From Providence, Rhode Island, we welcome David Lee Black into the gallery with Running Faucets. His playful found-object sculptures send a household staple – the spigot – into Black’s dressing room before dashing off, headless, to somewhere unknown. Using reclaimed brass, chrome and industrial scrap, tape measure, Barbie legs and more, Black calls it “a whimsical subversion of domestic stagnation” (the legs do give 1950 housewife vibes) and the artist says “it reimagines the mundane as a kinetic metaphor for the human condition.” Freedom, he suggests. Widely accomplished, David Lee Black has been artist-in-residence in several places, a fellowship recipient, and a gallery director, all in a most artful town. Today, he directs the Providence Drum Troupe and curates at The Clubhouse Gallery, also in Providence. Most remarkably, Black fuses a long career as a former juvenile parole officer with his visual and musical talents and elevates it into his current work: expressive art therapy for those pushing through difficulties. A graduate of University of Missouri, the artist lives and creates in Providence.