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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with SISTER SOULJAH/ Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). (revised Alex Wong photo) Or Is It That White Death Means So Much More Than Black Death Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor meets with SISTAH SOULJAH/ Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (revised Alex Wong photo) Work It: Johannesburg The Pittsburgh Passion Project (2008-2009) Mistaken Identities For Sha-Rock Get Money Teach Kids (W)RAPPER exhibition Your Roll Acey Deucey Face Lean Still exhibition Study for Bling, Bling Performance Documentation #4 Never Ignorant Gettin' Goals Accomplished Lifting my tittie to y'all token chicks She Can't Rhyme But She Was Shot 15 Times She Can't Rhyme But She Was Shot 15 Times Baby Got Back Untitled (self portrait) Spill Spit
Popular culture provides a fascinating window into American desires, myth and fears. I am intrigued by the complexities of representation and employ appropriation and re-contextualization of popular themes to create dialogue and generate new meaning. Through interrogation of gender identity and vernacular aesthetics I scrutinize sites of representation and display to reveal and create moments of revision and transformation.









Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor meets with SISTAH SOULJAH/ Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
(revised Alex Wong photo), 2009
digital print, 11”x15”