Moudy Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas | April 2-13, 2024

The Portal of Blood, Sweat, & Beers is a large-scale installation that served as both the entrance and exit to my MFA Thesis exhibition, As for Me and My House, in Spring 2024. Visitors entering the gallery passed through this textured corridor, where glazed ceramic tiles lined both walls, with gooey paper pulp oozing from in-between them. Reminiscent of a tiled bathroom wall, this immersive experience was designed to separate the outside world from the inner gallery space filled with paintings and sculptures. Upon exiting, viewers were symbolically birthed back into the real world.