Crowning 2018 - 2022 تتويج
Exhibited in Many at Craft Contemporary - 2022
Token Bitch — 2022
4 front & back pressed pennies and souvenir penny book. Edition 1/50
Photo Credit: Amina Cruz | Horse lead/ Director: Jesus Hernandez | Horse Model: Izzy
Penny souvenir machine crafted by the Penny Press Machine Company, LLC
Token Bitch, is a pressed penny machine, like the ones often found at tourist destinations around the United States. For one dollar, Craft Contemporary visitors were invited to insert a penny and crank the machine handle – which would smash an original image of the artist, sporting a keffiyeh scarf and cowboy hat in poses riffing on romanticized images of U.S. Manifest Destiny, into the face of the penny. The artist satirically turned her mascaraed image into a literal token, with TOKEN engraved in bold serifed letters on the back of each penny. The participant’s labor is joined with the artist’s to create one of a multiple printed series.
Customized for passed exhibit, Many 2022. During the duration of the exhibit visitors where able to collect all 4 designs for 4 dollars. The penny machine has been discontinued since removed from Craft Contemporary. Raising the approachable price of $1 per collectible design for the public to $50 per design limited edition. 50 pennies were pressed of all 4 designs and an additional souvenir penny book is included for $50 to house the current collection and future designs as the press gets customized to suit other locations.
A Penny For Your Thoughts: A Basketful of Liberty for 1 person — 2022
A Penny For Your Thoughts: Balancing Act for 2 people —2022
Both works copper plumbing, brass chains, hooks, hand metal-smithed copper, 2000 + chain mailed cents and gravity.
Assembled thousands of pennies to create heavy chain mail-like sculptures which the artist and her collaborators have worn in performance works that critique gendered roles, class, race. These works embody the weight of capitalism and critique the American middle-class dream.
Sell Me the American Dream — 2021
Exhibited at the Garage on the Grove, Sacramento, CA Material: Drywall, OSB and soft pine wood, paint box with copper and silver leafed gypsum casts of the artists body parts. Inside the box is an olive tree stump, hammer and steel punch, 10,000+ cents chain mailed together with liberty scratched out, and speaker with an original score. Size: 300” x 144” x 36”
presented by the Garage on the Grove
My Hands Smell Like Pennies - 2020 Materials: Aluminum and Copper leafed gypsum mold of artists hands, $1.50 cents, copper rings and copper wire. Size: 17.25 inches x 17x.25 inches x 60 inches Artwork Description: 2 hands are mounted on a plain white wall, 50 loose cents are held in the R. hand with Liberty scratched out, 99 cents count worry beads are held in the L. hand with God scratched out, an additional penny and copper wire tassel is at the end of the worry beads.
Grab Liberty By The Handful - 2020 Materials: 50 cents, Aluminum and Copper leafed gypsum. Size: 4 × 8 in 10.2 × 20.3 cm Artwork Description: A mold of the artists right hand is mounted to the wall 50 loose cents are held in the hand with Liberty scratched out.
Grab Liberty By The Handful - 2020 Materials: 50 cents, Aluminum and Copper leafed gypsum. Size: 4 × 8 in 10.2 × 20.3 cm Artwork Description: A mold of the artists right hand is mounted to the wall 50 loose cents are held in the hand with Liberty scratched out.
A Penny for Your Thoughts (performance & sculptures) – 2019
Copper plumbing, brass chains, hooks, hand metal-smithed copper spiked helmets, 2000 + chain mailed cents and gravity.
Size: Dimension Vary
First Edition performance of the sculpture A Penny For Your Thought for 3 people included; metal-smithed copper and chain mailed 1,500 + pennies, activated on the sidewalk and steps of the Sacramento State Capitol with Rachel K. Deane and Rachel Maryam Smith.
The action is to keep your head up, chin up to the sky.
The weight we carry as woman seems invisible because we work so hard to walk the weight with grace. The weight is very heavy to carry alone, but it's easier if we carry our collective weight together. If we do not mobilize ourselves with the weight, the weight gets heavier. If we are not mobilizing ourselves we will be arrested by the weight. Thousands of pennies where collected off the ground by myself and others who started to gift me their collected pennies from walking and moving around. How many people have touched. used, traveled, abondoned and reclaimed the cents for them to get to me. It literally went through time and space spanning a century.
There are few ways I can mobilize myself in the U.S., for my voice to be heard, one way is through class. Capitalism.
How many pennies will it take for our voices to be heard?
Crowning – 2018 تتويج