Identity as Anonymity

A table has spray painted cardboard signs, buckets, and wood panels, with zines, stickers,
                        and other materials scattered all around. The back wall has hanging cardboard signs and a large 
                        format sticker with the tag, 'AXOLOTL.'
Close up of a bucket filled with wood panels and spray paint on the table. Corner to the left of the table filled with spray painted cardboard signs, 
                            buckets, and fabric. There are spray paint cans, paint pens, zines, and stickers 
                            scattered around.
Close up of mini AIDS quilt draped over a folding chair behind the table.
Close up of the corner to the left of the table. Spray paint cans, paint pens, and a roll of blue duct tape on a window sill.
Close up of stickers and zines on the table.
A spray painted sheet hanging between two windows. A spray painted sheet behind the table.
Close up of a bucket spray painted with a black frowny face with x eyes. 
                        A wooden panel leans against the wall behind it that says 'ACAB'.
Collection of buckets in a corner with drumsticks. Close up of drum corner.
Photo corner with large format stickers and frames with variations of King Crow's tag.
Close up of left wall in photo corner. There's a large format sticker that says 
                            'KING CROW'. There are three framed cardboard prints of a crow with a crown and a small sticker 
                            with the same image. Close up of right wall in photo corner. There's one framed print of a crow with a crown, 
                            a large and small sticker with the same image, and a large sticker that says 'KING CROW'.
4 white paintings with red spray-paint that looks like bullet wounds. The paintings are behind 
                        a curtain with a content warning pinned to it, but the curtains have been pulled back for the photo.
Velvet print in a gilded frame that says, 'DEAD FROM DRUG PROFITEERS.' 
                            Protest signs with the same phrase are on the ground. On the opposite wall is a bead painting. Bead painting with a yellowish background and a blue grid in the middle.
Close up of cardboard box and AIDS quilts. There are paint pens, spray paint, 
                        and duct tape on the ground.
Bead painting on one wall and wooden painting on the other. On the floor is another 
                            wood painting, a cardboard box, and mini AIDS quilts. Close up of wood panel with a spray-painted smiley face.
Two bead paintings. The one on the left has a brownish background with red, purple, and 
                        green lines of beads in squiggle patterns. In the center is a white grid. The painting on the right 
                        has a grey background with red splotches. The biggest splotch in the center is covered in 
                        multicolored beads.
Treasure chest made out of a styrofoam takeout container and filled with trash, spray painted 
                            gold. It's sitting on a wooden pedestal and the contents are spilling over the edge. Close up of treasure chest.
Wide angle of the treasure chest on the pedestal, surrounded by 'velvet' ropes made of trash 
                        and spray painted red. The ropes are clipped with carabiners to decorative wooden poles also spray painted gold.
Long wooden sign spray painted with pink, blue, and green graffiti that says 'Identity as Anonymity, July 7-22.' Close up of center of sign with tags for JUNK, King Crow, and ToyGun.
Close up of the bottom of a large hanging AIDS quilt draped over a bench.

This group show with Nix Slater-Scott, Estevan Cornejo, Anna Clowser, and myself explored anonymous art-making and ways of bringing street art into the gallery space. Three of the artists displayed their work anonymously under the street names JUNK, ToyGun, and King Crow.

Download a printable copy of the zine I made for this show