Hard Ball, 1990
Screen print on galvanized sheet metal, screen print on fabric , laminate bases, lighting, chalk board, shoe
Full install dimension l 204” x h 72”
NY Times Vincent Chin article - white print
Baseball pitches knuckle ball, split finger fastball, cut fastball - Joe Dimaggio, Tiger Stadium, Hank Aaron - yellow prints
Used car display in Detroit, MI - red prints
Vincent Chin fabricated trophy, MLB game bats, galvanized sheet metal, marble, illuminated resin cast brain
Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Art Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Detroit, MI 1983. Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man was beaten to death by two white Americans. Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz used baseball bats to murder Chin, on woodward Ave, Detroit’s main street. At the time, Detroit was boiling over with racial animosity toward Asians. The Big 3 - American car companies General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, felt the decline in their market share, (and the resulting layoffs), was due to Japanese competition. Ebens and Nitz wrongly assumed Chin was Japanese and brutally attacked him, with baseball bats. Vincent Chin was left brain dead and four days later passed away. Ebens and Nitz plead guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter. The court ordered no jail time and a $3,780 fine, equaling the price you might pay for a used car.”
