Translucent leather, cross-stitches, meat hooks
26 in (h) x 19 in (w) x 14 in (d)
Leather, resin, steel.
85 in (h) x 26 in (w) x 25 in (d)
Archival research at Leather Archives and Museum (Focused on Samuel Steward / Phil Sparrow, a queer tattooer in the 60s), Warped copper pipe, poetic materials list on tattoo transfer paper, crumpled tattoo transfer paper, yellow thread, layered, glued, carved, resined leather, Sparrow’s flash tattooed onto leather
Install at Leather Archives and Museum
Leather, leather harnesses
38 in (h) x 22 in (w) x 20 in (d)
Heat-soaked and molded leather, leather harnesses and garter belts, mesh spandex, leather shredded into ostrich feathers, copper, prints
heat-soaked and molded leather, leather harnesses, warped copper gaskets, and other materials sourced from the trash at FERMI lab
Heat-soaked and molded leather, plumbing pipes, leather straps, resined rose-petals, photo-transferred prints, bed springs
2022
Site-Specific Installation for “Midnight Things” at The Martin, Chicago, IL.
December 2021
site-specific installation at Evanston Art Center
leather and light
A 1979 Chicago Tribune article detailed a night at Dugan’s Bistro — a renown disco club in Chicago. The children of the night arrived that night, clad in leather. For the installation, I recreated the lighting, and created imitations of the foam stars that would shoot onto the dance floor at the disco — out of leather.
Materials: Screenprints by depression press, leather stars, leather harnesses, leather jacket lining, painted chains, disco balls, light, fresnel lenses, and handsewn iridescent plastic.
Screenprints of a 1966 Chicago Tribune article that published the names, occupations, ages, and addresses of every man arrested a gay bathhouse.
site-specific installation at 3D4D x CSI
2021
Site-specific installation at 3D4D x CSI, leather and light
An abstraction of a Chicago gay bathhouse. Inspired by a 1966 article in the Chicago Tribune that published the names, occupations, ages, and addresses of every arrested man at a gay bathhhouse.
2021
2020
2021
Fake leather bags
Upholster leather, woven leather, braided leather, zippers, glass, chandelier crystals, and steel.
Site-specific installation at The Robin at The Martin, Chicago, IL.