Steve Locke's series #Killers (2017–present) recreates widely circulated images of individuals who have killed Black people, skillfully illustrating their portraits while leaving the rest of the scenes white. These chilling portraits push beyond what Locke describes as “The usual impulse … to memorialize a victim” and instead “[directs] the viewer to the source of this kind of violence against black people … these men and the inchoate, and unnameable whiteness that creates and supports them. … They are killers adrift in the lie of whiteness.”
