ABOLITION NOW.
The work of repairing the harm caused by colonization, slavery, American policing and the prison industrial complex demands a commitment to healing our collective imagination in ways we’ve never known. More than dismantling systems that reinforce the delusion of white supremacy, it’s time to transcend them. I’m committed to the long term work of creating art that names the violence of our relationship with capitalism and can serve as a blueprint for our abolitionist future. Abolition unlocks possibility and waters our confidence to fully invest in creativity, accountability & healing.
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Free Them All Created for Critical Resistance & Survived & Punished 2020
Abolition is a Love Language letterpress
Justice Calls for a Copless Future, 2020
Turn the Cops to Fossils, 2020
Uprisings 2020, San Francisco in collaboration with Micah Bazant
Incarcerated States of America, paper cut collage
Cash Crop, paper cut collage
Free Tyra Patterson Campaign portrait
ReEntry Bill of Rights portraits created in collaboration with members of the Philly ReEntry Think Tank
Re-Entry Bill Of Rights, Aaron collaboration with Philly ReEntry Think Tank
Michelle Walker portrait created for The Haas Institute
I'm Not Doing this Alone collaboration with Felix Rosado commissioned by Lifelines, Philadelphia
Cards for relationships with the people you love in prison collaboration with Felix Rosado commissioned by Lifelines, Philadelphia
Oakland Uprising 2020
Abolition is Climate Justice commissioned by The People's Climate March
commissioned by Interrupting Criminalization
Police Terror Family Portraits
In 2014 after the murder of Michael Brown I began painting portraits of the parents and family members of people killed by police. The series is meant to reposition this story from away from dominant police narratives to the perspective of the people who knew each victim best and are most deeply impacted by their murders. It is a call to white parents to take action in solidarity to dismantle American policing understanding that if not moving to interrupt the violence perpetrated upon anyone’s child, we’re condoning it. Immense gratitude to every family who has trusted me to create their portraits. It is impossible to capture the heartbreak along with the unwavering love that each person carries for their loved one and each other. Many of these pieces were created as part of a series with Tess Raser who interviewed mothers about their children and published their stories as counter narratives from 2014-16. There may be no stronger more powerful group of people in America than the mothers who have lost their kids to police terror and who wake up each day & support each other while fighting to change the system.
In Solidarity We Will End Police Terror, 2018
Featuring mothers and siblings of people killed by Los Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim and San Francisco police. This piece was created for INTO ACTION in Los Angeles, CA.
Parents.
spray paint on silk, created in 2014 for Black Lives White Light, curated by Sheldon Scott & Deirdre
Featuring Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, Constance Malcolm, mother of Ramarley Graham, Gloria Farrell, mother of Jonathan Farrell, Carol Gray, mother of Kimari Gray, Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, Sylvia Palmer, mother of Akai Gurley
Constance Malcolm, mother of Ramarley Graham
Lesley McFadden, mother of Mike Brown
March for Justice 2014, Washington DC
Black Lives Matter, MLK Day March 2015, NYC
stencil of Tracy Martin
Corie Cline, sister of Joe Whitehouse & godmother to Peter Muntean created for We Rise 2018
Gwen & Michael Woods, Mario Woods' mom & brother
Million Moms March, DC 2015
Nicholas Heyward Sr, father of Nicholas Heyward Jr
Jerralyn Blueford, mother of Allan Bluebird
Healing Poetry & Art workshop with Coalition of Concerned Mothers, DC/Baltimore in collaboration with Konshens
Marion Gray, mother of Gary Hopkins
Maria Hamilton mother of Dontre Hamilton
Street installation San Francisco, CA
Warriors of Love parachute created for Women's March 2017 featuring Rhonda Dormeus & Karsyn Gaines, mother & daughter of Korryn Gaines.