Gun Show

Kohl Gallery displayed 60 of the 100 assault-rifle models artist David Hess assembled from scrapped household and industrial parts in his Baltimore County workshop.

Pieces of metal, wood, leather and plastic taken from cast-off appliances, machinery and other detritus became weapons. The artist hopes they will spark reflection and conversations about the role of guns and gun violence in American culture. “The most outspoken voice in the conversation, the NRA, is disproportionately a voice of white males,” he explains. “As a white man, living in rural Maryland, not belonging to or espousing the tenets of the NRA, my voice has been notably, and shamefully, absent.”

02/10/2015