between the skin and flesh, a thing
between the skin and flesh, a thing highlights the collaborative processes inherent to the relationships that sustains Howard’s BDSM practices. Exhibiting a series of photographs printed on transparent leather hides, the materiality of Howard’s body mirrors the reanimation of leather as the veins of the hide shift, spit out, expand, and contract with contact to heat and light. The leather and its images mobilize in shapeshifting form and deterioation while hanging and exposed to gallery lighting, creating a process of slow deterioation that rejects standardized archival practices. The hides hang with another familiar yet distant carnal scent, mixing olfactory receptors within the space of the gallery. The works in relation with the lewd scent highlight the ever changing conditions of sensation in favor of malleability towards a co-authorship of materiality and relationality.
Solo Show at A.I.R. Gallery
September 5 - October 4 2026
Materials: Transparent leather hide, film photograph, pressure clamp, airline cable, cord grip connector, magnets, crimping loop sleeve
Gallery Press Release and Checklist
Impulse Magazine Interview with Kerosene Jones
Made in. Collaboration with M. Celeste, Jess Dayan, Fluent, blue, and Gabriella N. Báez
Installation Support with Nic McEwen
Custom Scent by agustine zegers
Photographic Documentation by Matthew Sherman
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by blue.
Material. III, 2025, Transparent horse leather hide, film photograph, pressure clamp, airline cable, cord grip connector, magnets, crimping loop sleeve, 35 x 42 inches.
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by Jess Dayan.
Material. I, 2025, Transparent horse leather hide, film photograph, pressure clamp, airline cable, cord grip connector, magnets, crimping loop sleeve, 32 11/16 x 48 inches.
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by blue.
Symptom I, 2025, Transparent horse leather hide, film photograph, pressure clamp, airline cable, cord grip connector, magnets, crimping loop sleeve, 48 ⅝ x 34 ⅞ inches.
Made in Collaboration with Fluent; Photographed by Gabriella N. Báez.
Image Description: 4 transparent leather hides are suspended in the air with airline cable and clamps attached to each side. The room is painted dark brown with spotlights angled from above and below onto each print.
40 x 42 inches
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by blue
Image Description: A transparent leather hide hangs off of the brown wall with a series of clamps and airline cable. The AC Duct hangs above the print alongside a series of gallery light. There is one small painted brown light casting a yellow shadow positioned below the print.
Made in Collaboration with Fluent; Photographed by Gabriella N. Báez.
Image Description: A transparent leather hide with an image printed on top with varying transparent and opaque textures with three clips on the top and three on the bottom. The image prominently features the texture of leather pants due to the crinkled quality of the print as a result of the printing process.
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by Jess Dayan.
Image Description: A transparent hide with a thick image full of black, white, and grey contrasts printed atop the leather. The print spans horizontally, curling in on the left side towards itself.
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by blue.
Image Description: A detailed photographic image of a transparent horse hide hung by clamps and airline cables against a brown wall. Textural imprints of the ink moving through the leather compliments with the strings running vertically in the image.
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by blue.
Image Description: A detailed photographic image of an image printed atop a leather hide with four clips on the top and four clips on the bottom. The texture of the plastic in the photograph is illuminated by the transparent qualities of the leather.
Made in Collaboration with Fluent; Photographed by Gabriella N. Báez.
Material. II, 2025, Transparent horse leather hide, film photograph, pressure clamp, airline cable, cord grip connector, magnets, crimping loop sleeve, 48 ¼ x 33 ¼ inches.
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by blue.
Material. III, 2025, Transparent horse leather hide, film photograph, pressure clamp, airline cable, cord grip connector, magnets, crimping loop sleeve, 35 x 42 inches.
Made in Collaboration with M. Celeste and Jess Dayan; Photographed by Jess Dayan.
Image Description: Three leather hides hang from the ceiling attached to airline cable and clips. The left hide and middle hide are vertical while the right hide is horizontal. The prints are lit by brown painted lamps, illuminuating the varying color hues of each hide.
Made in Collaboration with Fluent; Photographed by Gabriella N. Báez.
Image Description: A detailed photographic image of a transparent horse hide hung by clamps and airline cables against a brown wall. The textural imprints of the subject in the photograph mirror the veinous texture of the leather object.