The Selected Professionals with Logos are comprised of stock images of professionals that are integrated with manipulated corporate logos. This interchangeability between them suggest the individual is a stock commodity or product to be manipulated for consumption and profit.

The selected faces represent a diversity of professional individuals in a format that mimics retail advertising that is ubiquitous in mini malls and retail storefronts. The structure and politics of this kind of window graphic blocks the view into the store but allows one to look out onto the street from inside. This panoptic situation entails surveillance of the street, while being hidden from view by the facade. This commentary on late Capitalism and Neoliberalism refers to the corporatization of services that were at one point provided by social systems of the government, state, or federal. These services over the last few decades have been privatized and are now owned by corporations. This has been used in gentrification and in a range of communities all over. The professionals are coming, or the image of professionals are coming. The logos combine a selection of corporate identities, that include; manufacturing, fast food, fashion, oil and gas, auto manufacturers, retailers, banks, media and news services, and branches of the military. The reduction of each logo is a process of editing out and erasing the identity to a point of redefining and abstraction. This slows down or removes the ability to identify the specific company represented and creates a generic morphology of form between the variety of shapes and colors that are shared among them. This morphology is embedded and permeates our consumer-cultural landscape. 

Related Works

• Untitled Logos, 2021
• Selected Professionals with Logos, 2021
• Works on Paper, 2020
• Untitled Logos No. 5: A Morphology of Exchange, 2020
• Pantheon, 2020
• Untitled Logos No. 4, 2020
• Partition No. 7, 2020
• Partition No. 6, 2020
• Selected Professionals, 2020
• Untitled Logos Series, 2020
• Untitled Logos No. 1, 2019