The controversial exhibit WAR was first commissioned for the reopening of the Watts Towers Arts Center and later censored by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department due to community demands to shut down the exhibit.
The painting series comprised of fictionalized pairings between LAPD officers and gang members in same-sex hip-hop dancing poses. The exhibit also featured companion wall text by renowned African-American poet Keith Antar Mason and a dance mix sound-scape by sound artist Morgan Barnard.
The exhibit would later reopen at the Frumkin-Duval gallery in Bergamot station retiled as “WAR: The Last Dance Reinstated.”
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