Artist Desmond Lewis will be installing work for Radical Rage and you’re invited to drop-in to witness the labor of deconstructing and reconstructing a tractor in the gallery.

Featured work: Let Me Hear it Run One More Time, 2026, Purchased and Repaired 1956 John Deere 420T Tractor previously owned by a Black Farmer in Bolivar, Tennessee

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“I am an object maker who explores political, social, religious, and economic issues regarding race and class in the United States. Through the creation of fabricated, carved, and forged sculptures, installations, and pyrotechnic displays, my work seeks to stimulate the conversation with regard to the American South’s dark racial past, challenging present, and questionable future. I seek to develop sculptural forms that incorporate aspects of the past and present to further the notion that society has a tradition of perpetuating an explicit attachment to the “separate, but equal” past.

My work often uses industrial materials to correlate the invisible appearance of structural materials in buildings with the concealed structural importance of Black Americans in the United States. Steel provides a structure that can be beat, heated, and manipulated and yet it is still a strong material. Black Americans have been beaten, burned, and exploited but we are still very resilient people. The use of industrial materials requires a commitment from the mind, body, and soul to transform it from a raw state to a finished object.”