DANCER WALKING AND DANCING ABOVE & BELOW THE HORIZON LINE (for M. S.), 1964/2023, 48 inches in diameter, 22-karat gold leaf on canvas
SENIOR FORMAL WITH FLOWER, 2024, 22-karat gold leaf on canvas, 30 x 24 x 1 1/4 inches
Untitled #7 (awakening after the Gulf Stream and the Hurricane), 2023, composition gold leaf, variegated metal leaf, silver leaf and Japanese colored silver leaf on handmade cotton/abaca paper with laser etching, 29 inches in diameter
Untitled #9 (awakening after the Gulf Stream and the Hurricane), 2023, composition gold leaf, variegated metal leaf and Japanese colored silver leaf on handmade cotton/abaca paper with laser etching, 29 inches in diameter
light takes time to reach us, installation view, various media with variable dimensions, 2023, CANDICE MADEY, New York, NY
Untitled #6 (awakening after the Gulf Stream and the Hurricane), 2023, composition gold leaf, variegated metal leaf and Japanese colored silver leaf on handmade cotton/abaca paper with laser etching, 29 inches in diameter
No. 62 was a great natural resource and attracted the attention of businessmen. During the 19th Century thousands of barrels were shipped to market. Biological and financial bankruptcy usually follow attempts to commercialize wildlife (after JJA), 2023, silver leaf on handmade paper, 30 x 22 inches
No. 101 is a large, black bird. Bearded throat and breast when bird is at rest. A guttural croak. (after JJA), 2023, silver leaf on handmade paper, 30 x 22 inches
Untitled (Young girl with bell bottoms) for M. S., 1972/2023, 48 x 36 x 1 3/4 inches, 22-karat gold leaf on linen
Untitled (Glasses and hat of honour, 1 January) for M.S., 1973/2023, 48 x 36 x 1 3/4 inches, 22-karat gold leaf on linen
Dancers with fists, palms, stripes, straps, loops and hoops (for M. S.), 1973/2023, 78 x 60 x 1 1/2 inches, 22-karat gold leaf on linen
A View of Asheville, North Carolina under an Atmospheric River Sky (for R.S.D.), 1850/2022, burned handmade paper with blue pencil, ink, and colored silver leaf, 16 x 16 inches in diameter
A View of Asheville, North Carolina under Dwindling Cloud Cover (for R.S.D.), 1850/2022, burned handmade paper with blue pencil, ink, and aluminum leaf, 16 x 16 inches in diameter
Untitled (Floral Relief 1828), 2022, 22-karat gold leaf on handmade paper, 30 x 22 inches
Untitled (Floral Relief 1640), 2022, 22-karat gold leaf on handmade paper, 30 x 22 inches
Metal of Honor: From Simone Martini to Contemporary Art, 2022-23, installation view, various media, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
(from left to right) WOMAN IN A CHECKERED DRESS IN CONTRAPPOSTO (for M. S.), 1971/2021, composition gold leaf on canvas, 48 x 36 inches; The Dawn of our Kindred Sower of Parable (for Octavia E. Butler), 2020, 22-karat gold leaf on canvas, 48 x 36 inches; YOUNG WOMAN HOLDING A FLOWER (for M. S.), 2022, 22-karat gold leaf on linen, 48 x 36 inches, Metal of Honor: From Simone Martini to Contemporary Art, 2022-23, installation view, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
YOUNG WOMAN HOLDING A FLOWER (for M. S.), 2022, 22-karat gold leaf on linen, 48 x 36 inches
Damaged Emergency Blanket (for the Black Knight satellite having landed in Rome), 2019–2022, installation view, A Moon For A Sun, SALA UNO, Rome, Italy, composition metal leaf, aluminum leaf, aluminum foil tape on distressed FujiFilm printing plate packaging, 88 x 218 inches
Damaged Emergency Blanket (for the Black Knight satellite having landed in Rome), 2019–2022, installation view, Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy, composition metal leaf, aluminum leaf, aluminum foil tape on distressed FujiFilm printing plate packaging, 88 x 218 inches
Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade Commission, Home House, installation view, 2022-23, variable dimensions, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
THE TWO OF US CROUCHING DOWN WITH HALOS AS HATS (for M. S.), 1973/2021, installation view, Mettle, CANDICE MADEY, New York, NY, 2021, 60 x 48 inches, composition gold leaf on canvas
WITH MY BAGS, RINGS AND BRACELETS PERFECTLY POISED (FOR M. S.), 1968/2021, installation view, Mettle, CANDICE MADEY, New York, NY, 48 x 36 inches, composition gold leaf on canvas
Landscape with Rainbow Sky at Sunset (for R. S. D.), 1859/2022, burned handmade paper with blue pencil, variegated metal and composition gold leaf, 16 inches in diameter
Landscape with Rainbow at Sunrise as things Emerge (for R. S. D.), 1859/2021, burned handmade paper with blue pencil, variegated metal and composition gold leaf, 16 inches in diameter
A Cross Current and an Oxbow seen from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (for T. M. & T. C.), 2014/1836/2020,16 inches in diameter, burned handmade paper with blue pencil and composition and variegated gold leaf
Closed Chimes rising from a Lake with Dead Trees in the Catskills (for T. M. & T. C.), 2009/1825/2021, 16 inches in diameter, burned handmade paper with blue pencil and composition and variegated gold leaf
Installation view, Silent Streets: Art in the Time of Pandemic, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, 2021, various materials, variable dimensions
Untitled (for Anliza Massenburg Gill, my maternal Grandmother born to Zollie Coffey and Martha Mitchell Massenburg on July 5, 1918 in Franklin County, North Carolina; the seventh of 14 children; four sons and ten daughters; who married the love of her life Otis Gill on December 25, 1941 and remained married for sixty-nine years building a beautiful and enduring legacy steeped in faith, family and community that was passed down to their 7 children, 11 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild; who taught us by her daily example that: Whenever hearts are happy, It’s a simple thing to do, To see some other sadder hearts, And make them happy too, The joy that spreads with others, The joy that multiples, Makes someone else happy, On the other side, Installation view, Silent Streets: Art in the Time of Pandemic, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, 2021, Heirloom fabrics with canvas and metal grommets, 60 x 96 inches
Untitled (for the young, Black women of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded in April 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina who challenged and abandoned the politics of respectability in favor of a strategy that allowed for a radical reimagining of freedom and show of solidarity by adopting the uniform of the Black farmer and wage laborer as they marched and organized to destabilize and dismantle Jim Crow), Installation view, Silent Streets: Art in the Time of Pandemic, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, 2021, reclaimed Cone Denim Mills White Oak denim with canvas and metal grommets, 60 x 96 inches
Untitled (for Araminta Ross, now Harriet Tubman, our Moses, who first chose freedom for herself then led many out from bondage as a Conductor on the Underground Railroad never losing a passenger while carrying a pistol, singing songs of liberation and avoiding those that would call for her death; thirty-four years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a life of faith and tireless service she accepted gifts of adoration from Queen Victoria the granddaughter of Queen Sophia Charlotte, Great Britain’s first biracial royal of African and German descent and namesake of the largest city in North Carolina), Installation view, Silent Streets: Art in the Time of Pandemic, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, 2021, 19th and early 20th century lace, silk and linen deaccessioned in December 2020 from the Mint Museum Randolph Fashion Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina with canvas and metal grommets, 60 x 96 inches