The ongoing reduction woodcut series, "Closed for Restoration," as well as their lithographic photomontage forms are a critique of the lack of transparency behind the leading art institutions in the United States; beginning with New York. I have been forming this project for the last three years with a focus on researching and restoring institutional arrangements within the arts. Hidden beyond fine art, museums can be an aesthetic front to massive investments from arguably corrupt systems such as extraction, detention facilities and art crimes. As the Museum is Closed for Restoration, a landslide of looted antiquities are lost and found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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