Works In The Exhibition

Three green street signs installed on a column. One sign reading "Rosa L. Parks Ave" hangs from one side side. Two signs reading "W Jeff Davis Ave" and "W Fred D Gray Ave" hangs from another side

W. Jeff Davis Ave. & Rosa L. Parks Ave. & Fred Gray Ave.

Aluminum
City of Montgomery, Alabama

A mass of wooden china cabinets and scaffolding covered in singed fabric with glowing orange, red, and blue lights.

Deo Vindice
(Orion's Cabinet)

Abigail DeVille

2025
China cabinets, charcoal, rusted steel scaffolding, pig blood, salt, mud, lights, and natural fiber
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist

Bronze statue of winged female allegorical figure holding a dying young soldier in one arm and holding up a laurel wreath with the other. Red paint has been splashed on the monument

Confederate Soldiers & Sailors

Frederick W. Ruckstuhl

1903
Bronze
City of Baltimore, Maryland

Number 363

Leonardo Drew

2023
Cotton and matte medium
Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Three reflective black trapezoidal sculptures stand in a triangular arrangement

Rate of Transformation, Distance

Torkwase Dyson

2018/2025
Wood and acrylic
Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery

Bronze statue of a seated man in a suit covered in yellow, green, red, and black graffiti.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Frederick William Sievers

1929
Bronze
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

Large painting with light blue background with bands of dark blue, light orange, deep orange, and maroon comprised of the artist's footsteps

Cadence Series

Walter Price

Evidence of progression, 2023
Acrylic and gesso on canvas
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Private collection

Sculpture in the shape of civil war cap with latticed exterior, steel brim, and crosshair at the top

Tabernacle

Martin Puryear

2019
Steel, red cedar, American cypress, pine, makore veneer, canvas, printed cotton fabric, glass, stainless steel
Glenstone Museum

A stack of bronze ingots on top of a wooden pallet

Ingots from Robert E. lee Monument, Charlottesville, Virginia

Swords Into Plowshares

2023
Bronze
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

Birth of a Nation

Stan Douglas

2025
Five-channel video installation (color; silent)
Commissioned by the Hartwig Art Foundation with The Brick
Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

A Black woman wearing a long white skirt, white pumps, and a draped white fabric that partially covers her breasts stands in an empty lot looking towards the camera directly. Multistory brick buildings can be seen in the background and to her right and left are two murals, one of which includers the American flag.

White Shoes series

Nona Faustine

Ye Are My Witness, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Pigment Print
Courtesy of the Estate of Nona Faustine and Higher Pictures

A bronze statue that has been splattered with yellow and pink paint. It lays on its back with its arm outstretched to the sky. The face and head have been flattened.

Jefferson Davis & Vindicatrix

Edward V. Valentine

1907
Bronze
The Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

The Klan Series

Andres Serrano

Klansman, Grand Dragon, 1990
Pigment print
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

HOMEGOING

Davóne Tines & Julie Dash

2025
Two channel video projection (color, sound)
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artists

Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson

Laura Gardin Fraser

1948
Bronze
City of Baltimore, Maryland

A bright orange Dodge Charger with a Confederate battle flag on the top of the car stands upright, nose first, in a sand box. "01" is painted in black block letters on the door and "General Lee" in blue text surrounds the battle flag on the hood.

A Suspension of Hostilities

Hank Willis Thomas

2019
1969 Dodge Charger Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery

Bronze statue of a standing woman looking off into the distance. Below her, another woman holds a dying Confederate soldier

Confederate Women of Maryland

J. Maxwell Miller

1917
Bronze
City of Baltimore, Maryland

Stranger Fruit Series

Jon Henry

Untitled #31, 2017
Digital archival print on matte paper
Courtesy of the artist

A plaster sculpture depicting a teen boy holding a small replica of a statue of a man on a horse. The sculpture stands atop a pedestal.

Descendant

Karon Davis

2025
Plywood, MDF, latex paint, metal hardware, steel, aluminum, fiberglass
Commissioned by MOCA and The Brick
Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94

Roger B. Taney

William Henry Rinehart

1887
Bronze
City of Baltimore, Maryland

Bronze cast models of a city landscape with trees, billboard, smokestacks, armored police cars, and telephone poles atop metal tables.

New Nation (States) Battle of Manassas - 2014

Kahlil Robert Irving

2024-2025
Cast bronze
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist

Practice, Practice, Practice

Kevin Jerome Everson

2024
Single channel video projection transferred from 16 mm film (black and white; sound)
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist

A bronze statue of a woman in a draping robe pointing her finger to the sky is placed in the corner with its back to the camera. It sits in front of two reflective black walls. Red, purple, and blue theater lights shine. A camera on a post hangs from the ceiling.

The Warden

Cauleen Smith

2025
CCTV camera, single-channel live feed video
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

Josephus Daniels

János Farkas
1985
Bronze
Daniels Family Charitable Foundation, Raleigh, North Carolina

Double exposed black and white portraits of a young Black girl and a young white woman superimposed on one or another

Studio Portraits

Hugh Mangum

Untitled, ca. 1897-1922
Courtesy of the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Scattered rose petals carved from granite sit amidst a large slab of granite (front view)

Love is dangerous

Bethany Collins

2024-2025
Pink granite
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; and PATRON Gallery, Chicago

Animation of monument forms made of many white dots on a black background. Some forms are in the process of dissolving.

An American Reflection

Monument Lab

2025
Digital video (black and white; sound)
Commissioned by MOCA & The Brick
Courtesy of the artist

Installation view of slabs of granite that have been graffiti'd

Fragments from Robert E. Lee monument base

Paul Pujol

1890
Granite
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

A vertical bronze statue which recombines elements of a general and his horse charging into battle. A disembodied arm hangs off the base while another holds a sword in its hand blade first. Four horses legs sprout out of a central mass of limbs and a horses snout protrudes from its belly. A faceless head dangles from the top.

Unmanned Drone

Kara Walker

2023
Bronze statue made from Chales Keck's 1921 statue of Stonewall Jackson, which stood in Charlottesville Virginia and was decomissioned in 2021
Commissioned by The Brick
Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins