Bases Loaded

Jordan Eagles uses blood-splattered Mets T-shirts and resin home-plate sculptures to interrogate belonging, queer identity, and the politics embedded in baseball fandom.

Why go

Eagles has worked with blood as material since the late 1990s; here he splices intimate family ephemera and medical detritus with stadium merchandise and New York Post reproductions to expose discrimination against gay men in blood-donation policies and the charged metaphorical language shared by baseball and queer cultures.

What to expect

Cropped Mets giveaway shirts splattered with blood from an HIV-positive gay man, arranged in diamond formations; resin home-plate casts embedding nitrile gloves, scrubs, childhood photographs, and blood vials; large wall-mounted New York Post cover reproductions reframing headlines about Mike Piazza's sexuality and baseball rivalries.

Things to know

• Eagles has been exploring blood as artistic medium since the late 1990s across installation, sculpture, photography, and painting.
• Work held in collections including Addison Gallery of American Art, Peabody Essex Museum, and Wellcome Collection.
• Co-founder of Blood Equality, a partnership with GMHC and FCB Health addressing blood-donation discrimination.
• Curator Gabriel Florenz organized the exhibition.
• Exhibition supported by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
• Galleries closed May 15–16, 2026.