I worked for six years at the queer / gay tiki dive bar Happyfun Hideaway in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York.
Over the course of my bartending tenure I installed four exhibitions within the bar, utilizing the interior walls and bathrooms to hang paintings. The series’ inaugural installation opened in the summer of 2016. Titled “Happy, USA,” the exhibition showcased my first ever cut-out paintings, which were made on paper and stapled directly to the walls. These artworks were gradually destroyed over the course of their lifetime inside the bar. The exhibitions that followed (Neighborhood Watch (2020), Manifestations (2021), and Formal Occasion (2023) were created in collaboration with the artist Pvssyheaven.
Manifestations, 2021
Formal Occasion, 2023-ongoing