https://www.demetribroxton.com/work daily 1.0 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1768959811366-ICGV3U1MUXGKQIX9I7N5/image-asset.jpeg WORK - A Family Tie Is Like a Tree; It Can Bend but It Cannot Break 2026 28.5 x 18.5 inches Japanese & Czech glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, Swarovski crystal, 24K gold plated brass, antique silk chainette, wool, serigraph printed on Japanese sateen cotton, mounted on birch board Photo by Shaun Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1768959593950-7I8MKZS1VHU6J4FVFXWV/image-asset.jpeg WORK - He Who Holds Me to the Soil, Holds Himself as Well 2025 59 x 29 inches Japanese & Czech glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, Swarovski crystal, 24K gold plated brass, antique silk chainette, wool, serigraph printed on Japanese sateen cotton, mounted on birch board Photo by Shaun Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1768959811366-ICGV3U1MUXGKQIX9I7N5/image-asset.jpeg WORK - A Family Tie Is Like a Tree; It Can Bend but It Cannot Break 2026 28.5 x 18.5 inches Japanese & Czech glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, Swarovski crystal, 24K gold plated brass, antique silk chainette, wool, serigraph printed on Japanese sateen cotton, mounted on birch board Photo by Shaun Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1768959944467-CMFF0OF02387LZSLV8HO/image-asset.jpeg WORK - He Who Holds Me to the Soil, Holds Himself as Well (2026) 2026 59 x 29 inches Japanese glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, recycled glass, 24K gold plated brass, brass, rayon chainette, wool, serigraph printed on Japanese sateen cotton, mounted on birch board Photo by Shaun Roberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1768960307458-DACZQXTKGS43HZV2IL3R/image-asset.jpeg WORK - However Far the Stream Flows, It Never Forgets Its Source 2025 35 x 16 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1768960198681-ZZZ0MOGIZQCYNLMIQ81T/image-asset.jpeg WORK - Eyes That Have Seen the Ocean Will Not Tremble at the Sight of the Lagoon 2025 57 x 32 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1737485208516-BMLOVWI82RCGMISHPF14/image-asset.jpg WORK - Just Beyond the Waters 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1737485898554-MMKD93AXZ6U5LRKRZXEY/image-asset.jpeg WORK - He Sits in a Universe of the Unknown 2024 Japanese & Czech glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, quartz, brass elements, sterling silver & 24k gold plated brass, wood beads, antique silk and rayon chainette, wool, serigraph printed on Japanese sateen cotton, mounted on birch board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1737486346017-B6900DP1DOQERYPPKFJ0/image-asset.jpg WORK - I Went to the Crossroad, Baby, I Looked East and West 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1737486191514-DRLW8OVS54KEIILDACZC/image-asset.jpeg WORK - Keepers of the Altar 2024 Japanese & Czech glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, quartz, brass elements, sterling silver & 24k gold plated brass, Swarovski crystal, pressed glass, rayon chainette, wool, early 20th century lace, serigraph printed on Japanese sateen cotton, mounted on birch board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1737485391420-ICZUSLU0HQNLW5WHG6QL/image-asset.jpeg WORK - Still Waters Run Deep 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1737485276903-TUJDANCBZ7U6VNR9RJWM/image-asset.jpg WORK 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1737485587373-AFTY3X0XGD7IXVDIYMUC/image-asset.jpeg WORK - Ancestral Echoes 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1719881861496-UQC1UVPUBZJFAX5ID72U/image-asset.png WORK - To Turn the Light Upon Them, 2024 Glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, quartz, abolone, pressed glass, wooden beads, brass, rayon chainette, wool, serigraph on Japanese sateen, mounted on birch board The title is an excerpt from the brilliant founder of the NAACP, journalist, educator, truth seeker, and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, taken from her 1892 speech, "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All its Phases," https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1696311817303-D6HRIM16UHT7PK8PTTYW/image-asset.jpeg WORK - Cant Stop Us Now (Stop Motion) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1695234437145-3B9II8XG0M398GXCR57C/image-asset.png WORK - Can't Stop Us Now (Performance Still) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1696310769269-4NB73QVJFYT906T7DWRV/image-asset.jpg WORK - Can't Stop Us Now (performance still), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243800778-PKU7ENS0VAWKM5D4ARZP/03_THE_WORLD_IS_YOURS.jpg WORK - The World is Yours 2020 77" x 25" x 8" Found American flag, used Everlast boxing gloves, Japanese and Czech seed beads, Czech cast beads, cowrie shells, cotton & nylon thread Collection of the Crocker Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1650050872309-OLN5RED6L3FFS0GE5CZQ/On-a-Mission-4.jpg WORK - I'm on a Mission 2022 48” x 28” x 8” Venum boxing gloves, cowrie shells, Japanese & Czech seed beads, red bamboo coral, tourmaline, quartz, nylon thread, stainless steel chain & hardware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691542172400-3YD82TUY0B3NHXGZ3J7S/Unless-you-plan4-1200x901.jpeg WORK - Bombs Over Baghdad (Don’t Pull the Thang Out), 2022 Boxing glove, hand cut Cypraea mauritiana cowrie shells, glass beads, red coral, inert rifle bullets, labradorite, cotton, brass wire, stainless steel chain & hardware, frankincense, nylon thread, metaphysical elements | 48 x 34 x 14 inches Permanent Collection of the Renwick Gallery | Smithsonian American Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691542417449-T0QQXDTQMXUPTWMSDD1R/Unless-you-plan1-1200x901.jpeg WORK - Bombs Over Baghdad (Don’t Pull the Thang Out), DETAIL Permanent Collection of the Renwick Gallery | Smithsonian American Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691541021940-4U40DIFV5A9LWWLVBAJK/Broxton.Amalia36a.jpg WORK - You Won't Break My Soul, 2023 Wool, hair canvas, glass beads, hand cut Cypraea moneta (money cowries), Mauritania arabica (chocolate humpback cowries), Cypraea mauritiana (chocolate humpback cowries), South African reedbuck and blesbok horns, long tailed spindle shells, leather, brass pendants, red coral, tourmaline points, mirror, bone beads, silk and rayon chainette, nylon and cotton thread, dried herbs, metaphysical elements. | 59 x 59 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691540979941-MUYH9JIW619TBWFOOLQW/Broxton.Amalia64a.jpg WORK - You Won't Break My Soul & Catch a Fire (Installation view) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636257007641-KQEV1PFR78VZNFVVR9CQ/Mojo-1.jpeg WORK - Mojo Hand 2021 Everlast boxing gloves, glass pearls, 19th century white heart beads, Czech seed beads & tube beads, money cowrie shells, shredded denim, nylon thread, steel wire, felt, High John the Conqueror powder, , brass bell, red clay, herbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636249485471-D8W87OSPMFVG4TPQ2SAF/Mojo-21.png WORK - Mojo Hand (Detail) 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691542001171-J41V9P58PKAUCKJDGJMM/You-just-lost-one-17-1200x901.jpeg WORK - Lost Ones (You Might Win Some), 2022 Boxing gloves, hand cut Cypraea arabica cowrie shells, glass beads, red coral, blue sodalite, quartz, beachcombed Pacific Ocean gastropod shells, 14k gold wire, redwood, stainless steel chain & hardware, ylang ylang, nylon thread, metaphysical elements| 48 x 32 x 11 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691541938311-8H5Y2XCP2IEXPQDRJCON/Broxton.Amalia44a-1200x990.jpg WORK - Count Me Out, 2023 Boxing gloves, hand cut Mauritania arabica cowrie shells, glass beads, red coral, green quartz, brass Talhakimt pendants, copper wire, shredded denim, stainless steel chain & hardware, nylon thread, dried herbs, metaphysical elements| 46 x 32 x 11 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691541706911-UGHTDBE6BW4JSRJ8PMPG/hold-on1-1200x901.jpeg WORK - Hold On, 2023 Boxing gloves, hand cut Monetaria caputserpentis (aka serpent’s head) cowrie shells, glass beads, tourmaline points, brass Baule pendants, copper wire, shredded denim, stainless steel chain & hardware, nylon thread, dried herbs, metaphysical elements | 46 x 32 x 11 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691541807792-55NVAKFY4AFKAZN2ALAR/hold-on9-1200x901.jpeg WORK - Hold On (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1696311011855-2VZOGGPIYX059GZX5OAN/Can%27t-Keep-Me-Away2.jpg WORK - Can't Keep Me Away 2021 46” x 27” x 8” Everlast boxing gloves, serpent’s head & arabica cowrie shells, Japanese delica beads, Czech seed beads, redwood, ylang ylang, cotton & nylon thread, brass chain, steel hardware, red bamboo coral, red howlite points, raw labradorite & prehnite, brass wire Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636248987340-LFF7SVM8BGXXCXNXH5YZ/Can%27t-Keep-Me-Away10.jpg WORK - The Life I Earned (Detail) 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1650050748914-T2NVPIXAHRA0K1189696/image-asset.jpeg WORK - Save Me Joe Louis 2021 48” x 28” x 8” Everlast boxing gloves, cowrie shells, Japanese seed beads, Czech seed beads, mirrors, nylon thread, stainless steel chain & hardware Permanent Collection of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636249455229-UREA8RC8E7J4KVYBJOA4/Where-is-Your-Fire-c.png WORK - Catch A Fire 2021 Dimensions variable Everlast boxing glove, Japanese delica beads, Czech seed beads, rooster coque feathers, guinea fowl feathers, pheasant feathers, brass chain, red howlite points, quartz & tourmaline points, brass wire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636249080300-OOJXHG5BS6VMKX4X5NCL/Where-is-your-Firea.jpg WORK - Catch a Fire (Detail) 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636249028974-AV2CRNJ03JROG2IB60AR/Worse-Come-to-Worse.jpg WORK - Worst Come to Worst 2021 46" x 27" x 8" Everlast boxing gloves, serpent’s head cowrie shells, Japanese delica beads, Czech seed beads, redwood, ylang ylang, cotton & nylon thread, brass chain, steel hardware, red bamboo coral, quartz & tourmaline points, brass wire Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636249514252-5Q5DPFK0YHYVL786X39E/Empathy-is-the-Reason16.jpeg WORK - Empathy Be the Reason 2021 46” x 27” x 8” Everlast boxing gloves, money cowrie shells, Japanese delica beads, Czech seed beads, cherry wood, High John the Conqueror powder, cotton, cotton & nylon thread, brass chain, steel hardware, raw prehnite, brass and copper rifle bullets (inert), quartz & tourmaline points, brass wire Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636249001283-TLBS6ZPULPWCVDGMW1L0/Americas-Reflection-of-Me3.jpg WORK - America's Reflections of Me (Detail) 2021 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636249433070-LPKMQUXNXLV6WNR2XX4F/Americas-Reflection-of-Me.png WORK - America’s Reflections of Me 2021 46" x 27" x 8" Everlast boxing gloves, steel nails, Japanese delica beads, Czech seed beads, cherry wood, ylang ylang, cotton & nylon thread, mirrors, stainless steel chain and hardware Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243587795-Q4NA3UBZ0TEOUGI50EQS/portraiture-82.65.2_PS2.jpg WORK - The Power 2018 48” x 28” x 8” Everlast boxing gloves, cowrie shells, Japanese seed beads, Czech seed beads, mirrors, nylon thread, stainless steel chain & hardware Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243781525-183BMCTSQ6O2T7NVQZ9F/02_WORTH_THE_WEIGHT.jpeg WORK - Worth the Weight 2020 78" x 28" x 24" Everlast gloves, cowrie shells, 24K gold Japanese delica beads, Czech seed beads, redwood, frankincense, High John the Conqueror root, cotton & nylon thread, brass nails, mirrors, stainless steel chain and hardware Permanent Collection of Monterey Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243813747-CMN31AZBZMCD3542JN71/04_FREE_TO_BE.jpeg WORK - Free to Be What I Want 2020 77" x 25" x 8" Found black and white flag, used Everlast boxing gloves, Japanese and Czech seed beads, Czech cast beads, cowrie shells, cotton & nylon thread Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243828486-SKKZTX6I57YBCI8OMOAA/05_HUSTLE_AND_MOTIVATE.jpg WORK - Hustle & Motivate 2019 Everlast boxing gloves, redwood, cowrie shells, silver plated Japanese seed beads, Czech seed beads, quartz crystal points, onyx points, silver wire, mirrors, nylon thread, stainless steel chain & hardware Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243843717-5371CIP8ZOGCNOTC8Z0L/06_IF_I_RULED_THE_WORLD.jpg WORK - If I Ruled the World 2019 48” x 28” x 8” Everlast boxing gloves, cedar, cowrie shells, Japanese seed beads, Czech seed beads, silver wire, mirrors, red coral, nylon thread, stainless steel chain & hardware, herbs, frankincense Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243864799-MH55JBX91OJD52PU1R5V/07_STILL_NIGGA.jpg WORK - Still N***A 2019 48” x 28” x 8” Everlast boxing gloves, mahogany wood, brass coated nails, Japanese seed beads, Czech seed beads, brass wire, mirrors, leather, brass bells nylon thread, brass chain & hardware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243890131-FIB1FCZRUN507L3WLWXD/08_FIGHT_THE_POWER2.jpg WORK - [FIGHT] The Power, I 2019 48” x 14” x 12” Everlast speed bag, 7.62 caliber brass rifle bullets (inert), cowrie shells, Japanese seed beads, Czech seed beads, leather, High John the Conqueror root, red coral, Swarovski crystals, brass wire, mirrors, nylon thread, brass chain & hardware Photo courtesy of Patricia Sweetow Gallery & David Schmitz Photography Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243948373-55X78N3MJSUTVZCM119C/IMG_20180825_103318_396.jpg WORK - The God of Everything Else 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636243970459-AJFN8J0FBS1FCIM5YCE1/GOD-OF-EVERYTHING2018.JPG WORK - The God of Everything Else (Detail) 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636248888186-39758QVRQDT6V62LSM5T/IMG_20190701_225821_161+%281%29.jpg WORK - DNA (detail) 2019 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636248864323-2LYJLEU4CC17F3EC5DDZ/demetri-dschmitz-051919-077.jpg WORK - DNA 2019 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1691542536302-TRKAG4E39D7URU5RDZ91/DNA.detail1-1200x900.jpg WORK - DNA (Detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636248949751-S23LN97LK1KSUNHG8X1D/The-Power-%21%21.b.jpg WORK - [FIGHT] The Power, II 2021 Everlast speed bag, Japanese delica beads, Czech seed beads, money cowrie shells, denim, cotton, cotton & nylon thread, steel chain and hardware, High John the Conqueror root, red bamboo coral, mirror, aluminum chain, brass wire Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/536aaa66e4b09724c1065af7/1636249524216-KWVGMO1WKP002MALISMT/Empathy-is-the-Reason14.jpeg WORK - 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