Amy S. Chen
Graphic Design
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Steve Locke:
the fire next time
—New York-based artist Steve Locke’s exhibition the fire next time is a meditation on uniquely American forms of violence directed at Black and queer people. In his interdisciplinary practice, Locke engages issues of identity, desire, race, violence, and memory, revealing as much tenderness and humor as he does brutality. the fire next time takes its title from a book by James Baldwin, first published in 1963 amid the growing civil rights movement. Locke’s exhibition includes a MASS MoCA-commissioned sculptural installation; a new series of freestanding paintings; #Killers (2017–ongoing), a series of hand-drawn portraits of American mass murderers and accused or acquitted killers; and a data-driven site-specific installation, A Partial List of Unarmed African-Americans Who Were Killed By Police or Who Died in Police Custody During My Sabbatical from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2014–2015 (2016), among other new and recent works.
Field
Exhibition
Year2024
Location
MASS MoCA
RoleGraphic Design & Vinyl Installer
DeliverablesVisual Identity, Wall Text, Gallery Guide, Banner
Related Project:
Steve Locke Monograph
Following the opening of the exhibition, I continued to work with Locke and the curator on a 256-page monograph that included works from this exhibition. The hardcover career monograph features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Hilton Als, scholarly essays by Evan Garza, Robert Storr, Dr. Kymberly Pinder, Dr. Karen Kurczynski, and artist Craig Drennen, and an in-depth interview with the artist and Helen Molesworth.
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