Losing Control: Guns, Government, and Group-Think

November 2nd-3rd, 2019 | Athens Institute of Contemporary Art

I sent a series of drawings that commented on the effects of gun violence paralleled with religious imagery. This series was created in my final year of college during a time where the Black Lives Matter movement began and protests began for Trayvon Martin and George Floyd among countless names. I created this work to express the fear that I felt for my brother and the racial profiling that he could face as a young Black man. These graphite drawings were mounted to wood panels that I built frames for and was the most challenging thing I’ve done for a drawing. Essentially, I first mounted BFK paper to a piece of masonite then I used wood glue and clamped cut strips of wood to be the frame on the back. At the end of the process, these pieces weighed about 5lbs each. More Info Here