After I was interrogated for attaining a private investigator license in order to make artwork, I began preparing for the trial that I assumed we were headed toward. I created artworks that would serve as visual evidence when presented to an administrative judge.
In Curators Agree (2025), I assembled documentation of the language used by cultural institutions to describe my practice, particularly instances in which my work was characterized as an investigation. Expository statements originally intended for a cultural audience are recast as professional testimony, highlighting the contextual nature of expertise and the institutional frameworks through which it’s recognized. A related 2026 photograph, “Is the word investigations…is the ‘I’ word…will we find it anywhere?”, audits more than a decade of art criticism about my work, with an eye toward the particular vocabulary of professional legitimacy the state was examining in relation to my case.
Curators Agree (Rachel Uffner Gallery), 2025
Archival pigment print
24 x 32 inches
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Curators Agree (Department of Cultural Affairs), 2025
Archival pigment print
24 x 32 inches
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Curators Agree (Triple Canopy), 2025
Archival pigment print
24 x 32 inches
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Curators Agree (Queens Museum), 2025
Archival pigment print
24 x 32 inches
Edition of 3 + 1AP
“Is the word investigations…is the ‘I’ word…will we find it anywhere?”, 2025
Archival pigment print
31 1/2 x 31 inches
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Search Log indexes my use of restricted databases available to private investigators, which contain “sensitive non-public information” regulated by two federal privacy laws: the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA). The diptych presents every query I ran and its legal framework, visualizing compliance with a series of color-coded stickers designed for organizing confidential medical files.
Search Log, 2025
Two archival pigment prints
24 x 32 inches
Edition of 3 + 1AP