Darius Steward
Wet on Wet is a temporary public installation of large watercolor portraits of black people in Cleveland, painted on Yupo paper and mounted to the walls with grommets. Every five minutes, a built-in sprinkler system hits specific spots, stripping pigment back to bare paper before the pieces dry and partly reset. Each painting keeps changing over the run of the show. The work is about progress, or the lack of, in Cleveland's black neighborhoods.