Keith M. Francis
“Press Kit”
American Beauty
  • Durational Performance & Site-Specific Installations
  • UNTITLED
  • The Relative Ground
  • Welcome!
  • White Fence
  • Border Nation
  • Greed! (Illuminating Apathy)
  • Exploitation
  • Let’s Vote
  • Kinetic & Repurposed Objects
  • TILT
  • The Weights of Choice
  • Democracy: It’s a Game
  • Bibi’s Gambit
  • The Omniscient Frame
  • The Mute Oracle
  • Greenspace
  • Subtleties of Indoctrination III
  • Enough is Enough
  • Game Over (the only winning move is not to play)
  • Violation
  • When I Grow Up...
  • The Gamble of Governance
  • What If? (Confronting the Abyss)
  • Time?
  • A Cautionary Tale
  • We Reap What We Sow
  • Us and Them
  • Who's Watching Who
  • The New Religion
  • Childhood Cowboys
  • Subtleties of Indoctrination
  • Made in China
  • Caste #2
  • JUCHE
  • Public Art & Civic Monuments
  • The Common Thread
  • #146
  • LoveLocks
  • 2004 Democratic National Convention
  • Glittering Patterns
  • #401
  • White Fence
  • Depletion
  • Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Poster
  • The Firefighters
  • Social Print & Mixed Media
  • Sins of my Forefathers
  • Crimson Legacy
  • Share A Coke
  • The Great Narcissist
  • UForge Gallery Exhibition Poster
  • The Invasion
Art/CV
Exhibitions
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Keith Francis
Keith M. Francis
“Press Kit”
American Beauty
  • Durational Performance & Site-Specific Installations
  • UNTITLED
  • The Relative Ground
  • Welcome!
  • White Fence
  • Border Nation
  • Greed! (Illuminating Apathy)
  • Exploitation
  • Let’s Vote
  • Kinetic & Repurposed Objects
  • TILT
  • The Weights of Choice
  • Democracy: It’s a Game
  • Bibi’s Gambit
  • The Omniscient Frame
  • The Mute Oracle
  • Greenspace
  • Subtleties of Indoctrination III
  • Enough is Enough
  • Game Over (the only winning move is not to play)
  • Violation
  • When I Grow Up...
  • The Gamble of Governance
  • What If? (Confronting the Abyss)
  • Time?
  • A Cautionary Tale
  • We Reap What We Sow
  • Us and Them
  • Who's Watching Who
  • The New Religion
  • Childhood Cowboys
  • Subtleties of Indoctrination
  • Made in China
  • Caste #2
  • JUCHE
  • Public Art & Civic Monuments
  • The Common Thread
  • #146
  • LoveLocks
  • 2004 Democratic National Convention
  • Glittering Patterns
  • #401
  • White Fence
  • Depletion
  • Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Poster
  • The Firefighters
  • Social Print & Mixed Media
  • Sins of my Forefathers
  • Crimson Legacy
  • Share A Coke
  • The Great Narcissist
  • UForge Gallery Exhibition Poster
  • The Invasion
Art/CV
Exhibitions
NEWS
Press
HYPERALLERGIC
Contact Me!

Caste #2

2024, wood and latex paint, 6.5" X 22.5" X 5" in (each). Overall display 54" tall x 22.5" width.

Caste #2, 2023. Mixed-media installation, 54 x 22.5 in. (overall). This installation features five wooden blocks finished with latex paint. Arranged vertically with equal spacing, the colors descend from white at the top to yellow, red, brown, and finally black at the base. Inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the work serves as a minimalist visual metaphor for the entrenched, color-coded power dynamics of the American social infrastructure. Note: The pieces are interchangeable, allowing the visual hierarchy to be modified and challenged.

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