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)
Permanent Collection of 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 141
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)
Skelly Proof 010
2020,
archival canvas panel, ink transfer, 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)
Hood Hoop A/P, 2021
resin-cast sculpture (2 A/P, edition of 3)
83.82 x 60.96 x 33.02 centimeters (33 x 24 x 13 inches)
Maquette (ed. of 3), 2021
(front view) maquette cast in Bronze
24.765 x 16.51 x 0.635 centimeters (9.75 x 6.5 x .25 inches )
Maquette (ed. 1/3), 2021
(side view) maquette casted in Bronze
24.765 x 16.51 x 0.635 centimeters
(9.75 x 6.5 x .25 inches)