Installation view
Courtesy H&R Block Artspace
Commissioned project wall

Courtesy H&R Block Artspace
Commissioned project wall
“Kansas City-based artist David Ford has created the new Project Wall at the Artspace. “Relax” is an image constructed from several layers of both reality and painterly illusion. A hand-painted translucent sign spells “relax” in light yellow, lower-case letters. Drips of paint are almost a successful distraction from the subtle gradations of blue along the edges of the sign, which is held up against a real blue-sky by the arms of a young black woman. Close observation, however, reveals another layer of illusion in the clouds painted by the artist.” - Raechell Smith, Director H&R Block Artspace

Ongoing photographic project

Unique Photograph
55” x 57”
Your Fear is an ongoing photographic project where various people are asked to pose with this cardboard cutout sign. These images were taken at a parade in Kansas City.

Your Fear is an ongoing photographic project where various people are asked to pose with this cardboard cutout sign. These images were taken at a parade in Kansas City.

Installation detail
C-Print
33” x 49 ½ ”
This site-specific installation detail was photographed at an abandoned massage parlor during the international residency Art OMI. The artist’s graffiti and found architectural drawings illustrating modest, single-family houses from the 1950s decorate the walls.

Maximon, multimedia (detail)
Archival pigmented print
43 ¾” x 65 ¾”
A detail of an ongoing ten-year performance, Maximon. This living sculpture passion plays celebrates Maximon, a pre-Columbian Mayan patron saint of vice who protects devotees from their bad habits and allows them to continue them without worry.