"WOULD YOU / COULD YOU / BE MINE?"
The Good Stuff Gallery, Buffalo, NY
May 30th - July 11th, 2025
This solo, site-specific installation featured 44 hand-printed letterpress posters and an 8’ x 5.5’ painted mural. The posters, inspired by Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, were tiled over top of the mural, initially concealing it. As the posters were sold, they were removed from the wall, revealing a portion (1/36th) of the mural at a time. Viewers interacted with the piece by choosing which poster to remove based on which piece of the mural they wanted to see. Over the course of the exhibition, the piece was constantly changing, as the character of the shapes made by the uncovered sections of mural changed every time another print was taken down. On the closing night of the exhibition, the remaining posters were taken off the wall and the full mural was finally revealed for the first time.
This exhibition was dedicated to Buffalo artist Mickey Harmon, who was killed along with his partner Jordan Celotto in March 2025. Mickey was one of the owners of The Good Stuff and a personal friend of Jamey's. The Mister Rogers theme was inspired by Mickey and how he modeled being a good neighbor to all of us.
ARTIST STATEMENT: I had the honor of being asked to be the Pride artist for 2025 (and the tragic privilege of being the last show that Mickey Harmon ever booked). It didn't feel right after that just to show my body of work, I felt like it was important for me to make something new and ambitious. And I wanted it to include my first mural, because Mickey and I had been talking about me learning to do murals. After he was gone, at first, it felt like I would never do it now without his help. But that’s not what he would have wanted, and others in the Buffalo art community have stepped up to support me in his place. This project would never have been completed without the help of my friends Yames Moffit (pictured right), Bobby Griffiths and Sarah Liddell.
Also included in this exhibition was the show poster for the 2025 Intersect pride festival. Intersect was founded and organized by the late, great Mickey Harmon. Jamey was working with Mickey on this poster when he died and it was the last art project Mickey ever posted about. It was left incomplete at first, but ultimately Intersect decided to follow through with the festival in Mickey's honor. The poster was finished, now as a memorial to Mickey and his partner Jordan Celotto. This ended up being a very challenging commission to complete, but Jamey is deeply honored to be the artist who was working on this with him, and to have the chance to finish it for him. (Pictured here with the mural of Mickey and Jordan, made by Buffalo political cartoonist Adam Zyglis.)
Mickey was a good friend and he always believed in me. I'll miss him forever. We all will.
"FIRST THEY CAME FOR ALL OF US"
2025
letterpress
"ONE KIND WORD"
2025
letterpress, paper handmade by the artist