of color in baseball and beyond.

6 x 9 in. Book, barbed wire.

8 x 10 in. Frame, photo.

23 x 9 in. Window screen.

8.25 x 24 in. Cotton rope, wire.

The noose is one of the most powerful symbols in the agonizing history of white supremacy over black bodies, with over 3,200 people suffering this terrible form of execution since the beginning of Reconstruction. Titled after a quote from the scholar Bell Hooks, this work serves a physical representation of her belief that the true victory over the instruments of violence and the beliefs behind them can only occur when the oppressed and oppressors recognize and embrace their shared humanity.

14 x 18 in. Broken glass, splintered wood, rocks on wood panel.

The remnants of riot serve as the essential elements of this work, formed layer by layer, to shape an immense drop of sorrow that functions as a means of remembrance of the painful spasms of violence in Baltimore and other cities across the nation by those left behind in America.  

8 x 8 in. Oil on wood panel.

The illegitimate spilling of black blood time and time again is a jarring reminder that we are still without a true successor to our slain King who is capable of leading us through the wilderness of suffering into the land of promise.

18 x 34.5 in. Saw, acrylic paint.

18.25 x 32 in. Found ladder.

What is the right to achieve without the means to do so?  The widening gap between increasing costs of higher education and declining wages for most workers reduces opportunities for economic mobility, traps many individuals in a vicious cycle of poverty, and threatens the foundation of our democracy when too many citizens left behind at the bottom of society feel that the true rewards of hard work are only reserved for a select few at the top.

28.5 x 40.5 in. Oil and gesso on shipping pallet.

This work is a depiction of the detrimental impact of redlining—the illegal yet systemic process used by the real estate, insurance, and banking industries to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods and hinder the economic development of black communities through higher rates or no access to loans or insurance.