WORK/PLAY: Long Overdue
October 9 - November 6, 2020
St. Louis, MO — Monaco is pleased to present Long Overdue, featuring work by WORK/PLAY, interdisciplinary design/art duo Danielle and Kevin McCoy.
Long Overdue includes a collection of work that seeks to restore the full legacy of Black people and their contributions which advanced a nation to acquire global influence. Danielle will be featuring new text-based work that examines the dualities intertwined within the experiences of Black progression and a traumatic past. This yin and yang approach serves as a way of paying homage to our ancestors and empowering Black people during a time where anti-blackness appears to be the root of oppression and racialized terror. WORK/PLAY uses a variety of work and production methods, to underscore this cache of offerings, in order to propose a new way of celebrating Blackness and what is rightfully owed to Black and Indigenous people here in America.
WORK/PLAY is an interdisciplinary design/art duo based in St. Louis, Missouri started by Danielle and Kevin McCoy. Kevin received a BFA in Graphic Communication from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and he recently graduated from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis earning his MFA. Danielle is a conceptual artist, writer, and educator. Together, they integrate a hybrid of production methods such as design, printmaking, textile works, time-based media, exploratory writings, and the book arts to explore racial inequality, erasure, and redacted histories.
The duo has exhibited both locally and nationally. Recent exhibitions include Small Talk at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, AR; SPF 1991 at projects+gallery, St. Louis, MO; Dream Weavers at Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; Overview is a Place at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York, New York, NY; On & On at Beard and Weil Galleries in Norton, MA; Change of State at The Wassaic Projects in Wassaic, NY; Color-ism at Kranzberg Arts Center in St. Louis, MO. Recent book fairs include Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair in Los Angeles, CA; Chicago Art Book Fair in Chicago, IL; Small Press Expo in St. Louis, MO; Fully Booked Art Fair in Dubai, UAE, and Engaged Edition in New York, NY.