On loan from the artist
Artist’s Statement on the MAGA hat series:
“Some of my work foreshadowed both the #metoo movement and the last presidential election. Since 2016, I’ve made a lot of work about the Sadist-In-Chief simply to maintain my sanity. For me, gestating and creating is a way for me to process what is happening in the world around me, and exorcize a lot of negativity from my body. The MAGA Hat Collection is a big part of that. When I made the first piece,
Hate Hat, I was actually concerned that the piece was too obvious, but I also felt that this object simply HAD to exist in the world, so I might as well be the one to do it. The pieces, to me, are much more about his supporters, calling them out and reminding them that they are complicit in the crimes committed by the man they brought to power and support. He’s just one malignant sociopath, but it’s his supporters who gave him this dangerous power over the world. So I’ve ripped hundreds of (fake, so as n