Mode likes to sponsor the occasional good deed and stay involved in the Charlotte area, and sometimes that aligns with an incredibly fun event. As the token bike nut around here, I suggested that Mode sponsor myself and teammate Alex Giles (significant other of our own Caresse Duford) in the New Belgium Brewing Urban Assault Ride, in return for some strategic advertising of course. Yes, the shirt is a parody of our “made by mode” logo.

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Obscured by the Mint Museum’s Warhol exhibit is a showing of a different flavor, grandiose in its own right. The ‘Scene in America: A Contemporary Look at the Black Male Image’ is a collection of work of various artists who focus on concepts of racial identity.

The highlight of the exhibition [to me] is the artist Kehinde Wiley, whose ‘Philip the Fair’ larger than life piece marries the visual rhetoric of European classicism with representations of contemporary urban, black and brown male. It is a hint of ethnographic aesthetic that I too echo in my photographic work.

More on the art of Kehinde Wiley:
http://www.kehindewiley.com

More on the ‘Scene in America’ exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art:
http://www.mintmuseum.org/current-exhibition.html