Artworks in Progress · Inaugural Commission

211 W 28th Street

211 W 28th Street is a Seawall Development site in Remington — a Baltimore neighborhood remade over the last decade, where new construction sits beside the rowhouse fabric and light-industrial bones that have always defined it.

A site in transition is rarely treated as a place worth looking at while it changes. Artworks in Progress asks the opposite question: what if the hoarding around a construction site were the artwork, not the eyesore it hides?

211 W 28th became the first place to test it.

Nosreme commissioned Wickerham & Lomax — the Baltimore artist duo of Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax, known for dense, image-saturated work that pulls from advertising, queer history, and regional vernacular.

Working with Seawall, Nosreme handled curatorial direction, fabrication, and installation on the active site. The artists developed the work in response to Remington itself — its signage, its palette, the layered way a changing neighborhood talks to itself. The result wraps the site for the duration of construction: a temporary public artwork on infrastructure that would otherwise read as a blank.

An inaugural commission is also a proof of concept. Here's what this one delivered — for the artists, the neighborhood, and the partners who made it possible.

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