Grind

Nhatt Nichols

The Moment I Knew I was a Skull (2016)

Yoan Capote

Stress (In memorium) (2002-2004), concrete, wooden and real teeth of different people

Mithu Sen

Border Unseen (2014), dental polymer, real and false teeth, blood

Nola Avienne

Patience (2012), poplar, plaster dental mold (Peter), Sculpey, acrylic, fresh water pearls

Hank Willis Thomas

Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm?!! 2000/2006 (2006), Digital C-print

Ann Hamilton

(between taxonomy and communion) (1990/1996), steel table, iron oxide powder, and approximately 14,000 human and animal teeth

Marilyn Minter

Vamp (2011)

James "Son Ford" Thomas

Untitled (Date Unknown), unfired clay, aluminum foil, human teeth

Annika von Hausswolff

An Oral History of Economic Structures (2012), Epsonprint on fine art paper

Graham Fagen

Scheme for Post Truth (2017), Indian ink

Francisco Clemente

Self Portrait No.2 (Teeth) (1981), hard ground etching

Janine Antoni

Umbilical (2000), sterling silver cast of family silverware and negative impression of artist's mouth and mother's hand

Bruce Nauman

Pulling Mouth (1969), 16mm film transferred to video (black and white, silent)

Annegret Soltau

Kali-Tochter (2000), collage

Jenny Holzer

WHEN YOU’RE ON THE VERGE OF DETERMINING … TEXT: LIVING SERIES (1980-1982), enamel on metal hand painted sign

Andy Warhol

Dental Molds (1982-1983), four unique polaroid print

Jenny Dubnau

Dictator (2016), oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery

excerpt from Traité Complet de l’Anatomie de l’Homme (1831-54), lithograph

Megan Feheley

Mark Lyon

Dr. Carpenter DMD, Exam Room, Dental Impants (2010), Archival pigment ink print

Kerry James Marshall

A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self (1980), egg tempera on paper

Kiki Smith

Teeth Drawing 1 (1983), ink graphite and acrylic on paper

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Dental X-Ray (1975)

Panoramic radiograph of historic dental implants (1978)

Grind explores the role of teeth in our lives—how these tiny tools serve as a microcosm of larger bodily and social experiences.

The exhibition aims to unpack how:
1) the body holds intuitive wisdom and brings physicality to emotional experience (exploring teeth as sources of pleasure, pain, anxiety, and identity)
2) the body is colonized by the intersections of white supremacy, a culture of disembodied violence, and health care operated in a capitalist system (exploring the socioeconomic implications and horrors of dentistry and the easy disposal/trivialization of these body parts)

All images link to their original source. This exhibition sketch is a work in progress - more text and images to be added.