WHERE WE PLAY’D
Where We Play’d is a tender yet complex recollection of Black childhood joy and resilience in the urban landscape. The collection revisits a game once widely played on city sidewalks, revealing how play, culture, and spatial memory anchor community. These artworks reconstruct visual archives of growing up Black in Baltimore, capturing the innocence and the underlying tensions that shaped Kent’s early life.
Colored Skully (detail)
2020, acrylic on canvas, 213.36 x 182.88 cm (84 x 72 in)
Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
(Baltimore, MD)
Black Top (detail)
2019, acrylic, oil bar on canvas, 213.36 x 182.88 cm (84 x 72 in)
Private Collection
Skully Proof 015 2020, archival canvas panel, acrylic, 30.48 x 22.86 cm (12 x 9 in)
Skully Proof 019 2020, archival canvas panel, acrylic, 30.48 x 22.86 cm (12 x 9 in)
Skully Proof 614 2020, archival canvas panel, acrylic, 30.48 x 22.86 cm (12 x 9 in)
Skully Proof 104 2020, archival canvas panel, acrylic, 30.48 x 22.86 cm (12 x 9 in)
Skully Proof 126 2020, archival canvas panel, acrylic, ash floater frame with black finish, 33.02 x 25.4 cm (13 ⅝ x 10 ½ in)