Artworks

Prayer for Truth I. Icon Matheu, Chef Anthony, James Brown and Tonnex, from the series "The Royal House of Allure"

Pulling off James Brown’s skinny flowery pants (Icon Matheu, makeup artist Akanbi Ade), from the series "The Royal House of Allure"

Rehearsals, from the series "The Royal House of Allure"

Paul Mpagi Sepuya Reading 4.0311: One Name Stands for One Thing, Another for Another Thing, and They Are Combined With One Another. In This Way the Whole Group—Like A Tableau Vivant—Presents a State of Affairs.

Arash Fewzee Reading 4.2211: Even if the World Is Infinitely Complex, so That Every Fact Consists of Infinitely Many States of Affairs and Every State of Many Objects, There Would Still Have to Be Objects and States of Affairs

Pradeep Dalal Reading 4.021: A Proposition Is a Picture of Reality: for it I Understand a Proposition, I Know the Situation It Represents. And I Understand the Proposition. Without Having Had Its Sense Explained to Me.

Lucas Blalock Reading 3.221: Objects Can Only Be Named. Signs Are Their Representatives. I Can Only Speak About Them: I Cannot Put Them Into Words. Propositions Can Only Say How Things Are, Not What They Are.

Leslie Hewitt Reading 2.1511: That Is How a Picture Is Attached to Reality: It Reaches Right Out to It

Bringing in the Ghosts

Plan for an American House

Afternoon Visit, Ola and I Playing Nipple (Photo by Sodiq) from the series The Royal House of Allure

A Selfie with Social Media Influencer James Brown at a Party, from the series "The Royal House of Allure"

Sleep over, from the series "The Royal House of Allure"

The Last Cruze

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James Edward Brickner, “Ozzy,” UAW Local 1112, standing inside UAW Local 1112 Reuther Scandy Alli union hall, (24 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, global customer auditor, inspection), Lordstown, OH.

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Ernie Long, UAW Local 1714, Trustee, with his wife Eydokia, their children Christian and Mia, and his sister Brandie in front of his custom-designed fireplace, (11 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, press room team leader), Highland Township, OH.

Women’s Committee final gathering inside their conference room at UAW Local 1112 Reuther Scandy Alli union hall (left to right, Crystal Carpenter, Linda Hash, Trisha Brown, RaNeal Edwards, Pamela Brown, Marilyn Moore, MaryOla Stemple, Tunisha Bell, and Francis Turnage), Lordstown, OH

Robert M. Defelice, UAW Local 1112, with his wife Christina and his childhood best friends Greg Hunter, Scott Morgan, and Steve Murphy at Tangier Bar & Pizza, (24 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, trim shop, quality inspection, paint specialist), Struthers, OH, 2019

Dan Adams, UAW Local 1112, Trustee, with his father and brothers, Eugene (Red) Adams, Eugene Jr. (Andy) Adams, and Bill Adams with an image of UAW Pickets at Lordstown in 1974, inside UAW Local 1112 Reuther Scandy Alli union hall, Lordstown, OH.

Mackenzie Acierno, Trisha Brown’s daughter, a junior at Canfield High School, holding her prop for her speech on the idled status of GM Lord-stown Complex, Youngstown, OH.

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Pamela Brown, UAW Local 1112, Women’s Committee Chairperson, with her great-granddaughter Ariah in her kitchen, (19 years in at GM Lordstown Complex, trim shop and instrument panel (IP) line), Youngstown, OH