Liberty or Death, curated by Mezze, features paintings and sculptures by Grace Yung Ting Teng, a Texan-born, Chinese-American artist based in Brooklyn. Teng’s work melds together icons and decorative motifs of the romanticized Orient and American Southwestern frontier. Teng explores the two as fictionalized “places” and created a new hybrid of the two in intricately painted portraits of American nineteenth century army generals and American Indian chiefs, and sculptures of laser-cut leather and paper that appear simultaneously as cowboy boots and delicate Chinese porcelain vases.