The centerpiece of Jason Clay Lewis's multimedia installation "The Black Death" was a full-size suit of armor straddling a taxidermist's plastic model of a horse (all works 2003). The visor was lifted to reveal a video loop of flames. Conjuring thoughts of past, present and possibly future crusades, this glittering warrior seemed an infernal symbol of scriptural prophecies and terroristic threats of Armageddon. Enhancing the apocalyptic ambience (with its lugubrious, piped-in music) were other sculptures as well as drawings, photographs and a holograph based, in part, on the history of the pandemic that devastated the population of 14th-century Europe.
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