Kerianne Quick | OH WELL WHATEVER NEVERMIND

Brooklyn Metal Works
Brooklyn, New York
September 26–November 8, 2026

OH WELL, WHATEVER, NEVERMIND, a solo exhibtion by Kerianna Quick, confronts the machinery of violence—and the apathy that allows it to become ordinary. Taking its title from a lyric in Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the exhibition brings together three distinct but interconnected series: OH WELL, body armor-inspired leather and titanium jewelry that transforms ballistic wounds into objects of adornment; WHATEVER, an installation of 300 titanium crosshair pins that implicates the wearer as both target and witness; and NEVERMIND, black-shrouded leather and plexiglass mirrors that turn reflection into an act of mourning, shame, and culpability. Together, the works ask what it means to protect, enhance, and repair the body in a culture that manufactures its destruction—and what it means to look away.