Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s

Curatorial Assistant, Writer

A ground-breaking exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, this was the first museum exhibit to explore the thriving underground of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s, giving visual form to the raucous energy of graffiti, Go-Go music, and a world-renowned punk and hardcore scene. The exhibit explored the visual culture of the “other D.C.,” demonstrating its place in the history of street art as well as that of America’s capital city. The exhibit and events were widely covered by local and national press, including a variety of newspapers, print magazines, TV, radio, and on the web.

There’s a 320 plus-page exhibition to catalogue/book of featuring interviews, essays, and photographs that expanded the incredible story.

Scaling the Wall

Curator

Conceived with Miah Jeffra, this exhibition featured graffiti and graffiti-influenced works by a diverse group of writers and artists in California. Scaling the Wall comprised large-scale bombs by four of Southern California's best female writers, and a white-wall display featuring six artists straddling the worlds of street and gallery institution, through various media. Inspired by the groundbreaking MOCA street art retrospective, Art in the Streets, opening later that same year, Scaling the Wall attempted to act as complement to Art in the Streets’ largely male roster of artists, while also discussing the complex and evolving relationship between street art and the arts institution. Artists featured were PERL FDS, JERK, OPIA, KUTA ONE HEM BWS, ROOTSYSTM, ogdarthvader, LOVER ONE, C.1, Proto and Alberto Aviles Molina.  The show ran March - May, 2013 at Cella Gallery Satellites Project.