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
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
Untitled (Floral Relief 1640), Untitled (Floral Relief 1661), Untitled (Floral Relief 1828), and Untitled (Floral Relief 1841), 2022, installation view, Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 22-karat gold leaf on handmade paper, 30 x 22 inches (paper dimensions), 35 x 26 1/2 inches (framed dimensions)
Landscape with Rainbow as the Sun Blasts the Sky (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
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
SMILING ANYHOW (for M. S.), 1970/2021, 30 x 24 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
WOMAN IN A CHECKERED DRESS IN CONTRAPPOSTO (for M. S.), 1971/2021, 48 x 36 inches, composition gold leaf on canvas
Installation view, Mettle, CANDICE MADEY, New York, NY, 2021
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 under Moonlight at Midnight (for R. S. D.), 1859/2021, burned handmade paper with blue pencil, variegated metal and composition gold leaf, 16 inches in diameter
Untitled (Family Portrait), 2018, 40 x 30 inches, 22-karat and composition gold leaf on canvas
Untitled (Three Friends Smiling and Striking a Pose), 2021, 22-karat and composition gold leaf on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Untitled (Three Friends Smiling and Striking a Pose), installation view, Get Lifted! The Art of the Ecstatic, KARMA, New York, NY, 2021, 22-karat and composition gold leaf on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
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