Exhibitions

ADRIAN WOOD: LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH

Stove Works / 1226 E 14th St. October 1 - November 14th

Adrian Wood

Love Is Strong As Death asks: What do you think love is? What does that mean for how you live? The show invokes the wide-spanning political and social implications of love’s power for radical personal transformation through works on paper, a participatory installation, a lending library, and conversation-based public events.

The works include intaglio prints of quotations on love’s radical potential, drawing from bell hooks, James Baldwin, Sappho, and others, using an experimental gunpowder-based printing ink. This explosive ink makes literal a militant love that burns through fear, hierarchy, and enclosure. The exhibition features a participatory love letter altar, which visitors to the exhibition are invited to contribute to directly.

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Image: Adrian Wood, Untitled, 2026