2019

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THAMES

Acrylic medium and latex on wood panel.

24" x 48"

Reference / P.T.2019.01

Just over 60 years after it was declared "biologically dead," England's River Thames had been hailed as an environmental success. But while much of the effluent, chemicals and heavy metals that used to pollute the river are gone, microplastics have taken their place.

MOENART

Acrylic medium and latex on wood panel.

24" x 24"

Reference / P.M.2019.02

In Detroit, African Americans and other minorities have long faced discrimination in the housing market from real estate agents, landlords and sellers. The federal government became an active part of that discrimination in the 1930s when it began to explicitly use race and ethnicity to determine whether homebuyers were e

BOMBS IN YOUR BACKYARD

Acrylic medium, aluminum and latex on wood panel.

24" x 24"

Reference / P.BIYBY.2019.03

48217 The most polluted ZIP code in Michigan. The community is inundated with a toxic stew of chemicals wafting from steel mills, coal-fired power plants, gas flares, billowing smokestacks, towering piles of coal and petroleum coke, a salt mine, wastewater treatment plant, and one of the nati