Portfolio > 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago



The schematic abstractions, Court(ed), puzzle the fraught relationship between the business of professional sports and the sites from which players are drawn. The surround of school courts by emblematic NBA court patterns mimic the magnetism exercised by professional sports in neighborhoods otherwise short on investment that have become gardens for harvesting talent. With this series I am interested formally, in the use of abstraction decipherable as a type of social codex.

The Court(ed) abstractions puzzle the relationship between the business of sports and the site from which players are drawn.
Enter-prize

Collection: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
oil and wax on canvas
60 x 48"
2007