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BAD Goods Collective Art Space of Buck Christensen, Ann Brugenhemke, and Dustin Lutz

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BAD Goods is the collective art space of Buck Christensen, Ann Brugenhemke and Dustin Lutz.

04/04/2025

On April 18th at BAD Goods, as part of the PUNCH show, I'll debut LESS, a new body of work. It's a departure from my usual medium, but lately I've felt pulled to express something about the moment we're living in—about being human. The importance of saying "I see you" has never felt more important.

LESS is about what gets taken away. What’s covered. What’s edited out of the frame, the textbook, the national memory. This series of pieces—photographs and quotes—is a visual fragment of history. Each subject, whether a marginalized American whose voice was minimized or an architect of white supremacy whose power was normalized, is erased beneath a layer of white paint.

The paint is not decoration. It’s denial.

Only a sliver remains exposed on each piece—an eye, a hand, a word—offering just enough to provoke recognition of the truth—and its discomfort. The rest is hidden, stripped, silenced.

This work is not subtle. It’s a challenge to the narratives that have made people into less than they are. Less seen. Less heard. Less remembered. The question becomes: Who decides what remains? And what happens when what’s left behind isn’t enough?

LESS invites you to confront the violence of omission—and recognize the power in what refuses to be fully erased.

Details for the show are in the comments

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